Guidelines for submitting the 2019/2020 Homework

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…

News from Docomomo Brazil

Docomomo Brazil is glad to inform that on the 10th October of 2019, during the Ordinary General Assembly held during the 13th Docomomo Brazil Seminar, it was unanimously acclaimed to renew Docomomo Brasil in the 2020-2021 biennium the group thus constituted: Renato da Gama-Rosa Costa, Coordinator, Andrea de Lacerda Pessôa Borde, Vice Coordinator, Lúcia Siqueira de Queiroz Varella, Treasurer, Andrea da Rosa Sampaio and Helio Herbst, Fiscal Advisors. The renewal of the team was welcomed by all the board members and endorsed by the significant increase in the number of members in the full international category in 2020, a fact…

8th Docomomo Brazil – North / Northeast Seminar

The 8th Docomomo Brazil – North / Northeast Seminar will be held in Palmas, Brazil, from May 4th to May 7th, 2020. The event is organized by the AMA Center – NAMA, Federal University of Tocantins – UFT, Lutheran Palms University Center – CEULP / ULBRA and Federal University of Uberlândia. The seminar program will include conferences, debates, round tables, publications’ launch and MOMO tours with visits to the iconic works of modern architecture in Tocantins. This year’s theme is Cultural Transfers, Historiography, Interventions and Modern City. The President of Docomomo International, Professor Ana Tostões, will be a keynote speaker,…

XIII Seminar Docomomo Brazil “Brazilian Modern Architecture. 25 years of Docomomo Brazil. Every world into one”

13th Docomomo_Brazil Seminar Docomomo Brazil is holding their 13th Seminar, from 7th to 10th October at the the UFBA Faculty of Architecture in Salvador with the theme “Brazilian Modern Architecture. 25 years of Docomomo Brazil. All worlds into one”. According to the words of Jose Carlos Huapaya Espinoza, the General Coordinator of the 13th Docomomo Brazil Seminar: “The 13th Docomomo_Brazil Seminar, from October 7 to 10, 2019, has two meanings: first, it included the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the first seminar in June 1995; second, because, in this celebration, the event returns to the same place where it…

Docomomo Brazil is happy to anounce the Docomomo Brazil Magazine

“The number 01 arrives in the hands of the reader in the year of commemoration of the 25 years of founding of the Docomomo Brazil. The 25-year period may give a false impression of backwardness, but it reflects the perhaps necessary maturation period for the consolidation of Docomomo Brazil and its recognition as promoter of documentation actions and conservation of the diverse expressions of the modern movement in the national territory and in the diverse actions undertaken by Docomomo International.” To submit articles: link More details: website [Portuguese]

5th Seminar Docomomo Brazil SP

“The V Seminar DOCOMOMO SP 2017 considers the modern patrimony of São Paulo as a peculiar manifestation in the context of Brazilian and international cultural movements with which it has established significant ties, crossing geographical and temporal borders to gain contemporary recognition. The modern architecture of São Paulo and its protagonists – architects who designed and built these buildings – have been attracting the interest of researchers from all over the world. Therefore, although regional in the theme, the V Seminar DOCOMOMO SP 2017 defines itself as international in the scope of the contents that it proposes to examine and…