Alvar Aalto Libraries

Alvar Aalto Libraries presents all nineteen of Alvar Aalto’s completed libraries as well as the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki. Chronologically, the completed buildings range from Viipuri Library in the 1930s to Alajärvi Library in the 1990s, which was built after Aalto’s death. Aalto’s libraries have served various needs, for instance, as part of larger administrative, institutional or cultural centres. A significant group is the public libraries, such as those in Seinäjoki, Rovaniemi and Wolfsburg. Another significant group, which includes the libraries at the University of Jyväskylä, Aalto University and the Mount Angel monastery, are his scholarly libraries. The libraries in…

Alvar Aalto Homes

Our entire culture rests on the nature of our dwellings, stated Alvar Aalto in a lecture he delivered in Munich in 1957. During the course of a career spanning over 50 years, Aalto designed a total of nearly 100 single-family houses, apartments blocks, student dormitories and summer homes. Many of them are architectural gems, in which his thoughts about dwelling and architecture converge. Aalto considered experimental building to be very important: in his opinion, there should always be an opportunity for experimentation in every project, for it is only in that way that architecture can be promoted and quality improved…

Federico Maggia Prize 2019

Visions and Change. Young designers building ideas With the launch of the competition, the 2019 edition of the Federico Maggia Prize is launched, which aims to promote the confrontation between young designers by stimulating new visions on the existing spaces of the area of Biella, Italy. The path, started in 2013 with “Industrie Dismesse. Young designers building ideas“, which focused on the wool factory of Maurizio Sella, and later, in 2015, expanded to the landscape, urban and cultural context with “Industrial landscapes. Young designers building ideas”, in order to spread across provincial areas. To give consistency to the process and encourage a virtuous…

Heritage Conservation Assessment

Docomomo Macau is organising a lecture on Heritage Conservation Assessment: Conservation Management Plan in Hong Kong, on the 3rd of April, 2019. The invited speaker is architect Tony Lam and the moderation of the lecture will be done by Tiago Rebocho. Admission is free and the conference will be held in English. Time: 19h00, 3rd of April, 2019 Venue: Auditorium, C & C Club, Macau The poster can be found here.

Call: Architectures for a new liturgy. Interventions on the religious heritage after Vatican II

From the 10th to the 12th of October will be held inside the Seminary of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Porto the 6th International Congress about Contemporary Religious Architecture. The theme will be the interventions on the religious heritage after the Secon Vatican Council (1962-1965) when the process of renewal of the Catholic churches began. “The renovation of the places of worship – of its presbyteries, but also of the baptisteries and other sacramental spaces – has hardly been treated by the scientific literature, despite its enormous importance for the old buildings. In these actions there are always dichotomies that provoke…

The Bata Company and its built legacy: The Story of an Extraordinary Enterprise

Docomomo Québec has organised the lecture “The Bata Company and its built legacy: The Story of an Extraordinary Enterprise”, to be held at École de design de l´UQAM, on the 27th February. The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in the city of Zlín in Moravia, today the Czech Republic, at end of the 19th century, became one of the largest shoe producers in entire world in the second half of the last century. The Company founded tens of factories and company towns in Czechoslovakia, Europe, North America, South Asia and more, with original functionalist architecture. Presented by Dr….

Acceptera

The first pubblication in German of the Swedish Acceptera-manifesto by Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Gregor Paulsson, Eskil Sundahl and Uno Åhrén. The book is published with the support of Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg and is available from the publisher FAU University Press. From the publisher The »Stockholm Exhibition 1930 of Arts and Crafts and Home Industries« (›Stockholmsutställningen 1930 av konstindustri, konsthantverk och hemslöjd‹) and the Acceptera-manifesto, published the following year by the exhibition organizers – Gunnar Asplund, Wolter Gahn, Sven Markelius, Gregor Paulsson, Eskil Sundahl und Uno Åhrén – mark the breakthrough of Modern Architecture in Sweden as well as in the other Nordic countries. In Acceptera (›Accept‹) the authors promote, under the term…

bauhaus journal 1926–1931 facsimile edition

To mark the centennial of the Bauhaus, Lars Müller Publishers issues reprints of some of the more outstanding publications in the Bauhaus program, in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin. One hundred years after the founding of Bauhaus, it’s time to revisit bauhaus journal as significant written testimony of this iconic movement of modern art. In this journal, published periodically from 1926 to 1931, the most important voices of the movement are heard: masters of the Bauhaus, among others, Josef Albers, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer, as well as Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van…

Cure and Care_the rehabilitation

A contest has started to award two Research grant under the I&D CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation project/ CERIS, IST, PTDC_ATPAQI_2577_2014. These grants are for the research group CERIS – ICIST at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. The candidates must have a Master´s in Architecture. Favourable conditions: i) knowledge on history of health facilities´ architecture in Portugal; ii) experience in research, participation at scientific events, production and editing of scientific articles; iii) experience with excel; iv) previous experience with AutoCAD; v) experience in organizing conferences and/or architecture exhibitions. The contest will last from 27th February until 12th March, 2019. To know more about…