Call for Votes: European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards – Public choice award

Docomomo International would like to invite you to discover the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2021 and to vote to decide who will win this year’s Public Choice Award! You must vote for 3 projects. Your first vote counts for 3 points, your second vote for 2 and the third vote for 1. The winner of the Public Choice Award will be determined by the total number of votes. You cannot vote for the same country more than once. You can leave a comment for your favourite project(s) to be potentially featured in the Europa…

Watch the SERRALVES IN TALKS episode dedicated to the Álvaro Siza Archive

Docomomo International would like to invite you to watch the SERRALVES IN TALKS episode dedicated to the Álvaro Siza Archive, presented by Sónia Oliveira, coordinator of the Serralves Library and Archives. Álvaro Siza donated a significant part of his archive of built and unbuilt projects to Serralves. In this episode, Sónia Oliveira begins by explaining the process that had to be undertaken to obtain the best practices for the reception, transport, preservation and digitization of the Álvaro Siza Archive, with the support of a multidisciplinary team and a whole work that involved partners and teams internal and external. She ends…

Call for Artists: CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021 – ITSLIQUID International Art Fair

Docomomo International would like to share the call for artists for CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021 – ITSLIQUID International Art Fair, international exhibition of photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture and performance art, that will be held in Venice, at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, from September 30 to October 21, 2021, and in other prestigious venues and historical buildings. This is the eighth edition of  CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021 – ITSLIQUID International Art Fair, the previous ones have been organized in prestigious venues and historical buildings in Venice, like Palazzo Dolfin Bollani, Palazzo Flangini, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, presenting more than 600…

III National Congress for the Safeguard of Culture Heritage

Docomomo International would like to share the III National Congress for the Safeguard of Culture Heritage [III Congresso Nacional para Salvaguarda do Património Cultural], which will be held fully in a virtual environment between 9-12 November, 2021. CICOP Brasil 2021 is organized by the architecture and urbanism course of the Federal Institute of São Paulo – IFSP São Paulo campus and by the history department of UNIFESP, and has the theme “Cultural heritage: fragments, sums, constructions and dystopias”. To know more about the themes, please visit CICOP’s Instagram page. [Portuguese] Further information on CICOP’s website. [Portuguese]

Call for Papers: Paranoá Journal. Archives and Collections in Architecture and Urbanism

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the Paranoá Journal, Archives and Collections in Architecture and Urbanism, which will be guest edited by Maria Cristina da Silva Leme, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos and Liz Sandoval. This Thematic Edition welcomes papers that reflect on the expansion of the perception and recognition of the importance of collections and archives for studies in the field of architecture and urbanism. In this call, it is listed relevant and pressing themes to instigate new approaches and changes in the classic representations of collections and the idea of archives, which is a…

Call for Proposals: JSAH Roundtable: Rethinking the Urban Landscape

Docomomo International shares the call for proposals for the JSAH Roundtable with the theme “Rethinking the Urban Landscape”. “An enduring intellectual and a perceptual rift divides the city from the natural world both in scholarship as well as in the public imagination. In the past three decades, humanities scholars working with social and natural scientists have challenged these assumptions by investigating the complex interaction and intersection of cultural and natural systems, and by exploring how cities and nature are inextricably woven together into what is being called the urban landscape. Just as the seminal work of urban historians such as…

Call for Applications: SAH Membership Grants for Emerging Professionals

Docomomo International would like to share the SAH Membership Grants, which provide emerging scholars with a one-year digital SAH Individual membership to bridge the gap between the Society’s subsidized student memberships and the full-cost SAH memberships. These awards are intended for emerging scholars, regardless of age or employment status, who are new to the field of architectural history or its related disciplines. These grants are funded by the Society of Architectural Historians’ Scott Opler Endowment for New Scholars. Award The award consists of a one-year digital SAH Individual membership. SAH will recognize the award winners at the SAH 2022 Annual International Conference in Pittsburgh…

Call for Submissions: Bruno Zevi Prize 2021

With a view to developing and disseminating the teachings of Bruno Zevi and his method of critical and historical inquiry, the Bruno Zevi Foundation annually holds an international competition to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original analysis of an architectural work, theme or architect of the past or present. The competition is divided into five sections corresponding with the following themes: the key role of space in architecture; the ancient sources of the modern language; history as a methodology of architectural practice; the modern language of architecture; landscape and the zero-degree language of architecture. The competition…

Call for Papers: Charrette 8(1). Race and Space: Changing the architectural narrative

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for issue 8(1) of Charrette, the journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), which will be guest edited by Ann de Graft-Johnson and Renée Tobe. This issue, under the theme of Race and Space: Changing the architectural narrative, calls for research and commentary and critical reflection on the state of play relating to the context and content of architectural education, as well as present personal narratives relating to race and space. The editors invite architectural academics, researchers, practitioners and students, to submit contributions to one of the three categories of Charrette: Essay, Project,…

Call for Papers: in_bo 13, no. 17. “Cities and Territories of Democracy”

Docomomo International would like to share the call for papers for the in_bo 13, no. 17, “Cities and Territories of Democracy”, edited by Ilaria Agostini, Luigi Bartolomei, Elena Franco. The call aims at drawing attention to the relationship between politics and territory, analyzing the link between the shape of power and the shape of cities as well as the capacity that urban planning has to regulate such a connection. Does the town planning precede, accompany or follow the political decision? Does a democratic order imply a democratic city? How might economic forces fit today into the relationship between urban planning and…