Being under threat since 2016, a petition to save Villa Beer, by Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach, Vienna, Austria, 1929-1930, is open. Besides Docomomo Austria, Icomos Austria, and the Austrian Society for Architecture (Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Architektur ÖGFA), Docomomo International wishes to raise awareness for the serious endangerment of this iconic building. Under protection since 1987, the Villa Beer is one of the most important buildings of private housing from the 1920s and 1930s. Together with buildings by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, the Villa Beer stands in the European architecture´s first row. After several preservation measures this monument…
Dear Docomomo Chapters, Due to the exceptional circumstances of COVID-19, we are extending the deadline of June 1st to August 15th, 2020. A plan for new documentation homework has been approved in the last Council Meeting, August 30th, 2018 (Ljubljana, Slovenia), proposed by the ISC/Registers. With the aim of moving forward to the documentation of conservation good practices, Docomomo Working Parties (WP) have to submit: Working Parties that already have submitted 30 Documentation Fiches and uploaded 50 sites to MOMOVE: (a) 1 fiche for 2019 and 1 fiche for 2020, on an example of Good Conservation Practice. Download the template here: link, and here: link. (b) A bibliography with 5-10 publications (books or articles) on Modern Movement…