Online course on “Adaptive Reuse in Modern Architecture Heritage” by Docomomo Iran

Docomomo International is pleased inform that Docomomo Iran with the Center of Excellence in Architectural Technology at University of Tehran is organizing an online course on “Adaptive Reuse in Modern Architecture Heritage”. The course consists of 8 sessions: 4 sessions are on different factors in adaptive reuse, and 4 sessions are dedicated to introducing four different adaptive reuse projects of modern buildings in Tehran. These projects will be introduced by their architects. The language of the course is Persian. For more information about the course, please visit Docomomo Iran website.

Online lectures series “Moradas + Miradas: una nueva primavera para la casa moderna” [“Addresses + Views: a new spring for the modern house”]

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the online lectures series “Moradas + Miradas: una nueva primavera para la casa moderna” [“Addresses + Views: a new spring for the modern house”], organized by Docomomo Venezuela together with the Trasnocho cultural center and with the support of the Zoom platform. In these times, the house is more than ever in a compressed world. The house is now our city. It is now converted into the main fortress and refuge for the survival of the man, the themes of the modern house, in a new and unexpected spring, together with aspirations of contemporary architecture,…

Articles in Built Heritage has been uploaded to SpringerOpen platform

On the second Saturday of June, Cultural and Natural Heritage Day of China, the Built Heritage is glad to announce in this special occasion the good news from the cooperation with the co-publisher, Springer Nature: after months of hard work, articles published in Built Heritage has been uploaded to SpringerOpen and SpringerLink platform, with an official DOI (Digital Object Identifier). DOI is a permanent identifier linking articles on the web. DOI’s forms a key component of certain reference-linking systems such as CrossRef, and help readers easily locate documents from author’s citation. Please find it in SpringerLink_Built Heritage and SpringerOpen_Built Heritage.  

Docomomo International Public Discussion #01 – How do you map Modernism under/after Covid-19? – available online

Docomomo International is pleased to welcome anyone how wants to enter our discussion room online by zoom. We will discuss about what COVID-19 has brought to our city and architecture and what we learn from Modern Movement for the next urbanism and architecture. Moderator Dr. Takayuki Suzuki, Wuhan University Panelist Dr. Ana Tostões, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Chair of Docomomo International Dr. Shin Muramatsu, Josai International University, National Executive Committee member forDocomomo 2020 Dr. Yoshiyuki Yamana, Tokyo University of Science, Representative the Preparatory Committee forDocomomo 2020 Topics: Docomomo International Public Discussion #01 Time: June 15, 2020, 06:00 PM Japan (Tokyo,…

“NO DEMOLITIONS! Forms of Brutalism in Prague” – Exhibiton with the participation of Docomomo Czech Republic

Docomomo International is glad to announce the participation of the Docomomo Czech Republic on the exhibition about architecture of the 1960s and 1970s in Prague. The exhibition is introduced in the National Gallery in Prague. “The architecture built in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1960s–1980s, both glorified and deplored, is a heatedly discussed and highly controversial subject. The public may still regard it negatively, owing to a lack of information or an adverse experience with the country’s regime before the Velvet Revolution. The exhibition NO DEMOLITIONS! Forms of Brutalism in Prague presents buildings in Prague (including projects in preparation but never realized) influenced…

Call for Books: 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award

The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting nominations for the 2021 Publication Awards through July 31, 2020. The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award was established in 1949 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar. Criteria for Submission A “North American scholar” is defined as someone born in Canada, the United States, orMexico, or someone who published the book while living or holding a position in one ofthese countries. For the purposes of this award, “architectural history” is interpreted broadly. Books in English with a printed copyright date…

“The modern gaze to the ‘Greek’ nature”

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the release of the 7th book of docomomo Greece titled The modern gaze to the “Greek” nature [Greek], edited by Amalia Kotsaki and Kostas Tsiambaos and published by Futura, Athens, 2020. “A considerable part of modern architecture in Greece had been developed in a natural environment having a special identity. Beyond its formal characteristics and aesthetic attributes, the Greek landscape had always been culturally and ideologically charged as various references and representations were formulated around it since early Modernity. Moreover, most attempts to render a definition of “greekness” in the early 20th century folllowed…

ICONS AT RISK by Iconic Houses Network

Docomomo International would like to highlight the important and pertinent initiative launched by the Iconic Houses Network: ICONS AT RISK. This initiative aims to encourage to preserve the world’s most endangered architecturally significant modern houses, by doing a documented inventory attached with the history of the houses, visual material, videos, latest news and literature references. Also, if there is a campaign for the preservation of a house, it is linked to it so that a petition or crowdfunding action can be directly supported. In addition to identifying houses that are threatened by the wrecking ball or deteriorating rapidly due to…

Call for papers: 31:1 Writing Automobile Histories

Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand invites papers for a special issue (volume 31, no.1) on Writing Automobile Histories edited by Marianna Charitonidou, ETH Zürich, National Technical University of Athens and Athens School of Fine Arts. Papers are due by 29 June 2020 (EXTENDED). The point of departure for this special issue is the hypothesis that the view from the car has established a new epistemology of the urban landscape. Focusing on the views from the car produced by architects will help us better understand how this epistemological shift influenced architectural thinking and…

MIES.5OYEARS.PORTO I “The Measure of Mies” online session series

The 50th anniversary of the death of the German / American master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) will continue to be celebrated in Porto. The exhibition highlights one of the characteristics of Mies van der Rohe’s work that is rarely remembered: his ability to shape public places in the modern city, through architecture and integrating preexisting nature and urban fabric. It is mainly dedicated to its American phase. The exhibition opened, at Casa das Artes, on March 7, with the testimony, in voice, of the former collaborator of Mies van der Rohe, Peter Forbes. Alongside the exhibition, on March…