Guided visit: Van Buuren Museum & Gardens
Date: Brussels, 23rd October 2021, 10:00 am

The registrations for the Docomomo Belgium guided visit to the van Buuren House (now museum) and gardens, on Saturday 23rd October 2021 are open. Starting at 10:00, Docomomo Belgium organizes a guided visit with architect Barbara van der Wee to the interior of the van Buuren museum house. In the afternoon at 14:00 will be visited the recently restored garden with landscape architect Anne-Marie Sauvat. Built in 1928, the house of banker and arts patron David van Buuren has an exterior typical of the Amsterdam School. The interior, a tour de force of Art Deco, represents a unique ensemble brought together…

Docomomo Belgium Online Lecture V: “L’îlot et la barre: Formes de logement collectif à Vienne et Francfort”
New date: 8th June, 2021 at 8.00 pm - 9.00 pm (GMT+2)

Docomomo International would like to invite you to register in the 5th online conference that Alessandro Porotto will give on Tuesday June 8 at 8.00 pm with the title “L’îlot et la barre: Formes de logement collectif à Vienne et Francfort” [“The island and the bar: Forms of collective housing in Vienna and Frankfurt”], organized by Docomomo Belgium. The ZOOM conference is given in French. Alessandro Porotto is a postdoc researcher at the LOCI Faculty of UCLouvain. Within the Uses & Spaces research unit, he leads the European Cities: Referential Housing Type research project, dealing with the evolution of forms…

Docomomo Belgium Online Lecture IV
Date: 10th March 2021, 8-9 pm (GMT+1), online

Docomomo Belgium invites to the Online Lecture IV, via ZOOM, on Wednesday 10th March 2021 at 8 pm. The conference will be held by Guido Stegen with the title “Conservatieve chirurgie en circulariteit, guidelines voor de restauratie van La Nouvelle Maison” [Conservative surgery and circularity, guidelines for the restoration of La Nouvelle Maison]. Guido Stegen is an architect and founder of the architectural firm ARSIS and Space Syntax Brussels, active in the fields of architecture, urban planning, restoration and research. Since 2018, he no longer holds official functions (teacher, CRMS), but remains active as a guest professor in post-graduate courses…

Docomomo Belgium Conferences – Online Lecture III
Date: 28th January 2021, 8 pm (GMT+1)

Due to COVID-19 Docomomo Belgium is organizing 3 online ZOOM conferences. After the first two conferences, the III Online Lecture will be held  on 28th January 2021 by Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor with the title “The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides”. CONFERENCE III | Thursday 28th January 2021, 20:00-21:30 | online (Sébastien Charlier and Thomas Moor – The collection of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Guides) [in French]. Doctor in History, Art and Archeology, Sébastien Charlier is specialized in architecture history and scientific manager of GAR-Archives of Architecture (Faculty of Architecture, ULiège). Since 2014, he and Thomas Moor…

Gaston Eysselinck (1907-1953): In the footsteps of Le Corbusier
By Marc Dubois, published by Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2020

“The limited oeuvre of the Ghent architect Gaston Eysselinck provides some of the most compelling evidence of innovation in Belgian architecture. During his studies, he came across publications about the European Avantgarde, Russian architecture and the work of Le Corbusier. In November 1930 he took part in the CIAM Congress in Brussels and appeared in the legendary group photo along with Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. His own house, which also includes his office (1930-1931), and the Peeters house (1932), which both appeared in Alberto Sartoris’ publication in Italy in 1935, can be considered as the built manifesto…

Guidelines for submitting the 2019/2020 Homework
Chapters News

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…

Guided Tour: Convent Clarissenklooster / Visit: exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”
Guided Tour: Convent Clarissenklooster / Visit: exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”

Saturday, July 06 at 13:45 Docomomo Belgium organizes a guided tour of the Convent Clarissenklooster (Paul Felix, 1957-1965) by architect Marc Felix and Zsuzsanna Böröcz; and, at 16:30, a visit with the curator Marc Dubois to the exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”. Architect Paul Felix (Ostend, 1913-1981), important and leading figure in the Belgian architectural landscape after the Second World War, designed the Convent Clarissenklooster (protected monument since 2002) in 1957 and 1965 The convent perfectly illustrates its typical position: architecture is not an individual matter for the architect, but a combination of forces that are beyond the reach…

International Symposium Paul Coremans
15th - 17th June 2015, Jubelpark, Brussels, Belgium

A Belgian Monuments Man and his Impact on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage Worldwide “The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) organizes an international symposium in honour of its founder and first director Paul Coremans (1908-1965). Fifty years after he passed away, it is a unique opportunity to look back at his extraordinary career. The impact of his innovative ideas and vision on the conservation and restoration of works of art has been of paramount importance on both a national and international level. His views, thoughts and achievements in the field will be the focus of this international event. This…

Living in modern isms: guided tours, lectures, bike tours
4th - 25th October 2014, Brussels, Belgium

“Between 4 and 25 October 2014, the first edition of the Brussels Biennale of Modern Architecture (BBMA) organized by Korei in collaboration with Docomomo Belgium, Arkadia and Pro Velo. Entitled Living in modern isms, this edition focuses on the different ways of modern living that were built in Brussels between 1918 and 1972. A whole range of architecture, cultural heritage, craftmanship and design will be at display during the biennale. During each of the four Saturdays, there will be guided tours in English, French, Dutch and German in four private homes which open their doors for this unique event. So in all 16 hidden pearls, designed by…