Guided Tour: Convent Clarissenklooster / Visit: exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”

Saturday, July 06 at 13:45 Docomomo Belgium organizes a guided tour of the Convent Clarissenklooster (Paul Felix, 1957-1965) by architect Marc Felix and Zsuzsanna Böröcz; and, at 16:30, a visit with the curator Marc Dubois to the exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”. Architect Paul Felix (Ostend, 1913-1981), important and leading figure in the Belgian architectural landscape after the Second World War, designed the Convent Clarissenklooster (protected monument since 2002) in 1957 and 1965 The convent perfectly illustrates its typical position: architecture is not an individual matter for the architect, but a combination of forces that are beyond the reach…

Exhibition: Le Corbusier. Linkeroever Antwerp – Chandigard

“How do residents make use of a city after the architect has gone? And what does the area of Linkeroever in Antwerp have to do with the Indian city of Chandigarh? Discover how residents live in a carefully designed city and learn about the underlying vision of the famous modernist architect Le Corbusier. Linkeroever In 1933, Le Corbusier participated in an international competition to design a new, modern city for the Linkeroever (‘Left Bank’) in Antwerp. He wanted to build an ideal city, a ‘Ville Radieuse’, or ‘Radiant City’, which was his response to the inhumanity of the 19th century…

Save the date: Docomomo International Student Workshop 2020 Tokyo

Within the 16th International Docomomo Conference, Docomomo International, Docomomo Japan and the ISC/Educational and Training will organize the Docomomo International Student Workshop 2020 Tokyo that will be held between the 6th and the 10th September 2020, in Tokyo. The Workshop will count with the cooperation of the Architect Fumihiko Maki, winner of 1993 Pritzker Prize. 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”. Dates to remember: 6th – 10th September 2020: Docomomo Student Workshop 10th -13th September 2020: 16th International Docomomo…

Call for Papers: EAHN2020 – European Architectural History Network Conference 2020

EAHN is a European organisation, but its intellectual scope is global, and the meeting welcomes proposals on any architectural historical topic. As well as topics on any aspect of the built environment, proposals on landscape and urban history are also very welcome, along with proposals dealing with the theories, methodologies and historiographies of architectural history. In accordance with EAHN´s mission, the European Architectural History Network Conference 2020 aims to increase the visibility of the discipline of architectural history, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research in…

Courses: MBArch Master´s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture ETSAB-UPC, Course 2019-2020

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. “The MBArch or Master´s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona is a postgraduate program (60 to 90 credits) that focuses on the contemporary architectural and urban project. It combines a set of programs with extensive experience that our university offered previously and that had a high level of international recognition, in a new integrated master.” “The specialization in Theory, History and Culture offers to graduates in architecture or graduated in humanistic disciplines a broad and rigorous training in the history, theory and criticism of architecture, as well as in the knowledge of the field of culture in relation to inhabited space, heritage and city. Main goals: Research. Search archives…

Call for Papers: International Call – Book “Women at the Bauhaus, the Bauhaus to the Women. For a Reconsideration of the Myth”

“Edited by Paola Ardizzola and Olimpia Niglio. The Bauhaus school, whose centenary of its birth falls this year, despite the short duration of the time span in which it was active (1919-1933), it earned a fame that today get closer to the myth, thanks above all to an extremely innovative and democratic pedagogical methodology. Yet one of the most advanced European societies of the time, which included scientists as Albert Einstein, sociologists as Georg Simmel, philosophers as Walter Benjamin, musicians as Arnold Schönberg and writers as Bertolt Brecht, was really ready to a school which offered identical opportunities to males and…

Call for Abstracts: 2nd urbanHIST Conference: “Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism”

The conference will take place at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm between the 21st and the 23rdof October 2019. Convenor of the conference is Abdellah Abarkan, Professor and Head of the Department of Spatial Planning at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Karlskrona, Sweden. Besides the Bauhaus University Weimar (Germany), the University of Valladolid (Spain) and the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovakia), BTH is one of the four urbanHIST beneficiaries. The 15 urbanHIST early stage researchers are substantially involved in the organization of this conference. The 2nd urbanHIST Conference is welcoming abstracts on the main theme: “Interpreting 2othCentury European Urbanism”….

Key Modern Architects: 50 short histories of Modern Architecture

“Key Modern Architects provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the work of the most significant architects of the modern era. Fifty short chapters introduce fifty key architects, from Le Corbusier to Aldo Van Eyck to Zaha Hadid, exploring their most influential buildings and developing a critique of each architect’s work within a broader cultural and historical context. The selection represents the most influential architects working from 1890 to the present, those most likely to be taught on survey courses in modern architectural history, along with some lesser-known names with an equal claim to influence. Emphasis is placed on a critical…

Brokers of Modernity – East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950

“The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extremes intensified.  Mainly drawing on Polish, but also wider Central and Eastern European cases, this book delivers…

Architectural Guide – Socialist Modernist Architecture: Romania and The Republic of Moldova

The publication “Socialist Modernist Architecture – Romania and the Republic of Moldova” is available. It is a result of  B.A.C.U. Association’s efforts to publish the Socialist Modernist research. “The 242 architecture objects included in this volume have been organized by function, into eight sections. At the beginning of each section, a map shows the location of each of the buildings described. The authors’ viewpoints and assessments make this volume a surprising incursion into the history of architecture.” Text provided by the publisher. To order the book, please visit: link.