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…

Event: Mies on Scene

Fundació Mies van der Rohe would like to inviete to a new event “Mies on Scene”. It includes the screening of the documentary Mies on Scene: Barcelona in two acts, as well as the announcement of Luftwerk and Iker Gil’s upcoming project ‘Geometry of Light’. The event will take place at 18:00 in the historic Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior at IIT, Chicago. The admission is paid and the entire ticket revenue will be used to finance the ‘Geometry of Light’ project. You can find more information here.

Keeping it Modern – Presentation of Antoine Wilmering

Docomomo Chile, together with Centro UC Patrimonio Cultural and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, are hosting a presentation about the Keeping it Modern project, by the Getty Foundation. The presentation will be given by Antoine Wilmering, at Salón Sergio Larraín, in the Campus Lo Contador, El Comendador 1916, Providencia. This event starts at 18:30, on the 10th December 2018.

Hospitals – A Design Manual

Hospitals as a building type have undergone a substantial evolution in the past years. Changes in healthcare, the impact of evidence-based medicine and aspects of healthcare economics (such as the clustering of diagnostic procedures in specialized clinics) pose new and different challenges for the designer. Private healthcare facilities herald the paradigm change from the large functional building complex to a design-conscious health institution with luxury hotel features. Health centers more devoted to prevention rather than cure have been another important trend. This publication explains the principles and requirements for the planning of hospitals and other health facilities. An international case…

Reutilizar Edifícios e transformar a Cidade [To Reuse buildings and transform the city]

On the occasion of the exhibition opening for “Físicas do Património Português. Arquitetura e Memória” [Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory], Gonçalo Canto Moniz wrote an article for the Portuguese newspaper Público regarding the dangers 20th century architectural heritage faces nowadays. “In the transition from the 20th century to the 21st century, heritage institutions are gradually beginning to worry about this legacy and its significance in the context of patrimonial policies, which forces a paradigm shift.” Docomomo is featured in this article for its ongoing work which aims to promote and protect modern heritage. To see the full article, please visit: website [Portuguese]

Físicas do Património Português. Arquitetura e Memória [Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory]

The exhibition “Físicas do Património Português. Arquitetura e Memória” [Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory] was organized by the Portuguese Directorate General for Cultural Heritage and it will be held at the museum of Popular Art, in Lisbon, starting december 5th. This exhibition aims to celebrate good examples of rehabilitation of architectural heritage in Portugal, while simultaneously reflecting on the history of heritage intervation and approaching contemporary debates. The cases presented are split into distinct physical states of matter: Liquid, Solid and Other States. This exhibition was organized on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, and…

ISC/Technology

The following Preservation Technology Dossiers have been made available for free by ISC/Technology: – Dossier 1: Curtain Wall Refurbishment – Dossier 2: The Fair Face of Concrete – Dossier 3: Reframing the Moderns – Dossier 4: Wood and Modern Movement – Dossier 5: Modern Colour Technology – Dossier 6: Stone in Modern Buildings – Dossier 7: Technology of Sensations You can access all the public dossiers here.

Upcoming publication: bauhaus journal 1926–1931

Lars Müller Publishers is celebrating 100 Years of Bauhaus with a release of unique set of materials – they include an facsimile reprints of bauhaus journal from years 1926–1931, both in German and complete English translation. Also scheduled for release are the collected works of Bauhaus teachers, like Walter Gropius, Paul Klee and László Moholy-Nagy. Books will become available in January 2019 You can pre-order a copy here.

Docomomo Kosovo

Docomomo International would like to inform, that the docomomo Kosovo Chapter has added new entries to the docomomo Virtual Exhibition – MoMove. The entries are: ATK Qeveria e Kosoves in Prishtina (by Dragan Kovacevic, 1975) and Motel Vllaznimi in Landovica (by Miodrag Pecic, Trajko Dimitrijevic, Branislava Srejic, Ilija Bejic, Bogoljub Ivanovic, Arsa Dimitrijevic, 1973). To find these entries click here and here.