Expo: The early years of Schokbeton DOCOMOMO ICS/technology event EXPO: The early years of Schokbeton  28 November 2015 – 20 March 2016, Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands “Schokbeton is an architectural concrete precasting system, which was developed in the early 30s in the Netherlands. The shock system was invented by two concrete workers who converted a washing machine into a shock table on which concrete during the casting process was shocked for a few minutes to consolidate the material. The founders got an international patent for this technology in 1935. Over the almost 50 years that the shocking process was used by…

Conference: 20th-Century Urbanism and Landscape in Africa. DOCOMOMO-International Conference and Symposium 20th-Century Urbanism and Landscape in Africa. Research challenges and opportunities. University of Edinburgh 7-8 October 2015. “Keynote Speakers: Dr Rexford Asassie Oppong – KNUST, Ghana Prof. Luc Verpoest – KU Leuven Prof.  Johan Lagae – Ghent University Dr Iain Jackson – Liverpool University Following on from the successful workshop and conference held at the School of architecture, KNUST, Kumasi in July 2015, this new event will significantly carry forward the discussion about the potential ways in which research into 20th century modernism and landscapes in Africa can be pursued within…

Workshop & Conference: Conserving West African Modern, Kumasi, Ghana You are invited to a workshop and conference which will focus on developing the conservation of modernist buildings and urban landscapes in West Africa. This development strategy will be tackled at two levels. Firstly, at urban and building level, through the development of the KNUST Architecture Department as a Centre for public engagement with, and professional expertise in, contemporary urban conservation training and research; in West Africa. This discipline is currently not taught at institutional level, despite the existence of a network of African architecture and planning schools, and architectural institutes…

Meeting, 28 March, Lisbon, Portugal An ISC/Registers Meeting will take place, in Lisbon, Portugal, on 28 March, to discuss the expectations of thedocomomo ISC/Registers and the actions to take in the future. Please fell free to send your suggestions and questions to docomomoInternational (docomomo@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) and to Louise Noelle Gras, ISC/Registers Interim Chair (louisenoelle@gmail.com).

Meeting, 28 March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal On 28 March 2015, it was held a docomomo International ISC/Registers Meeting, in MUDE (Museum of Design and Fashion), Lisbon, Portugal.

Architectural Conservation Masterclass organised jointly by docomomo ISC U+L and the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies: Brutalist Eyesore and Post Modern Monstrosities: Conserving the C20’s Least Popular Buildings by Catherine Croft. Catherine Croft will consider shifting  public attitudes to  post-war buildings  in the UK and discuss strategies to ensuring the best survive. Catherine Croft is Director of C20 Society and runs the Conservation for Historic Concrete course at West Dean College.  She is currently editing a book on concrete conservation for the Getty Conservation Institute, and regularly writes and speaks about C20 architecture and design. Admission for UoE students/staff is by free ticket booked via EventBrite: http://bit.ly/2015MasterclassUOE.  

Dear DoCoMoMo Chairs, As it was decided in Seoul in September, the National Chapters that have not complied with the “homework” and sent the revised fiches with the motivation texts have until the end of January to do so. It is important for us all to participate since the result of these materials will be included in a publication edited by Panayotis Tournikiotis and Marieke Kuipers. Also, the revised fiches, in PDF Format, will be uploaded in the Docomomo Registers website, as well as the list with the 100 most important buildings, sites and neighbourhoods. Please write and let me…

Please find attached the DOCOMOMO ISC/Education+Theory Report (2012-2014) and Plan of Action and Members (2014-2016) received by DOCOMOMO International. 2014-2016 ISC/E+T members Theodore Prudon (Docomomo USA), Chair Angela Wheeler (Docomomo USA), Secretary Andrea Canziani (Docomomo Italy) Mona Schalin (Docomomo Finland) Luc Verpoest (Docomomo Belgium) Tommi Lindh (Docomomo Finland) Wolfgang Jung (Docomomo Germany) Ola Wederbrun (Docomomo Denmark) Angelica Martinez (Docomomo Mexico) Download PDF

In order to have more coordination between the ISC’s and other DOCOMOMO bodies regarding publications, the Advisory Board unanimously agreed, on 24 September 2014, on the re-creation of the DOCOMOMO International Specialist Committee on Publications, integrating all the ISC chairs and the DOCOMOMO International Chair. The proposal was unanimously accepted at the 13th DOCOMOMO Council Meeting that took place in Seoul, Korea, 26 September 2014. Members 2014-2016: Ana Tostões, chair of Docomomo International Theo Prudon, ISC/E+T chair Louise Noelle Gras, ISC/R chair Kyle Normandin, ISC/T chair Miles Glendenning, ISC/U+L chair  

In the 13th DOCOMOMO Council Meeting that took place in Seouk, Korea, on 26 September 2014, Panayotis Tournikiotis and Marieke Kuipers dropped their positions as Chair and Secretaty, respectively, and were elected as editors. Louise Noelle was elected as interim chair and Maria Rocha Pinto as secretary. 2014-2016 ISC/R members Louise Noelle (Docomomo Mexico), Interim Chair Panayotis Tournikiotis (Docomomo Greece), Editor Marieke Kuipers, Editor (Docomomo Netherlands) Maria Rocha Pinto (Docomomo International), Secretary Henrieta Moravcikova (Docomomo Slovakia) Carolina Quiroga (Docomomo Argentina) Louise Cox (Docomomo Australia) Dorothea Deschermeier (Docomomo Switzerland) Celestino Garcia Braña (Docomomo Iberia) Susana Landrove (Docomomo Iberia) France Vanlaethem (Docomomo Quebec) Kenji Watanabe (Docomomo Japan) Émilie d’Orgeix…