Live Roundtable Discussion for the Launch of Conservation Principles for Concrete of Cultural Significance Join the Getty Conservation Institute for this free virtual event bringing together a multidisciplinary group of professionals to discuss the importance of conserving historic concrete and the importance of using a sound conservation methodology to guide practice. December 2, 2020 10:00 to 11:30 am (Los Angeles time) via Zoom Free, Advanced Registration Required Background Over the last two hundred years, concrete has been used to produce a remarkably rich and diverse legacy of buildings and structures increasingly recognized for their cultural significance. With growing recognition of this…

Architecture in the twentieth century, more than any other period in history, embodies the very idea of innovation in building. Its innovation embraces both the continued refinement of proven techniques as well as the introduction of new technologies – as often as not dependent on the logic of industrialised production which in itself would come to revolutionise the entire construction sector. How do we recapture the diversity and complexity of the century’s construction systems? How do we retain the evidence of its architectural and technical history? This study, while not claiming to be exhaustive in its treatment, explores the specifics…

This catalogue documents the dialogues established in the rooms of the ICO Museum with one of the largest published compilations of plans and drawings by Sáenz de Oíza, with interesting introductory texts by the curators of the exhibition, the architects Javier, Vicente and Marisa Sáenz Guerra. Editor: Fundación ICO Language: Spanish Pages: 256 Price: 30 euro Date: 2020 ISBN: 978-84-948744-1-3 To order this book, please visit Museo ICO website.

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…

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…

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…

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.