Bartolomeu Costa Cabral (1929-2024)

It is with deep sadness that Docomomo Portugal communicates that the Portuguese architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral passed away last 20th April 2024. Docomomo Portugal wishes to convey the sincerest condolences at the passing of the renowned architect and urban designer, to his family and friends. Born in 1929 in Lisbon, Bartolomeu Costa Cabral was regarded as one of today’s leading architects in Portugal, where he lived and worked. He obtained his architectural degree from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (ESBAL) in 1957. Still in this year, he collaborated with Nuno Teotónio Pereira and Nuno Portas under the guidance of Frederico…

Richard Rogers (1933-2021)

It is with deep sadness that Docomomo International announces that last Saturday, 18th December 2021, Richard Rogers passed away. Docomomo International wishes to convey the most sincere condolences at the passing of the Italian-English Pritzker Prize winning architect to his family and friends. Co-designer of the Pompidou Center, Richard Rogers was one of the most renown architect of the hi-tech architecture aside from Normand Foster or Renzo Piano. His “inviting, colorful modernism forever altered the cityscapes of Paris and London (…) With his striking designs for the tubular Pompidou Center in Paris; the vast Millennium Dome in London, which seemed…

“Liberi Libri” – Libri e autori@PoliTo

Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa. Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980 by Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, and preface by Ana Tostões (Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021) Docomomo International is trilled to announce that next Friday, 19th November 2021, between 17H00 and 19H00 (CET) will take place online via Zoom the event “Liberi Libri” – Libri e autori@PoliTo, to celebrate the launching of the book Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa. Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980. Organized by Politecnico di Torino, the event will be moderated by the authors Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, and invited guests Sergio Pace (Referente del Rettore per i Servizi…

Call for applications: 2nd International Photo Contest “Nuestras Arquitectas”

Docomomo International is happy to share that the applications for the 2nd International Photo Contest “Nuestras Arquitectas” are open util 20th November 2021, 24H00 (GMT -3). Organized by Nuestras Arquitectas, it is supported by Universitat Politècncia de València (Spain), Built Heritage Research Group (GPAC) and the UNESCO Chair Cultural Landscapes and Heritage of the University of the Basque Country, GADU programme -Gender, Architecture, Design, Urbanism- Instituto de la Espacialidad Humana at Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Colegio Territorial de arquitectos de Valencia, LINA Plataforma, Un día | una arquitecta, Línea de investigación Urbanismo, Arquitectura…

Call for Abstracts: 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium – Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium is now open, with due date 13th January 2022. The title of the symposium is “Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia”. “Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, “yo” is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when combined with Modernism, it puts into focus the importance of place and community in our modern heritage, as well as the urgency of preservation efforts. The 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium will explore why Modernism still has the…

Book Presentations: “An Accidental Masterpiece” and “The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. One Hundred Texts since 1929”

Docomomo International is pleased to share that two new publications about the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion edited by Dietrich Neumann and David Caralt, will be presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion on 5th November 2021, 1 pm (GMT+1). The publications result from the authors’ rigorous collectio, selection and edition of the voices of researchers and artists in two volumes about the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion that will be from now on reference books for any person interested in the Pavilion and Modern Architecture. “An Accidental Masterpiece is an in depth study of the Pavilion that presents much…

Call for Papers: Anales de Historia del Arte, vol. 32 – Art and the Archive

The call for papers for the 2022 volume of Anales de Historia del Arte is open for submissions until 1st February 2022. The theme of this volume 32 is “Arte y Archivo / Art and the Archive”. “Archives are essential places for research and knowledge creation for art historians and artists alike. In this issue we address the fertile relationship of archives with art and its historiography over the centuries. We welcome proposals that consider this question from a theoretical or methodological perspective, as well as from one based on case studies. Possible approaches might include, though are not necessarily limited…

Open call for submissions: BARQ – Barcelona Architecture Film Festival

Docomomo International is happy to announce the launching of the second edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. “The BARQ Festival is a film festival aimed at vindicating films on architecture as a specific genre and at deepening the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues regarding the spaces we inhabit. It is the only international competition film festival of architecture in Spain. With an audience success and critical acclaim since its beginnings, the festival will…

Call for Abstracts: ArchiDOCT, n. 18 – Temporalities

Docomomo International is pleased to share that the call for abstracts for the 18th issue of ArchiDOCT , focused on the topic Temporalities, is now open until 1st March 2022. “The 18th issue of ArchiDOCT welcomes papers that explore the theme of ‘temporality’ in architecture and the built environment from a theoretical or an applied standpoint. We are interested in the variety of approaches, insights, and opportunities for research that arise from considering time in its heterogeneous dimensions and manifestations (time as speed, rhythm, sequence, horizon, …). In recent decades, the conceptualization and analysis of time has moved beyond Newtonian, linear,…

Special Issue of the APT Bulletin on Disaster Mitigation

Docomomo International is pleased to share that “the latest issue of the APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology is a special issue devoted to multiple aspects of disaster mitigation. It was guest-edited by Rosa Lowinger, president and chief conservator at RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture, and Kyle Normandin, associate principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. The article entitled “Post-Disaster Amnesia: Lack of Mitigation Planning and Heritage Rationality in a Port-au-Prince Megaproject ” by Olsen Jean Julien discusses how Haiti ignored seismic risk in planning for its bicentennial celebration in 1950. As a result, many of the buildings built for the bicentennial collapsed…