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…

Maija Kairamo honoured with the Docomomo Award 2016

Docomomo International awarded Maija Kairamo with the Docomomo Award 2016, for decades of commitment, hard work and intelligence in the defence and affirmation of Docomomo. The Award was given by Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International, and by Katriina Pirnes, Attaché of Culture and Communication of the Finnish Embassy in Portugal, at the closing ceremony of the 14th International Docomomo Conference, on the 9th September, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Maija Kaarina Kairamo (1935), architect SAFA, Docomomo: 1998 – Secretary General of the Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri library; 1990-99 – Lecturer in Helsinki University of Technology,…

14th International Docomomo Conference – Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony of the 14th International Docomomo Conference – “Adaptive Reuse. The Modern Movement Towards the Future ” – was held on the 9th September at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. The ceremony was hosted by Ana Tostões, Chair of Docomomo International. It counted with the honorable intervention of the portuguese Minister of Culture, Luís Filipe de Castro Mendes, the portuguese Minister of Environment, João Pedro Matos Fernandes and the President of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Fernando Medina, apart from the many Docomomo friends. Some results: Fernando Medina speech Photographic report Minister of Culture speech: pdf below Download…

Launching of Angola Cinemas – Roundtable and Cocktail

Last September 8 took place at the Goethe-Institut in Lisbon, the presentation of the photo book “Angola Cinemas”. The presentation was attended by the book´s editors, Michael Hurst and Christiane Schulte, and the photographer Walter Fernandes. This was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Ana Vaz Milheiro, with the participation of Ana Tostões, Pedro Crisóstomo and Maria Pommrenke. The photo exhibition is available in the Goethe-Institut until 15 November 2016.