Launch of Docomomo Turkey – Interior website

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the Docomomo Turkey – Interior website has just been launched in Turkish and English. To visit the new website, please go to: link. “In order to comprehend the Modern Movement and to develop a holistic and more inclusive perspective on the spatial, ideological and aesthetic aspects of modern living culture, there is a great need for work on interior spaces. Based on this need; the ‘Modern Interior Committee’ was established in 2019 under the DOCOMOMO_Turkey working group in order to expand the work done on discussing, documenting and preserving the modern heritage by…

Close Readings: Alan Colquhoun 1921–2012. A Centenary Colloquium

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the event “Close Readings: Alan Colquhoun 1921–2012. A Centenary Colloquium” which will take place next Friday 25 June 2021, 6.00–12.00 US Pacific Time, 09.00–15.00 US Eastern Time, 14.00–20.00 British Summer Time, 15.00–21.00 Central Europe Time. In June 2021 it is celebrated the centenary of Alan Colquhoun (1921–2012), prominent British architect, critic and theoretician. The goal of this online colloquium is to consider the continuing significance of Colquhoun’s writings, and the ways in which they continue to provoke and inform contemporary research. To this end, several generations of scholars gather to discuss the relevance of these writings to the current tasks of the architectural…

Professional Development ACAHUCH MicroCerts in Urban and Cultural Heritage

Docomomo International would like to draw your attention to the comprehensive suite of professional development short courses introduced by the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH) at the University of Melbourne. Designed for professionals of diverse backgrounds seeking to expand their applied skills in Urban and Cultural Heritage, these online microcredential offerings draw upon the world-leading research, teaching and industry expertise within ACAHUCH and from leading organisations in urban and cultural heritage. Upcoming MicroCerts include: New Approaches to Heritage Significance (June 2021) Learn cutting-edge techniques for assessing the cultural significance of heritage places. This course is designed for experienced and…

2021 Victorian Museums and Galleries Forum

Docomomo International would like to share the Victorian Museums and Galleries Forum, an event dedicated to discussing current topics in the museum and gallery sector. In 2021 the Victorian Museums and Galleries Forum will be held on Tuesday 20 July, 2021 in a digital format. The “Digital Literacy – Audience Engagement and the Visitor Experience” theme will address issues around how can we encourage and build digital literacy within our cultural institutions. 2020 exposed the increasing importance of digital literacy and need to integrate digital opportunities into institutional plans and strategies. This event will bring together colleagues from across the GLAM and tech sector…

Publication “KENZO TANGE – Gli anni della rivoluzione formale 1940/1970”

Docomomo International would like to share the publication “KENZO TANGE – Gli anni della rivoluzione formale 1940/1970” [“KENZO TANGE – The years of the formal revolution 1940/1970”] by Giusi Ciotoli and Marco Falsetti, published by Franco Angeli Edizioni. The publication counted with the contribution of FrancoAngeli Architettura Art Design Urban Studies, Olimpia Niglio, Marco Biraghi, the Italy Japan Foundation, the Elèmire Zolla Writings Fund and Docomomo Italia. “Focusing on the period 1960/2020, the volume outlines a precise period of Tanghian research, projecting it within the Japanese cultural sphere and at the same time tracing that web of contacts and stimuli…

Conversation around the book “Imagining the Evident” by Álvaro Siza

Docomomo Internation would like to draw your attention for the publication of a referential book by Álvaro Siza on his own work, in its first English edition. The edition of the English translation Imagining the Evident is going to be celebrated by the Monade and the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP) of the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio – Università della Svizzera Italiana, with a conversation around the book between Álvaro Siza, Kenneth Frampton, Jonathan Sergison, João Gomes da Silva and Daniela Sá. The conversation will happen on 22nd June 2021, at 6.00 pm (GMT+1). It will be…

Mission for Modernism: Tiki Bars – Kitsch or Cultural Appropriation?

Docomomo International is pleased to share the next Mission for Modernism lecture by Docomomo US, that will examine issues of cultural appropriation as they relate to the rise of tiki bars in the midcentury and their recent resurgence. The lecture will happen next thursday,  24th June, 2021 from 5.00 pm to 6:30 pm (Eastern). “Tiki bars were invented in the early 1930s in response to the Great Depression, but their popularity took off after World War II. Establishments used religious figures, symbols and motifs of Pasifika cultures in décor, drink names and vessels. The tiki aesthetic was also expressed in…

Exhibition “9 x 100 = ‘900 – 9 ITINERARI PER 100 ARCHITETTURE DEL ‘900 IN BASILICATA E PUGLIA”

Docomomo International would like to share the exhibition “9 x 100 = ‘900 – 9 ITINERARI PER 100 ARCHITETTURE DEL ‘900 IN BASILICATA E PUGLIA”, wich will be in place between 18th June and 16th July, 2021. The exihibition wants to focus attention on the most significant architectures built in the two regions during the 20th century: an initiative that is the result of a filing of the regional architectural heritage of the 20th century by Docomomo Italia, Sezione Basilicata and Puglia E.T.S. Within this filing, a Scientific Committee of international importance has selected 100 works of modern architecture of…

Battleship Berlin film

Docomomo International would like to share Nathan Eddy’s new film “Battleship Berlin”, a film that explores the dilemma facing Berlin’s notorious brutalist icon the Mäusebunker. The trailer was released in the beginning of this month, and the 40-minute film will have its world premiere in Berlin on 26th June and will then be shown at global film festivals as the year progresses. Nathan Eddy’s last film, Starship Chicago, won Docomomo’s Advocacy Award of Excellence in 2018. Synopsis Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital plans to destroy a brutalist icon of the Cold War era: The…

Seminar: Carlo Gandolfi – “To Paulo Mendes da Rocha”

Docomomo International would like to share the seminar “Architecture: Design and Research” with the subtitle “Carlo Gandolfi – ‘To Paulo Mendes da Rocha’”, organized by the Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto, which will be held this friday, 11th June 2021 at 4.30 pm (GMT+1). Please, feel invited to participate: Zoom (class): https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84986977917 “A few days after the demise of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, we are taking the oppotunity at this conference to wonder about his legacy in our possession. The idea is to make the Brazilian architect ‘speak’ as much as possible, starting from his words…