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…

Symposium: The Modern architecture and design lecture

The chair of Docomomo International, Professor Ana Tostões, participated as Keynote Speaker in the symposium “The Modern Architecture and Design Lecture”, that took place at the Wakita Museum of Art, in Karuizawa, this past October 20th. The symposium is the resulting project organized by Wakita Museum of Art, and cooperated by Karuizawa-town, Education Board Karuizawa, and Karuizawa-town Tourist Association, affiliated organization, and related members in Karuizawa. Previously Wakita Art Museum has hosted symposiums on Alvar Aalto / Preservation and activity about the buildings and houses in Finland (2016), and on Louis Kahn / Preservation and activity about the buildings and…

Publication: matières 14

“L’œuvre et le temps, le temps à l’œuvre” is the theme of the Dossier of the 14th issue of matières. Voluntarily vast, this theme naturally translates into multiple angles of approach. In this perspective, the extension of monuments, the paradoxical forms adopted by collective dwellings between 1968 and 1973, and the reproducibility of Le Corbusier´s model of the “Unité d’habitation” are all examined. Additionally to these variations of the link between time and work, the durability of stone – as a building material – as well as a reflection on the critical receptivity of a building are also topics approached….

Aesthetics and Technology in Building. The Twenty-First-Century Edition

Rome, Italy – The selection of Italian engineer and master builder Pier Luigi Nervi (1891-1979) to present the 1961 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in Poetry at Harvard University was a breathtaking moment in the history of engineering and architecture. Often called a “poet in concrete” for his stunning, web-like roof structures and evocative, curving concrete structures, Nervi represented the growing optimism around technology and design in the postwar era. In four lectures, the designer and builder of internationally acclaimed arenas for the 1960 Rome Olympics covered the history of building, showing how art and science had found common ground in construction…

Call for Session and Roundtables: EAHN2020

The Call for Sessions and Roundtables for European Architectural History Network (EAHN 2020) is now open! EAHN2020 takes place in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, UK, from 10th to 13th June, 2020. The venue is the University of Edinburgh, and the conference takes full advantage of the university, and the city’s numerous architectural sites. In accordance with EAHN´s mission, the meeting aims to increase the visibility of the discipline of architectural history, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research in the field. EAHN is a European…

Call for Papers: Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage, Challenges

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a three-day international conference Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage, Challenges that will be held in Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 6-8, 2019. This international conference is organised by a group of researchers from the University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, Portugal, under the scope of the research project ´Atlas of School Architecture in Portugal – Education, Heritage and Challenges´, funded by FCT, the agency that supports research into science and technology in Portugal. Educational Architecture – Education, Heritage and Challenges is intended to be a forum for discussing the…

Congress: Affordable Housing. The 20th Century Legacy.

Learning from the past. What future? Challenges and opportunities. The Architecture Faculty of Porto University (FAUP) will host on May 6th, 7th and 8th, 2019, an International Congress that will mark the closing of the Research Project ´Mapping Public Housing Map – A critical review of the State-subsidized residential architecture in Portugal (1910-1974)´, financed by FCT, Rui Ramos is his researcher responsible. The program of this International Congress will include: . guided tours of four Porto neighborhoods (Rainha D. Leonor, Bairro de São João de Deus, Bairro Pio XII and Bairro do Lagarteiro); . the presentation of a documentary; . the…