XII Congreso Internacional Historia de la Arquitectura Moderna Española

The Chair of Docomomo International, Ana Tostões, will be apart of the Jury Committee for the 12th International Congress – The History of Modern Spanish Architecture which will take place between the 25th and 27th of March 2020, in Pamplona. This congress, organized by Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra, will focus on “Los edificios de la Industria: icono y espacio de progreso para la arquitectura en el arranque de la modernidad” [The buildings of the Industry: icon and space of progress for architecture during early Modernity]. Industrial building forms (in all its aspects, from dams to warehouses and silos,…

Liberated Dwelling (Befreites Wohnen)

Sigfried Giedion’s small, but vocal manifesto Befreites Wohnen (1929) is an early manifestation of modernist housing ideology and as such key to the broader understanding of the ambitions of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and the debate on the industrialisation of construction processes and its impact on public housing at the beginning of the twentieth century. An important step in Giedion’s rise as one of the foremost propagators of modern architecture, this manifesto is based on the argumentative power of visual comparisons, and the only book the art historian both authored and designed. For the first time the book is…

Docomomo Italia

Docomomo Italia announced the launch of a new on-line architecture portal Atlante Architettura Contemporanea. Italy told through architectures, created with the Department of Architecture and Project of La Sapienza University. This portal is intended to share knowledge of Italian post-war modern architecture, gathered through the course of a large-scale survey promoted by La Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura contemporanee e Periferie urbane (DGAAP). The portal aims to focus on a selection of the architectures surveyed by DGAAP in the website Architetture del secondo 900, presenting specific thematic itineraries illustrated with original photographs. The selection was carried out according to a criterion of distribution on…

Bauhaus Eine fotografische Weltreise / A photographic journey around the world

From the publisher: “The Bauhaus movement, founded in Weimar in 1919, influenced the development of modern architecture far beyond the borders of Germany. For almost a decade, photographer Jean Molitor has travelled around the globe to document its influence – be it in Berlin or Casablanca, Stuttgart or Havana, St. Petersburg or Guatemala City, Vienna or Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This book offers an overview of the most important architectural trends in the first half of the 20th Century and features over 130 impressively-staged photos of Classic Modernism master-pieces from all over the world, some of…

Call for Entries: 2019 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation

The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation recognises exemplary efforts by individuals and organisations to restore or conserve structures, places and properties of heritage value in the region. It aims to encourage other property owners to undertake conservation projects within their communities, either independently or by seeking public-private partnerships. Since 2000, the Awards have recognised 233 winners from 21 countries for their thorough understanding of the places, sound technical achievements, and significant social and policy impacts at the local, national and regional levels. By recognising these practices, the Awards have contributed to meaningful achievements in changing the conversation about what constitutes…

La buvette d´Évian. Maurice Novarina, Jean Prouvé, Serge Ketoff (1955-2018)

Completed in 1957, the Nouvelle Buvette de la Source Cachat – or Pump Room for the Cachat springs – at Évian-les-Bains is ranked as a twentieth century icon. The building was the product of fruitful collaboration by team capable of combining tremendous plastic sensitivity with precise structural rigour: Maurice Novarina, an experienced architect; the “construction genius” Jean Pouvré; and architect-engineer Serge Ketoff. From their collective exploit came technical object of undoubted originality, a daring performance delivered  with gusto – this was much more than just industrial materials made to look good. Precision mechanics rather than Meccano, this masterpiece so cherished by Jean Pouvré is an…

The Future as a Project. Doxiadis in Skopje

Recently docomomo International informed about the exhibition “The Future as a Project | Doxiadis In Skopje”, supported by docomomo Greece. Docomomo International is now happy to announce the release of the exhibition catalogue “The Future as a Project. Doxiadis in Skopje”. It presents for the first time Doxiadis’ work in Skopje, which includes strategic plans for the city and a new outline for the master plan. In addition, it presents the work of Kenzo Tange for Skopje’s city centre, and showcases a series of modernist buildings authored by leading Yugoslavian architects that still stand in the city today. It finally…

Docomomo Iran

Docomomo Iran in association with the Research Institution of Art and Culture of the University of Tehran would like to invite to the “International Conference on Conservation of 20th Century Heritage from Architecture to Landscape”. The conference takes place 23-24 April 2019, at Negaresten Garden, University of Tehran. Call for Abstracts: Research Institution of Art and Culture at University of Tehran and Docomomo_Iran would like to invite you to the “International Conference on Conservation of 20th Century Heritage from Architecture to Landscape”. The conference will be hold in a contemporary garden in Tehran, on 23rd and 24th of April. Similar to many countries influenced by Modern Movement,…

Call for Abstracts: Re-engaging with the Gulf Modernist City: Heritage and Repurposing Practice

In the framework of the 10th Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge, UK that will take place in July 2019 the workshop “Re-engaging with the Gulf Modernist City: Heritage and Repurposing Practice,” is now accepting proposals. Long-time neglected architectural and artistic productions of the modernisation era in the Gulf are now at the centre of a renewed interest. In the last decade, a series of initiatives were launched to understand, analyse and re-engage with the once-modern city, which meanwhile lost its pivotal function and meaning. A city within a bigger city, the urban fabric produced in the Gulf during the modernisation…

From skyscraper to Vertical Fabric. New architectural and urban scenarios

Original title: “Dal grattacielo al tessuto verticale. Nuovi sviluppi architettonici e urbani” From the publisher: “If examined within a complex system structured into distinct vertical elements, each skyscraper behaves as an autonomous organism, as a “micro-city”, reproducing in its inner space, and in a smaller scale, the same kind of widespread urbanization of the urban fabric. In particular for the contemporary mega-cities such as Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, it is possible to schematize the dynamics of high-rise buildings system identifying an inner “overturned” structure, that corresponds with a vertical transposition of the horizontal hierarchy. This research aims to…