Winner: Docomomo Photo Prize

Docomomo International is happy to announce the winner and 2 honourable mentions of the 4th Docomomo Photo Prize edition — 2019, under the theme Cure and Care Architecture. The Docomomo Photo Prize is an international photography competition promoted by Docomomo International that is taking place every season according to a specific theme, through Instagram. The jury panel of this edition was composed by: Ana Tostões (Architect, PhD, Chair of Docomomo International and Full Professor at Técnico — University of Lisbon) Björn Schötten (Architect, Aachen University Hospital Geymüller) Daniela Arnaut (Architect, Professor at Técnico – University of Lisbon) Iñaki Bergera (Architect, photographer) Jonas…

“La Réutilisation Adaptative” [Adaptative Re-use]

The President of Docomomo International, Professor Ana Tostões, has been invited to give the inaugural lecture at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Architecture de Grenoble, on the 17th October 2019. With the presentation “La Réutilisation Adaptative” [Adaptative Re-use], the conference will be held in French at 18th, at the Maglione auditorium, at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Architecture de Grenoble. Check the poster in the attached PDF.

Student website with travel report to the 15th International Docomomo Conference 2018

From August 18th to September 1st, 2018, a group of eleven students discovered the modern architecture of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia) under the direction of France Vanlaethem, Professor Emeritus of UQÀM and President of Docomomo Québec; and Manuela Senese, Lecturer at UQÀM – Université du Québec à Montréal and member of Docomomo Québec. The purpose of the trip was to attend the 15th Docomomo International Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and meet with representatives of organizations as well as professionals working to protect and safeguard modern architecture along the way. Now, they have created a website, with the support…

Docomomo US National Symposium 2020 – Announcement

The next Docomomo US National Symposium will take place in Chicago, IL from June 3-6, 2020 in collaboration with the Docomomo US/Chicago chapter. Chicago has been recognized as the “crossroads”, not only for its connecting of water, land, and air networks, but for its place at the intersection of architecture, culture, and technological change. The rapidity of Chicago’s growth, coupled with its prominence in producing innovations of the modern movement is an opportunity for the 2020 meeting of Docomomo/US to consider this history and its prospect for the recognition, interpretation, preservation and extension of the forms and ideas of modernism…

Docomomo US

“Docomomo US is excited to announce the line-up of tours and events taking place during our thirteenth Tour Day. The only national event of its kind, Tour Day is an annual celebration of modern architecture and design where the public and like-minded organizations across the country participate in a tour or event on the second Saturday and throughout the month of October. This year’s thematic focus, “The Diversity of Modernism” reflects the efforts of Docomomo US and its chapters to raise awareness of sites designed by minority and female architects, landscape architects, designers, and engineers, and of the designers themselves….

Call for Papers: 16th International Docomomo Conference

The 16th International Docomomo Conference will take place in Tokyo, from the 10th to 13th September 2020, organized by Docomomo Japan, under the theme “Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities”. Docomomo is now accepting abstracts for the 16th International Docomomo Conference. Please submit abstracts no later than September 14th 2019 (12 pm GMT), for one of the 11 thematic sessions listed below (+ others). To know the submission guidelines, or to submit your abstract,  click here. 1. Space of Sports The city of Tokyo has already hosted the Olympics Games twice. The first Olympics, planned for 1940, had to be cancelled due to…

Mies in Translation

The Farnsworth House – Barnsworth Gallery is presenting the exhibition Mies in Translation, which will open on the 15th September with the presence of the exhibition curator William Huchting of makeArchitecture. The exhibition will feature architectural models of selected projects designed by Mies van der Rohe, including the Barcelona Pavilion, the 1940 IIT Campus plan, and the unbuilt Brussels Pavilion. These projects embody the evolution of Mies’s signature “free plan”– a framework of structural order giving way to unobstructed, free-flowing open space – from a residential to an urban scale. They will be framed through the lens of the writings of…

Bauhaus Transfers International Symposium

On the occasion of the 2019 Bauhaus Centennial, the Department of Architecture within the Stuckeman School and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State will celebrate the Bauhaus achievements with the international symposium Bauhaus Transfers. The international symposium, organized by Ute Poerschke, Stuckeman Professor of Advanced Design Studies in the Department of Architecture, and Daniel Purdy, professor of German studies in the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State, will be held from the 19th – 21st September at the Palmer Museum of Art and the Stuckeman Family Building. Attendance to the…

Case milanesi. 1923-1973. Cinquant’anni di architettura residenziale a Milano

“The interest in the golden years of the Milanese architecture, the period leading up to the first experiments of Ca ‘Bruzio by Giovanni Muzio to the last works of the Modern in the Seventies, is constantly growing. Architecture lovers and researchers are turning to Milan in search of the works of Terragni, Ponti, Portaluppi, Lingeri, Asnago and Vender, Figini and Pollini, Hunting Dominion, Buttons, Gardella, BBPR, Zanuso, Magistretti and many other architects open-air museum of the twentieth century. Yet there was not a book that in about 80 boards redesign planimetry, plant and building prospect, so as to capture both…

Australia Modern: Architecture, Landscape and Design

This volume was motivated by the aim to create a beautiful, comprehensive and accessible book about Australian Modern design and architecture.  It features 100 significant site examples by Australia’s most revered architects, rich archival imagery and expert essays exploring how modernism has shaped Australian society. From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to cutting-edge homes across the country, the pervasive presence of modernism is inescapable in Australia. Led by the likes of Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler and Walter Burley Griffin, modernist architects and designers set out to rebuild at all scales, from vast infrastructure projects, to…