In the framework of the RMB project – “Reuse of Modernist Buildings – Design Tools for Sustainable Transformations”, financed by ERASMUS+ Programme 2016, the workshop “An experimental development of new residential and working Environments and typologies in Large-scale Housing project of the post-war era in Marl” took place in Marl, Germany, between 28th August and 1st September 2017. Students and professors from the RMB project partners got together to develop proposals for the future of the Office Tower (Buturm) and Large Housing Project (Hüls), in Marl. The goal was to put under discussion how to transform existing large-scale housing buildings…

The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões presented the lecture “How to reuse Modern Architecture” in PROHITECH´17, the 3rd International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions, that took place in Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal, between 12th and 15th July 2017. The themes of the conference were related to the protection of historical constructions and the topics range from structural and earthquake engineering, intervention strategies, materials and technologies, architecture and urban planning, represented by a showcase of diversified case studies covering different construction materials. A novel set of topics was also addressed, such as sustainability, energy efficiency, re-use and adaptation to climate…

Docomomo Photo Prize #docomomophotoprize  #summer2017 #modernlandscapes CALL  Docomomo Photo Prize is an international photograph competition promoted by Docomomo International that will take place every season according to a specific theme, through Instagram.  DoCoMoMo International is a non-profit organization dedicated to the Documentation and Conservation (DoCo) of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement (MoMo), which aims to: · Bring the significance of the architecture of the MoMo to the attention of the public, the authorities, the professionals and the educational community.  · Identify and promote the surveying of the works of the MoMo.  · Promote the conservation and (re)use of buildings and sites of…

The exhibition Octávio Lixa Filgueiras: Habitat da modernidade [Habitat of Modernity], commissioned by the professors Gonçalo Canto Moniz and Nelson Mota, will take place between 18th April and 18th June 2017, at the Casa-Atelier José Marques da Silva (FIMS – Fundação Instituto Arquitecto José Marques da Silva). This initiative is part of the program developed to symbolize the donation of the Octávio Lixa Filgueiras archive to FIMS, and has the support of: FAUP (Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto); Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra; EAUM (School of Architecture of the University of…

Docomomo International is glad to inform that Docomomo members have now 5% discount in BACU publications and specias fares at cultural activities, in Bucharest, Romania. BACU is an organization that focuses on the conservation and rehabilitation of the urban and cultural landscape. They concentrate their activity on the protection, rehabilitation, and conservation of the built heritage of the socialist period, by constantly monitoring the maintenance, protection and conservation of the architectural patrimony of Central Europe (Germany, Poland, Hungary, The Czech Republic, etc.) and Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, etc.). More details: website The Project Socialism Modernism: website

Docomomo International is happy to announce that Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur, and Patricio del Real have been awarded with the Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Awards by the Society of Architectural Historians with the book Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 (The Museum of Modern Art, 2015) on the last 8th June 2017. “SAH presented the awards at its 70th Annual International Conference Awards Ceremony, at the University of Strathclyde´s Barony Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. Each year, SAH presents publication awards honoring excellence in architectural history, urban history, landscape history and historic preservation scholarship as well as architectural exhibition catalogues.” Other winners: Alice Davis Hitchcock…