Call for Abstracts: 16. Docomomo Germany Conference & RMB Final Conference

DOCOMOMO Deutschland, the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture and the project ‘Reuse of Modernist Buildings (RMB)’ invite you to the 16th DOCOMOMO Germany & RMB Conference. This first event in Berlin on the 1st of March 2019 at the Akademie der Künste continues the tradition of the Karlsruhe DOCOMOMO Germany Conferences. The EU project RMB initiates a pedagogical framework on the European level based on common definitions, methods, and approaches for the ´reuse´ of modern buildings, with the aim of offering a ´Joint Master on Reuse of Modernist Buildings´. In this context, the conference will take place in…

RMB Project is now on Facebook

Good news! RMB Project is now on Facebook! RMB, Re-use of modernist buildings, is a ERASMUS + program project with the goal of define an educational framework of common definitions, approaches, and methodologies, on a European level, concerning the reuse of Modern Movement buildings. The project joins together the following partners: Docomomo International, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium), Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), Universidade de Lisboa – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal), Istanbul Teknik Universitesi (Turkey), Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (Deutschland – coordinator) and The Energy and Resources Institute (India). Please, follow the RMB Project on Facebook! Thank you!

Docomomo Books: Moscow Heritage at Crisis Point / updated edition

“New International Report Outlines Threats to Moscow’s Heritage plus Information about Threats to St. Petersburg. Buildings under threat include internationally famous landmarks: The Bolshoi Theatre, Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Monuments of the Avant-Garde, plus buildings that are an inseparable part of Moscow’s identity like Children’s World Department Store and the Central House of Artists. Report possible due to the support of the late Scholar of Russian architecture and Co-Founder of Do.Co.Mo.Mo. Catherine Cooke. The report is a follow up to the 2007 report, which brought the crisis that Moscow’s heritage is undergoing into the centre of national and international attention. Despite…

Conference: 14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association

“The 14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) took place between July 25 and July 28, 2018 at PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference program included academic panels, invited speakers, plenary sessions, and cultural activities.” The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, participated with the lecture “A reverberação da arquitetura moderna brasileira na África, a modernidade como processo transcontinental e a presença Brasil na modernidade africana: transferências ibero-americanas”. More details: website

14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association

“The 14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) will take place between July 25 and July 28, 2018 at PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference program will include academic panels, invited speakers, plenary sessions, and cultural activities.” The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, will participate with the lecture “A reverberação da arquitetura moderna brasileira na África, a modernidade como processo transcontinental e a presença Brasil na modernidade africana: transferências ibero-americanas”. More details: website

Launch of the Collection: Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre [Lisbon, Sad and Joyful City]

“Commissioned by Rita Palla Aragão, this exhibition brings an in-depth look at the most important photography book of the 20th century in Portugal. The work, by the duo of architects Victor Palla (1922-2006) and Costa Martins (1922-1996), was published in 1959 and resulted from a three-year work in which both walked the streets of Lisbon, portraying it and to its inhabitants, thus revealing a hidden city, simultaneously sad and joyful. Of the six thousand photographs taken, the authors chose about two hundred to integrate the book, to which they added a long and singular index (which explains much of the creative…

International Seminar: re-Habitar el Carmen | A Project on Contemporary Heritage

Docomomo international participated in International Seminar “_re-HABITAR EL CARMEN. A project on contemporary heritage.”, at The Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH), on the 28th and 29th May, having Docomomo International Chair, Professor Ana Tostões, as member of the seminar round table. This seminar was part of the Knowledge Application Research Project “_re-HABITAR. Contemporary heritage and technology. [Technological update project of contemporary heritage: social housing of the Modern Movement]” encouraged by the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Junta de Andalucía, in collaboration with DOCOMOMO Ibérico, several teams of the University of Seville, and a group of researchers specialists in the field. The object of study…

Article: Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre: Arquitectura de um Livro [Lisbon, Sad and Joyful City: Architecture of a Book]

In the framework of the exhibition Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre: Arquitectura de um Livro [Lisbon, Sad and Joyful City: Architecture of a Book] (12-16 September, Lisbon Museum – Pimenta Palace, Portugal), centered on the book with the same name, published in 1959 by the architects Victor Palla (1922-2006) and Costa Martins (1922-1996), the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, wrote the text “Um dia em Lisboa em forma de poema gráfico” [A day in Lisbon in the form of a graphic poem] to Portuguese Público newspaper. More info: Download PDF + docomomo

Built Heritage journal

The Built Heritage journal published a special issue dedicated to 20th-Century Heritage: Exploring the New Futures of the Recent Past, with the participation of the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostoes. The Built Heritage (CN 31-2123/G0, ISSN 2096-3041) is a blind-peer-reviewed, international journal published quarterly, devoted to all aspects regarding the research, conservation, and regeneration of historic buildings, settlements, and sites. It is the first journal in China published in English that integrates built heritage conservation in the multidisciplinary sphere of architecture, urban and rural planning, and landscape architecture, administrated by the Ministry of Education of China, sponsored by Tongji University, and published by…

MOMOWO Symposium 2018 International Conference | Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Towards a New Perception and Reception

From 13 to 16 of June, the MoMoWo Symposium 2018 International Conference – Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Towards a New Perception and Reception – took place in Turin. Being Docomomo International is an institutional partner of MoMoWo, the Chair, Prof. Ana Tostões participated, presenting the lecture “Women in Power beyond Europe”. What is MoMoWo? “MoMoWo – Women’s Creativity Since the Modern Movement is a large-scale cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programmewithin the Culture sub-programme. MoMoWo is an interdisciplinary non-profit project that contributes to create European added value, as expected by Creative Europe. From a pan-european and interdisciplinary perspective,…