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…

Call for Papers: 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”]

The deadline of call for papers for the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”], organized by the Museum of Architecture Study Group of the Graduate Program in Architecture – Proarq, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was extended to 15th July, 2021. Teachers, graduate students, researchers and professionals in Architecture, Museology and Heritage are invited to participate in the 7th International Seminar “Museografia e Arquitetura de Museus: Tecnologia e Descolonização” [“Museography and Architecture of Museums: Technology and Decolonization”] to be held between 18th October and…

Publication “Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the launch of the publication Pier Luigi Nervi in Africa Evoluzione e dissoluzione dello Studio Nervi 1964-1980, written by Micaela Antonucci and Gabriele Neri, published by Quodlibet Studio, 2021. The publication counts with the contribution of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of Docomomo International, who wrote the Introduction Nervi in Africa, la diaspora moderna. “In the many stories written so far about Pier Luigi Nervi, one of the most famous engineers and architects of the twentieth century, Africa has remained a totally unexplored context. Yet, between 1964 and 1980 Studio Nervi – directed together with…

Second meeting of “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and viceversa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin America Modern Movement.”

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the second meeting of the lecture series “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes and vice-versa. Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin American Modern Movement”, organized by ex-momo. The next lecture, “Germán Samper Gnecco: el intercambio desde Colombia”, will be held online on 11th June, at 6.00 pm (GMT+2).  To register, send an email to info@ex-momo.com. The lecture will be in Spanish. Seven sessions on a monthly basis, presented by international researchers reflecting on some of the protagonists of the Latin American Modern Movement who have developed urban projects for the…

Docomomo Israel – Germany Conference “From Conventional to Experimental – Mass Housing and Prefabrication”

Docomomo International is pleased to share the Docomomo Israel – Germany Conference “From Conventional to Experimental – Mass Housing and Prefabrication”. The conference will be held online between 14-15 June 2021 and is hosted by the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Docomomo Israel, Docomomo Germany, and EU COST action Middle Class Mass Housing. Registration is requested to get into the zoom meeting link: https://technion.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uf-ugrTIvHNJ50C-A2F0ij0KL_gv4IQK6 “Mass housing owes much of its social ideas and design to architectural prefabrication. However, it seems that the history of prefabrication and its relationship to modernist architectural concepts and their dissemination, has remained somewhat at the…