Call for Abstracts: Re-engaging with the Gulf Modernist City: Heritage and Repurposing Practice

In the framework of the 10th Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge, UK that will take place in July 2019 the workshop “Re-engaging with the Gulf Modernist City: Heritage and Repurposing Practice,” is now accepting proposals. Long-time neglected architectural and artistic productions of the modernisation era in the Gulf are now at the centre of a renewed interest. In the last decade, a series of initiatives were launched to understand, analyse and re-engage with the once-modern city, which meanwhile lost its pivotal function and meaning. A city within a bigger city, the urban fabric produced in the Gulf during the modernisation…

Call for Papers: Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage, Challenges

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a three-day international conference Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage, Challenges that will be held in Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 6-8, 2019. This international conference is organised by a group of researchers from the University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, Portugal, under the scope of the research project ´Atlas of School Architecture in Portugal – Education, Heritage and Challenges´, funded by FCT, the agency that supports research into science and technology in Portugal. Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage and Challenges is intended to be a forum for discussing the…

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…

Call for Abstracts: International Meeting on Modern Heritage and Best Practices: Sustainability, Conservation, Management and Architectural Design

“Docomomo Chile, Docomomo International and the Faculty of Architecture Design and Urban Studies of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, are organizing a meeting on good practices on modern heritage between 21st and 24th March 2018. The theme of best practices on modern heritage refers to the set of procedures, ethical guidelines, principles and actions that – through exemplary cases – can configure the most appropriate, judicious and efficient course of action for sustainability, conservation, better management and good design regarding the relationship between heritage and new architecture. The preservation of modern buildings and complexes, as well as urban spaces…