IX DOCOMOMO Ibérico Congress

The IX docomomo Ibérico Congress, organized by Fundación docomomo Ibérico, in collaboration with Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro, Delegación en Guipúzcoa del COAVN, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – UPV-EHU, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Navarra and Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural de España, was held last 16th-18th October. Ana Tostões, the Chair of docomomo International, took part of this Conference, by participating in the roundtable “Modernity, Cultural Heritage and Society”, together with Celestino Braña, Chair of Docomomo Iberia, Denis Itxaso, Diputado Foral de Cultura, DFG/GFA and Luisa Etxenike, escritora y Gestora Cultural. More details: website Download PDF

Conference: 5th International Scientific Conference “Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia”

The 5th International Conference Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia, organized by the City of Gdynia, was held last 20th-22nd October. The conference was an opportunity to review the current state of research on modernist architecture developed in 20th century as well as to discuss issues connected with preservation and conservation of the modernist architecture, including that of the inter-war period.” The Chair of docomomo International, Professor Ana Tostões, took part of this Conference, with the communication “Modernity, between domesticity and monumentality”, included in the subject “Preservation and conservation of modernist architecture – the present situation and outlooks for the future”. More…

Symposium: ICOMOS Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee and Scientific Symposium

“ICOMOS Turkey is honored to host the 2016 ICOMOS Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee Meeting & Scientific Symposium; it is a great pleasure to welcome the ICOMOS community to the meetings in Istanbul. Since its foundation in 1974, ICOMOS Turkey has grown into an active community of over 100 members. It tries to consolidate international connections and to channel information to its members. Seminars, symposia and training courses are arranged for promoting awareness. Several of our members take active roles in ICOMOS International’s scientific committees. We believe that hosting the 2016 Annual General Assembly, Advisory Committee Meeting & Scientific Symposium…

Tour: Recorridos por la Arquitectura Española del siglo XX. La obra y su autor

AEPPAS20 – Asociación Española para la Protección del Patrimonio Arquitectónico del Siglo 20, aims the promotion, protection and conservation of Spanish cultural and architectural heritage, of the 20th century. The event “Recorridos por la Arquitectura del siglo XX. La obra y su autor” [Routes through the Spanish Architecture of the XXth century. The author and their work] doesn’t want to analyse the architectural work itself, but understand how time has passed through them, how people lived there, what kind of problems have arisen from its maintenance or function change. So far, have been visited: Torre Castelar, Madrid; Instituto de Cultura…

5th October 2016, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal

The new MAAT building designed by the british architect Amanda Levete  (AL_A) will be opened to the public on 5 October, with a 12-hour programme that will include educational events, performances and music happenings, across the extended riverside campus kept by the EDP Foundation. PROGRAMME 12 pm – 12 am Semiconductor. Where Shapes Come From Projection. Video Room (new building) Nuno da Luz. C’mon Installation. Riverfront Haroon Mirza. Emerging Paradigm Installation. Main Gallery (new building) 1 pm Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Pynchon Park Exhibition opening Oval Gallery (new building) 2 pm The Form of Form – Lisbon Architecture Triennale 4th Edition Exhibition opening Yard 3 pm The World of Charles and Ray Eames…

Exhibition: Berenice Abbott – Photographs

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. She spent six decades taking pictures. The Martin-Gropius-Bau is now dedicating an exhibition featuring about 80 pictures to her. Her famous and iconic pictures from the Changing New York series, early portraits and her pioneering work as a scientific photographer will be shown. Curator: Anne Morin More details: website

IST PhD Program in Architecture: PhD Week Fall 2016

On 30th September 2016, between 09:30 and 18:30, the PhD Week Fall 2016, organized in the framework of the IST PhD Program in Architecture, will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico – Centro de Congressos DECivil e Arquitectura (Lisbon University), with the following program: Moderation Ana Tostões (Coordinator of the IST PhD Program in Architecture) Program 09:30-10:00 – Opening session 10:00-11:00 – Mediterranean Syncretism in Spanish Art and Architecture, during the first decades of the twentieth Century – António Pizza (ETSAB-UPC); 11:00-11:15 – Break; 11:15-12:15 – “Exotic, Beautiful, Oddly Modernist”. The Algarve, a Mediterranean Riddle on the Atlantic – Ricardo Agarez (KU Leuven, Department of Architecture); 12:15-13:00 – Mediterranean. Contemporary meetings – Maria Fernanda Rollo (Secretary of State of Science, Techonology…

Richard Wall House

docomomo International painfully realizes that the Richard Wall House, in Oporto (Portugal), designed by the recognized architect João Andresen, is under threat, in this moment, after has been decided to pursue with its demolition. The Richard Wall House, designed and built between 1958 and 1960, in the area of Foz do Douro (Oporto), located at Rua do Padrão nº418, represents a unique example of the architectural legacy developed in Portugal by the architect João Andresen. The house adopts “a more organic formal approach regarding the built mass adaptation to the terrain (…) and the fluid articulation of the interior spaces (…) which connect to each…

World Heritage inscription of “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier”

“On 19 September 2016 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Architectural and Heritage Centre), Paris, the representatives of seven States Parties, Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland were presented with the certificates of inscription on the List of World Heritage of the serial property “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement”. On the occasion of an event organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, the Le Corbusier Foundation and the Association Le Corbusier sites, the chief of UNESCO’s Movable Heritage and Museums…