Físicas do Património Português. Arquitetura e Memória [Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory]

The exhibition “Físicas do Património Português. Arquitetura e Memória” [Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory] was organized by the Portuguese Directorate General for Cultural Heritage and it will be held at the museum of Popular Art, in Lisbon, starting december 5th. This exhibition aims to celebrate good examples of rehabilitation of architectural heritage in Portugal, while simultaneously reflecting on the history of heritage intervation and approaching contemporary debates. The cases presented are split into distinct physical states of matter: Liquid, Solid and Other States. This exhibition was organized on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, and…

Event: La mirada de Domènec

Fundació Mies van der Rohe invites you to the presentation of the magazine Espill 58 of the University of Valencia and the dossier that includes on the intervention of Domènec at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. The event will feature the presentation of Gustau Muñoz, co-director of L’Espill magazine and with Domènec himself in a conversation with Manuel Guerrero, essayist and critic.In the later debate “The cultural and social relationship between Barcelona and Valencia” will participate: Simona Skrabec, essayist and translator; Joan Manuel Tresserres, president of the Josep Irla Foundation, Josep Maria Muñoz, director of L’Avenç and Antoni Furió,…

Liturgia, Lugar de encontros – IV Jornada de Liturgia, Arte e Arquitectura [Liturgy, Meeting Place – IV Talks on Liturgy, Art and Architecture]

The Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute) is organizing “Lugar de encontros” [Meeting places], with the support of the Portuguese National Council of Architects (OA), as part of IV Talks on Liturgy, Art and Architecture, on the 24th November. These talks will be split into two different panels and they´ll bring together talks on spirituality, architecture and university projects, including a exhibition with student projects of chapels. Panels´ themes: ´Contexts´ – Moderator: Madalena Mariz Rodrigues ´Shapes´ – Moderator: Hugo Casanova To know more please visit website. Find the poster and the full program in the PDF…

Event: Le Corbusier Apartment-Studio re-opened for visiting

Apartment-studio of Le Corbusier, located inside the famous Molitor building, is opened again after undergoing conservation for the past two years. It served as home to Le Corbusier, who lived there with his wife since 1934, until her death in 1965. The conservation process, led by François Chatillon, aimed at restoring the state of the apartment from 1965, to express the constant change in Corbu´s living environment, where he experimented with new ideas and aesthetics. Corbusier’s apartment-studio is listed as national heritage since 1972. In 2016 the Molitor building was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with 16 other…

Event: Modern Architecture in Central

docomomo Hong Kong and Hong Kong Institute of Architecual Conservationsists (HKICON) would like to invite to a lecture “Modern Architecture in Central”. The lecute will take place 17th November 2018, at 10:00 am, in room GHP602 of the Graduate House, Hong Kong University (University Dr, Lung Fu Shan, Hong Kong). Organisers would also like to invite to a tour walk, taking place on 24th November. Starting point is Statue Square, Central, at 10:00 am. You can find the detailed programme and more information here.

Congress: Affordable Housing. The 20th Century Legacy.

Learning from the past. What future? Challenges and opportunities. The Architecture Faculty of Porto University (FAUP) will host on May 6th, 7th and 8th, 2019, an International Congress that will mark the closing of the Research Project ´Mapping Public Housing Map – A critical review of the State-subsidized residential architecture in Portugal (1910-1974)´, financed by FCT, Rui Ramos is his researcher responsible. The program of this International Congress will include: . guided tours of four Porto neighborhoods (Rainha D. Leonor, Bairro de São João de Deus, Bairro Pio XII and Bairro do Lagarteiro); . the presentation of a documentary; . the…

Modernism at the Glasgow Doors Open Days

As part of the Glasgow Doors Open Days from 10 to 16 September 2018, the 1967 Anderston Kelvingrove Parish Church, designed by Honeyman Jack & Robertson and now Category B listed, became a Festival Pop-Up Hub, at which, over several days, a series of fantastic talks on 20th-century architecture and urbanism were held. It all started, on Monday, 10 September 2018, with Raw Concrete: Brutalism, Architecture and Energy and Glasgow Unbuilt ‘Cultural Centre’, two talks by the architectural historians Barnabas Calder and Alistair Fair respectively. On Tuesday, the architect Mark Baines discussed in his talk, titled In Search of Light: The Architecture of Gillespie, Kidd &…

Lancashire Goes Pop. Modernism & Politics in Central Blackburn in the 1960s

Blackburn Shopping Centre was built through the sixties in partnership between the Blackburn Corporation and the Laing Development Company, and was designed by the Preston based architectural firm Building Design Partnership (BDP). BDP, as evinced by their two recently listed projects Preston Bus Station and the Halifax Headquarters Building, were one of the few architectural practices of the period really able to exploit the aesthetic possibilities of a project of this scale. Whatever the aesthetic nuances or otherwise of the scheme, by any measure knocking down Blackburn’s Victorian city centre and replacing it with a shopping centre was a simply…

Lecture Series for Public on “Mapping Modern Movement Architecture of Hong Kong”

Docomomo Hong Kong is presenting a series of public lectures on modern architecture ‘s history in Hong Kong at the city’s Heritage Discovery Centre. The lectures will be held on Nov. 22, Dec. 6, and Dec. 20, 2014. Each lecture session is organized around a particular theme: “Mobility and Efficiency,” “Comfort in Living,” and “Rationality and Technology,” respectively. The first two sessions will be held in Cantonese, and the third session will be in English. The Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre is located in Kowloon Park on Haiphong Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. More Download PDF

15 IDC – Programme available 15th International DOCOMOMO Conference

Docomomo International and Docomomo Slovenia informs that the Programme for the 15th International Docomomo Conference is now available at http://www.docomomo2018.si/index.php/programme! We are looking forward to see you all in the Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 28th and 31st August 2018! ABOUT Every two years docomomo (the international committee for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement) organizes an international conference, bringing together docomomo members and friends from its 72 national Working Parties, as an opportunity for in-depth exploration of an important theme or aspect of the Modern Movement. The forthcoming conference is being hosted by docomomo Slovenia and will take place at…