Event: La mirada de Domènec

Fundació Mies van der Rohe invites you to the presentation of the magazine Espill 58 of the University of Valencia and the dossier that includes on the intervention of Domènec at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. The event will feature the presentation of Gustau Muñoz, co-director of L’Espill magazine and with Domènec himself in a conversation with Manuel Guerrero, essayist and critic.In the later debate “The cultural and social relationship between Barcelona and Valencia” will participate: Simona Skrabec, essayist and translator; Joan Manuel Tresserres, president of the Josep Irla Foundation, Josep Maria Muñoz, director of L’Avenç and Antoni Furió,…

Liturgia, Lugar de encontros – IV Jornada de Liturgia, Arte e Arquitectura [Liturgy, Meeting Place – IV Talks on Liturgy, Art and Architecture]

The Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute) is organizing “Lugar de encontros” [Meeting places], with the support of the Portuguese National Council of Architects (OA), as part of IV Talks on Liturgy, Art and Architecture, on the 24th November. These talks will be split into two different panels and they´ll bring together talks on spirituality, architecture and university projects, including a exhibition with student projects of chapels. Panels´ themes: ´Contexts´ – Moderator: Madalena Mariz Rodrigues ´Shapes´ – Moderator: Hugo Casanova To know more please visit website. Find the poster and the full program in the PDF…

Modern Architectures. The Rise of Heritage

This book is a collaborative work containing 18 essays, related to examination and preservation of modern architecture. From the publisher: “(…) essays offer a variety of fresh and thoughtful perspectives on how to examine our modern architectural heritage, considering both its local and international significance. Collectively, they provide a comprehensive overview of preservation activities and teaching programs around the world that have developed in this field since the 1980s, including new research and insights that have radically changed the canonical vision of modern architecture. The essays reveal how knowledge has opened up new areas of preservation and lead to deeper,…

100 Buildings 1900-2000

The twentieth century was a remarkable period in architectural history. Rivaling the transformative achievements of ancient Greece, the Gothic period the Renaissance, the twentieth century galvanized radical developments in building technology, architectural theory, and space that paralleled global revolutions in politics, economics, and social values. Knowledge of the twentieth century´s accomplishments is fundamentally critical for all students of architecture. More the 50 internationally renowned architects were asked to list the top 100 twentieth-century buildings they would teach to architecture students. The contributors were encouraged to select built projects where formal, special, technological and organizational concepts responded to dynamic historical, cultural,…

Event: Le Corbusier Apartment-Studio re-opened for visiting

Apartment-studio of Le Corbusier, located inside the famous Molitor building, is opened again after undergoing conservation for the past two years. It served as home to Le Corbusier, who lived there with his wife since 1934, until her death in 1965. The conservation process, led by François Chatillon, aimed at restoring the state of the apartment from 1965, to express the constant change in Corbu´s living environment, where he experimented with new ideas and aesthetics. Corbusier’s apartment-studio is listed as national heritage since 1972. In 2016 the Molitor building was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with 16 other…

Docomomo Belgium

For the month of November Docomomo Belgium is organizing a series of tour that include guided visits to exhibitions and promenades. If you happen to be in Belgium in November, join in and register to participate in these docomomo activities. 08.11.2018 – Exhibition: “L’œuvre et la carrière de l’architecte Jean Cosse”, Faculté d’architecture, d’ingénierie architecturale et d’urbanisme LOCI, Brussels 10.11.2018 – Exhibition + Excursion to Leuven “HERLEVEN. Leuven na 1918” 17.11.2018 – Bus tour, Sart Tilman, Liège To know the full programmes and more details about registration please visit: docomomo Belgium

Event: Modern Architecture in Central

docomomo Hong Kong and Hong Kong Institute of Architecual Conservationsists (HKICON) would like to invite to a lecture “Modern Architecture in Central”. The lecute will take place 17th November 2018, at 10:00 am, in room GHP602 of the Graduate House, Hong Kong University (University Dr, Lung Fu Shan, Hong Kong). Organisers would also like to invite to a tour walk, taking place on 24th November. Starting point is Statue Square, Central, at 10:00 am. You can find the detailed programme and more information here.

Moholy´s Edit. The Avant-Garde at Sea, August 1933

The book concerns the four-day cruise to the Aegean islands made by the “inner circle” of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and their friends during the 4th congress in August 1933. Structured around that sequence of Moholy-Nagy´s film Architects´ Congress dealing with the cruise, the book sheds light on this legendary event in the history of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde. Together with a close study of Le Corbusier´s sketches and notes in his carnet B5, all of these documents (and even more)—compiled by the authors with utmost care—reveal the preoccupations of the key personae including Sigfried…

Exhibition: RETROSPECTIVE: BRUNO TAUT at HOME

Desctiprion provided by the organisers: “Exhibiton invites everyone to see Head of Department of Architecture Prof. Bruno Taut back at his home, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, 80 years after his solo exhibition held at the Taut Atelier in June 1938. “The world is my idea.” Arthur Schopenhauer Bruno Taut is an important figure in modern architecture. His author-educator-urban planner identities, his architectural approach and the reflections of his approach have been collected. Bruno Taut met Categorical Imperative of Kant through a gravestone in Königsberg and carried his moral law throughout his life. He lived in a world where racism…

The Auerbach House by Walter Gropius with Adolf Meyer

While Director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius built the Auerbach House in 1924, his first private house in the Bauhaus mode. Thus, this in cooperation with Adolf Meyer created building is one of the most important milestones for the early years of the Bauhaus. Certainly, the most outstanding feature of the house is the authentic interior color scheme. It was first discovered during the restoration that Alfred Arndt designed color schemes for every interior wall. Preserving almost all original details, today the house glows again with the 37 original pastel tones. This book also recounts the moving story of the…