Open Sources from the Docomomo Journal

This section proposes a selection of free articles to download which the editors thought pertinent to illustrate the variety of research in conservation and documentation of the architecture of the modern movement published in the Docomomo Journal.

Please make sure to give full credit to their authors and to the Docomomo Journal when using them.

Australia
Susan MacDonald, "Conserving the Modern in Australia: A Pragmatic Approach", Docomomo Journal 29, September 2003, 69–75.
Canada
Marc Grignon & Richard Beaudry, “The Campus of the Laval University in Quebec: From Beaux-Arts to Modernism”, Docomomo Journal 29, September 2003, 1–4.
Cyprus
Stefanos Fereos & Petros Phokaides, “Modern Architecture in Cyprus Between the 1930s and 1970s: The Search for Modern Heritage”, Docomomo Journal 35, September 2006, 15–19
France
Najate Abouli & Stéphane Védrenne, “The Garden City of La Butte-Rouge in Châtenay-Malabry”, Docomomo Journal 30, March 2004, 58–59.
Giulia Marino, “The CAF Building in Paris: Full Stop, New Paragraph”, Docomomo Journal 37, September 2007, 79–83.
Research Group for History of Contemporary Housing, “Les Courtillières: Ordinary Housing Project, Extraordinary History?”, Docomomo Journal 39, September 2008, 12–17.
Tiziano Aglieri Rinella, “Le Corbusier's La Roche-Jeanneret Houses: Issues of Restoration”, Docomomo Journal 39, September 2008, 79–87.
Guy Lambert & Franz Graf, “The Sheds of the Voirin-Marinoni Factory in Montataire”, Docomomo Journal 31, September 2006, 117-125.
Germany
James Lewis, “Windows Fixing at the Bauhaus”, Docomomo Journal 28, March 2003, 83–93.
Greece
Elisabeth Károly, “Refurbishment or Demolition? The Fate of a 1930s Housing Complex in Athens Remains Pending”, Docomomo Journal 37, September 2007, 64–67.
Irak
Mina Marefat, “Mise au Point for Le Corbusier’s Baghdad Stadium”, Docomomo Journal 41, September 2009, 30–40.
Israel
Catherine Weill-Rochant, “The Tel Aviv School: A Constrained Rationalism”, Docomomo Journal 40, March 2009, 95–69.
Jérémie Hoffmann, “‘Three Animals:’ Karmi, Rechter and Sharon, Among the Founding Fathers of Modern Israeli Architecture”, Docomomo Journal 40, March 2009, 70–75.
Keren Metrany & Irit Amit-Cohen, “The Heritage of Modern Movement in Tel Aviv: Spatial Distribution vs. Public Consciousness”, Docomomo Journal 40, March 2009, 83–88.
Japan
Hiroyasu Fujioka, “The Chiyoda Life Insurance Company Headquarters in Tokyo: An Example of a Famous Postwar Complex Surviving With a New Role and Function”, Docomomo Journal 29, September 2003, 36–37.
The Netherlands
Vincent van Rossem, “The Van Eesteren Museum: A Protected Fragment of Amsterdam’s Geuzenveld-Slotermeer Postwar District”, Docomomo Journal 39, September 2008, 54–58.
Russia
Maija Kairamo, “The Restoration of Vipurii Library”, Docomomo Journal 29, September 2003, 93–99
Ivan Nevzgodin, “A Genesis of Socialist Towns in Siberia”, Docomomo Journal 31, September 2004, 37–40.
Riccardo Forte, “The Pravda Building in Moscow”, Docomomo Journal 37, September 2007, 47–52.
Switzerland
Bernard Furrer, “The Swiss National Library in Bern: An Excellent Restoration”, Docomomo Journal 28, March 2003, p.26–27.
UK
Diane M. Watters & Jessica Taylor, “The Cumbernault New Town Research and Inventory Project, 2006–09”, Docomomo Journal 39, September 2008, 40–43
Rose Gilroy, John Pendlebury & Tim Townshend, “Making Better Places Through Heritage Designation? The Byker Estate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne”, Docomomo Journal 39, September 2008, 59–63.
USA
Tom Vanderbilt, “This Was Only a Test: The Experimental Landscapes of Cold War Modernism”, Docomomo Journal 31, September 2004, 48–52.
M. Jeffrey Hardwick, “Creative Destruction: Victor Gruen and the Shopping Mall’s Past and Future”, Docomomo Journal 31, September 2004, 53–58.
Betty J. Blum, “Natalie de Blois and the Connecticut General Life Insurance Building”, Docomomo Journal 31, September 2004, 60–64.
Susan G. Solomon, “A Conversation About the Trenton Bath House with Anne Griswold Tyng”, Docomomo Journal 31, September 2004, 101–106.
Angel Ayón, “The Guggenheim at Fifty: Notes on Recent Preservation Work”, Docomomo Journal 41, September 2009, 73–79.

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