“The 14th International Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) will take place between July 25 and July 28, 2018 at PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference program will include academic panels, invited speakers, plenary sessions, and cultural activities.” The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, will participate with the lecture “A reverberação da arquitetura moderna brasileira na África, a modernidade como processo transcontinental e a presença Brasil na modernidade africana: transferências ibero-americanas”. More details: website

“Commissioned by Rita Palla Aragão, this exhibition brings an in-depth look at the most important photography book of the 20th century in Portugal. The work, by the duo of architects Victor Palla (1922-2006) and Costa Martins (1922-1996), was published in 1959 and resulted from a three-year work in which both walked the streets of Lisbon, portraying it and to its inhabitants, thus revealing a hidden city, simultaneously sad and joyful. Of the six thousand photographs taken, the authors chose about two hundred to integrate the book, to which they added a long and singular index (which explains much of the creative…