On the occasion of the event “Serralves On Line Experience”, the Serralves Foundation is inviting you to the conferences happening this week 22nd-26th February: Monday, 22nd February – “Celebrating the World Wetlands Day: 50 years of the Ramsar Convention”, within the cycle “Talks on Sciences”, with José Teixeira, Sandra Sarmento and moderation of Sandra Ramos. Tuesday, 23rd February – “The cinema during Estado Novo”, with Maria do Carmo Piçarra and António Preto. Wednesday, 24th February – “Lockdowns – ways of use”, with João Teixeira Lopes and Luís Fernandes. Thursday, 25th February – “Soil and Biodiversity”, with José Paulo Sousa and…
Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the call for papers for the XIII Congreso Internacional Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna Española [XIII International Congress History of Modern Spanish Architecture], with the theme Arquitectura para la salud y el descanso (1914-1975) / Architecture for health, resting and well-being (1914-1975), happening 27-29 April 2022, is open. “There is no doubt that the first steps in the technical and spatial definition of the modern movement were taken in the field of industry; and that the great development of modern aesthetics took place when the achievements made by industry were applied to the…
Docomomo International’s chair, Ana Tostões, participated this morning (19th February 2021) on the first HERSUS Webinar via ZOOM, with the presentation: “The education for a sustainable future: the role of Modern Heritage reuse” “Hosted by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, the project entitled Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability of Built Environment in Architectural and Urban Design Higher Education (HERSUS) strives to enhance and test innovative teaching practices in the field of sustainability of the built heritage, hence, to enrich the competence and motivation of educators and researchers in the field of architecture and urban design to include curricula…
Within the Erasmus + Strategic Partnerships for higher education project HERSUS, will happen on 18th – 19th February the first HERSUS Webinar. This event will be hosted by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, supported by all participating Higher education institutions, and will be organized online via the Zoom platform open to all interested parties. The project entitled Enhancing of Heritage Awareness and Sustainability of Built Environment in Architectural and Urban Design Higher Education (HERSUS) strives to enhance and test innovative teaching practices in the field of sustainability of the built heritage, hence, to enrich the competence and motivation…
Organized by the architects Gennaro Giacalone, João Romão and Margarida Leão, the debate and online forum “Debating Lisbon’s Future Housing strategy” happens on occasion of the 17th participation of Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Online debate: 14th March 2021, 6:30 pm (GMT+0) The transmission will be led by the curating team that represents Portugal at the 17th Venice Biennale – depA arquitectos. The debate focuses on Lisbon’s Housing Strategy, namely on the topics of propriety distribution – private, public or cooperative –, of participation methodologies for city construction – active and passive; bottom-up and top-down –, and of typologies selection…
Within the UFBA 2021 Virtual Congress organized by the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, happening between the 22nd an 26th February 2021 is going to take place the debate on “Intervenções projetuais contemporâneas” [Contemporary design interventions] on 24th February. There will be two sessions (morning and afternoon): Morning: 9:30 am “Intervenções projetuais na arquitetura moderna: desafios contemporâneos” [Design interventions on modern architecture: contemporary challenges] – Nivaldo Andrade – Betânia Brendle – Silvio Oksman Afternoon: 3:30 pm “Intervenções projetuais contemporâneas sobre o patrimônio edificado” [Contemporary design interventions on built heritage] – Claudio Varangoli – Eduardo Ferroni – Griselda Klüppel – Nivaldo…
Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the 27th World Congress of Architects – UIA2021 RIO is open for registrations. Due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 Pandemic situation, this time it will be physically hosted in Rio de Janeiro, 18 – 22 July 2021, and there will be also a digital version going from March until July. The live event in July will also be broadcast digitally to the entire world. “Organised by the International Union of Architects (UIA) since 1948, the World Congress of Architects will be held for the first time in Brazil. This is a unique meeting…
Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the DOCONF2021 – happening in Budapest, 8-9 October 2021 – with the theme “Facing Post-Socialist Urban Heritage”, is open until 31st March 2021. “The DOCONF2021 is the 4th international doctoral / postdoctoral conference in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning organized by the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). The DOCONF gives the chance for young researchers to find relevant international context regarding their research topic, to present and discuss in a conference, and to publish a final full paper (15000…
A cycle of lectures on 19th century architecture of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism, ISCTE Lisbon / Portugal, entitled “Nineteenth Century Revisited” will happen every Thursday between the 3rd March and the 21st April 2021, online via ZOOM at 3.30 pm (GMT+0). 3rd March – Barry Bergdoll 10th March – Anthony Vidler 17th March – Umberto Napolitano 24th March – Juan Calatrava 14th April – Jùlia Varela 21st April – Nuno Grande Zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83624515187 ID: 83624515187 The first lecture will be held on 3rd March by Barry Bergdoll – “Revisiting the European Nineteenth century after Brexit: Thoughts on…
Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the issue 162 of Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica – Housing in a Box – has just been printed: the main core of the different essays converges into that considerable body of experiments aimed to explore and encourage the efforts of architects, engineers and manufacturers in promoting a widespread knowledge and use of a Meccano-like house, no more a static object but a demountable, assembled and mass-produced shelter. This world of (apparently) humble things is therefore the central point of convergence of all the essays in which our readers will find the emerging lines of a…










