International Commitee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement
Within the 15th International Docomomo Conference, the International Docomomo Workshop – “Education to Everybody / Structures in Ljubljana” will take place in took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 24 to 28 August 2018. Students can apply to participate until 24 April! Instructions and information about the workshop are available at: website
DOCOMOMO Deutschland, the Detmold School of Architecture and Interior Architecture and the project ‘Reuse of Modernist Buildings (RMB)’ invite you to the 16th DOCOMOMO Germany & RMB Conference. This first event in Berlin on the 1st of March 2019 at the Akademie der Künste continues the tradition of the Karlsruhe DOCOMOMO Germany Conferences. The EU project RMB initiates a pedagogical framework on the European level based on common definitions, methods, and approaches for the ´reuse´ of modern buildings, with the aim of offering a ´Joint Master on Reuse of Modernist Buildings´. In this context, the conference will take place in…
The catalog was published to accompany the exhibition Streets and neighbourhoods. Vladimir Braco Mušic and large scale architecture, which is between 17th May and 20th November 2016 on display at the Museum of Architecture and Design. Through expert texts of the authors of the exhibition; Luka Skansi, Bogo Zupancic and Martina Malešic, we learn about the life and work of the architect and urbanist Vladimir Braco Music. Closely we get acquainted with the development of urban design concepts of Slovenian hausing estates from the first post-war developments to the last large neighborhoods. About neighborhoods of Vladimir Braco Mušic also wrote Matevž…
EFAITH is working hard to turn the industrial heritage campaign of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 into a success: the theme months, the cross-border initiatives and the twinning program. From September onwards the focus will be on promoting cross-border cooperation and twinning between associations. There is still one theme month announced: October, will be devoted to adaptive re-use of industrial buildings, to promote and present good practices of giving a new life to old industrial buildings – respecting their heritage and image. EFAITH itself will organise a series of initiatives, starting on October 4-5th EFAITH with lectures and debates…
Modernism has been described in numerous technical, architectural, and scholarly ways. It has not commonly been expressed from the inside out, as in, how it was to actually live with the main characters of that era. To understand the architects, designers, and artists of the midcentury, the following essays may elucidate the deeper as well as more mundane parts and pieces of the players. In learning about how their children experienced them, we can glean more of what was behind the sleek designs and innovative ideas. We all believe, or at least believed at the time, that our childhood was…
Cuban architect Isabel León passed away on August 4th, 2018, having left a deep trace among her many colleagues and friends. Architect León graduated in 1975 from the School of Architecture of the Havana Higher Polytechnic Institute. For several years she worked at the National Planning Institute’s central office. During that period she served for two years as advisor in Ethiopia’s physical planning organization. In Havana she developed many projects in collaboration with other colleagues. Afterwards, she became a staff member of the Non-Governmental Organization Habitat-Cuba, a position from which she promoted diverse housing developments all along the country. Between…
We invite you on September 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the opening of the exhibition “Spanish Architectures. Chronicle from Europe” in the Exhibition Hall La Arquería Nuevos Ministerios in Madrid. The exhibition will present all the works built by Spanish architecture studios and also from the rest of Europe in Spanish territory and which have been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. All these works have been highlighted by independent experts and have been analyzed and debated by international juries who have contributed to the recognition and dissemination of contemporary Spanish architecture. The exhibition will…
The Architectural Review is looking for the most exciting and innovative buildings for books. The library has been a repository of knowledge for hundreds of years, from the libraries of the Roman empire piled high with scrolls, the weighty tomes chained to the desks in Medieval monasteries through to the lofty heights of Rococo palatial libraries and more recently to Modernist greats designed by architects such as Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto and Colin St John Wilson. In this year’s edition of the AR awards, we are seeking out the best buildings for books from around the world. Regardless of budget, site or…
ArmArch, has announced that the first issue of ´ArmArch: Language of Armenian Architecture´ journal is now available online. This current issue is dedicated to the problems of regionalism in modernist architecture and aims to present the vast layer of Armenian regional modernist architecture that ArmArch has been researching. To download in English or Armenian link.
Good news! RMB Project is now on Facebook! RMB, Re-use of modernist buildings, is a ERASMUS + program project with the goal of define an educational framework of common definitions, approaches, and methodologies, on a European level, concerning the reuse of Modern Movement buildings. The project joins together the following partners: Docomomo International, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium), Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), Universidade de Lisboa – Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal), Istanbul Teknik Universitesi (Turkey), Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (Deutschland – coordinator) and The Energy and Resources Institute (India). Please, follow the RMB Project on Facebook! Thank you!