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  • Highlights from 18th IDC in Chile

    Highlights from 18th IDC in Chile

    Highlights from the 18th International DOCOMOMO Conference The 18th International DOCOMOMO Conference is now officially over, and we think back fondly to the inspiring weeks of the Student Workshop and the Conference itself. We are immensely grateful to the the hosting Chapter – DOCOMOMO Chile, host institution – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the……

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  • Opening of the 18th IDC in Santiago

    Opening of the 18th IDC in Santiago

    Opening ceremony of the 18th International DOCOMOMO Conference in Santiago The opening ceremony of the 18th International DOCOMOMO Conference “Modern Futures: Sustainable Development and Cultural Diversity” took place on the evening of 10 December at the Casa Central of the Universidad Catolica. Among the distinguished guests were the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design……

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  • Meeting in Santiago

    ISC/Publications meeting at 18th IDC As an informal kick-off of the International DOCOMOMO Conferences, every time the meetings of the International Specialist Committees are planned on the day preceding the 1st day of the conference. During the ISC/Publications meeting all chairs, vice-chairs and co-chairs of the other committees gathered, reflecting on the DOCOMOMO International publications……

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  • ETOM Neb-Lab Conference “Modern Housing postwar”

    ETOM Neb-Lab Conference “Modern Housing postwar”

    Modern Housing postwar – Cities of Tomorrow? 14–15 Oct 2024International Conference in Halle (Saale) More information and registration: https://triennale-der-moderne.de/2022/60-years-halle-neustadt/ An European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM) NEB milestone project carried out as an “ETOM NEB-Lab” conference, within the framework of the “New  European Bauhaus”, in the context of Central Europe, with a special focus on the……

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  • Announcement to Docomomo Chapters

    Announcement to Docomomo Chapters

    Dear Docomomo friends and colleagues, Docomomo International would like to kindly remind all Chapters that they are invited to contribute with fiches to our 2024 Homework, which will result in the new book on Modernism. Fulfilling the Docomomo Homework, and having a minimum number of registered members gives the Chapters a voting right at the Docomomo Council Meeting,……

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  • Open Issue of DOCOMOMO Journal

    Open Issue of DOCOMOMO Journal

    DOCOMOMO Journal no. 71 2024/02 Early July, 2024, the first open issue of DOCOMOMO Journal (no. 71, 2024/2) was pubished! When DOCOMOMO International moved to Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft in 2022 it was our ambition to start a yearly open issue next to the thematic issues of DOCOMOMO Journal. We……

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  • ETOM NEB Lab – Activating Trans-European Modernism

    ETOM NEB Lab – Activating Trans-European Modernism

    Activating Trans-European ModernismThe ETOM NEB-Lab for the New European Bauhaus and the ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism The collaborative trans-European dimension of Modernism engenders particularly three huge potentials –especially exploring the developments beyond East and West dichotomies: first, a scope of incredibly rich and diverse modern cultural heritage, second the vital realm and diversity……

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  • Final Call to Nominate a Site to the 2025 World Monuments Watch

    Final Call to Nominate a Site to the 2025 World Monuments Watch

    Final Call to Nominate a Site to the 2025 World Monuments Watch The deadline to submit a nomination to the 2025 World Monuments Watch is approaching on March 15.   World Monuments Fund (WMF) invites nominations for heritage places facing urgent challenges. Every two years, the Watch selects 25 places that tell a local story with……

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  • Final Call for Registration – Modernist Woman Interior Designers and Artists Conference

    Final Call for Registration – Modernist Woman Interior Designers and Artists Conference

    Final Call for Registration (26 Feb!) – Modernist Woman Interior Designers and Artists Conference (Lisboa, 7-8 March) Final countdown! Don’t miss the chance to attend the conference “Modernist Woman Interior Designers and Artists” in Lisbon on March 7-8, featuring two days of keynote lectures and paper sessions, plus an exclusive tour day on March 9.……

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  • The House on the Stream (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1942)

    The House on the Stream (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1942)

