Webinars “Arquitetura e Transculturação: conexões transatlânticas | 2020” [“The Architecture and Transculturation: transatlantic connections | 2020]

On the 6 of August 2020 at 6 p.m. (GMT -3), the second webinar “Architecture and Transculturation event: transatlantic connections | 2020” of LoCAU (Laboratory of Criticism in Architecture, Urbanism and Urbanization) will take place. The initiative is organized by the PhD in Architecture and CITUA (Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture), in partnership with the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST-UL). These webinars aim to promote and disseminate the debate on a thematic of transculturation in Architecture and Urbanism between Brazil, Europe and Africa. There will be five webinars, with speakers from Brazil, Europe and Africa….

Docomomo International Public Discussion #02 – “Traffic seeks another way”

Following the first discussion “How do you map modernism under/after COVID-19”, which counted with the participation of Dr. Takayuki Suzuki, Dr. Ana Tostões, Dr. Shin Muramatsu and Dr. Yoshiyuki Yamana, the second session of “Is Modernism Frozen?” will happen on 24th August 2020 with the theme “Traffic seeks another way”. Moderator Takayuki Suzuki (Japan, China) Panelists New York: Theodore Prudon (United States) Brazil: André Luiz de Souza Castro (Brazil) Japan: Kengo Hayashi (Japan) Topics: Docomomo International Public Discussion #02 Date and Time: 24 August 2020, 10 PM Japan / 9 AM New York / 10 AM Brasilia / 2PM GMT…

Call for Nominations: SAH Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accountability, and Sustainability (IDEAS) Committee

The Society of Architectural Historians seeks nominations and self-nominations for five members to serve on a newly-established SAH Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accountability, and Sustainability (IDEAS) Committee. SAH recognizes that it needs to examine its culture, processes, and structure and take actionable steps in order to meet the goals laid out in its IDEAS Initiative. To that end, SAH will have an IDEAS Committee made up of SAH members, Board members, and staff. The Committee members will be charged with developing and guiding a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy that also encompasses Accountability and Sustainability.  The Committee will work with the SAH…

Call for papers Esempi di Architettura International Journal: “Human Heritage and Cultural Landscape. Contemporary declinations”

EDA, VOL. 8, n.1, 2021 Editors | Curatori Olimpia Niglio, Noriko Inoue, César Augusto Velandia Silva Title: “Human Heritage and Cultural Landscape. Contemporary declinations” The 1992 UNESCO Convention is an important legal reference for the knowledge an enhancement of cultural landscapes that represent a heritage in which nature bears the marks of man’s work and tells its history, experiences, memories, and meanings. These landscapes describe the evolution of human society and the transformations achieved over time that have then conditioned the development of the territories. The rapid social and economic changes that we are witnessing in recent decades have led…

The Diversity of Modernism

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that Docomomo US continued to develop their annual advocacy theme “The Diversity of Modernism”. Docomomo US and its chapters focused their attention on the work of diverse designers, updating a document where is represented architects and designers of color and women who made significant contributions to the Modern Movement. There is now a Special Edition newsletter is dedicated to highlighting some of these designers which can be find in Docomomo US website.

7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar

The Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus and the stricto sensu Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the São Judas Tadeu University invite you to participate in the 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar. This event will continue the activities of seminars developed by the Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus, resumed in 2017, when the 5th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar was held in the capital, organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (FAU- UPM). That seminar was followed, in 2018, by the 6th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar, promoted jointly with the Institute of Architecture and…

Call for Papers: “Dealing with risks, Architecture and Philosophy”

International Symposium, organized by GERPHAU Lab (philosophy, architecture, urban world, EA 7486 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette) and the ARENA Association. Paris, 11-12 March 2021 No one knows what the real consequences for habitat, climate change and the degradation of the biosphere will be in the next fifteen, thirty or fifty years. But the disasters are already there. Whole neighborhoods collapse and their inhabitants are drowned, burned, swept away, suffocated by physical phenomena that clash with human settlements. New threats are intensifying. The recent Covid-19 pandemic also highlights the toxic synergies that are woven between pressures on natural…

Architectural Theory Review (vol. 25, no. 1). Call for Papers: “Timber Constructed: Towards an Alternative Material History”

A special issue of Architectural Theory Review (vol. 25, no. 1), edited by Irina Davidovici (ETH Zürich) and Laila Seewang (Portland State University) The residual associations that timber architecture maintains with tradition, local culture and manual craft have long been challenged by its global ubiquity. This inner contradiction was already visible in the paradox of 1920s timber modernism: a locus of tangible tensions between universal commodity and regional culture, enmeshing mythical nation-building with entirely pragmatic rationales. Unlike steel or concrete, other materials quintessentially bound up with modernity, timber has widely been perceived as a corrective to modernism. As an organic, living material, it demands a…

Fernando Álvarez Prozoróvich (1952-2020)

Docomomo International wishes to convey the most sincere condolences at the passing of the Spanish professor, researcher and architect Fernando Álvarez Prozoróvich, to his family and friends. On April 3, the architect Fernando Álvarez Prozoróvich died in Barcelona, ​​at the age of 67, as a victim of the coronavirus pandemic. He was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1952 and completed his undergraduate studies at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo – Universidad Nacional de la Plata, graduating in 1978. During the 1980s he settled in Barcelona where he pursued a brilliant career as a professor, researcher and specialist in…

2021 Annual Conference Association for Art History. Call for Papers: “Surrealism in 1960s and 1970s Latin America”

“But what is the story of all of the Americas if not the chronicle of the marvelous and the real?”, wrote Cuban author Alejo Carpentier in the preface of The Kingdom of This World ([New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux], 2017: [page: xx]). This rhetorical question firmly resonates when studying Surrealism in Latin America. Scholars have given significant attention to the idea of the marvellous in visual arts and literature to define the inventions and reinventions of Surrealism in the New World. However, we could also rethink the marvellous in relation to the utopian impulse and discourses that have shaped the…