First Docomomo Rehabilitation Award honors worldwide diversity in Modern architecture

Tokyo, 2 September 2021 – Docomomo International has announced the winners of the first Docomomo Rehabilitation Award (DRAW), recognizing outstanding interventions from the past 12 years in Modern architecture. On 1 September 2021, during the awards ceremony held at the 16th Docomomo International Conference in Tokyo/Lisbon, Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, revealed the 18 winning interventions and the lifetime achievement awards. Organized in 10 categories, the awards recognize exceptional projects of rehabilitation from all over the world, which respond to the complex and dynamic conditions with which architecture must engage today. “The aim was to reveal how the safeguarding of heritage…

Seventh meeting of ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and viceversa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin America Modern Movement

Docomomo International is happy to announce that the last meeting of the lecture series “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and vice-versa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin American Modern Movement”, organized by Ex-Momo, will be held online on 3rd December 2021 at 11.00 am (Bogotá) / 2.00 pm (Buenos Aires) / 6.00 pm (Turin). Entitled  “MIGRATIONS of ideas of modernity” speakers will be: – José Carlos Huapaya Espinoza (Universidade Federal da Bahia) “Fantasmas corbusieranos en el Perú: articulaciones, divulgación y reflexiones, 1939-1965” – Silvia Aloisio (Iowa State University) “L’Avana: migrazioni e contributi dall’Europa alle Americhe. L’influenza…

Conservation/Sustainable Design Workshop – EAAE SDGs Series

Organized by the Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto and the EAAE ‘Conservation Network’ the virtual Workshop “Conservation/Sustainable Design” will take place today at 14H30 CET online via zoom. The workshop is integrated in the EAAE SDGs Series, in partnership with the New European Bauhaus Program: 14.30. Greetings & Introduction João Pedro Xavier (Dean FAUP – University of Porto), Oya Atalay Franck (President EAAE), Ilaria Valente (Vice President EAAE), Stefano Musso (Co-coordinator EAAE Conservation Network) 15.00. Jyoti Hosagrahar (World Heritage Centre – UNESCO) Sustainable Development Goals and Challenges for World Heritage Cities 15.15. Grainne Shaffrey (Board ICOMOS International) Heritage…

Exhibition: Eileen Gray. E.1027, Arte Total

Docomomo International is trilled to share that it is once again supporting a edition of the exhibition “Eileen Gray. E.1027, Arte Total”. This time present at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (MNAC) in Lisbon, its opening will take place next Saturday 27th November at 15H30 with a Roundtable and followed at 17H00 by a formal inauguration ceremony The exhibition will then be open for visits from 28th November 2021 until 27th February 2022. This will be the fifth edition of the exhibition initially designed for the Mebane Hall in Austin, Texas (2017), and which has already been at the Akademie der…

SIZA TALKS 2021 – CONVERSATIONS ON ARCHITECTURE

Docomomo International is pleased to share that on 18th and 19th November 2021, will take place the third edition of the conferences cycle Siza Talks, at the Auditorium of the Serralves Museum, Porto. “As part of its commitment to architecture, in 2021 the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art will be hosting the third edition of “The Álvaro Siza Talks“, an event that brings together architects, scholars and students for the discussion of issues relevant to contemporary architecture while celebrating the spirit of Álvaro Siza’s work. Each edition of the Talks is centred around a different topic that aims at fostering…

“Liberi Libri” – Libri e autori@PoliTo

Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa. Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980 by Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, and preface by Ana Tostões (Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021) Docomomo International is trilled to announce that next Friday, 19th November 2021, between 17H00 and 19H00 (CET) will take place online via Zoom the event “Liberi Libri” – Libri e autori@PoliTo, to celebrate the launching of the book Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa. Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980. Organized by Politecnico di Torino, the event will be moderated by the authors Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, and invited guests Sergio Pace (Referente del Rettore per i Servizi…

International Colloquium: Coimbra 30-2030

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the University of Coimbra – Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC), Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra  (CEIS20-UC), and Departament of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra (DARQ-FCTUC) – is organizing on 16th and 17th November the International Colloquium “Coimbra 30-2030″, taking place in the Auditorium of the Rectory of the University of Coimbra, from 9H00 to 19H30. Organised by José António Bandeirinha, Luís Miguel Correia and Carolina Coelho,” the aim of this colloquium is to sketch…

Guided Visit – Avanchet-Parc: “Cité de Conception Nouvelle et Originale”

Docomomo International is happy to announce that Docomomo Switzerland together with the Heritage and Sites Office of the State of Geneva (GE-Patrimoine) are organizing a walk through Cité Avanchet-Parc Saturday, 13th November 2021, at 15H00, on the occasion of the launching of the book Avanchet-Parc: “Cité de Conception Nouvelle et Originale”, published in March of this year, by Franz Graf and Giulia Marino. Led by Franz Graf and Giulia Marino, authors of the book, the walk will an opportunity to discover the history and architecture of Avanchet-Parc. It counts as well with introductions by: – Mr. Pierre Alain Girard, Director of…

Técnico Architecture Conference Series: IST ARCH Week Fall 2021

Organized in two days – 29th November and 3rd December 2021, from 16H00 to 17H30 – the IST ARCH Week Fall 2021, in the framework of the IST Master and PhD Programs in Architecture and with the support of Docomomo International, will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon, at auditorio Abreu Faro (Complexo Interdisciplinar) with the presentations: 29th November 16h00 – 17h30 Wilfried Wang (University of Texas at Austin) “Berlin-Brandenburg 2070: A Model Region” 3rd December 16h00 – 17h30 Mar Loren (Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla) “Bernard Rudofsky: a manifesto for the vernacular…

Exhibition: Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: um arquivo em construção / Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: An archive in construction

Docomomo International is pleased to share that next Saturday, 13th November 2021 will happen the opening ceremony of the exhibition Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: um arquivo em construção / Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: An archive in construction. The event will take place at 16H00 on the first floor of the Lopes Martins Mansion, Porto. “Curated by Paulo Providência, Pedro Baía and Mariana Couto,  it aims to record a reading of the architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral´s production – of more than 200 projects, from 1948 to the present day – through the interrelations of the collection recently deposited at the Marques da Silva…