Poética Urbana. A cidade da palavra literária [Urban Poetics: The city of the literary word]

“The image of the city, understood as a universal idea or as a concrete place in the world, from the urban literature, that is, from the set of texts that have an aesthetic intention related to the urban context, is the starting point for the author of this book. Marta Llorente, lecturer of the 2016 edition of the Conferences Marques da Silva Architect, proposes to do in Urban Poetics. “The city of the literary word” is an approximation to the relations between literature and inhabited space centered in the literary tradition in Castilian language, but without fail establishing its relations…

Photography & Furniture Exhibition: Masters of Modern: Bauhaus Masters and Shu

“Early in 2019, the design and architecture world lost one of the icons of mid-century modernism and the International style: Florence Knoll Bassett. As a student of Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus in general, Florence shaped the very essence of contemporary interior and furniture design. She obtained exclusive rights to reproduce Mies’ designs, including the famous Barcelona chair and also much of the furniture found in the Farnsworth House today. The second exhibition honoring the Bauhaus 100, created exclusively for the Farnsworth House by Knoll, Inc., focuses on the life work of Florence “Shu” Knoll, the influences that…

Photography Exhibition: The MIES Project: To Chicago From Berlin – Arina Dähnick

“Over the past seven years, Berlin-based photographer Arina Dähnick has used her Leica M-System camera to capture the special atmosphere that can only be experienced at Mies van der Rohe’s buildings around the world. The third Barnsworth Gallery exhibition of 2019, consisting of excerpted photographs from Fr. Dähnick’s upcoming book, will preview her Fall 2019 installation at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Crown Hall and the Goethe Institute.” Opening Preview Sunday, August 4th, 2:30-5:30 PM. Special presentation by IIT Architecture’s Dr. Michelangelo Sabatino with opening remarks by renowned architect Dirk Lohan For further information, please visit: website.

Event: HERA Joint Research Progammes – Uses of the Past and Public Spaces Conference

“The European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, Poland is the venue for the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Joint Research Programmes (JRP) Uses of the Past and Public Spaces Conference on the 11th and 12th of September 2019. The conference aims to showcase the excellent research being undertaken by HERA funded projects and to raise the profile of the Humanities among national research councils and the European Union. The occasion will also mark the 10th Anniversary of HERA JRP’s and will provide an opportunity for attendees to reflect on the successes of the programme and how HERA research can add value to…

L’Amazonie en construction [The Amazon under construction]

The Research Centre of Modern Architecture in the Amazon (Núcleo Arquitetura Moderna na Amazônia – NAMA), the Modern Amazon Journal (Revista Amazônia Moderna) and the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) hold the exhibition L’Amazonie en construction: l’architecture des fleuves volants [The Amazon under construction: the architecture of the flying rivers], from July 19 to August 3 at the Maison du Brésil in Paris, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of this iconic building designed by Le Corbusier. This is the first time that the Brazilian Amazon will be exhibited in Europe from an architectural point of view. “The Amazon under…

Event:  ICAA2019 – International Congress on Architectural Archives

“The section for architectural documents of the International Council on Archives (ICA-SAR) and the Braga District Archive of the University of Minho (UM.ADB) are pleased to announce the realization of an International Conference on Architecture Archives : “Professional experiences in cultural diversity”, to be held in Braga (Portugal) from 25 to 27 September 2019. The aim of the congress is to examine issues related to the production and management of architectural documents and the built environment, their conservation, authentication and use in the service of the community. The congress will bring together archivists and other professionals from all over the…

Event: Bauhaus 100 – A celebration

Docomomo Venezuela together with the embassy of Germany in Caracas, on the occasion of celebrations of the Bauhaus centenary, have organized an event on the 4th of July: “Bauhaus100: una celebración. Von Bauhaus zu Unserem Haus*: escuelas de arquitectura moderna alemanas – influencias en Caracas” [From Bauhaus to our house: German schools of modern architecture – influences in Caracas]. This event took place at Trasnocho Cultural (Room TAC), Paseo Las Mercedes, Caracas, on the 4th of July. This event counted with the participation of the architects Rafael Pereira Escalona, Bettina Beckhoff, Omar Seijas, Fernando Micale and Frank Alcock. The poster is available in…

Call for papers: 9th International congress on White Architecture (CIAB 9)

La Cátedra Blanca of Valencia has scheduled the celebration at the Universitat Politècnica of València of the 9th International Congress on White Architecture (9º Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura Blanca) on March 2020. In each edition of the Congress a selection of the best international architecture studios that are working with concrete as the main subject of their projects will be exhibited through a series of conferences. Likewise, the presented projects respond to diverse economies, locations and functions, but all share the common denominator of having been conceived in concrete. The communications of the 9th International Congress of White Architecture (9º Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura Blanca, CIAB 9) …

Call for Abstracts: 3rd National Congress of Interior Architecture “Building the contemporary dwelling. New themes and methods of the project”

The 3rd National Congress of Interior Architecture, “Building the contemporary dwelling. New themes and methods of the project” will be held in Naples, on January 17 and 18 of 2020, at the Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. “In May 2005 Adriano Cornoldi organized the first national convention dedicated to the disciplines of interiors in Venice. The questions are still current and highlight the role of a discipline whose task is to give material form to human dwelling needs, offering concrete answers to real problems. The 3rd conference, dedicated to Cornoldi in the decade of his death, wants to…

Kosovo Architecture Festival

“Kosovo Architecture Festival (KAF) is organized by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Future Architecture Platform. KAF is an annual event and its main objective is to present to the local architecture community and the general public the contemporary global theories and methodologies in the field of architecture and urban planning. Kosovo Architecture Festival is the largest event of its kind in Kosovo with more than 40 individual activities in numerous cities in the country. This year the events will be held from the 1st of July till the 1st of October.” Kosovo Architecture Foundation is an institutional member…