Event: Conference “El Arquitecto y la Ciudad” by Alfredo Brillembourg  

The architect Alfredo Brillembourg will present the lecture “El Arquitecto y la Ciudad” [The Architect and the City] at 31st May 2019 at Faculty of Architecture of Porto University. He founded, with Jubert Klumpner, the Urban-Think Tank Studio (U-TT). The U-TT, founded in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1998, has been based in the Department of Architecture D-ARCH of ETH in Zurich since 2010, where its founders teach the Teaching Unit of Architecture and Urban Design. Before, Brillembourg and Klumpner taught at Columbia University, where they founded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (SLUM Lab). Their work has already been honored with…

Holidays after the Fall: Seaside Architecture and Urbanism in Bulgaria and Croatia

Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourism industry hotspots. This book traces the various architectural and urban planning strategies pursued there since the mid 1950s, in order first to create then to further develop modern holiday destinations. It portrays (late-) modern tourism architecture and resorts of a remarkable quality and typological diversity, which have persisted both as a playground for the domestic labour force and as a viable product on the international market. Yet the authors focus above all on how, in the wake of political change and the privatization…

Modernism in America Award

“Docomomo US is pleased to announce the ten recipients of the 2019 Modernism in America Awards. These projects highlight the best in preservation practice by today’s architects, designers, and preservation professionals, for modern sites, landscapes and beyond. This year’s awards recognize new approaches to livable modernism, a once-in-a-lifetime effort to modernize one of the country’s most iconic landmarks, projects where vision and community coalesce, and the collaborative nature of art and design. The sixth annual Awards acknowledge the contributions of designers and preservationists to tell the full stories of our built heritage from the midcentury. We don’t remember great pieces of architecture…

Course: FIVE PROJECTS ON THE “MODERN”

The course aims to discuss about some significant experiences of twentieth century heritage restoration, in a framework that places modern architecture in urban regeneration scenarios. Each meeting, introduced by scholars and experts in the field and referring to general issues of a critical, regulatory and technological nature, will be illustrated by specific restoration projects, regarding to the intervention criteria, the various critical issues, problems faced and solutions adopted in the phase of planning and execution.   Organized by Docomomo Italia In collaboration with Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti Conservatori di Napoli e provincia   Venue: Headquarters of Ordine Architetti PCC…

Call for Abstracts: LDE-HERITAGE International Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals

The LDE-HERITAGE International Conference on Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals will happen between 26th and 28th November 2019 at TUDELFT, Delft, Netherlands. The Centre for Global Heritage and Development (LDEHeritage) is a collaboration of Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam. LDE-Heritage fosters an interdisciplinary approach, between sciences such as archaeology, architecture, the social sciences, the humanities, law, technology and design and urban and regional studies. LDE-Heritage goes beyond the traditional study of heritage, by focusing on how heritage relates to cultural, social, economic and environmental developments and decisions. This conference aims to discuss and debate about heritage…

Event: Exhibition “El carácter de la Tradición en la Arquitectura de Barney, Távora, Coderch”

The works of the architects Benjamín Barney (Colombia, 1941), Fernando Távora (Portugal, 1923-2005) and José Antonio Coderch (Spain, 1913-1984) are the basis of this xeposition curated by Andrés Erazo Barco (U. de San Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia), Antonio Armesto (UPC, Spain) and Manuel Augusto Mendes Soares (U. Porto, Portugal), which intends to reflect on the ethos, the proper nature of Architecture. In the context of the Exposition, Tavora’s work evokes the idea of ​​permanent modernity, which he expounded so well in the Lição das Constantes, as the essential condition, meaning and value of Architecture. There he explores his interest in Portuguese…

Call for abstracts: International Conference CHANCES – Practices, spaces and buildings in cities’ transformation.

CHANCES is an international conference that aims to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the fragile but continuous urban transformation through the effective contribution of culture, nature and technology. The aim of this conference is to provide a deeper understanding of urban transformations’ research and practices, focusing on the use, re-use, design, renovation and innovative governance and management of public spaces, urban commons and buildings. Contributions can build on reflections and studies concerning current or historical approaches that are changing or drastically changed the cities we lived in. Track 1 / DESIGN AND PRACTICES Contributions about actions, projects and design practices…

Event: 6th FIPA – Fórum Internacional do Património Arquitetónico [International Forum of Architectural Heritage]

The 6th FIPA – Fórum Internacional do Património Arquitetónico [International Forum of Architectural Heritage] will have as its main theme “The Preservation of Multiculturalism in Cultural Heritage” and will be held in the Monastery of Batalha from May 22nd to 24th, 2019, with the joint organization of the University of Aveiro (Coordination), the  Direção Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC), the Municipality of Batalha, and the Monastery of Batalha, also counting on the support in the organization of the partners Rota do Românico and Instituto Politécnico de Leiria from Portugal and from Brazil: Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN),…

Tv Show Visita Guiada [Guided Tour] – participation of Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International.

With the consultancy and participation of Professor Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, Paula Moura Pinheio’s TV show, Visita Guiada, produced by RTP2, is dedicated to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The episode airs today around 23h. Visita Guiada is a television and radio show about pieces of the history of Portuguese art and culture. In each episode, the program chooses a protagonist work (object, artwork, building) thanks to its exceptionality. Each one of the episodes counts on the explanations of a specialist, the one dedicated to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was produced with the consultancy and the participation of Professor…

Conference: The diaspora of modern architecture. Between Africa and Brazil, Le Corbusier as a landmark – Ana Tostões.

Professor Ana Tostões, President of Docomomo International, will present the lecture “The diaspora of modern architecture. Between Africa and Brazil, Le Corbusier as a landmark” at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg. This conference explores the extensions of modern architecture in Africa, focusing on the architectural production of Angola and Mozambique during the last decades of the Portuguese colonial regime (1945-1975). It analyzes the meaning of a modernity shared between continents that bears on the influence of Le Corbusier, architecture and modern art. Modern architectural production in Africa has been rediscovered and analyzed in recent decades. The research touched…