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The Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Interior Design (ISC/ID) and Docomomo Portugal organize the Conference "Modernist women interior designers and artists: to deepen the reading of the different expressions of female creativity." The conference will be held in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, on March 7 and 8, 2024, in celebration of the International Women's Day. On March 9, the program will include a guided tour of the MUDE in Lisbon and the Museum of Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais. In the realm of modernist interior architecture, design and art, women have made significant but often overlooked contributions. This…

The proposal to organize the 17th International Docomomo Conference in Valencia, Spain, was accepted in the email voting that occurred between 4 and 12 December 2020, organized due to the impossibility to hold a presencial Council Meeting in 2020. This approval was ratified in the 16th Docomomo Council Meeting, last August 31, 2021. The 17th International Docomomo Conference will take place in Valencia, Spain, between the 6th and the 9th September, 2022, under the theme "Modern Design: Social Commitment & Quality of Life". Theme: Modern Design: Social Commitment & Quality of Life The proposed theme was defined the way that…

The candidacy from Docomomo Japan to organize the 16th International Docomomo Conference, in Tokyo, was approved in the 15th Docomomo Council Meeting, last August 30, 2018, at Cankarjev Dom. The 16th International Docomomo Conference will take place in Tokyo between the 10th and the 14th September 2020, under the theme "Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities". Theme: Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities Today, not only in Europe, but in Japan, South America, Africa and throughout the world, the architectural cultural heritage that we call the “Modern Movement” (MoMo) has been exposed to the major force of conscious/unconscious destructions. We can…

On 11th January 2019, the IST PhD Week Winter 2019 will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, with the presentation "The reconstruction of the Construção Brasileira: Philip L. Goodwin and Brazil Builds phenomena" by Marianna Cardoso (ENSAS, Strasbourg). Program: 11h00 – 13h00 Marianna Cardoso The reconstruction of the Construção Brasileira: Philip L. Goodwin and Brazil Builds phenomena (PhD Student École Nationale Supérieur d’Architecture de Strasbourg, Strasbourg) Marianna Cardoso is an architect and Professor at the Federal University of Tocantins, Brazil. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Strasbourg, School Humanities and Social Sciences supervised by Professor Anne-Marie…

On 17th December 2018 the IST PhD Week Autumn 2018 will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, Portugal, with the opening communication of Prof. Ruth Verde Zein (Mackenzie, São Paulo), "Breuer Back & Forth: some chosen scenarios". Program: 10h00-11h00 Prof. Ruth Verde Zein Breuer Back & Forth: some chosen scenarios 11h00 – 13h00 PhD Students Presentations 15h00 – 16h00 Prof. Ruth Verde Zein Artigas 4x1961 Ruth Verde Zein Architect, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, FAU-USP, University de São Paulo, Brazil, 1977. Doctorate (2005) in Theory, History and Critique, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, PROPAR-UFRGS…