Call for Articles: docomomo Brasil magazine – issue 6 and 7

The magazine Docomomo Brasil (ISSN 2594-8601) invites researchers, students and professionals in the field of Architecture and Urbanism to send articles for its issues 6 and 7. The topic is free and the journal aims to disseminate research, documents, projects and bibliographic reviews in the area of ​​documentation and preservation of the various manifestations of the Modern Movement. Articles may be submitted to the sections that make up the main body of the journal. In the Project section, it is intended to disseminate and discuss practical experiences in restoring buildings, sites and neighborhood units and other artistic expressions of the…

Fellowship: The Digital Now: Architecture and Intersectionality

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is launching a collaborative, multidisciplinary research project that explores the intersectional dimensions of digital design. Intersectionality entails a way of seeing and navigating a world with differential forms of justice. Pioneered by intellectuals and activists in the 1970s, from Kimberlé Crenshaw to the Combahee River Collective, it is rooted in gendered and racialized experiences of capitalism. Within the architecture discipline, an intersectional approach may foreground the under-acknowledged impacts the built environment has on, for example, Black or Indigenous peoples across the full spectrum of their lived experiences. In this regard, the CCA conceives of…

Grant: Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture

The Lilly Reich Grant for equality in architecture aims to support the study, dissemination and increasing the visibility of the contributions in the field of architecture which have been unduly relegated or forgotten due to discriminatory reasons. The grant also seeks to promote access in the equality of opportunities in architectural practice. This modality of the Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture is specifically addressed to the study, dissemination and visibility of Lilly Reich’s own contributions to the field of architecture. More information and the rules for applying are available on the Fundació Mies van der Rohe website.

Call for Papers: Impatient Cities of the Gulf: Post-oil Architecture in Flux

HPA Issue 8, Roberto Fabbri (University of Monterrey, MX) and Iain Jackson (University of Liverpool, UK) Today’s general perception of Gulf cities is based on the assumption of a futuristic vision; a visionary development and a cluster of hi-tech constructions. Since the striking of oil, this ‘brave new world’ has been a testing ground for experimental, risk imbued architecture and real estate. The sudden affluence and ambition of the rulers to demonstrate progress and social advancements (sometimes expressed through outlandish ‘iconic’ designs) has certainly fired this drive. The building of cities seemed an appropriate culvert for the vast funds generated, turning what…

Open letter to the World Health Organisation: Covid-19 best practices

The UIA, Urban Innovative Actions, has endorsed the collective letter and petition from 680 built environment experts from 51 countries addressed to the WHO, compelling public health leaders to adopt indoor environment best practices proven to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Addressed to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), the collective letter urges the WHO to cooperate with built environment experts to develop guidance for integrated design and operation solutions for limiting COVID-19 exposure. Find out more and sign the petition here.

Call for Papers: ACTION. Feminisms and the spatialization of resistances

The V International Congress Architecture and Gender | ACTION. Feminisms and the spatialization of resistances continues the reflections organized since 2015 and mainly from southern Europe, enabling the construction of networks, research and transcontinental experiences. In this genealogy, with varied programs and themes, the previous congresses are ArquitectAs (2014, Seville), Matrices (2015, Lisbon), MORE (2017, Florence), and Fielding Architecture (2019, Brighton). The fifth edition emphasizes the political component of space and rights intersection, never forgetting the diversity of being a woman or a girl and the crossing with the current circumstances derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at IV World…

Call for Donations: Beirut explosion – Emergency Architects

Docomomo International wish to call your attention for the initiative of the The French non-governmental organization, Emergency Architects regarding the Beirut explosion, Lebanon on 4 August. The Emergency Architects, is closely cooperating with the Lebanese government and the UIA’s Lebanese section, the Order of Engineers and Architects of Lebanon, to provide urgent and timely support to the Lebanese people displaced by the catastrophe and to restore the city’s basic infrastructure and historic buildings. Jad Tabet, President of the Lebanese Federation of Engineers and Architects, called for a “professional rehabilitation of the buildings and the urban fabric.” Emergency Architects is currently…

Call for Papers: From Redevelopment to Responsibility: Environmentally (Un)Friendly Design

Approach to the environment has recently undergone a fundamental reconsideration. Le Corbusier’s urban visions of high-rise structures marked a radical disparity between nature and human interventions in it, which shaped the human-designed environment enormously. Many of the transformations of the urban landscape took place in the name of economic interests; cities and built environment became sites where political and ecological interests clashed. After celebrating the revolutionary and progressive outcomes of such collisions, attention to negative human impact on natural environment has come to the fore in the last decades. Practitioners started implementing into their practice knowledge of the effects of…

Attendance Grants for IIC’s Edinburgh Congress online

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works is encouraging attendance in the IIC Edinburgh Congress “Practices and Challenges in Built Heritage Conservation” from conservators and cultural heritage professionals from all over the world and for those who are at different stages of their career including students and early career professionals. Details of grants currently available are listed below. Anna Plowden CPD Grants Anna Plowden Trust is supporting a CPD grant to cover the full cost of IIC membership for one year for practicing conservators based in the UK, enabling recipients to attend the IIC Edinburgh Congress online…

“A House to Live” a facsmile of “Ein Wohnhaus” by Bruno Taut

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of the new Edition in English, A House to Live, of a facsmile of Ein Wohnhaus by Bruno Taut. “The uniqueness of this book I am forewording, along with the fact that its publication does not coincide with any anniversary or celebration of the kind that reeditions and tributes sometimes use as pretexts, compels me to provide, by way of justification, some explanation of is necessity and importance. On the one hand, when I decided to pubish Ein Wohnhaus I was driven by a desire to honor the figure of its author…