Conference: The Continuing Legacy of Alison and Peter Smithson

Dirk van den Heuvel is an Associate Professor at TU Delft and heads the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. He has published and lectured widely on the work of Alison and Peter Smithson. Together with Max Risselada he curated the Design Museum exhibition on the Smithsons’ house designs, ‘From The House of the Future to a House of Today’, as well as the Team 10 retrospective for the former Netherlands Architecture institute. He was curator of the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2014. Currently, he is a Richard Rogers Fellow with Harvard GSD. Deborah…

Symposium: ICOMOS Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee and Scientific Symposium

“ICOMOS Turkey is honored to host the 2016 ICOMOS Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee Meeting & Scientific Symposium; it is a great pleasure to welcome the ICOMOS community to the meetings in Istanbul. Since its foundation in 1974, ICOMOS Turkey has grown into an active community of over 100 members. It tries to consolidate international connections and to channel information to its members. Seminars, symposia and training courses are arranged for promoting awareness. Several of our members take active roles in ICOMOS International’s scientific committees. We believe that hosting the 2016 Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee Meeting & Scientific Symposium…

Tour: Recorridos por la Arquitectura Española del siglo XX. La obra y su autor

AEPPAS20 – Asociación Española para la Protección del Patrimonio Arquitectónico del Siglo 20, aims the promotion, protection and conservation of Spanish cultural and architectural heritage, of the 20th century. The event “Recorridos por la Arquitectura del siglo XX. La obra y su autor” [Routes through the Spanish Architecture of the XXth century. The author and their work] doesn’t want to analyse the architectural work itself, but understand how time has passed through them, how people lived there, what kind of problems have arisen from its maintenance or function change. So far, have been visited: Torre Castelar, Madrid; Instituto de Cultura…

5th October 2016, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal

The new MAAT building designed by the british architect Amanda Levete  (AL_A) will be opened to the public on 5 October, with a 12-hour programme that will include educational events, performances and music happenings, across the extended riverside campus kept by the EDP Foundation. PROGRAMME 12 pm – 12 am Semiconductor. Where Shapes Come From Projection. Video Room (new building) Nuno da Luz. C’mon Installation. Riverfront Haroon Mirza. Emerging Paradigm Installation. Main Gallery (new building) 1 pm Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Pynchon Park Exhibition opening Oval Gallery (new building) 2 pm The Form of Form – Lisbon Architecture Triennale 4th Edition Exhibition opening Yard 3 pm The World of Charles and Ray Eames…

Exhibition: Berenice Abbott – Photographs

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. She spent six decades taking pictures. The Martin-Gropius-Bau is now dedicating an exhibition featuring about 80 pictures to her. Her famous and iconic pictures from the Changing New York series, early portraits and her pioneering work as a scientific photographer will be shown. Curator: Anne Morin More details: website

IST PhD Program in Architecture: PhD Week Fall 2016

On 30th September 2016, between 09:30 and 18:30, the PhD Week Fall 2016, organized in the framework of the IST PhD Program in Architecture, will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico – Centro de Congressos DECivil e Arquitectura (Lisbon University), with the following program: Moderation Ana Tostões (Coordinator of the IST PhD Program in Architecture) Program 09:30-10:00 – Opening session 10:00-11:00 – Mediterranean Syncretism in Spanish Art and Architecture, during the first decades of the twentieth Century – António Pizza (ETSAB-UPC); 11:00-11:15 – Break; 11:15-12:15 – “Exotic, Beautiful, Oddly Modernist”. The Algarve, a Mediterranean Riddle on the Atlantic – Ricardo Agarez (KU Leuven, Department of Architecture); 12:15-13:00 – Mediterranean. Contemporary meetings – Maria Fernanda Rollo (Secretary of State of Science, Techonology…

World Heritage inscription of “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier”

“On 19 September 2016 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Architectural and Heritage Centre), Paris, the representatives of seven States Parties, Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland were presented with the certificates of inscription on the List of World Heritage of the serial property “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement”. On the occasion of an event organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, the Le Corbusier Foundation and the Association Le Corbusier sites, the chief of UNESCO’s Movable Heritage and Museums…

14th International Docomomo Conference 2016

Lisbon, Portugal, 6-9 September 2016 www.docomomo2016.comTHEME Adaptive Reuse. The Modern Movement Towards the Future VENUE: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon ORGANIZED by: docomomo International LANGUAGE: English SCHEDULE . 1-5 September – WORKSHOP – program . 6-9 September – CONFERENCE –  program . 4, 5, 10-12 September – DOCOTOURS – program LOGISTICS . Accommodation/Airline details available here. DESCRIPTION In pursuit of the mission of docomomo, as updated in the Eindhoven-Seoul Statement 2014, the theme of the 14th International Docomomo Conference will be Adaptive Reuse. The Modern Movement Towards the Future: “The aim is to promote the conservation and (re)use of buildings and sites of the Modern Movement, to foster and disseminate the development of appropriate techniques and methods of conservation and (re)use, and to explore…

DocoTours: 13th International Docomomo Conference: Korea + Japan

Docomomo International, Docomomo Korea and Docomomo Japan invite you all to participate in the Doco Tours within the 13th Docomomo International Conference – Expansion and Conflict, on the 24, 28 and 29th September 2014, in Seoul and between 28th September e 1st October, in Japan. You may find the program and more details at Korean Doco Tours´ website and at Japan Doco Tour Website. Futhermore, you may already aplly for both tours at Doco Tours (Korea) and at Docomomo Japan Tour.

Workshop: 13th International Docomomo Conference 2014

Sewoon Arcade, Seoul, South Korea, 19-24 September 2014 Schedule 30 June: Application Deadline for Foreign Students 30 July: Application Deadline for Domestic Students 19-20 Sept: Opening Event / Pre-Workshop Lectures & First Night at Temple Stay20-24 Sept: Workshop Workshop Personnel Students: 100 (50 Foreign + 50 Domestic) Tutors: 10 (5 Korean, 5 International) Directors: 2 (one Korean, one International) Fees Foreign: 200 EUR (includes 5 nights of lodging & food) Domestic: 100 EUR (includes food) Further details will be available soon on the conference website and on the ISC/E&T website. Download PDF