Description
Sixth International Docomomo Conference
The Modern City Facing the Future, Brasília (September 19–22, 2000), (355 p.)
Opening
Hubert-Jan Henket — Opening Lecture: The Symbiotic City by Kisho Kurokawa
Main Theme Session
Modern Movement and Urban History by Jean-Louis Cohen — Le Corbusier and Latin America: Urban Thinking / Urban Projects by Fernando Perez-Oyarzun — A Third World Modern Urbanism by Milton Santos — Latin American Cities by Silvia Arango — French Modern Cities by Philippe Panerai — Rome, the City of the Future in the Lessons of History: Typological Models and Strategies of Intervention by Maria Letizia Conforto — Paradoxes in the Conservation of Newness: The Invention of an Antipodeans ‘Civic Domain’ by Hanna Lewi — The Conception of Abuja, the New Capital City of Nigeria, as Synthesis of Planning Principles from Europe, America and Japan by Juergen Lafrenz
Brasilia Session
City and Citizenship, a Contribution to the Study of the Modern City Considered a Work of Art: Chandigarh and Brasilia by Matheus Gorowitz — Living with Brasilia: A Resident’s Perspective of the Confrontation Between Heroic Vision and Social Reality by Rosane Bauer — What Do We Really Know About Brasilia? Misleading and Prejudice in Canonical Books by Ruth Verde Zein & Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima — A Legal System for Urbanism: The Modern Movement’s Unseen Face by Sarah Feldman — Architectural and Social Modernity: The Image of Brasilia in the European Movies by Marcio Campos — Brasilia Reproduced as Backdrop by Sunil Bald
History and Theory Session
Buildings Building the City: Sao Paulo in the Fifties by Carlos Martins — Ancient and Modern Cities in the Work of Constantine Doxiadis by Panayotis Tournikiotis — Brazil in Modern Architectural Handbooks by Nelci Tinem & Lucia Borges — Matrix of Man by Hilde Heynen — About the Teaching of Theory and History of Modern Architecture: For the Dissemination of New Notions and Conceptions by Pasqualino Romano Magnavita
Housing Session
Fifty Years After the INA-Casa by Paola Di Biagi — Modern City as a Tool of Russification: Estonian Experience by Mart Kalm — The Heritage of the Grands Ensembles by Philippe Panerai — À la Recherche de la Maison Moderniste Perdue by Sonia Marques & Edja Trigueiro — Creating Historic Modern Cities by Learning From Modern Historic Cities by Paul Meurs
Public Space Session
SOS Berlin Alexander Platz: The Raising of DDR Modernism by Maria de Betania Cavalcanti-Brendle — Airport as City Square: Toronto Edmonton and Winnipeg Airports, 1964 by Bernard Flaman — In Search of the Sublime Villanueva and the Central University Campus in Caracas by Silvia Hernandez de Lasala — Clone City: Modernism, Landscape and the Crisis of the European Conurbation by Miles Glendinning — Rethinking the Core of the City: Beyond the Functionalism in the Hiroshima Place Center by Kenzo Tange by Kenji Watanabe & Yoshiyuki Yamana — Public Spaces by Burle Marx by Guilherme Mazza-Dourado — The ‘Ville Verte:’ Rethinking City Landscape by Franco Panzini
Urban Conservation Session
Urban Conservation Session Report by Paul Meurs — The Modern Movement City Planning in the Russian Provinces by Jan Molena & Ivan Nevzgodine — Contextualism and Rupture: Modernism in the Postwar Reconstruction of Lübeck by Klaus Brandle — Large Scale Interventions in Boston’s Back Bay (1950–Present): A Self-correcting Modernist Urbanism by David Fixler & Hélène Lipstadt — Brussels Skyscrapers: Problems of Identity, Destroying in the Name of Protection by Sarah Moutury
Register Session
Coming of Age: Scottish New Towns in the 21st Century by David Whitham — The Social Housing in the 1920s: The Garden City Concept by Jean-Marc Basyn & Luc Verpoest — X-Ray the City! Ernest Fooks, Modern Planner in the New World by Catherine Townsend — Modern Shops and Modern Shapes: Registration vs. Regeneration by Marieke Kuipers
Technology Session
Power Architecture in Modern New Zealand by Andrew Stuart Leach — Essential War Material, Modernism Harbinger: Unseasoned Hardwood and its Implications for the Postwar Australian City by Philip Goad — Brazilian Modern Architecture: Climatic Adaptation Principles by Griselda Pinheiro Klüppel — Transitions in Modernist Factory Planning in Saõ Paulo 1945–55: The Influence of British and North-American Design Ideas by Philip Gunn
Closing Lectures
Reconsidering Chandigarh: The Question of Preservation and Intervention in the Sector 17 Central Chowk by Jagdish Sagar — Brasilia Facing the Future by Paulo Zimbres — The Modern City Facing the Future by Allen Cunningham — The Reception of Modern Architecture by Fabienne Chevallier
