New Partner Institution: BACU Association

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

Urbanism+Landscape

Conference: Military Landscapes. Future for Military Heritage “An international overview event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the decommissioning of Italian fortresses: The 150th anniversary of the decommissioning of Italian military strongholds forms an appropriate occasion for reflection on the significance and the future of military landscapes. This international conference, organized by the University of Cagliari (DICAAR), the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism (Polo Museale of Sardinia), the Istituto Italiano dei Castelli and the University of Edinburgh (ESALA), aims to share case studies, interdisciplinary scientific research initiatives and institutional programmes concerning military landscapes with particular focus on their possible…

Interview: The Chair of Docomomo International was interviewed by the I-House Quarterly

The Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, was interviewed by the Japanese newsletter “I-House Quarterly” last 14th March, at the International House of Japan (by Kunio Maekawa, Junzo Sakakura, Junzo Yoshimura, gardens by Ogawa Jihei, Tokyo, 1955). The full interview is now available online! Interview: website Photo: The Chair of Docomomo Japan, Hiroshi Matsukuma, and the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões.

2017 SAH Publication Awards: Winners

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…

Urbanism+Landscape and Docomomo Israel

Research Lecture: The Role of Housing Research in Design, Preservation and Urban Regeneration “Docomomo members have been kindly invited to a joint research seminar of the University of Edinburgh on the the role of housing research in design, preservation and urban regeneration”. Taking advantage of their visit to Scotland for the SAH Glasgow conference, Dr. Yael Allweil (Co-chair of Docomomo Israel) of the Technion Institute of Technology (Haifa) and Dr. Inbal Ben Asher Gitler (Co-chair of Docomomo Israel) of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, will discuss the many-layered and controversial subject of postwar modernist housing and planning in Israel, including…

Call for Papers: 15th International Docomomo Conference – Metamorphosis. The Continuity of Change

15th International Docomomo Conference Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28-31 August 2018 http://docomomo2018.si THEME Metamorphosis. The Continuity of Change VENUE: Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia ORGANIZED by: docomomo International and docomomo Slovenia LANGUAGE: English SCHEDULE Call for Papers . 2 June – 1 September 2017 – Call for Papers . 8 November 2017 – Notification of Acceptance . 30 January 2018 – Full paper submission deadline (1st version). . 28 February 2018 – Deadline for session chairs to return papers with comments to authors, with suggested revisions. . 30 March 2018 – Full paper submission deadline (final version). . 20-28 August 2018 – Workshop . 28-31 August 2018 – Conference . 26-27 August; 1-3 September 2018 – Docotours ABOUT Every two…

ISC/Registers

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…

Registers. Guidelines for submitting the 2015-2016 Homework

The working parties that have submitted at least (a) 30 fiches and the information of at least (b) 50 buildings for MOMOVE (Docomomo Virtual Exhibition http://exhibition.docomomo.com), can consider this part of their homework fulfilled. However, ISC/Registers strongly advise the inclusion of the 100 buildings in MOMOVE, and to reach 50 fiches. In this case, the Homework consists of a (c) Commitment Report, where it must be included the list of the WP activities during these two years, pertaining the documentation of the Modern Movement. The report can consist of publications (books, magazines or bulletins), internet sites, visits, seminars, lectures, etc… In order a WP complete the Homework for 2015-2016, the missing information must be…

Awards Ceremony: Archiprix Portugal 2017

The Archiprix Portugal 2017 Awards Ceremony will take place next Saturday, 27th May 2017 (6:00pm) at the Lisbon Architecture Triennial headquarters, where the winner of this edition will be announced. Being one of the institutional partners of the Archiprix Portugal 2017, Docomomo International supported the development of this initiative. “The Archiprix Portugal Prize was instituted in 2012, by the Serra Henriques Foundation (Lisbon) and the Archiprix Foundation (Rotterdam), involving the Portuguese Association of Architects and the Portuguese architecture schools. Archiprix is internationally referenced as one of the most prestigious academic architecture awards, annually distinguishing the best Master’s Thesis projects presented in the fields of Architecture,…

The Chair of Docomomo International on TSF

On the last 27th May 2017, the Chair of Docomomo International, Prof. Ana Tostões, participated in the TSF Portuguese radio program Encontros com o Património [Meetings with Heritage], in the framework of the exhibition Victor Palla e Pedro Bento d´Almeida: Arquitectura de Outro Tempo [Architecture of Another Time]. Victor Palla (1922-2006) and Pedro Bento d´Almeida (1918-1997) were Portuguese modern architects that worked together for 25 years (1947-1973), producing more than 700 projects, in Portugal. “They were responsible for the modernization of countless commercial establishments, factories, primary schools, permanent housing (single-family housing and multi-family housing) and temporary housing (tourist hotels and holiday villages), extending the activity to the areas of design and the arts.”(1)…