Footprint 26 “The Architecture Competition as Contact Zone: Towards a Historiography of Cross-Cultural Exchanges” published

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that Footprint 26 is out now. This issue, edited by Jorge Mejía Hernández and Cathelijne Nuijsink, is dedicated to the theme “The Architecture Competition as Contact Zone: Towards a Historiography of Cross-Cultural Exchanges”. It includes research articles by Bénédicte Zimmermann; Bruno Gil, Susana Lobo and José Ribau Esteves; Carmela Cucuzzella; Jean-Pierre Chupin; Véronique Biau, Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger and Bendicht Weber. This issue also includes review articles by Torsten Lange; Federico Ortiz; and Hamish Lonergan, as well as an interview with Sarah Williams Goldhagen. This issue of Footprint follows a double trajectory. On the one hand, it advances…

Recruiting 15 international PhD students in Marie Curie ITN SUBLime

Docomomo International informs that the SUBLime network is currently looking for dedicated and highly motivated Early Stage Researchers (ESR), who will join our team to craft the future of lime mortars/plasters in new construction and conservation of the built heritage. They are recruiting 15 international PhD students to be trained as European experts in Sustainable Building Lime applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches (SUBLime). SUBLime is an European Training Network (ETN) program that will start in February 2021, as a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie action (Innovative Training Network – ITN) involving 9 countries in Europe. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your international career prospects: Original research…

Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone

Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only through…

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern Modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism–the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the…

Yam Sokly (1984-2020)

Docomomo International wishes to convey the most sincere condolences at the passing of the Cambodian architect and researcher Yam Sokly, to his family and friends. “We have just lost a young architect and modern Cambodian architectural heritage advocate, Yam Sokly (速利任), on 28 June 2020. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Cambodia (2003-2009) and a master’s degree from Kyungmin University in Korea (2016). He was a staff of Heritage Mission at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in Cambodia (2009-2012) and at the Royal University of Fine Arts (2012-2020), and worked as…

Ortstockhaus auf der Braunwaldalp

The Ortstockhaus auf der Braunwaldalp is one of the most important architectural witnesses of modernism in the canton of Glarus and is known as a destination far beyond the Glarus region. The richly illustrated book recognizes the Ortstockhaus as a pioneer of building in the mountains. In January 1930, the architect Hans Leuzinger (1887-1971) began planning the small sports house on a sun terrace in the Glarnerland region. The client was Peter Tschudi from Schwanden GL, who reacted with the project to the emerging tourism in the region. In a kind of welcome gesture, the building turns towards the Ortstock…

Call for Artists: BORDERS Festival 

The first edition of BORDERS Festival took place in Venice in 2016, in the same period of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, presenting a great selection of more than 500 art and architecture works realized by 180 artists and architects, coming from 36 countries. Never as this time the concept of the exhibition seems to be epochal: since 3 months, the humankind coexists at a distance to stay closer. The new invisible borders generated by the covid-19 are creating new ways of living everyday life, new human connections, re-thinking common spaces and entire cities. Could the new “borders” be the solution? We invite artists, architects and designers to be inspired by this new era, exploring the connection between…

Call for Artists: Venice International Art Fair 2020

Venice International Art Fair is a contemporary art fair that presents collective and solo projects by leading and emerging international artists. The 12th edition will represent a forum for direct exchange of ideas and contacts between collectors, artists, photographers, designers and art professionals. The art fair features paintings, sculptures, photography art, installations, video art and live performance. Venice International Art Fair, organized by ITSLIQUID Group in collaboration with Venice Events, will be held in Venice, at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space from July 23 to August 21, 2020, at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi from July 24 to August 21, 2020 and in other prestigious venues and historical buildings. Venice International Art Fair provides artists…

Articles in Built Heritage has been uploaded to SpringerOpen platform

On the second Saturday of June, Cultural and Natural Heritage Day of China, the Built Heritage is glad to announce in this special occasion the good news from the cooperation with the co-publisher, Springer Nature: after months of hard work, articles published in Built Heritage has been uploaded to SpringerOpen and SpringerLink platform, with an official DOI (Digital Object Identifier). DOI is a permanent identifier linking articles on the web. DOI’s forms a key component of certain reference-linking systems such as CrossRef, and help readers easily locate documents from author’s citation. Please find it in SpringerLink_Built Heritage and SpringerOpen_Built Heritage.  

“The modern gaze to the ‘Greek’ nature”

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the release of the 7th book of docomomo Greece titled The modern gaze to the “Greek” nature [Greek], edited by Amalia Kotsaki and Kostas Tsiambaos and published by Futura, Athens, 2020. “A considerable part of modern architecture in Greece had been developed in a natural environment having a special identity. Beyond its formal characteristics and aesthetic attributes, the Greek landscape had always been culturally and ideologically charged as various references and representations were formulated around it since early Modernity. Moreover, most attempts to render a definition of “greekness” in the early 20th century folllowed…