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14th Docomomo Brazil Seminar
Dates: 27th - 29th October 2021, online

The registrations for the 14º Seminário Docomomo BR – Belém [14th Docomomo Brazil Seminar] are now open until 27th October 2021 at: https://www.even3.com.br/docomomobr14/.Under the theme “O MODERNO EM MOVIMENTO: USOS, REUSOS, NOVAS CARTOGRAFIAS. Presente e futuro do legado da arquitetura moderna no Brasil” [THE MODERN IN MOVEMENT: USES, REUSE, NEW CARTOGRAPHIES. Present and future of the legacy of modern architecture in Brazil] the event will be hosted in Belém and take place online from 27th to 29th October 2021 “The transformations that the planet is currently undergoing, all over the world and all their manifestations of life and habitats, including…

Sign the petition: Save Palácio Capanema!
By Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Jorge Moreira, Carlos Leão and Ernani Vasconcellos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1945

Docomomo International became aware by Docomomo Brazil, about the alarming situation of the Palácio Capanema, which can enter the list of properties that will be sold by the federal government on August 27th. The building is a landmark of modern Brazilian architecture and has the signature of the most important Brazilian architects of all times. The President of Docomomo Brazil, Renato da Gama-Rosa Costa, shared a petition to save the Palácio Capanema, which states: “Via the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, the Bolsonaro Government wants to privatize a group of properties belonging to the Union….

Save Hospital Octávio Mangabeira!
Former Santa Terezinha Hospital Sanatorium, Bahia, Brazil, 1937-1942.

Docomomo International became aware by Docomomo Brazil that Hospital Octávio Mangabeira (HEOM) is in high danger of being lost, due to the remodeling project proposed by the Secretaria de Saúde do Estado da Bahia [Bahia State Secretary of Health, SESAB]), that leads to irreversibly damage of cultural value elements of this health heritage site developed in Bahia at the beginning of the 1940s: the former Santa Terezinha Hospital Sanatorium, an icon of the Bahian antituberculosis architecture, and one of the major projects responsible for the consolidation of Modern Architecture in the State. “The former Santa Terezinha Hospital, now HEOM, began construction…

Call for Papers: 14th Seminar Docomomo Brazil
New deadline: 20th June 2021

Docomomo Brazil is holding its 14th Seminar, from 27th to 29th October at the Federal University of Pará, Belém, with the theme O MODERNO EM MOVIMENTO: USOS, REUSOS, NOVAS CARTOGRAFIAS. Presente e futuro do legado da arquitetura moderna no Brasil [THE MODERN IN MOVEMENT: USES, REUSE, NEW CARTOGRAPHIES. Present and future of the legacy of modern architecture in Brazil]. The Seminar proposes 4 topics: 1. Modern architecture, culture and nature. 2. Document. To preserve. Conserve. Modern heritage and its uses and reuses. 3. New cartographies and chronologies of modern architecture and urbanism in Brazil. 4. Modern spaces and the new technical,…

Flávio Villaça (1929-2021)
Flávio Villaça passed away on the 29th March, 2021

Docomomo International was informed by Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus that the architect, urban planner and professor Flávio Villaça died at the age of 91, on the 29th March, 2021. Docomomo International wishes to convey the most sincere condolences at the passing of this great architect to his family and friends. Flávio Villaça was a fundamental reference to the analysis of the production of urban spaces, he leaves an immeasurable legacy, in his performance as a professor at FAU USP, at the Municipal Planning Secretariat of São Paulo and as a consultant in urban planning in several public agencies. Flávio Villaça…

14th Seminar Docomomo Brazil
27th - 29th October 2021, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil

7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar
Date: 9-14 November 2020, Online Videos

Between 9th and 14th November 2020 docomomo Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus and the stricto sensu Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the São Judas Tadeu University held the 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar. To review the conferences, please visit the Youtube page . More details: Docomomo Brazil webpage [Portuguese] Docomomo International News “The 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar provides for lectures, debates and presentation of communications on matters of relevance for the safeguarding of the cultural heritage of the modern movement in Brazil. Unlike the previous ones, in its digital version, the famous MomoTour cannot take place, which this time will be…

Call for Articles: docomomo Brasil magazine – issue 6 and 7
Deadline: 14 September 2020

The magazine Docomomo Brasil (ISSN 2594-8601) invites researchers, students and professionals in the field of Architecture and Urbanism to send articles for its issues 6 and 7. The topic is free and the journal aims to disseminate research, documents, projects and bibliographic reviews in the area of documentation and preservation of the various manifestations of the Modern Movement. Articles may be submitted to the sections that make up the main body of the journal. In the Project section, it is intended to disseminate and discuss practical experiences in restoring buildings, sites and neighborhood units and other artistic expressions of the…

7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar
Date: 9-14 November 2020

The Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus and the stricto sensu Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the São Judas Tadeu University invite you to participate in the 7th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar. This event will continue the activities of seminars developed by the Docomomo São Paulo Nucleus, resumed in 2017, when the 5th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar was held in the capital, organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (FAU- UPM). That seminar was followed, in 2018, by the 6th Docomomo São Paulo Seminar, promoted jointly with the Institute of Architecture and…

In defense of the Brazilian National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN)
12th May 2020

Docomomo Brazil shared with Docomomo International the letter concerning the future of the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN). “The FORUM OF ENTITIES IN DEFENSE OF THE BRAZILIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE, comprising several social entities that gather professionals and researchers from different areas engaged in preserving cultural heritage, together with IPHAN Council Members Representatives of the Civil Society, and IPHAN former Presidents, expresses its concern with the Brazilian Government’s actions on the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN). Since 2016 and, more critically, after the beginning of the current Brazilian government, in 2019, Brazil underwent a period of many…