XIII Seminar Docomomo Brazil “Brazilian Modern Architecture. 25 years of Docomomo Brazil. Every world into one”

13th Docomomo_Brazil Seminar Docomomo Brazil is holding their 13th Seminar, from 7th to 10th October at the the UFBA Faculty of Architecture in Salvador with the theme “Brazilian Modern Architecture. 25 years of Docomomo Brazil. All worlds into one”. According to the words of Jose Carlos Huapaya Espinoza, the General Coordinator of the 13th Docomomo Brazil Seminar: “The 13th Docomomo_Brazil Seminar, from October 7 to 10, 2019, has two meanings: first, it included the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the first seminar in June 1995; second, because, in this celebration, the event returns to the same place where it…

Docomomo US National Symposium 2020 – Announcement

The next Docomomo US National Symposium will take place in Chicago, IL from June 3-6, 2020 in collaboration with the Docomomo US/Chicago chapter. Chicago has been recognized as the “crossroads”, not only for its connecting of water, land, and air networks, but for its place at the intersection of architecture, culture, and technological change. The rapidity of Chicago’s growth, coupled with its prominence in producing innovations of the modern movement is an opportunity for the 2020 meeting of Docomomo/US to consider this history and its prospect for the recognition, interpretation, preservation and extension of the forms and ideas of modernism…

Docomomo US

“Docomomo US is excited to announce the line-up of tours and events taking place during our thirteenth Tour Day. The only national event of its kind, Tour Day is an annual celebration of modern architecture and design where the public and like-minded organizations across the country participate in a tour or event on the second Saturday and throughout the month of October. This year’s thematic focus, “The Diversity of Modernism” reflects the efforts of Docomomo US and its chapters to raise awareness of sites designed by minority and female architects, landscape architects, designers, and engineers, and of the designers themselves….

Mies in Translation

The Farnsworth House – Barnsworth Gallery is presenting the exhibition Mies in Translation, which will open on the 15th September with the presence of the exhibition curator William Huchting of makeArchitecture. The exhibition will feature architectural models of selected projects designed by Mies van der Rohe, including the Barcelona Pavilion, the 1940 IIT Campus plan, and the unbuilt Brussels Pavilion. These projects embody the evolution of Mies’s signature “free plan”– a framework of structural order giving way to unobstructed, free-flowing open space – from a residential to an urban scale. They will be framed through the lens of the writings of…

Bauhaus Transfers International Symposium

On the occasion of the 2019 Bauhaus Centennial, the Department of Architecture within the Stuckeman School and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State will celebrate the Bauhaus achievements with the international symposium Bauhaus Transfers. The international symposium, organized by Ute Poerschke, Stuckeman Professor of Advanced Design Studies in the Department of Architecture, and Daniel Purdy, professor of German studies in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State, will be held from the 19th – 21st September at the Palmer Museum of Art and the Stuckeman Family Building. Attendance to the…

Photography & Furniture Exhibition: Masters of Modern: Bauhaus Masters and Shu

“Early in 2019, the design and architecture world lost one of the icons of mid-century modernism and the International style: Florence Knoll Bassett. As a student of Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus in general, Florence shaped the very essence of contemporary interior and furniture design. She obtained exclusive rights to reproduce Mies’ designs, including the famous Barcelona chair and also much of the furniture found in the Farnsworth House today. The second exhibition honoring the Bauhaus 100, created exclusively for the Farnsworth House by Knoll, Inc., focuses on the life work of Florence “Shu” Knoll, the influences that…

Photography Exhibition: The MIES Project: To Chicago From Berlin – Arina Dähnick

“Over the past seven years, Berlin-based photographer Arina Dähnick has used her Leica M-System camera to capture the special atmosphere that can only be experienced at Mies van der Rohe’s buildings around the world. The third Barnsworth Gallery exhibition of 2019, consisting of excerpted photographs from Fr. Dähnick’s upcoming book, will preview her Fall 2019 installation at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Crown Hall and the Goethe Institute.” Opening Preview Sunday, August 4th, 2:30-5:30 PM. Special presentation by IIT Architecture’s Dr. Michelangelo Sabatino with opening remarks by renowned architect Dirk Lohan For further information, please visit: website.

Event: HERA Joint Research Progammes – Uses of the Past and Public Spaces Conference

“The European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, Poland is the venue for the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programmes (JRP) Uses of the Past and Public Spaces Conference on the 11th and 12th of September 2019. The conference aims to showcase the excellent research being undertaken by HERA funded projects and to raise the profile of the Humanities among national research councils and the European Union. The occasion will also mark the 10th Anniversary of HERA JRP’s and will provide an opportunity for attendees to reflect on the successes of the programme and how HERA research can add value to…

L’Amazonie en construction [The Amazon under construction]

The Research Centre of Modern Architecture in the Amazon (Núcleo Arquitetura Moderna na Amazônia – NAMA), the Modern Amazon Journal (Revista Amazônia Moderna) and the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) hold the exhibition L’Amazonie en construction: l’architecture des fleuves volants [The Amazon under construction: the architecture of the flying rivers], from July 19 to August 3 at the Maison du Brésil in Paris, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of this iconic building designed by Le Corbusier. This is the first time that the Brazilian Amazon will be exhibited in Europe from an architectural point of view. “The Amazon under…

Event:  ICAA2019 – International Congress on Architectural Archives

“The section for architectural documents of the International Council on Archives (ICA-SAR) and the Braga District Archive of the University of Minho (UM.ADB) are pleased to announce the realization of an International Conference on Architecture Archives : “Professional experiences in cultural diversity”, to be held in Braga (Portugal) from 25 to 27 September 2019. The aim of the congress is to examine issues related to the production and management of architectural documents and the built environment, their conservation, authentication and use in the service of the community. The congress will bring together archivists and other professionals from all over the…