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…

Event: Bauhaus 100 – A celebration

Docomomo Venezuela together with the embassy of Germany in Caracas, on the occasion of celebrations of the Bauhaus centenary, have organized an event on the 4th of July: “Bauhaus100: una celebración. Von Bauhaus zu Unserem Haus*: escuelas de arquitectura moderna alemanas – influencias en Caracas” [From Bauhaus to our house: German schools of modern architecture – influences in Caracas]. This event took place at Trasnocho Cultural (Room TAC), Paseo Las Mercedes, Caracas, on the 4th of July. This event counted with the participation of the architects Rafael Pereira Escalona, Bettina Beckhoff, Omar Seijas, Fernando Micale and Frank Alcock. The poster is available in…

Kosovo Architecture Festival

“Kosovo Architecture Festival (KAF) is organized by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Future Architecture Platform. KAF is an annual event and its main objective is to present to the local architecture community and the general public the contemporary global theories and methodologies in the field of architecture and urban planning. Kosovo Architecture Festival is the largest event of its kind in Kosovo with more than 40 individual activities in numerous cities in the country. This year the events will be held from the 1st of July till the 1st of October.” Kosovo Architecture Foundation is an institutional member…

Guided Tour: Convent Clarissenklooster / Visit: exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”

Saturday, July 06 at 13:45 Docomomo Belgium organizes a guided tour of the Convent Clarissenklooster (Paul Felix, 1957-1965) by architect Marc Felix and Zsuzsanna Böröcz; and, at 16:30, a visit with the curator Marc Dubois to the exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”. Architect Paul Felix (Ostend, 1913-1981), important and leading figure in the Belgian architectural landscape after the Second World War, designed the Convent Clarissenklooster (protected monument since 2002) in 1957 and 1965 The convent perfectly illustrates its typical position: architecture is not an individual matter for the architect, but a combination of forces that are beyond the reach…

Exhibition: Le Corbusier. Linkeroever Antwerp – Chandigard

“How do residents make use of a city after the architect has gone? And what does the area of Linkeroever in Antwerp have to do with the Indian city of Chandigarh? Discover how residents live in a carefully designed city and learn about the underlying vision of the famous modernist architect Le Corbusier. Linkeroever In 1933, Le Corbusier participated in an international competition to design a new, modern city for the Linkeroever (‘Left Bank’) in Antwerp. He wanted to build an ideal city, a ‘Ville Radieuse’, or ‘Radiant City’, which was his response to the inhumanity of the 19th century…