Registers. Guidelines for submitting the 2017-2018 Homework

The working parties that have submitted at least 30 fiches and the information of at least 50 buildings for MOMOVE (Docomomo Virtual Exhibition – http://exhibition.docomomo.com/), can consider this part of their homework fulfilled. However, we strongly advise the inclusion of the 100 buildings in MOMOVE, and to reach 50 fiches. Below you will find the Guidelines for the 2017-2018 Homework, in order to have voting rights in the 2018 Assembly. Working Parties that already have submitted Documentation Fiches and uploaded the buildings in MOMOVE: A plan for new documentation homework has been approved in the last Council Meeting, September 6th, 2016 (Lisbon, Portugal), proposed by the ISC/Registers. With…

Article: Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre: Arquitectura de um Livro [Lisbon, Sad and Joyful City: Architecture of a Book]

In the framework of the exhibition Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre: Arquitectura de um Livro [Lisbon, Sad and Joyful City: Architecture of a Book] (12-16 September, Lisbon Museum – Pimenta Palace, Portugal), centered on the book with the same name, published in 1959 by the architects Victor Palla (1922-2006) and Costa Martins (1922-1996), the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, wrote the text “Um dia em Lisboa em forma de poema gráfico” [A day in Lisbon in the form of a graphic poem] to Portuguese Público newspaper. More info: Download PDF + docomomo

Building the modern world: Albert Kahn in Detroit

“Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael H. Hodges tells the story of the German-Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty to become one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Kahn’s buildings not only define downtown Detroit, but his early car factories for Packard Motor and Ford revolutionized the course of industry and architecture alike. Employing archival sources unavailable to previous biographers, Building the Modern World follows Kahn from his apprenticeship at age thirteen with a prominent Detroit architecture firm to his death. With material gleaned from two significant Kahn archives—the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library and…

Built Heritage journal

The Built Heritage journal published a special issue dedicated to 20th-Century Heritage: Exploring the New Futures of the Recent Past, with the participation of the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostoes. The Built Heritage (CN 31-2123/G0, ISSN 2096-3041) is a blind-peer-reviewed, international journal published quarterly, devoted to all aspects regarding the research, conservation, and regeneration of historic buildings, settlements, and sites. It is the first journal in China published in English that integrates built heritage conservation in the multidisciplinary sphere of architecture, urban and rural planning, and landscape architecture, administrated by the Ministry of Education of China, sponsored by Tongji University, and published by…

Architecture as propaganda in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes

“It is well known that architecture has the potential to support and promote ideological propaganda. In the totalitarian regimes of twentieth-century Europe, political leaders clearly understood that potential and knew how to exploit it. As a consequence, architecture prospered under totalitarian rule. When the regimes eventually collapsed, they left a rich architectural legacy, which remains today as an evident and sometimes awkward part of the urban landscape. This conference volume explores how prominent architects conveyed the dominant political programmes of totalitarian regimes through buildings, monuments and urban planning. Scholars from a range of academic backgrounds examine the significance of difficult architectural…

MOMOWO Symposium 2018 International Conference | Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Towards a New Perception and Reception

From 13 to 16 of June, the MoMoWo Symposium 2018 International Conference – Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Towards a New Perception and Reception – took place in Turin. Being Docomomo International is an institutional partner of MoMoWo, the Chair, Prof. Ana Tostões participated, presenting the lecture “Women in Power beyond Europe”. What is MoMoWo? “MoMoWo – Women’s Creativity Since the Modern Movement is a large-scale cooperation project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programmewithin the Culture sub-programme. MoMoWo is an interdisciplinary non-profit project that contributes to create European added value, as expected by Creative Europe. From a pan-european and interdisciplinary perspective,…

6th International Scientific Conference: Modernism in Europe — Modernism in Gdynia

Docomomo international participated in the 6th scientific conference in the ‘Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia, between 24 and 26 of May, having Prof. João Belo Rodeia, member of the Advisory Board of Docomomo International, opening the conference. “The 6th scientific conference in the ‘Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia’ series is a continuation of conferences held in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2016. The series is currently the most important periodic event of this kind in Poland. Main themes of the forthcoming conference are research and popularization of modernist architecture. The contents of the conference will be supervised by…

Lecture by Prof. Ana Tostoes: Urban Planning Meeting – EXPO98 – 20 Years

“Between February and June, at the CIUL auditorium, will take place another edition of the Urban Planning Conference Cycle, this year with the title “EXPO98 – 20 Years”. The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, participated in the session about Public Space, 6 p.m., 17 May 2018, at CIUL, Lisbon, Portugal. More details: website [Portuguese] + Programme [Portuguese]

Yoshiyuki Yamana: Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Docomomo International congratulates Mr. Yoshiyuki Yamana for having been distinguished by the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres! Mr. Yoshiyuki Yamana has been distinguished as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The insignia was handed by Laurent Pic, Ambassador of France to Japan, on 10th May. “The university professor and architect Yoshiyuki Yamana has, through his work and his teaching activity, greatly contributed to the influence of modern French architecture in Japan and Asia. He is also a great specialist in the work of the Japanese architect Junzo Sakakura, who designed in the 1950s and 1960s the building that today houses…

The Report of mASEANa project 2017: 4th & 5th International Conference

Docomomo International is happy to announce The Report of mASEANa project 2017: 4th & 5th International Conference “modern living in Southeast Asia”. This publication is a documentation report of the project Appreciating Asian modern: mASEANa project 2015-2020 and it was published and edited by mASEANa Project and the Japan Foundation, collaborately. The mASEANa project is promoted by Docomomo Japan and came from the coalition of docomomo International, mAAN and ICOMOS ISC20c, with the support of the Japan Foundation, and the collaboration of the Toyota Foundation, for the protection, conservation and promotion of modern heritage monuments and sites in south-east Asia. The 4th mASEANa International Conference — “modern Living in Southeast…