International Call: Reconnecting with your culture. Draw your heritage

EdA Esempi di Architettura International Research Center together with UNESCO University and Heritage and coordinated by Olimpia Niglio organized a project in order to bring the younger generations closer to the theme of cultural heritage. The project is addressed to all schools in the world and to children between 5 and 17 years old. The first presentation of the project will be held in Lima (Peru) on July 31st. Other presentations will follow in Latin America and then move on to Asia and Europe. Everything is done through Webinars. The main languages of the project are: English, French, and Spanish (UNESCO languages)….

Footprint 26 “The Architecture Competition as Contact Zone: Towards a Historiography of Cross-Cultural Exchanges” published

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that Footprint 26 is out now. This issue, edited by Jorge Mejía Hernández and Cathelijne Nuijsink, is dedicated to the theme “The Architecture Competition as Contact Zone: Towards a Historiography of Cross-Cultural Exchanges”. It includes research articles by Bénédicte Zimmermann; Bruno Gil, Susana Lobo and José Ribau Esteves; Carmela Cucuzzella; Jean-Pierre Chupin; Véronique Biau, Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger and Bendicht Weber. This issue also includes review articles by Torsten Lange; Federico Ortiz; and Hamish Lonergan, as well as an interview with Sarah Williams Goldhagen. This issue of Footprint follows a double trajectory. On the one hand, it advances…

Recruiting 15 international PhD students in Marie Curie ITN SUBLime

Docomomo International informs that the SUBLime network is currently looking for dedicated and highly motivated Early Stage Researchers (ESR), who will join our team to craft the future of lime mortars/plasters in new construction and conservation of the built heritage. They are recruiting 15 international PhD students to be trained as European experts in Sustainable Building Lime applications via Circular Economy and Biomimetic Approaches (SUBLime). SUBLime is an European Training Network (ETN) program that will start in February 2021, as a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie action (Innovative Training Network – ITN) involving 9 countries in Europe. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your international career prospects: Original research…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will be promoted a wide and informed debate in which citizens and specialists…

“Keeping It Modern” Getty Foundation distinguishes FAUP project for Álvaro Siza’s Swimming Pools

Docomomo International is glad to inform that the project by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), which counted with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, coordinated by Teresa Cunha Ferreira and directed to the study of management and conservation of the Piscina de Marés complex, in Leça da Palmeira, designed by Álvaro Siza between 1960 and 1973, just guaranteed a financing of 100 thousand euros under the “Keeping It Modern” program, promoted by the prestigious Getty Foundation (USA). This is the first time that a work located in Portugal has been distinguished…

Tertulias Cycle of GPHUC-UnB

Docomomo International is plesead to announce the Tertulias Cycle of GPHUC-UnB, organized by the Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Urbanismo e da Cidade (GPHUC-UnB) [Research Group on History of Urbanism and the City], to take place between 7th of July and 28th of August 2020. Program 07/10/2020, 17h (Brasília time) Prof. Dr. Renato Rego. Theme: “New Cities in Brazil in the 20th Century and Contemporary Urbanism” (Link to enter the Youtube meeting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q4delwociM) 07/17/2020, 17h (Brasília time) Profa. Dr. Ana María Rigotti. Theme: “Le Corbusier and the plan director for Buenos Aires (1929/1937/1939/1947) – the future as a…

Cycle of sessions of the Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [“COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”]

Docomomo International is pleased to present this year’s cycle of sessions of the Encontro de Urbanismo – “COVID 19 – Preparar as Cidades para Riscos Globais” [Urbanism Meeting – “COVID 19 – Preparing Cities for Global Risks”], with the participation of Professor Ana Tostões, chair of docomomo International and coordinated by Prof. João Ferrão (Geographer, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)  – will provide a comprehensive view on global systemic risks which become apparent through disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of these risks, and focusing on the immediate effects of the ongoing pandemic, it will…

Online Seminar ACERCA DE LA ARQUITECTURA / ABOUT ARCHITECTURE

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the Seminar “Acerca de la Arquitectura” [“About Architecture”]; a cycle of conferences of international academic excellence, organized by the Casa Curutchet allied with Alejandro Lapunzina. The Seminar is free for architects and registered architects of the College of Architects of the Province of Buenos Aires. It will be held from Barcelona and Paris and is organized in four conferences that will be held on every Friday at 3:00 p.m. (GMT -3) from July 10 to July 31, by Zoom until the capacity of the room is exhausted and will also be broadcast through the…

Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone

Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only through…

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern Modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism–the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the…