Meeting with Tange Associates

Last 21st March 2017, the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, visited the Yamanashi Cultural Center (1966), Kofu City, Japan, designed by Kenzo Tange. This building is an outstanding example of rehabilitation after being undergoing earthquake retrofitting which expects to extend the building’s lifespan for another 50 years. Before the visit, Prof. Ana Tostões had a meeting in Tange Associates office with Paul Noritaka Tange (in the picture) to know more about the rehabilitation project. The visit was accompanied by:  the Executive Vice President of Tange Associates, Architect Tomohino Kimura  the President of Yamanashi Cultural Center, Eiichi Noguchi the Facility Manager of Yamanashi Cultural Center, Ken Hosaka Rehabilitation details: website…

Conference: The Fifth mASEANa International Conference

“The mASEANa project, launched in November 2015 and ending in 2020, addresses diverse issues related to the modern architecture in Southeast Asia from both the Japanese and the local perspectives with the support of DOCOMOMO Japan and the Japan Foundation. This international conference has previously been held in Tokyo (March 2013 and 2017), Hanoi (January 2017), Jakarta (January 2017), now is returning to Tokyo and will be organized in Jiyugakuen, a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As the sequel of the 4th conference held in Jakarta, specialists from Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines will be focusing around the…

IST PhD Program in Architecture: PhD Week Spring 2018

On 9th March 2018 the IST PhD Week Spring 2018 will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon, Portugal, with the communication of Prof. Marco Mulazzani (Ferrara University), “The Architect and the Arts: Luigi Moretti, Baroque and Caravaggio”. Additionally, Prof. Marco Mulazzani will give two open lectures: – 6th March – Allestimenti e Musei in Italia 1930-1970 – 8th March – Architetture a Milano 1900-1960 Marco Mulazzani Marco Mulazzani (Pesaro, 1959) is associate professor of History of Architecture at the Ferrara University. Since 1998 he is member of the editorial board of the magazine Casabella and curator, since 2009, of Almanacco…

ISC/Interior Seminar, Excursions & Workshop: Plastics in Modern Movement Interiors Conservation and (re-) Design of Synthetic Finishing, Furniture and Products

The first Docomomo ISC on Interiors (ISC/I) event – Plastic in Modern Movement Interiors Conservation and (re-)Design of Synthetic Finishing, Furniture and Products – took place between 5th and 9th March 2018 at the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium The meeting consisted in a Seminar, Excursions and Workshop, organized in collaboration with Docomomo Belgium and the Docomomo ISC on Technology (ISC/T). See the detailed programme: Download PDF + website Photographic Report: Facebook Page

Interior Design

International Conference and Workshop: Plastics in Modern Movement Interiors Conservation and (re-) Design of Synthetic Finishing, Furniture and Products “The built environment, architecture and its interiors and consumer products have gone through different periods in history which had often been dominated by specific materials and their production and construction requirements. The 20th century built environment has been widely influenced by the use of plastic – in specific in interiors and even more for our daily consumer products. Conference, excursion and workshops aim to raise the sensibility of young researchers and designers and of restoration and heritage professionals towards the use,…

Interior Design.

International Conference and Workshop: Plastics in Modern Movement Interiors Conservation and (re-) Design of Synthetic Finishing, Furniture and Products The first Docomomo ISC on Interiors (ISC/I) event – Plastic in Modern Movement Interiors Conservation and (re-)Design of Synthetic Finishing, Furniture and Products – took place between 5th and 9th March 2018 at the Faculty of Design Sciences of the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. The meeting consisted in a Seminar, Excursions and Workshop, organized in collaboration with Docomomo Belgium and the Docomomo ISC on Technology (ISC/T). See the detailed programme in the PDF attached. Photographic Report: Docomomo International Facebook Page Download PDF

Meeting with Docomomo US/Philadelphia

On the previous 24th February, the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, met Docomomo US/Philadelphia, having visited the following Louis Kahn Houses: Fred and Elaine Clever House (1957-62), Norman & Doris Fisher House (1960-67), Steven & Toby Korman House (1971-73), finalized by a reception at the Esherick House (1959-62) organised by Docomomo US/Philadelphia. Photo report: Facebook

Meeting with Docomomo US and Icomos ISC 20

Last 20th February, the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, met the Chair of Docomomo US, Theo Prudon, and the Chair of ICOMOS ISC 20, Gunny Harboe, in Chicago. Gunny Harboe, leading architect of the restoration of Chicago´s Unity Temple (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1905–1908), provided a extensive tour throught the building presenting the restoration processes undertaken.

Interviews by Docomomo International

In February, the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, led interviews to Prof. Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University, New York, USA), to Jong Soung Kimm (SAC International, Ltd., Architects Consultants, Seoul, Korea), to William Whitaker (Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and to David Brownlee (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA). The interviews will be available soon.

Call for Papers: RMB Conference 2018 – Teaching Through Design

2nd RMB Conference: Teaching Through Design: In search for interdisciplinary tools and methods for the Reuse of Modernist Buildings Call for PapersThe 2nd RMB Conference 2018 will be held in Coimbra, in the frame of the Colloquium Teaching through Design that was firstly organized by the Department of Architecture and the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in 2012.The RMB Conference is an activity of the European Erasmus Project “Reuse of Modernist Buildings – Design tools for sustainable transformations”, coordinated by Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe (Detmold, Germany), with University of Coimbra, the University of Antwerp, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical…