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…

2nd Course Arquitetos de Lisboa: Anos 20 do século XIX – Anos 50 do século XX

The 2nd course Arquitetos de Lisboa: Anos 20 do século XIX – Anos 50 do século XX (Lisbon Architects: the 20´s of the 19th century – the 50´s of the 20th century) is composed of seminars and will take place from May 3rd to June 5th, 2019, between 17:30 and 19:30, at the Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa. Aiming to a better understand of Architecture in Portugal, twelve lectures are organized to study relevant projects in the municipality of Lisbon from the mentioned period. Entrance is free, conditioned to the seats in the auditorium. Venue: Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa Rua…

Call for Registration: Cities in Asia Summer Program: Studio Singapore-Shanghai, June 24th to July 16th

“The International Summer Programme in Architecture: Cities in Asia (Studio Singapore-Shanghai) is a three-week credit-bearing course organised by the HKU Department of Architecture. Founded in 2010, it is an annual design and research studio that travels to multiple cities in Asia. Taught by a diverse group of faculty members from HKU and speakers from internationally renowned universities and independent research groups, the course offers participants an unrivaled learning experience within Asia’s most dynamic contexts. This year, the programme will travel to the cities of Singapore and Shanghai. In particular, students would study the effects of industry, manufacturing and other forms…

Les Grands Ensembles: Patrimoines en devenir

Les Grands ensembles : Patrimoines en devenir. Crhoniques de la valorisation, dévalorisation et revalorisation d’opérations exemplaires à Saint-Etienne. This book takes as objects of reflection large exemplary sets: those of the southeast of Saint-Étienne. Beaulieu, counting among the series of six, which in 1953 launches major French ensembles, is now labelled Heritage twentieth century. Its neighbour Montchovet knew almost all the political devices of the city, including the demolition in 2000 of the Chinese Wall, an unavoidable building in the Saint-Etienne landscape. A return on the history of urban policies and the settlement of these ensembles, coupled with a reading…

Exhibition: ICONIC RUINS? Post-war Socialist Architecture in the Visegrad Countries

“Post-war architecture in the former state-socialist countries has recently become a prominent topic. For a long time it was viewed by the public in a dubious light and against the backdrop of the often bleak personal memories of and lives impacted by the communist regime. Recent expert studies and activities aimed at public education have, however, revealed that the architecture at that time assumed a surprisingly diverse array of forms and that there existed in the region a parallel course of development that anchors the former Eastern bloc within the wider frame of the history of world architecture. The ICONIC…

Event: MantovArchitettura 2019

In May 2019 the Politecnico di Milano – Mantova Campus is organizing the recurring cultural event called MantovArchitettura. The initiative revolves around a rich programme of exhibitions, workshops, conferences and meetings with the protagonists of the international architecture culture. This year, the event will take place from 9th May to 6th June 2019. For more information, please visit the website. To see the full program please download the pdf attached below. [Italian]

Call for Papers: Histories of Postwar Architecture – Mass Media and the International Spread of Post-war Architecture

This monograph edition of the journal HPA attempts to map the international spread processes of architectural culture in the mass media after the Second World War, taking the period 1945-1960 as a traditional time framework. It focuses on how certain ideas about the city and contemporary architecture were diffused through periodical publications, exhibitions and conferences, by analyzing some monographic case studies in an attempt to answer some essential questions: How was an architectural and/or urban project linked to a specific framework, presented in the international context through state, professional and educational channels -be they either institutional or otherwise? How did…