    The House on the Stream (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1942) was awarded 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize The masterpiece by Amancio Williams and Delfina Galvez has been cared for and recognized by DOCOMOMO since its inclusion in the first international registers in 1996, published and edited by Dennis Sharp and Catherine Cook: “The Modern……

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  • Docomomo ISC/ID + Docomomo Portugal Conference “Modernist women interior designers and artists”

    Docomomo ISC/ID + Docomomo Portugal Conference “Modernist women interior designers and artists”

    Registrations are now open: Docomomo ISC/ID + Docomomo Portugal Conference “Modernist women interior designers and artists” Registrations are now open for the International Conference organized by Docomomo ISC/ID and Docomomo Portugal on “Modernist women interior designers and artists: to deepen the reading of the different expressions of female creativity”. The event will take place on……

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  • Women in Architecture

    Women in Architecture

    Research Database “Women in Architecture” in Czech Republic Docomomo International is happy to announce the newly launched database and website “Women in Architecture“, which was made possible with support from the Czech Science Foundation and conducted in collaboration between the National Gallery in Prague (NGP) and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.……

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  • Global Bauhaus: Campus-Heritage-Climate

    Global Bauhaus: Campus-Heritage-Climate

    Global Bauhaus: Campus-Heritage-Climate The International Heritage Centre at the Bauhaus University Weimar recently hosted a symposium entitled “Global Bauhaus: Campus-Heritage-Climate”, which focused on 20th-century university buildings and campuses that are closely linked to the concepts of Neues Bauen. A major case study was the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, with several presentations and a film screening……

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  • CONCRETO Academy

    CONCRETO Academy

    Docomomo International teams up in CONCRETO Docomomo International teams up in CONCRETO! CONCRETO is an Alliance for Education and Enterprises within the Erasmus+ Programme. A 36-month project bringing together 13 partners from 5 EU countries to promote the GREEN REHABILITATION of EUROPEAN CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE. The CONCRETO Partners recognise the LACK of specialist skills available and……

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  • Tropical Modernism – How did this architecture reach the equator?

    Tropical Modernism – How did this architecture reach the equator?

    Photo exhibition by Jean Molitor Tropical Modernism – How did this architecture reach the equator? The photo exhibition by photographer Jean Molitor provides an insight on how a broad stylistic, avant-garde architectural approach conquered the world. The art historian Andreas Butter was invited to the opening. Here are a few thoughts from his introduction. Münzenberg……

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  • Call for Abstracts: ICSA 2025 ‘Repurposing the past: unpacking material properties’

    Call for Abstracts: ICSA 2025 ‘Repurposing the past: unpacking material properties’ On 8-11 July 2025, the next ICSA Conference will be held in Antwerp, calling for “reimagination of current practices intersecting structures and architecture in response to the pressing global environmental, social and economic crisis”. As part of this international conference, a special session on reuse practices from the……

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  • Docomomo Journal 2023

    Docomomo Journal 2023

    DJ 2023: Most viewed articles of the year Lico Rising from of the Ashes: post-war Philippines Architecture Maeda et al. The real reason why Nakagin Capsule Tower was never metabolized Ligtelijn Aldo van Eyck and the Amsterdam playgrounds Sopandi The Nature of Tropical Architecture in Indonesian Modernism Normandin Charles and Ray Eames: Modern Living in a Postwar Era Sopandi et……

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  • The 2025 World Monuments Watch

    The 2025 World Monuments Watch

    The 2025 World Monuments Watch Docomomo International would like to bring your attention to the 2025 World Monuments Watch. “The 2025 World Monuments Watch is now accepting nominations.  World Monuments Fund (WMF) invites nominations for heritage places facing urgent challenges. Every two years, the Watch selects 25 places that tell a local story with global……

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  • Statement on Cultural Heritage Losses in Sudan by SAH

    Statement on Cultural Heritage Losses in Sudan by SAH

    Statement on Cultural Heritage Losses in Sudan by SAH Docomomo International has been made aware through Docomomo Sudan of the statement issued by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) regarding the cultural heritage losses in Sudan. The statement can be accessed through this link. The Sudanese Kuwaiti Center building, depicted above, has also suffered destruction. Photo courtesy……

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  • BOOK LAUNCH: Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

    BOOK LAUNCH: Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

    Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century You are invited to the book launch event of Dr. Ing. Marianna Charitonidou’s book Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices: Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century that will take place at the Goethe-Institut Amphitheater in Athens on Monday 22 January 2024, at 18:00.……

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  • Docomemos Bulletin 2023

    Docomemos Bulletin 2023

    Docomemos Bulletin 2023 The fourth edition of the DOCOMEMOS 2023 Bulletin (October-December) is now available. The bulletin and previous publications can be viewed and downloaded through Docomomo Brasil’s website.

