Women In Design 2020+ International Conference & Exhibition

The HECAR Foundation is organizing “Women In Design 2020+”, an International Conference & Exhibition scheduled for the beginning of 2020, in Mumbai, India. The Conference will be held at the Nehru Auditorium, Worli, Mumbai on 8th, 9th and 10th January 2020. Curated and organized by The HECAR Foundation and Somaya & Kalappa Consultants-SNK, Women In Design 2020+ International Conference & Exhibition, aims to encourage a dialogue on design, architecture, urban design, planning and social issues. The three-day event is planned as a thought-provoking program discussing the role of women in multidisciplinary design and construction professions worldwide. The event will host presentations, discussions and screenings…

Call for Projects and Ideas: Future Architecture Platform

On 18 November 2019 the Future Architecture Platform launched a new open call, which extends until 6 January 2020. This European platform is looking for multi-disciplinary emerging creatives working on innovative projects and ideas for the future of architecture and related to our living environment to apply to participate in the 2020 European Architecture Programme. Entries will be evaluated by a jury made up of former students of the Platform and the public, through an online vote. Aiming to strengthening the creative exchange and promote the development of a network, the selected will participate in a pitching session between applicants…

I collegi di Giancarlo De Carlo a Urbino. Piano di Conservazione e Gestione

The University Colleges of Gaincarlo De Carlo in Urbino – Conservation and Management Plan This publication presents the Conservation and Management Plan of Collegi universitari di Urbino [the University Colleges of Urbino], carried out between 2015 and 2017 with the support of the Keeping It Modern program of the Getty Foundation and published on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Giancarlo De Carlo (1919 – 2019) . In the conservation plan different themes converge, from the conservation of materials and furnishings to issues related to sustainable use, which are tackled starting from a rigorous analysis of historical,…

Living in colour

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp together with the University of Antwerp, in a joint venture with ISC-Interior Design have organized an International Conference  . Colour is often an essential aspect of art, interior architecture and architecture. It can for instance contribute to a particular meaning for the artist, it can articulate architectural elements in buildings – or eliminate the contours of a space. In short, colour can be an important means for artists and designers. Not accidently is the colour chart an indispensable tool for interior architects. However, the attention to the use of colour in architecture has…

Gulbenkian Buildings and Garden: Past, Present and Future

On the occasion of the 50 years celebration of the Gulbenkian Buildings and Garden, the Gulbenkian foundation dedicates one day to the debate on architecture and the insertion of Gulbenkian buildings in the city of Lisbon. On December 10th, the afternoon begins with a round table, curated by Gonçalo Byrne, where the President of Docomomo International, Ana Tostões, will join the discussion on Gulbenkian’s buildings and garden – past, present and future; followed by the launch of photographer André Cepeda’s book Gulbenkian. The day ends with a lecture on the garden’s new expansion project with Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Live…

Renew your membership 2020

Dear Docomomo Chapters, Dear Docomomo International members, Docomomo International would like to remember you to renew your membership for the year 2020, before 15 December, in order to assure that you receive the 2020 Docomomo Member Card in time to benefit from the membership advantages the whole year! Contact your national or regional chapter. If you want become a new member and a Chapter exists in your country (please see Chapters page), you should proceed to formalize your membership by writing an e-mail to them. Otherwise, you can become an International Member, directly at https://www.docomomo.com/join/membership/. Individual Benefits (60€/year) Docomomo International members…

Bauhaus Architecture 1919-1933

“Focusing on buildings designed by Bauhaus members from 1919 to 1933, this book features some 65 famous and lesser-known building projects in Germany, Vienna, Barcelona, Prague, and Budapest by architects including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Arranged chronologically, Bauhaus Architecture offers informative commentary along with photographs, taken especially for this book. Engels’ photographs show many buildings in their newly restored condition and reflect the full range of Bauhaus architecture, one of the most influential schools of architecture in the 20th century.” From the publisher. To order this book, please visit this website.

BAUHAUS Reviewed 1919-1933

“This full-length archive CD explores the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933. The spoken word element is centred on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who founded the Bauhaus in 1919. The album also includes contributions from the school’s third and final director, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as teacher Josef Albers. All interviews are in the English language. The musical content features piano pieces written between 1919 and 1925 by six composers associated with the Bauhaus: Arnold Schoenberg, Josef Matthias Hauer, George…

Workshops for Modernity BAUHAUS 1919-1933

“Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition, is The Museum of Modern Art’s first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938. It offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth century’s most influential experiment in artistic education, and examines the extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school’s products. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if ever been seen outside of Germany. Featuring approximately 400 full-color plates richly complemented by a range of documentary images, Bauhaus 1919-1933 includes two overarching essays by the exhibition’s curators, Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman;…

Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective

“Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective reclaims the other half of Bauhaus history, yielding a new understanding of the radical experiments in art and life undertaken at the Bauhaus and the innovations that continue to resonate with viewers around the world today. The story of the Bauhaus has usually been kept narrow, localized to its original time and place and associated with only a few famous men such as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and László Moholy-Nagy. Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective bursts the bounds of this slim history by revealing fresh Bauhaus faces: Forty-five Bauhaus women unjustifiably forgotten…