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…

Les immeubles de grande hauteur en France. Un héritage moderne 1945-1975

Docomomo International is pleased to announce the release of the docomomo France bulletin dedicated to high-rise buildings in France. Publication director: Richard Klein Editor in chief: Riccardo Forte Editorial secretary: Milena Crespo Editorial coordination: Léo Noyer-Duplaix and Marjorie Occelli The authors: Caroline Bauer, Silvia Berselli, Catherine Blain, Gauthier Bolle, Bénédicte Chaljub, Audrey Courtebaisse, Milena Crespo, Amandine Diener, Philippe Dufieux, Laurent Duport, Riccardo Forte, julie Gimbal, Richard Klein, Léo Noyer-Duplaix, Hugo Massire, Noëmie Maurin-Gaisne,  Gauthier Vanovershelde,  Benjamin Walther. “The reader, contemporary spectator of the resurgence of the urban tower, will certainly find a critical subject of choice in the case studies…

International Call | Valparaiso | Chile 2020-2021

Italian diaspora in Valparaíso “Architects, engineers, artists between the 19th and 20th centuries” Within the framework of the collaboration agreement signed between the Centro de Estudios y Gestión del Patrimonio de la Universidad de Valparaíso and EdA Esempi di Architettura International Research Center, the following editorial team has been formed: Dra. Olimpia Niglio, Architect Manuel Hernández A ., Historian Baldomero Estrada T. and Architect Francisco Bustamante Ch. The team invites researchers from all over the Ibero-Italian-American academic and professional world to carry out critical and illustrated essays about the material work and contributions to Chilean culture, of architects, engineers, artists…

Call for Papers: Cultures of Belgian Space, 1850-1924

Dominique Bauer (KULeuven), Laurence Brogniez (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Marjan Sterckx (Universiteit Gent), Hingene, Belgium, 16-17 October 2020. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a modern city culture within a globalised economy, built on industrial mass production, an early consumer society, and colonial expansion. Both modernism and colonialism led to the creation of otherness. Non-industrial, pre-modern or exotic societies, and furthermore the racial, moral or female other were not just conceived in reaction to the emergence of modernism, but were also interiorised. This conference will bring together a number of papers that focus on how…

Call for Papers: Architectural Aesthetics: An Old Matter Revisited. sITA – studies in History and Theory of Architecture Journal

Trying to highlight the architects’ involvement in topics other than the mere production on form, the heading Less aesthetics, more ethics of the 2000 Venice Architectural Biennale inadvertently opened the way to a specious professional dichotomy. The title has become a tagline encouraging alternative practices of architecture motivated by ethical — environmental and social — concerns, while seemingly dismissing the aesthetic discourse. Yet, concerns about the nature and expression of beauty had proven fundamental for defining architecture as a practice, for writing its theory, for endowing its critique and education with specific instruments even before aesthetics was born. And despite the debunking…

Call for Papers: Architectural Exhibitions. Bitácora Arquitectura Journal, issue 44

In this issue, the editors of Bitácora aim to explore architectural exhibitions as cultural artefacts that have fostered critical reflection and have established aesthetic canons, social patterns, and cultural policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is often overlooked that some noteworthy architectural works achieved this status thanks to exhibitions and that some works were even produced only for exhibition purposes. Influential exhibitions advanced polemical proposals that guided critics and gave rise to canonical works and debates of the past century. Exhibition spaces such as galleries and museums condition the development, reception, and presentation of architecture. In these spaces,…

International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture

The Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Universidad de Navarra is pleased to announce the International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture, that will take place from 25th to 27th of March, 2020, Pamplona. Industrial building forms (in all its aspects, from dams to warehouses and silos, to workshops and mills), on their eminent search for economical and spatial efficiency, became extremely evocative formal references for architects in the early stages of the Modern Movement, as Reyner Banham noticed. They also often inspired the designs of urban ordinary buildings. This took place in the Twenties in Europe, later…