Save the date: Docomomo International Student Workshop 2020 Tokyo

Within the 16th International Docomomo Conference, Docomomo International, Docomomo Japan and the ISC/Educational and Training will organize the Docomomo International Student Workshop 2020 Tokyo that will be held between the 6th and the 10th September 2020, in Tokyo. The Workshop will count with the cooperation of the Architect Fumihiko Maki, winner of 1993 Pritzker Prize. The 16th International Docomomo Conference will take place in Tokyo, from the 10th to 13th September 2020, organized by Docomomo Japan, under the theme “Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities”. Dates to remember: 6th – 10th September 2020: Docomomo Student Workshop 10th -13th September 2020: 16th International Docomomo…

Courses: MBArch Master´s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture ETSAB-UPC, Course 2019-2020

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. “The MBArch or Master´s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona is a postgraduate program (60 to 90 credits) that focuses on the contemporary architectural and urban project. It combines a set of programs with extensive experience that our university offered previously and that had a high level of international recognition, in a new integrated master.” “The specialization in Theory, History and Culture offers to graduates in architecture or graduated in humanistic disciplines a broad and rigorous training in the history, theory and criticism of architecture, as well as in the knowledge of the field of culture in relation to inhabited space, heritage and city. Main goals: Research. Search archives…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd urbanHIST Conference: “Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism”

The conference will take place at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm between the 21st and the 23rdof October 2019. Convenor of the conference is Abdellah Abarkan, Professor and Head of the Department of Spatial Planning at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Karlskrona, Sweden. Besides the Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany), the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovakia), BTH is one of the four urbanHIST beneficiaries. The 15 urbanHIST early stage researchers are substantially involved in the organization of this conference. The 2nd urbanHIST Conference is welcoming abstracts on the main theme: “Interpreting 2othCentury European Urbanism”….

Event: Behind the Prize: Jurying the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

Panel discussion with jury members of the 2018 Mies Crow Hall Americas Prize. This event will be moderated by Dirk Denison and will have the presence of panelists Ricky Burdett CBE, Jose Castillo and Claire Weisz, jury members of the most recent MCHAP 2018. Together, they will reflect on the process, deliberation, and decision made during the prize. The discussion invites the audience to go behind-the-scenes of the MCHAP jury process by describing their selection criteria, the importance of architectural vision and client collaboration, and value of visiting the projects in person with architects and clients. Venue: Behind the Prize:…

Exhibition: Hervé in Spain: Traditional Mediterranean Architecture – El Escorial

“The photographer Lucien Hervé created an artistic language that earned him wide recognition in both 20th century architecture as well as well as photography; he was a gifted artist with an enormous sensitivity and precision capable of transcending the visual characteristics to encourage profound conceptual reflections. In 1959, Hervé traveled around Spain with his camera and took pictures of Mediterranean houses and the monastery at El Escorial for two photobooks that were never published. However, Hervé continued with these projects and created narrative processes supported by rigorous historic research. The exhibition presents for the first time these two inedited projects:…

Online Exhibition: Bauhaus: Building the New Artist

“Considered one of the most influential schools of art and design of the twentieth century, the Bauhaus forged a unique educational vision that blended theory with practice in order to cultivate a new generation of artists and designers. Conceived in tandem with the Getty Research Institute’s gallery exhibition, the online exhibition Bauhaus: Building the New Artist offers an in-depth look into the school’s novel pedagogy. Highlighting student explorations, masters’ theories, and a variety of colorful media drawn from the GRI’s archives, the project culminates with three interactive exercises inviting viewers to immerse themselves in surprising aspects of Bauhaus curriculum.” Text provided by…

Event: Europe Group Meeting ICOMOS 2019 and Scientific Symposium: Contemporary interventions on cultural heritage: theory and practice

“Annually the Europe Regional Group meets and promotes an international scientific symposium, this year being organized by ICOMOS Portugal. The event will take place in Lisbon, at ISCTE-Institute University of Lisbon, from June 13th to 16th, 2019. The scientific symposium will be dedicated to the theme “Contemporary interventions in cultural heritage: theory and practice”.   GOALS The rehabilitation of the built heritage has become the central activity in the construction sector in Portugal. The recent pressure from tourism and speculation has accelerated this phenomenon, principally in historic centers, in classified and protected areas; however, not always with respect for the…

Event: Conference “El Arquitecto y la Ciudad” by Alfredo Brillembourg  

The architect Alfredo Brillembourg will present the lecture “El Arquitecto y la Ciudad” [The Architect and the City] at 31st May 2019 at Faculty of Architecture of Porto University. He founded, with Jubert Klumpner, the Urban-Think Tank Studio (U-TT). The U-TT, founded in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1998, has been based in the Department of Architecture D-ARCH of ETH in Zurich since 2010, where its founders teach the Teaching Unit of Architecture and Urban Design. Before, Brillembourg and Klumpner taught at Columbia University, where they founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (SLUM Lab). Their work has already been honored with…

Modernism in America Award

“Docomomo US is pleased to announce the ten recipients of the 2019 Modernism in America Awards. These projects highlight the best in preservation practice by today’s architects, designers, and preservation professionals, for modern sites, landscapes and beyond. This year’s awards recognize new approaches to livable modernism, a once-in-a-lifetime effort to modernize one of the country’s most iconic landmarks, projects where vision and community coalesce, and the collaborative nature of art and design. The sixth annual Awards acknowledge the contributions of designers and preservationists to tell the full stories of our built heritage from the midcentury. We don’t remember great pieces of architecture…

Course: FIVE PROJECTS ON THE “MODERN”

The course aims to discuss about some significant experiences of twentieth century heritage restoration, in a framework that places modern architecture in urban regeneration scenarios. Each meeting, introduced by scholars and experts in the field and referring to general issues of a critical, regulatory and technological nature, will be illustrated by specific restoration projects, regarding to the intervention criteria, the various critical issues, problems faced and solutions adopted in the phase of planning and execution.   Organized by Docomomo Italia In collaboration with Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti Conservatori di Napoli e provincia   Venue: Headquarters of Ordine Architetti PCC…