Call for Papers: in_bo vol. 13, no. 7. Sacred Pedagogy: The Sacred in Architectural and Design Education

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the open-access online journal in_bo vol. 13, no. 7. titled “Sacred Pedagogy: The Sacred in Architectural and Design Education”. “Any design pedagogy implies the reconsideration of the relationship between the sacred and the religious. Today, spaces of rituals risk becoming themes of specialized design — as stadiums for example, where architecture cannot ignore the rules and the form of the games that take place in them. Also, divisive religious beliefs highlight the fragility and fragmentation of contemporary society. The expansion of the sacred beyond religions underscores the theme of…

Call for Papers: edA, Special Issue 2021. “Totalitarian Architecture and Urban Planning: History and Legacy”

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the ESEMPI DI ARCHITETTURA International Journal, special issue 2021 “Totalitarian Architecture and Urban Planning: History and Legacy”, with the guest editors Claudia Lamberti and Justyna Zdunek-Wielgołaska. “Totalitarianism is universally known as a political system that exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life. In this kind of regime, propaganda is a fundamental aspect of the maintenance of power and consensus. Architecture and town planning have the potential to support and promote ideological propaganda. In many ways, totalitarian architecture represents the regime that builds it. Both…

Call for Papers: 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”]

The deadline of call for papers for the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”], organized by the Museum of Architecture Study Group of the Graduate Program in Architecture – Proarq, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was extended to 15th July, 2021. Teachers, graduate students, researchers and professionals in Architecture, Museology and Heritage are invited to participate in the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”] to be held between 18th October and…

Call for Papers: Iofan130: The Paths of Architecture of the 1920s-1940s

Docomomo International would like to share the Call for Papers for the conference Iofan130: The Paths of Architecture of the 1920s-1940s, that will be held in Moscow on 15-16 September 2021, with attendance both in person and virtually, pending future sanitary measures. Collateral events in Rome are planned. The proceedings will be published after the conference. The 130th anniversary of Russian and Soviet architect Boris Iofan (1891–1976) provides an opportunity to reflect further on the architectural heritage of the interwar period. Iofan’s most famous work, the Palace of Soviets in Moscow, a project that won the international competition in 1932, marked a…

Call for Papers: The Getty Research Journal

Docomomo International would like to share the Call for Papers for The Getty Research Journal. Published twice a year, in February and in August, the journal presents peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods. Topics relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture. Topics and cultural perspectives that remain marginalized in art history and related fields, and work by scholars of underrepresented backgrounds and/or in early career stages are encouraged. The Getty…

Call for Papers: 14th Seminar Docomomo Brazil

Docomomo Brazil is holding its 14th Seminar, from 27th to 29th October at the Federal University of Pará, Belém, with the theme O MODERNO EM MOVIMENTO: USOS, REUSOS, NOVAS CARTOGRAFIAS. Presente e futuro do legado da arquitetura moderna no Brasil [THE MODERN IN MOVEMENT: USES, REUSE, NEW CARTOGRAPHIES. Present and future of the legacy of modern architecture in Brazil]. The Seminar proposes 4 topics: 1. Modern architecture, culture and nature. 2. Document. To preserve. Conserve. Modern heritage and its uses and reuses. 3. New cartographies and chronologies of modern architecture and urbanism in Brazil. 4. Modern spaces and the new technical,…

Call for Papers – XIII Congreso Internacional Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna Española

Docomomo International would like to inform that the call for papers for the XIII Congreso Internacional Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna Española [XIII International Congress History of Modern Spanish Architecture], with the theme Arquitectura para la salud y el descanso (1914-1975) / Architecture for health, resting and well-being (1914-1975), happening 27-29 April 2022, extended its submissions deadline to 19th June 2021. Three topics are to be considered in this Conference: 1. Urban health architecture: hospitals, clinics, health centers. 2. Health landscape architecture: the sanatoriums. 3. Architecture for rest and care: spas, hot springs, rest colonies, recovery facilities, asylums… Docomomo Intenational’s chair Ana Tostões will be…

ICOMOS Conference “In Restauro: Post-War Heritage of Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. Integrated Approaches to Dissonant Monuments and Sites”

Docomomo International would like to draw your attention to the conference “In Restauro: Post-War Heritage of Art and Architecture in Central and Eastern Europe. Integrated Approaches to Dissonant Monuments and Sites” on 2nd and 23rd of July, 2021. The hybrid event is planned to be held live in Kazanlak (Bulgaria) and online by ICOMOS Germany and ICOMOS Bulgaria. The symposium will focus on currently planned or recently carried-out measures of monument protection and monument restoration. Contributions should pay special attention to technical and methodological issues of conserving testimonies of post-war art and architecture; to a critical reflection of the intended…

Call for Abstracts: Global Conference “Environments by Design: Health, Wellbeing and Place”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the global conference “Environments by Design: Health, Wellbeing and Place”, which will be held between 1st and 3rd December, 2021. This international event is organized by Syracuse University, Chalmers University of Technology, Northumbria University, and the Italian Society for the Sociology of Health. Coordinated by AMPS. Dates: 1-3 December, 2021 Place: Virtual Call On January 1st, 2020, the world woke to news that a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, had been identified as a strain of coronavirus. By March, the World Health Organization would define it as a pandemic and the most serious global…

Call for Abstracts: Conference “Cultures, Communities and Design”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the conference “Cultures, Communities and Design” – a conference connecting planning, landscapes, architecture and people, which will be held between 28th and 30th June, 2022. This international event is organized by the University of Calgary, the interdisciplinary research organization AMPS, its academic journal Architecture_MPS, together with the events and publication group PARADE. Place: Calgary Format: Virtual Host: University of Calgary, Canada Dates: June 28-30, 2022 Abstracts: July 01, 2021 (Early)   Call ‘The Countryside’ – a polemically generic term Rem Koolhaas has recently used to reposition debates about our cities to those of rural areas. While posited…