Avanchet-Parc: “une cité de conception nouvelle et originale” (1969-77)

Docomomo International is pleased to share the publication Avanchet-Parc: “une cité de conception nouvelle et originale” (1969-77) published by Franz Graf, Docomomo Switzerland’s chair, and Giulia Marino, Docomomo Switzerland’s vice prsident. Avanchet-Parc is an extraordinary city, built in Geneva: 7,000 inhabitants – 2,033 apartments – with a very great social mix. It is also the result of real collaboration between unions, employers’ associations and a private developer. When it opened in 1977, Avanchet-Parc was hailed as “the most important operation in the extension of the urban agglomeration”. Everything was in place to break the “monotony” specific to large complexes: star…

Getty Conservation Institute Free Online Publication: The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework: A Tool for Assessing Heritage Places

Docomomo International is happy to share the release of the Getty Conservation Institute publication The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework:A Tool for Assessing Heritage Places, By Susan Marsden and Peter Spearritt and with contributions from Leo Schmidt, Sheridan Burke, Gail Ostergren, Jeff Cody, and Chandler McCoy; Los Angeles, Getty Conservation Institute Publications, 2021. The publication pretends to be a free online tool for architecture and heritage conservation professionals around the world. “The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework: A Tool for Assessing Heritage Places promotes broad thinking about the historical processes that have contributed to the twentieth-century built environment worldwide. It identifies and analyzes the…

Footprint 27, Autumn / Winter 2020

Docomomo International is pleased to share that the new issue of Footprint is out now – Vol. 14, Issue 27, Autumn / Winter 2020.This issue, edited by Aleksandar Staničić, Marc Schoonderbeek, Heidi Sohn and Armina Pilav, is dedicated to the theme “Conflict Mediations”. This issue includes research articles by Eliyahu Keller, Mark Jarzombek and Eytan Mann; Gökçe Önal; Melina Philippou; Noa Roei; Lutz Robbers; and Ahmad Beydoun. It also includes visual essays by Omar Mismar; The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI); and Katarina Andjelković. Footprint 27 can be found online in the following link: https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/footprint/issue/view/845.  

Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the issue 162 of Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica – Housing in a Box – has just been printed: the main core of the different essays converges into that considerable body of experiments aimed to explore and encourage the efforts of architects, engineers and manufacturers in promoting a widespread knowledge and use of a Meccano-like house, no more a static object but a demountable, assembled and mass-produced shelter. This world of (apparently) humble things is therefore the central point of convergence of all the essays in which our readers will find the emerging lines of a…

XL: Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. 1978-2018

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of XL: Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. 1978-2018,  by Jorge Tárrago Mingo and Antonio José Cidoncha Pérez (EUNSA, 2020). “This book is published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the construction of the building that houses the University of Navarra’s School of Architecture. It contains a description and an annotated selection of historic materials (reproduction of some of the original drawings and the specifications for the detailed design) interspersed with two series of photographs of the building as it presently stands. Technical data are also included…

A Global Survey on Education and Training for the Conservation of Twentieth-Century Built Heritage

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication: A Global Survey on Education and Training for the Conservation of Twentieth-Century Built Heritage, Margherita Pedroni, Cesar Bargues Ballester, Andrea Canziani, Wessel de Jonge, and Chandler McCoy, 2020. “Docomomo International and the Getty Conservation Institute collaborated to assess the status of education and training on twentieth-century built heritage conservation worldwide. The Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI) of the Getty Conservation Institute and Docomomo’s International Specialist Committee on Education and Training (ISC/E+T) developed and distributed an online survey aimed at understanding whether the subject of twentieth-century built heritage conservation is being taught, and,…

LDE Heritage Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals: Proceedings

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the International LDE-Heritage Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), taking place from 26-28 November 2019 at TU Delft, The Netherlands. “Heritage – natural and cultural, material and immaterial – plays a key role in the development of sustainable cities and communities. Goal 11, target 4, of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes the relation between heritage and sustainability. The International LDE Heritage conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals, which took place from 26 to 28 November 2019 at TU Delft in the Netherlands, examined…

Cure & Care. Architecture and Health + Curar e Cuidar. Arquitetura e Saúde em Portugal (1901-1976)

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of: Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut, Paulo Providência (ed.), Cure & Care. Architecture and Health [English] and  Curar e Cuidar. Arquitetura e Saúde em Portugal (1901-1976), [Portuguese], Lisboa, IST-ID, 2020. A joined Ebook in English is being prepared. Cure & Care. Architecture and Health compiles the proceedings from the International Conference of the “CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation” research project, that happened on the 6th and 7th June 2019, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Curar e Cuidar. Arquitetura e Saúde em Portugal (1901-1976) is composed by three main chapters: first three essays focus on the topic of…

High-rise buildings in France. A modern heritage 1945-1975

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that a release of the docomomo France bulletin dedicated to high-rise buildings in France, Les immeubles de grande hauteur en France. Un héritage moderne 1945-1975, will be available from 27th January 2021 also in English. Also, there is an editor’s discount of 40% and free shipping (17 Euros instead of 28 Euros) for docomomo international members! Publication director: Richard Klein Editor in chief: Riccardo Forte Editorial secretary: Milena Crespo Editorial coordination: Léo Noyer-Duplaix and Marjorie Occelli The authors: Caroline Bauer, Silvia Berselli, Catherine Blain, Gauthier Bolle, Bénédicte Chaljub, Audrey Courtebaisse, Milena Crespo, Amandine Diener, Philippe…