Footprint 27, Autumn / Winter 2020

Docomomo International is pleased to share that the new issue of Footprint is out now – Vol. 14, Issue 27, Autumn / Winter 2020.This issue, edited by Aleksandar Staničić, Marc Schoonderbeek, Heidi Sohn and Armina Pilav, is dedicated to the theme “Conflict Mediations”. This issue includes research articles by Eliyahu Keller, Mark Jarzombek and Eytan Mann; Gökçe Önal; Melina Philippou; Noa Roei; Lutz Robbers; and Ahmad Beydoun. It also includes visual essays by Omar Mismar; The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI); and Katarina Andjelković. Footprint 27 can be found online in the following link: https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/footprint/issue/view/845.  

Mini Modern Film Festival: “Minnesota Modern Masters”

Docomomo US/Minnesota and the Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH) will host “Minnesota Modern Masters,” a mini film festival and panel discussion, Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 6:30pm. “​This year we are thrilled to be presenting a special joint program hosted with our friends at the Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH). We will be screening a selection of interviews from MNSAH’s extensive “Minnesota Modern Masters” oral history project. Interview subjects include Close Associates, Hodne & Stageberg, Ed Sovik, Rafferty & Rafferty, and Val Michelson. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with MNSAH and Docomomo US/MN members.”…

Modernism Is Frozen – Urbanism and Architecture under/after Covid-19

LEARNING FROM MODERN MOVEMENT INTERIORS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC Specialist Committee on Interior Design of Docomomo International 27th March 2021, 1 pm (GMT) We have an online discussion for The Next Urbanism and Architecture Under/After COVID-19. This series is subtitled “Is Modernism Frozen?” and the discussions were held with titles “HOW DO YOU MAP MODERNISM UNDER/AFTER COVID-19”, “TRAFFIC SEEKS ANOTHER WAY” and “HOUSING FOR ISOLATING”. Now we are going to have the fourth public panel discussion titled “LEARNING FROM MODERN MOVEMENT INTERIORS IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC” and you are invited to participate. Panelists: Deniz Hasirci (Izmir University of Economics, Docomomo-interior-Turkey)…

Call for Papers – APT 2021 Conference: Preservation Beyond Politics

The Association for Preservation Technology (APT) has an open call for papers (deadline 8th March 2021) for its annual conference – APT 2021 Conference, taking place between the 29th October and 2nd November 2021. UPDATE: the deadline was extended to 19th March 2021 Under the theme “Preservation Beyond Politics”, the conference will explore the complexities, opportunities, and lessons learned from preserving and reinvesting in this monumental city. The three tracks that will explore this year’s theme are: Track 1: Revisiting Renewal: Evolving Past Transformations Reexamining past interventions is a vital part of APT’s mission to promote the advancement of preservation…

Call for Papers – Esempi di Architecttura, EdA, Vol. 9, 2022

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the International Call for papers of Esempi di Architecttura, EdA,  for the upcoming Vol. 9, n. 1/2, 2022 is open until 30th April 2021. The theme is “Historic Cities and Cultural-Religious Heritage: Preservation & Regeneration”. “Within the system of complex interactions among cultures, developments and environments and their resultant attributes, together we seek to search ways, paths and means that are implied for framing sustainability in all human activities aiming towards march to growth, development and expansion and ultimately making the happy worlds through the ongoing channel of ‘Succession– Sustenance–Sustainability’. Historical cities imbuing cultural-religious heritages…

Docomomo Belgium Online Lecture IV

Docomomo Belgium invites to the Online Lecture IV, via ZOOM, on Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 8 pm. The conference will be held by Guido Stegen with the title “Conservatieve chirurgie en circulariteit, guidelines voor de restauratie van La Nouvelle Maison” [Conservative surgery and circularity, guidelines for the restoration of La Nouvelle Maison]. Guido Stegen is an architect and founder of the architectural firm ARSIS and Space Syntax Brussels, active in the fields of architecture, urban planning, restoration and research. Since 2018, he no longer holds official functions (teacher, CRMS), but remains active as a guest professor in post-graduate courses…

Register at 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1!

Docomomo International and  Japan conference board informs that the registration for the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, 29th August – 2nd September 2021, is open at http://docomomo2020.com/registration/! IMPORTANT NOTICE:  The 2020+1 conference will be held with hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and PRESENTIAL lectures.Authors can present their papers with pre-recorded video presentations. At the real-time conference, the video recording will be broadcasted at the scheduled place and time. The authors for presenting physically in Tokyo are welcome. The digital proceedings will be published in 2021 before the conference including both online and alive presentations. Registration is…

Docomomo Switzerland / TSAM: Online Conference Series 2021

Docomomo Switzerland and the TSAM Laboratory of EPFL are inviting for the Docomomo Switzerland / TSAM Online Conference Series 2021, under the theme “Projet, Histoire, Construction: regards croisés sur le patrimoine récent” [Project, History, Construction: Views on recent heritage], happening online via Zoom from March to June 2021 at 6 pm (GMT+1). “For their fifth lecture series, Docomomo Switzerland and the TSAM Laboratory of the EPFL intend to present the multiple facets of modern and contemporary production, by combining different perspectives on the history of 20th-century architecture and its restoration. In this way, Serge Binotto, who formerly worked with Jean Prouvé,…

10th mASEANa International Conference

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that next weekend, 27-28 February 2021, will happen the 10th mASEANa International Conference, online via Zoom Webinar. Started in 2015, the mASEANa (modern ASEAN architecture) Project is designed to operate for six years until 2020. Within the defined period local and foreign architects, researches, politicians and citizens are called to think together and take action on modern architecture in Southeast Asia. “For 2021, as the duration of the project has coincided with the pandemic, the situation has served as a catalyst for rethinking our spatial relationships. Beyond the aesthetics and politics of modernity, the medicalization of…

The Paul Revere Williams Archive: Building a Legacy

Wednesday, 24th February 2021 is going to happen online a panel discussion with USC School of Architecture and the Getty Research Institute on the legacy of USC alumnus Paul Revere Williams (PRW): “The Paul Revere Williams Archive: Building a Legacy”. The PRW Archive is a joint acquisition of the USC School of Architecture and the Getty Research Institute. Welcome by James Cuno, President and CEO J. Paul Getty Trust PANELISTS: Milton S. F. Curry, Dean, USC Architecture Trudi Sandmeier, Master of Heritage Conservation Program Director, USC Architecture Kenneth Breisch, Associate Professor, USC Architecture James Cuno, President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust Mary…