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  • DOCONF2023 Proceedings

    DOCONF2023 Proceedings

    DOCONF2023 Proceedings have been published. The bi-annual DOCONF series, organised by the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture, Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the Foundation for Urban Design, Budapest, provides a comparative overview of current doctoral research in architecture, urban design, urban planning, and landscape architecture focusing on the urban challenges related……

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  • ONLINE LECTURES: Winter Wednesdays ’23-’24

    ONLINE LECTURES: Winter Wednesdays ’23-’24

    Invitation for Docomomo Belgium’s first online lecture of the new series of Winter Wednesday’s Lectures which will take place on 15/11 20h. Please, register through this link: https://docomomo.be/onlinelectures23-24/ Marc Pimlott (TU Delft) will talk about ‘Landscape, territory, interior and its ideological gesture’. The lecture concerns the transformation of landscape through ideological gesture, to territory, and……

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  • Convergences and Divergences

    Modernism Beyond East and West International conference (16-18 November 2023) with partners from different parts of Europe critically rethinking and analyzing the history of European modern architecture with reference to Central and Eastern Europe. Organized by the Pilecki-Institute in cooperation with the initiative for a “European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM)“. More information here.

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  • Architects’ Journeys #1: Stanislas Jasinski

    Architects’ Journeys #1: Stanislas Jasinski

    Architects’ Journeys #1: Stanislas Jasinski Authors: Véronique Boone (vice chair Docomomo Belgium), Maurizio Cohen, Benoît MoritzPublisher: Mercatorfonds Brussels (2023) Architects’ Journeys is a collection of monographs on architects who left their mark on the built landscape of Brussels after the First World War. The collection focuses on the output of architects whose work is less well known,……

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  • OPEN CALL | Landscapes of Care

    OPEN CALL | Landscapes of Care

    OPEN CALL | Landscapes of Care Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices Sophia Journal is currently accepting submissions for its third thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care” focused on “Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices”. Editors: Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM)Guest Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald……

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  • 2026 International Docomomo Conference

    2026 International Docomomo Conference

    The 19th International Docomomo Conference Announcement DOCOMOMO International is pleased to announce that the 19th International DOCOMOMO Conference to be organized in 2026 has been granted to DOCOMOMO US and the US/ California Chapter, based on and following the unanimous recommendation of the DOCOMOMO Advisory Board. During the 2022 Conference in Valencia, it was stated……

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  • Extended deadline – 2024 IDC Sessions

    Extended deadline – 2024 IDC Sessions

    Extended deadline for International Docomomo Conference 2024 Call for Sessions Please note the extended deadline for the Call for Sessions for the International Docomomo Conference 2024 until 30 September 2023. More information can be found in here, as well as on the Conference website: https://docomomoconference2024.com/calls-sessions/

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  • Getty Conservation Guest Scholars

    Getty Conservation Guest Scholars Deadline – 2 October 2023 On behalf of Getty, Docomomom International would like to draw to your attention that the deadline for Conservation Guest Scholar Program is on 2 October 2023. The Conservation Guest Scholars Program at Getty provides opportunities for professionals to pursue research on topics that contribute to the advancement……

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  • In Memoriam – Maija Kairamo, 1935-2023

    In Memoriam – Maija Kairamo, 1935-2023

    In Memoriam – Maija Kairamo, 1935-2023 Docomomo International is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Maija Kairamo, Finnish architect and longtime collaborator of Docomomo. Please read the obituary by the Honorary President of Docomomo, Hubert-Jan Henket below: “On a summer day in June, our dear Docomomo friend, the elegant architect Maija Kairamo (born……

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