16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1

Docomomo International invites researchers and practitioners involved in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement, to investigate on the theme: Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities. Application of the third round call for papers is open from December 15, 2020 until 31 January of 2021． We are now accepting new applications for the following new themes: 13. Home and social change 14. Environmental awareness 15. Healthcare architecture 16. Wellbeing and urbanism IMPORTANT NOTICE:  The 2020+1 conference will be held with hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and PRESENTIAL…

Tertúlias GPHUC-UnB: A poética das Metrópoles – Le Corbusier e Hilberseimer nos anos 20  

Organized by Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Urbanismo e da Cidade (GPHUC-UnB/CNPq) [Research Group on History of Urbanism and the City], the Tertúlias Cycle aims to create a (virtual) space for the pace for the dissemination of knowledge in urban history through conferences and several presentations by researchers from Brazil and other countries. In this context, on the 11th December will happen the Conference “A poética das Metrópoles – Le Corbusier e Hilberseimer nos anos 20” [“The poetics of the Metropolises – Le Corbusier and Hilberseimer in the 1920s”] held by Prof. Dr. Carlos A. Ferreira Martins (USP/Brazil), via…

Virtual Forum: Cultural Landscape of the 20th century. House on the Stream, Mar del Plata, Argentina

Organized by Museo Casa sobre el Arroyo and AACASA, the virtual forum “Cultural Landscape of the 20th century. House on the Stream, Mar del Plata, Argentina” occurs on the 75th anniversary of the construction of the House on the Stream, designed by Amancio Williams and Delfina Galvez Bunge, as a celebration of the integrality of a valuable set in which the imprint of territory and environment give rise to an architectural resolution recognized worldwide, being it a relevant example of the Modern Movement. Date: Monday, 7th December 2020, 7pm, Argentina, 10pm GMT. Link: https://mdpeduar.webex.com/mdpeduar/j.php?MTID=mcb1f0daee766dd41647e16a184392b78 Meeting number: 179 025 9659 Password: observatorio…

16th International Docomomo Conference 2020+1

Due the COVID-19 pandemic, DOCOMOMO International and the Japan conference board of the DOCOMOMO2020+1 decided to set up the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, 29th August – 2nd September 2021, with an hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and face-to-face (if possible, depending on the pandemic situation) lectures.   Considering the new format available, 30 applicants with accepted abstracts who gave up their participation are welcomed to be back. If these candidates wish to participate under these new conditions, they should confirm and register till 7th December 2020. Turning the Conference into online, we are glad to announce and launch a 3rd call for papers between 10th December 2020 and 31st January…

Call for Papers: Optimistic Suburbia II – Middle-Class Large Housing Complexes

DINÂMIA’CET-IUL  is pleased to announce that the call for papers for the “Optimistic Suburbia II – Middle-Class Large Housing Complexes” International Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 16-19 June 2021) has been extended until 20th December 2020. This conference follows the “Optimistic Suburbia-Large Housing Complexes for the Middle Class Beyond Europe” congress that took place at ISCTE in January 2015. As the congress, the international conference “is part of the research project “MCMH – Middle Class Housing Developments in Europe, Africa and Asia – Middle Class Mass Housing in Europe, Africa and Asia” [PTDC/ART-DAQ/30594/2017], started in October 2018, also funded by the Foundation…

Call for Papers: Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte – “The Overflowing Object. Immersive Spaces and Multi-Sensorial Strategies in Art”

Guest Editors: Eduard Cairol & Tomas Macsotay (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Revista Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte (ETFVII) is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the themed dossier for the upcoming issue (2021) is now open. “There is nothing particularly novel about the claim that contemporary art has been characterised, since the time of the avant-garde, by its tendency to go beyond the limits between artistic media, but that it has also —perhaps as an outcome of, among other factors, its experimental vocation— been led by desire to integrate, in a single and unique…

Conserving Concrete Virtual Event

Live Roundtable Discussion for the Launch of Conservation Principles for Concrete of Cultural Significance Join the Getty Conservation Institute for this free virtual event bringing together a multidisciplinary group of professionals to discuss the importance of conserving historic concrete and the importance of using a sound conservation methodology to guide practice. December 2, 2020 10:00 to 11:30 am (Los Angeles time) via Zoom Free, Advanced Registration Required Background Over the last two hundred years, concrete has been used to produce a remarkably rich and diverse legacy of buildings and structures increasingly recognized for their cultural significance. With growing recognition of this…

Call for ideas: “Landscapes of Care”, European Future Architecture Platform programme

“From Fundació Mies van der Rohe, as members of the pan-European platform of museums, festivals and architectural promoters Future Architecture Platform, we would like to encourage you to submit your proposal to the call for ideas to become part of the 2021 programme Landcapes of Care. This call acts as a multidisciplinary platform for international exchange to echo and give visibility to the ideas of emerging professionals and thinkers through prestigious institutions, museums, galleries, publishers, biennials and festivals. This year’s edition, under the name “Landscapes of Care” will explore the dynamics of solidarity and auto-organisation, networks of trust on a neigbourhood…

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”. 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 or singular buildings withstand the pressure for change from e.g. the real estate industry or housing demands? What can be done by the City’s administration, politicians and society…

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

HOUSING FOR ISOLATING We have 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” and “TRAFFIC SEEKS ANOTHER WAY”. Now we are going to have the third public panel discussion titled “HOUSING FOR ISOLATING” and you are invited to participate. Panelists:Zara Ferreira (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon)Johannes Widodo (National University of Singapore)Moderator:Takayuki Suzuki (Wuhan University, China) It is planned as a ZOOM meeting at 7pm in Japan, 10am in GMT, 90 minutes to two hours, on 12…