Carlo Scarpa. Casa Zentner a Zurigo: una villa italiana in Svizzera [Carlo Scarpa. Zentner house in Zurich: an Italian villa in Switzerland]

“The volume, published for Electaarchitecture, illustrates and documents the ‘micro-history’ of Casa Zentner in Zurich, the only building built by Carlo Scarpa outside Italy. Casa Zentner was conceived and built between 1963 and 1969 for Savina and René Zentner. Savina Rizzi, architecture superintendent and art collector, is among the most assiduous patrons of Carlo Scarpa since the 1950s. After following Frank Lloyd Wright’s project for the palace on the Grand Canal in Venice at a very young age, requested by the architect Angelo Masieri, her first husband who died prematurely, Savina will entrust Scarpa with various tasks including, in 1953-1954,…

TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura

The Comité de Dirección of the TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura is pleased to announce the publication of the first issue. TEMPORÁNEA. Revista de Historia de la Arquitectura builds an international forum in the field of Architecture History. Filling the existing gap of specialized publications in this matter in Spain, the journal has a marked international character, which translates both into the active participation of international experts in its bodies and the research published in it. Research in the History of Architecture is approached from any discipline, chronological period and geographic scope, and promotes the diversity and complexity of…

Habiter au XXIe siècle les édifices des années 1950-1970 [Living in the buildings of the 1950s and 1970s in the 21st century]

The BRAUP and the ENSA of Saint-Étienne are pleased to present the summary of the symposium “Habiter au XXIe siècle les édifices des années 1950-1970” which was held in Firminy in the house of Culture of Le Corbusier, November 15 and 16, 2018. General presentation of the research program The built heritage inherited from the 20th century, more particularly that built after 1945, constitutes a major part of the fabric of our cities. It presents a great typological and constructive diversity which makes it possible to envisage multiple adaptation, transformation, restoration, recycling and reuse strategies. It is an important source…

Call for applications: Editorial Board of Architectural Histories

Architectural Histories invites applications for three new members to join its editorial board. Members of the editorial board work with the editor-in-chief to guide potential contributions, from submission through peer review and copyediting stages of publication. Members thus carry considerable responsibility for the content and quality of the journal. The board, in keeping with the European Architectural History Network’s mission, also develops the strategy and vision of the journal, maintaining its disciplinary, thematic and geographic diversity and outreach whilst upholding scholarly excellence and integrity. Members should be available and committed, willing to devote considerable time to the journal (a minimum of two…

A Modernidade na Arquitetura Hospitalar [Modernity in Hospital Architecture]

Book Review by Renato Anelli, published in: docomomo Journal 62 – Cure and Care (2020) ISSN 1380/3204. This book presents the history of hospital architecture. A Modernidade na Arquitetura Hospitalar [Modernity in Hospital Architecture] offers the reader a consistent introduction to the history of health facilities architecture, enabling the understanding of its transformations together with those of medicine. Two moments can be highlighted. The first one is when there was the application of the typology of horizontal pavilions apart from each other and distant from the cities to comply with the medical strategy to isolate the sick. The emergence of…

EU Mies Award online

These days, when all of us – in Europe and around the world – are exploring new online resources from home, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe invites you to virtually get close to the European Architectural culture. For over 30 years, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has pointed out the solutions that the best architecture has generated in accordance to each moment. To journey through this scenery you can look through the Prize archive and filter the results according to your preferences or else download  the EUMiesAward App to see which works are close…

ITSLIQUID International Contest – 7th Edition 2020

ITSLIQUID CONTEST ITSLIQUID Group, a communication platform for contemporary art, architecture and design, is proud to present ITSLIQUID International Contest – 7th Edition 2020. The contest is a great opportunity to globalize the language of art, to connect artists working in every part of the world, to exhibit artworks in the most influential cities. Take part in ITSLIQUID Contest and win the participation in contemporary art exhibitions worldwide, the opportunity to show your artworks in Venice during the Biennale and in London, interviewes and featured articles shared with a public of more than 250,000 subscribers. ITSLIQUID Contest is developed in partnership with a professional jury of renowned curators,…

2020 Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting

[In light of the current situation of organisations and institutions trying to minimise the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and the Government’s request to both minimise travel and unnecessary physical meetings, the 2020 Docomomo Australia Annual General Meeting (due to be held on 28 March 2020 in Sydney) is hereby postponed until a later date.] Docomomo Australia invites members to attend the 19th Annual General Meeting of Docomomo Australia Incorporated at 70A Blues Point Road, McMahons Point, NSW, 2060. Bellow is the Notice of the 19th Annual General Meeting in 2020, the Form of Appointment of Proxy for this meeting…

Call for Papers: Emotional Objects

Emotional Objects – Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s A one-day International Symposium, the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 12-13 June 2020. Organizer: Prof. Juliet Simpson In 1920 Louis Gillet, the French art historian and internationalist published a rousing article defending the repatriation of stolen fragments from the Van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece from Germany to Belgium as ‘un drapeau’. His ensign of a Northern patrimony pitched as an emotive call for a different cultural ‘belonging’ post-1918 was part of a pattern. Jean Fouquet’s Melun Diptych was vaunted as both a ‘jewel’, yet the…

CHICAGO 7 Most Endangered 2020

From a gracious old tennis club that became a church on the city’s Far North Side to a sprinkling of handsome old remnants of a now-faded shopping district on the Far South Side, treasured buildings from Chicago’s past are in danger, according to a preservation group. “We need to prioritize strategies that put preservation first in public policy and practice so the history that ties us to our communities and connects us to place can be protected,” Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago, said in a statement announcing the group’s 2020 Chicago 7 Most Endangered list. The list includes…