docomomo International is pleased to announce the results of the Call for Sessions for the 14th International Docomomo Conference – Adaptive Reuse. The Modern Movement Towards the Future that will take place September 6-9, 2016, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. docomomo International had an excellent response to the Call for Sessions. Nearly excellent 100 proposals were received, making the selection extremely competitive. The Scientific Committee selected them in order to guarantee the coherence of the programme, from a thematic, geographical and chronological standpoint. SESSIONS SELECTED 1) LANDSCAPES Marginal Landscape Session Chairs: Andrew John Saniga, Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator in Landscape Architecture, docomomo ISC U+L, Australia; Jan…

DOCOMOMO International is now preparing the DOCOMOMO Virtual Exhibition, through the development of a systematic database that brings together all the registers of Modern Movement architecture that the 70 Working Parties DOCOMOMO have gathered over the past 25 years. Until June 21, the call is open. The DOCOMOMO Virtual Exhibition is intended to be a global database, not exhaustive but selective, dedicated to all the people interested in Modern mMovement architecture. The website will work as an interactive map with geo-referenced examples of Modern Movement architecture which can be identified through a picture and specific fields of information (name, architect and year of completion). DOCOMOMO International…

docomomo International collaborated with the Journal Construção Magazine in its 66th issue – ´Conservação do Património: Edifícios Modernos´ [Heritage Conservation: Modern Buildings]. Index 1. Hubert-Jan Henket 2. Património moderno: a conservação e a reutilização como um recurso sustentável Ana Tostões 3. Habitação plurifamiliar moderna no Porto: experiências de reuso Luciana Rocha 4. As instalações académicas de Coimbra, um caso de estudo. José António Bandeirinha e Susana Constantino 5. Reabilitação do património moderno, o caso do Bloco das Águas Livres Catarina Teles 6. Museu do Oriente em Lisboa João Appleton, Júlio Appleton, Rui Pombo e Nuno Travassos 7. Conservação do Património: Edifícios Modernos Arnaldo Abrantes 8. Uma reflexão sobre a prescrição…

DOCOMOMO International wishes to convey the most sincere condolences at the passing of the great architect Francisco Castro Rodrigues, to his family and friends. Francisco Castro Rodrigues was a Portuguese architect that went to work in Angola in 1953, where he was responsible for transforming Lobito into a modern city, from the urbanism scale to the urban equipment. DOCOMOMO will remember him with joy and proud. “Francisco Castro Rodrigues was born in Lisbon on 21th October 1920. Between 1940 and 1941 he attended Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. In 1942 he went to Escola Superior de Belas Artes, in Lisbon (ESBAL) and graduated in Architecture…

docomomo International and Casa da Arquitectura signed a Collaboration Protocol to join forces in promoting architecture and for the exchange of cultural, scientific and professional experiences. The Protocol was formalized on 30 April 2015, in Casa da Arquitectura, Porto, Portugal. This Protocol aims to promote the cooperation between the two institutions as a way of strengthening their professional relationship and the recognition of the importance of preserving modern heritage. The Protocol also intends to create programs, projects and collaborative actions in the fields of architecture and heritage. The Casa da Arquitectura is a non-profit institution of cultural interest, as a result of partnerships between various public and private entities, in order to promote…