Exhibition “Modernism and Refuge – Georg Kolbe’s ‘Sensburg’ as an Architectural Monument of the Nineteen Twenties”

“The Georg Kolbe Museum is devoting its main exhibition of this fall season to the extraordinary architectural structure in which the exhibition venue has resided since its founding exactly 70 years ago: the former residence and studio of the sculptor Georg Kolbe. For the erstwhile builder-owner, who maintained close ties to the modern architecture of the nineteen twenties and its protagonists, the house was closely related to his own sculptural production. Based on never-before-seen archive material, the exhibition traces the interplay between space and sculpture that was of great importance for Kolbe throughout his career. It offers insights into the…

Open House Worldwide Festival

“Open House Worldwide is a network of 46 cities hosting festivals and dialogue about the built environment across the globe. In 2017, 750,000 people participated in Open House events with nearly 2 million visits to buildings enabled by 17,400 volunteers, spanning from San Diego to Osaka, via Dublin, Lagos, Melbourne and many more. Taken together, Open House Worldwide is the largest celebration of the urban landscape in the world. This November, the Open House Worldwide network is staging its first collaborative public event, a 48-hour virtual festival tackling the most important issues facing our built environments across the world, from…

Kosovo Architecture Festival 2020

“In its 8th edition, the Kosovo Architecture Festival will be addressing the issue of Publicness in our cities with a focus on Prishtina. The invited Future Architecture emerging creatives will be presenting to the local & global audience tools, methodologies and strategies of analyzing and reinterpreting publicness. KAF announced the Kosovo Architecture Festival 2020 program with more than 35 public lectures featuring 8 Future Architecture creatives and keynotes from Carlo Ratti the head of the Senseable City Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nadar Tehrani the Dean of the Architecture School at Cooper Union, Malkit Shoshan of Harvard GSD &…

2021 ICOMOS Germany Student Competition

Save the date In 2021, the biennial students’ competition, organised by ICOMOS Germany with partner organisations, will again be dedicated to the young heritage after 1960. This time the focus will be on “Beton Brut” Architecture, i.e. literally on “raw” exposed concrete buildings and other examples of so-called brutalism. The competition will be launched at the beginning of 2021 and will have a closing date in September of that year. It is again aimed at students of architecture and urban planning, history of art, restoration, archaeology, or other heritage-related disciplines. The prizewinning entries are to be awarded on the occasion…

Call for Papers “Border surveillance and control through architecture, infrastructure and landscape”

Through time, the borders have been inherent to human life since many believes, knowledge and actions are founded through territorial occupation, and create basic forms of difference, but among the scales of organization, without a doubt, the State has been predominate. Up to now, a variety of studies have focused on the phases of the construction of borders; and even though during the Cold War there was a diminish in its numbers and varieties, since the last three decades there has been an emergence in its interest up to reaching a variety of topics and perspectives that can been characterized…

Convegno di Studi sulle Architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia [Conference and exhibition: Architecture from the 20th century in Basilicata and Puglia]

“9 x 100 = 900, 9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia” is the title of the conference and exhibition dedicated to the modern movement architecture, organized by Docomomo Italy, 11th September 2020, in Carovigno. On September 11th, the conference, taking place at the Castello Dentice di Frasso,  will deal with the relationships between architecture, history, landscape and modernity in the South of Italy. Followed the international conference on the architecture of the 20th century in Basilicata and Puglia, the traveling exhibition “9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia”, organized by the…

Call for Articles: docomomo Brasil magazine – issue 6 and 7

The magazine Docomomo Brasil (ISSN 2594-8601) invites researchers, students and professionals in the field of Architecture and Urbanism to send articles for its issues 6 and 7. The topic is free and the journal aims to disseminate research, documents, projects and bibliographic reviews in the area of ​​documentation and preservation of the various manifestations of the Modern Movement. Articles may be submitted to the sections that make up the main body of the journal. In the Project section, it is intended to disseminate and discuss practical experiences in restoring buildings, sites and neighborhood units and other artistic expressions of the…

British Twentieth Century Society – Online Lectures

Following the success of Docomomo Australia’s 2017 series “A Style Guide to Twenthieth Century Architecture”, Docomomo Australia is spreading the new series of online lectures of the British Twentieth Century Society: – Architectural Styles I: 30’s Modernism with Alan Powers – Architectural Styles II: Mid Century Modernism with Elain Harwood – Architectural Styles III: Neo Geo with Alan Powers For more information, please go to Docomomo Australia website and to Twentieth Century Society website.  

1st Seminar Women and Modern Architecture

Docomomo Chile, Centro del Patrimonio Cultural UC, Facultad de arquitectura, diseño y estudios urbanos UC and Escuela de arquitectura UC are holding their 1st Seminar, from 27th August to 8th October, online, with the theme “Women and Modern Architecture ”. The “First Seminar on Women and Modern Architecture” addresses a field that in recent years has gained unusual relevance and has aroused widespread interest: the contribution that a group of women, acting from different fields, made to modern architecture so that it whatever it was; a revolutionary and transformative phenomenon that affected the lives of a multitude of modern women and…

Fellowship: The Digital Now: Architecture and Intersectionality

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is launching a collaborative, multidisciplinary research project that explores the intersectional dimensions of digital design. Intersectionality entails a way of seeing and navigating a world with differential forms of justice. Pioneered by intellectuals and activists in the 1970s, from Kimberlé Crenshaw to the Combahee River Collective, it is rooted in gendered and racialized experiences of capitalism. Within the architecture discipline, an intersectional approach may foreground the under-acknowledged impacts the built environment has on, for example, Black or Indigenous peoples across the full spectrum of their lived experiences. In this regard, the CCA conceives of…