Call for entries – Student competition “60 plus: Brutalism” by ICOMOS Germany

Docomomo International would like to draw your attention to the student competition “60 plus: Brutalism” organized by ICOMOS Germany and partners. Competition task The ICOMOS Student Competition 2021 is dedicated to the heritage of Brutalism of the era before 1990. The aim of the competition task is not only to admonish that the buildings of Brutalism must be preserved, but to precisely state what makes them worth preserving. What meanings can be attributed to these buildings? Is their value limited to the material honesty of the concrete or can other architectural, urban planning or conceptual qualities be identified? What might…

Nominations for the 2021 Modernism in America Awards

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that Docomomo US is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Modernism in America Awards. In its eighth year, the Awards celebrate the documentation, preservation and reuse of modern buildings, structures and landscapes built in the United States or on U.S. territory. The Awards recognize those building owners, design teams, advocacy and preservation organizations that have made significant efforts to retain, restore and advocate for the aesthetic and cultural value of such places. Deadline Early nominations must be submitted by 5:00 PM Eastern on April 29, 2021 All nominations must be submitted by 5:00 PM Eastern on June…

Robert Maxwell Memorial Online Lecture by Kenneth Frampton

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that Kenneth Frampton is giving the 2021 Robert Maxwell Memorial Lecture via Zoom on 22 April 2021 at 6 pm British Summer Time. Please register via the link on the poster if you would like to attend the live event:  Frampton Lecture Poster Kenneth Frampton’s presentation will advance a critique of the current malaise in architectural education and of the equally debilitating state of contemporary practice. These aspects are evident in the current postmodern tendency to reduce architecture either to design of spectacular sculpture at a gargantuan scale or to the application of Building…

16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1

On March 20, 2021, the official Japanese Olympic/Paralympic Committee made a decision to bar spectators from abroad. This means some kind of barring of overseas travelers will be expected to extend this Summer and Fall. Therefore, the 16th International Docomomo Conference 2020+1 Tokyo organizing committee decided to hold the conference completely virtually, instead of a hybrid of real and online announced earlier. Please wait for further announcements of more details on how we conduct the meeting and all related matters around April 15th, 2021 on the conference website: docomomo2020.com

A talk by Philip Boyle: Two buildings by Carlo Scarpa – space, light and materiality

Docomomo International is pleased to share the online talk organized by Docomomo UK “A talk by Philip Boyle: Two buildings by Carlo Scarpa – space, light and materiality”, happening 30th March, 6.00 – 7.30 pm (GMT+1). The meeting will be presented live on Zoom – admission free of charge. Please join using the link shown below: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83532548604?pwd=b2RoWUhkVE9zQlVtNVJOejJJMTRWQT09 Meeting ID: 835 3254 8604 Passcode: 061921 Topic: DOCOMOMO – A talk by Philip Boyle: Two buildings by Carlo Scarpa – space, light and materiality Time: Mar 30, 2021 06:00 PM London Carlo Scarpa (1906 -1978) from Venice, Italy was…

Online Talks Cycle – Conversas de Pé d’Orelha

Docomomo International is pleased to share the Online Talks Cycle – Conversas de Pé d’Orelha. Ciclo de palestras e conversas em torno das obras de Bordalo Pinheiro e Querubim Lapa [Pé d’Orelha Talks. Lectures and talks cycle around the works of Bordalo Pinheiro and Querubim Lapa], happening 16th March to 9th April 2021, at 6 pm (GMT). Organized by Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, the Cycle Conversas de Pé d’Orelha, assembles presentations and talks within the theme of the exhibition Pé d’Orelha. Conversas entre Bordalo e Querubim, present in the museum until the end of April 2021. At this cycle, the curators of…

MCHAP/CoA spring lecture series – Emerging Brazilian Practices

The MCHAP (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize) and the IIT College of Architecture invites to join virtually on Wednesday, March 17 for the next panel in its spring lecture series – Emerging Brazilian Practices. “Emerging Brazilian Practices will be a panel that invites two brilliant and renowned young architecture offices to engage in conversation, Gustavo Utrabo (São Paulo) and RUA Arquitectos: Pedro Rivera, and Pedro Évora (Rio de Janeiro) and moderated by Ana Luiza Nobre, professor of the History, Theory, and Criticism at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Utrabo is…

Awards: Lacaton & Vassal win the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Docomomo International congratulates the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for being announced the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. “”Good architecture is open—open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do,” says Lacaton. “It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it.” Through their design of private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions, public spaces, and urban developments, Lacaton and Vassal reexamine sustainability in their reverence for pre-existing…

International Conference: 1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand

Docomomo International’s chair, Ana Tostões is going to participate on the International Conference “1989, hors-champ de l’architecture officielle. Des petits mondes au Grand” [1989, outside the scope of the official architecture. From Small Worlds to Large Worlds], happening on 19th March 2021, online via Zoom. [French] “At the crossroads of architecture and the human sciences, using the date of 1989 with the dual role of pretext and landmark, this colloquium aims to attempt an architectural archaeology of the present. An investigation, which relates to what one could call “the history of the present time”, starting from France and gradually opening…

Call for Papers: ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps to the Andes

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the call for papers for the online lecture series by ex-momo “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps  to the Andes” and with the subtitle ” Le Corbusier and the members of the Latin American Modern Movement”. The lecture series “ROUNDTRIP II: From the Alps  to the Andes” is organized by the Inter-university Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Politecnico di Torino, and will happen between May and December 2021 in online mode. “Six sessions on a monthly basis, presented by international researchers reflecting on some of the protagonists of the Latin American…