UIA2021 RIO – 27th World Congress of Architects

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…

Call for papers: DOCONF2021 – Facing Post-Socialist Urban Heritage

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…

Online lectures: Nineteenth Century Revisited

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…

Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica

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…

XL: Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. 1978-2018

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of XL: Aguinaga, Echaide, Sobrini. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra. 1978-2018,  by Jorge Tárrago Mingo and Antonio José Cidoncha Pérez (EUNSA, 2020). “This book is published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the construction of the building that houses the University of Navarra’s School of Architecture. It contains a description and an annotated selection of historic materials (reproduction of some of the original drawings and the specifications for the detailed design) interspersed with two series of photographs of the building as it presently stands. Technical data are also included…

Online debate event series: “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development”

Docomomo Israel is inviting you to participate in the international online debate event series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development”. The 4th debate will be on 11th February 2021, with the topic “Outstanding 20th Century Heritage – World heritage Sites and World Heritages Initiatives in Germany and Israel”. Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development The international online debate event series “Context, Contrast, Continuity – Heritage Conservation and Urban Development” focuses on how the needs of conservation as well as development requirements can be managed in the urban context. How can historically developed urban fabrics/structures…

An overview of the Architecture of House of Cinema Manoel de Oliveira

On the occasion of the event “Serralves On Line Experience”, the Serralves Foundation is inviting you to the conference “Um Olhar sobre a Arquitetura da Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira” [An overview of the Architecture of House of Cinema Manoel de Oliveira], on 8th February, with the architect Álvaro Siza, author of the project for the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira, Serralves Foundation, and António Preto, its director. Admission is free upon registration. For more information and registration, please visit the website. [Portuguese]

Call for Papers: Architecture and Endurance

EAHN is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the thematic conference Architecture and Endurance (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 30th September – 2nd October 2021) was extended til 14th February 2021. “Endurance is a state of surviving, remaining alive; the ability to continue a given task; the power of withstanding hardship. Its original meaning implies continued existence and ability to last. As such it has implications not only for how architecture is conceptualized but also for the ways within which architectural historiography is conceived. In recent years, there is a tendency in architectural historiography to go…

Sustainable Architecture: The Treetop Walk of Serralves

On the occasion of the event “Serralves On Line Experience”, the Serralves Foundation is inviting you to the conference “Sustainable Architecture: The Treetop Walk of Serralves”. The event will be moderated by Professor Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, with the architect Carlos Castanheira. Admission is free upon registration. For more information and registration, please visit the website. [Portuguese]

La Nuit des Idées – Coimbra

Started in 2016, in an exceptional meeting in Paris that brought together great French and international voices to dialogue around the challenges of our time, La Nuit des Idées [the Night of Ideas] quickly made its mark on the French and international agenda: since then every year at the end of January, this event aims to celebrate together, on the five continents, in all places of culture and knowledge, the free circulation of ideas and knowledge, proposing conferences, meetings, forums and round tables, around a common theme, which each place will lead in its own way. In Coimbra, and within…