Docomomo Belgium Conferences – Online Lecture III

Due to COVID-19 Docomomo Belgium is organizing 3 online ZOOM conferences. After the first two conferences, the III Online Lecture will be held  on 28th January 2021 by Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor with the title “The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides”. CONFERENCE III | Thursday 28th January 2021, 20:00-21:30 | online (Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor – The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides) [in French]. Doctor in History, Art and Archeology, Sébastien Charlier is specialized in architecture history and scientific manager of GAR-Archives of Architecture (Faculty of Architecture, ULiège). Since 2014, he and Thomas Moor…

Call for theses: XIII Concurso Bienal de Tesis de Arquitectura

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the inscriptions for the XIII edition of the Biennial Architecture Thesis Contest [Concurso Bienal de Tesis de Arquitectura] hosted by Fundación Arquia will begin on 1st February and be open until 26th March 2021, 12 pm (GMT +1). One of the aims of Fundación Arquia is to promote and encourage cultural activities in the field of architecture. Among these activities the arquia/tesis collection pretends to edit and publish architecture PhD theses, that are seen as a relevant contribution to architectural knowledge, once they have been reviewed and adapted to the editorial line by…

LDE Heritage Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals: Proceedings

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the International LDE-Heritage Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), taking place from 26-28 November 2019 at TU Delft, The Netherlands. “Heritage – natural and cultural, material and immaterial – plays a key role in the development of sustainable cities and communities. Goal 11, target 4, of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasizes the relation between heritage and sustainability. The International LDE Heritage conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development Goals, which took place from 26 to 28 November 2019 at TU Delft in the Netherlands, examined…

Voting Results

Considering the impossibility of organising a presencial Council Meeting in 2020, Docomomo International was setting up an email voting system so that all the Working Parties can vote on fundamental issues to our organization’s continued existence.  The results of the Docomomo email voting process as follows: 1a) The proposal to relocate Docomomo Headquarters to Delft University of Technology (January 2022-) was unanimously accepted; 1b) Uta Pottgiesser, from Docomomo Germany, was unanimously elected chair of Docomomo International for the period from January 2022 to December 2025; 1c) Wido Quist, from Docomomo Netherlands, was unanimously elected secretary of Docomomo International for the period from January 2022 to December…

Cure & Care. Architecture and Health + Curar e Cuidar. Arquitetura e Saúde em Portugal (1901-1976)

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the publication of: Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut, Paulo Providência (ed.), Cure & Care. Architecture and Health [English] and  Curar e Cuidar. Arquitetura e Saúde em Portugal (1901-1976), [Portuguese], Lisboa, IST-ID, 2020. A joined Ebook in English is being prepared. Cure & Care. Architecture and Health compiles the proceedings from the International Conference of the “CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation” research project, that happened on the 6th and 7th June 2019, at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Curar e Cuidar. Arquitetura e Saúde em Portugal (1901-1976) is composed by three main chapters: first three essays focus on the topic of…

Call for Papers: III International AhAU Congress

The Asociación de historiadores de la Arquitectura y el Urbanismo (AhAU) is happy to announce the call for papers for its III International Congress under the theme “Lo construido y lo pensado. Correspondencias europeas y transatlánticas en la historiografía de la arquitectura” [Built and Thought. European and Transatlantic Correspondence in the Historiography of Architecture] is now open until the 15th February 2021. “All history of architecture obeys an intellectual construction. It is, therefore, a circumstantial discourse that always raises a provisional point of view among many other possible ones. From Giorgio Vasari, with Las vidas de los más excelentes pintores,…

BARQ Festival – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona

Fundació Mies van der Rohe is thrilled to announce the launching and invites to take part in the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. “An initiative of the production company NIHAO Films with the support of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ARQUIN-FAD and Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. The BARQ Festival is a film festival aimed at vindicating films on architecture as a specific genre and at deepening the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues regarding…

Online Docomomo School 2020+1 Tokyo, Japan

In the context of the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, Docomomo International invites bachelor and master students to participate on the Online Docomomo School 2020+1 Tokyo, happening from 26th July to 4th August 2021. Online Docomomo School is an online-workshop for succeeding and proceeding URBAN HERITAGE. People lived, live and will live in the living heritage. It is not a symbol or memorial but something active that is to be weaved with contexts of history for future. Students in Tokyo as physical sensors will find and show strings of the context and International Online Teams will weave with…

Happy 2021

Dear friends, Thanks to your effort and support, 2020 was definitely a very different year due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, we all kept working hard in this new normal, even in distance Online or by Zoom. Hoping that 2021 will be a better year! A special thanks to docomomo International sponsors (CML and IST), to all the chapters and their teams, to the partners, to the institutional and individual members. docomomo International could not continue working without your invaluable collaboration and wish you a healthy happy New Year 2021. Keep safe. Best regards, Ana Tostões docomomo International Chair

Call for Papers: Histories of Urban Design

“From 15-17 November 2021, the ETH Zürich Department of Architecture will host the conference ‘Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities’. This conference is organised jointly with the TUDelft Department of Architecture. 2021 will mark the 65th anniversary of the first conference on urban design, held at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1956. Today, more than six decades later, urban design, as a discipline and practice, remains as relevant as ever – perhaps even more relevant than ever before. It is widely acknowledged that our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever…