HEC Campus, Evolution of a Model

HEC Paris is a leading European school of advanced business studies with a global community of students from Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2012, HEC Paris’s campus near Versailles was redesigned by renowned architects Martin Duplantier and David Chipperfield to reflect the school’s global character and its focus on open communication and exchange. This new book documents the HEC Campus’s transformation in close detail and richly illustrated, including a newly commissioned photo essay by award-winning French photographer Cyrille Weiner. It takes readers through the planning and construction of its modern buildings, designed by René Coulons, throughout the…

Concrete – Case Studies in Conservation Practice

This timely volume brings together fourteen case studies that address the challenges of conserving the twentieth century’s most ubiquitous building material—concrete. Following a meeting of international heritage conservation professionals in 2013, the need for recent, thorough, and well-vetted case studies on conserving twentieth century heritage became clear. This book answers that need and kicks off a new series, Conserving Modern Heritage, aimed at sharing best practices. The projects selected represent a range of building typologies, uses, and sizes, from the high-rise housing blocks of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and public buildings such as London’s National Theatre to small monuments like the…

International Conference: CuCa_Re Project

The international Conference CuCa_Re Project is part of the “Cure and Care_the rehabilitation” Research Project. This project is coordinated by IST-ID (Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e o Desenvolvimento) and the Principal Investigator is Ana Tostões, President of Docomomo International. This project aims to study healthcare buildings built in Portugal in the 20th century and their role in the welfare society policy, approaching future challenges driven by the developments in technology and medicine, and the need to assure a sustainable built environment. These buildings are susceptible to be transformed, deactivated or even demolish in a near future. On…

Lisbon Workshop

The Department of Architecture of IST, with the support of CITUA, Lisbon City Hall and Docomomo International, invite you to take part in the conference Lisbon Workshop, which will be developed in two sessions, the first of which will take place on the next May 16th, Thursday, and will be carried out on the 30th of May 2019. The first session will have a presentation by arch. Maruša Zorec, from the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture, called “Works and Projects”. It will take place in room GA5, at Pavilhão Central, between 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. The session of May 30th will have architect…

Award: EU Mies Award 2019 – winners

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the winning works of the Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019. The two award-winning projects have been chosen from a list of 383 works from 38 European countries. The winning work of 2019 is The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has been awarded to the Transformation of 530 homes – Grand Parc Bordeaux by Lacaton & Vassal architectes, Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture; an innovative renovation of three large blocks…

Event: Barcelona Architecture Week 2019 begins

During these days, Barcelona will become the epicenter of a wide range of activities related to the world of architecture and the city. In the centenary of the foundation of the Bauhaus School of Design and Architecture, this year’s edition will emphasize the legacy of the avant-garde architecture. The Fundació Mies van der Rohe proposes a series of activities, including the presentation of the project Artists in Architecture with the debate “Heritage at risk: Single-family housing of the Modern Movement in Europe”; guided tours and activities organized by the Fondació are also planned at the Architecture Week. For more information,…

International Congress: Bauhaus and Greece: The New Idea of Synthesis in Art and Architecture

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, The Athens School of Fine Arts and the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart are organising an international congress entitled Bauhaus and Greece: The New Idea of Synthesis in Art and Architecture. The congress will be held at the Benaki Museum and the Athens School of Fine Arts on 30 May – 1 June 2019. The 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, this important event for the arts, architecture and art education, provides the setting for numerous festive events worldwide. The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 on the…

ISC/Registers

Guidelines for submitting the 2019-2020 Homework A plan for new documentation homework has been approved in the last Council Meeting, August 30th, 2018 (Ljubljana, Slovenia), proposed by the ISC/Registers. With the aim of moving forward to the documentation of conservation good practices, Docomomo Working Parties (WP) have to submit: Working Parties that already have submitted 30 Documentation Fiches and uploaded 50 sites to MOMOVE: (a) 1 fiche for 2019 and 1 fiche for 2020, on an example of Good Conservation Practice. Download the template here: link. (b) A bibliography with 5-10 publications (books or articles) on Modern Movement of each country, to have them online (unless previously sent). Each publication should be accompanied by a photo of the book,…

Book lauching: Lisbon Architectural Map 1948-2019

The publisher A + A Books will launch the Lisbon Architecture Map 1948 – 2019, to follow the changes that have arisen in the city up to the present time. A + A publisher explains that since 2013, the year of publication of the Lisbon Architecture Guide 1948-2013, numerous changes have occurred in the city: increase of cultural equipment or interventions in collective spaces, for example. The publisher explains that the choice of the date 1948 as the temporal beginning of a modern and contemporary Architectural Map refers to the year of the 1st National Congress of Architects in Lisbon,…

Call for Papers: Joelho nº10: Team 10: Debate and Media in Portugal and Spain

Guest Editors: Nuno Correia, Pedro Baía, Carolina B. García Estévez   For issue nº10, the journal Joelho will be published in association with the International Conference “Team Ten Farwest: Critical Revision of the Modern Movement in the Iberian Peninsula, 1953-1981”, which will be held in FAUP – Porto University School of Architecture, in 28-30 November 2019 — the year that marks the 60th anniversary of the last CIAM Meeting of 1959, in Otterlo.   For the preparation of this Conference, two preliminary meetings were held, where several contributions of Portuguese and Spanish researchers were presented — in Guimarães, December 2017, and Barcelona, June 2018. These different historiographical perspectives were centred on subjects like the protagonists, the processes, architectural works, urbanism, and representation; from…