• Extended deadline! Call for Abstracts: Docomomo Journal

    Call for Abstracts for the special issue of Docomomo Journal 2025 DOCOMOMO International is pleased to announce a Call for Abstracts for a special issue of the Docomomo Journal – “Imperfect Modernism”, dedicated to research that showcases the geographical and civilizational diversity of modernist architecture, examining how it has not only witnessed key turning points……

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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 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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  • 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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  • DOCOMOMO Journal #68 – 2023/1

    Middle Class Mass Housing The first DOCOMOMO Journal of 2023 is available online: #68 on Middle Class Housing in Europe. Together with #69 the printed version of this issue will we sent to all DOCOMOMO International members before the end of the year. Enjoy the online version via https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.68 This special issue of the Docomomo……

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  • New Publication – Ambitions/the architecture of the eighties

    Ambitions / the architecture of the eighties The authors of this book set out to explain some of the key processes behind the Czech architecture of the 1980s – such as the growing efforts to engage in internal, critical self-reflection, the realistic assessments of what the Czech building industry was capable of and attempts to……

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  • Proceedings 17th International DOCOMOMO Conference

    Proceedings 17th International Docomomo Conference Modern Design: Social Commitment and Quality of Life EditorsCARMEN JORDÁ SUCHMAITE PALOMARES FIGUERESANA TOSTÕESUTA POTTGIESSER 17th International Docomomo Conference6-9 September 2022Universitat Politècnica de València, València · Spain Publishersdocomomo internationaltirant lo blanch Download the proceedings in pdf. Printed copies available via tirant lo blanch.

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  • DOCOMOMO Journals 66 and 67

    DOCOMOMO Journals 66 and 67 DOCOMOMO International is pleased to present the DOCOMOMO Journal issues No. 66 and No. 67, digitally available online. Physical copies will soon be shipped to our Members worldwide. DOCOMOMO Journal 66 – Modern Plastic Heritage combines the spirit of the multi-facetted technology dossiers into a fully-fledged journal bridging documentation and……

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  • Álvaro Siza’s Lordelo do Ouro Cooperative Building

    Álvaro Siza’s Lordelo do Ouro Cooperative Building: Preliminary Studies towards the Conservation of a Masterpiece in Need of Recognition 

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  • Territories of Faith. Religion, Urban Planning and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe

    Territories of Faith. Religion, Urban Planning and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe A novel and interdisciplinary perspective on post-war church building. DOCOMOMO International would like to draw your attention to a new book publication entitled Territories of Faith. Religion, Urban Planning and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe. Sterken, Sven and Weyns, Eva (eds.), Leuven University……

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  • Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973

    Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973 DOCOMOMO International would like to draw your attention to a new book launch and symposium – Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973, George Arbid – Philipp Oswalt (ed.). Please see the press release below: Since 2019, the Goethe-Institut Palestinian territories, together with international experts, has……

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  • Revaluing Modern Architecture. Changing Conservation Culture.

    Revaluing Modern Architecture. Changing Conservation Culture. DOCOMOMO International would like to draw your attention to the new book of John Allan: Revaluing Modern Architecture. Changing Conservation Culture. The conservation of our Modern architectural heritage is a subject of vehement debate. When do buildings become old or significant enough to warrant special heritage status and protection?……

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  • Bauhaus and Greece. The new idea of ​​synthesis in art and architecture

    Bauhaus and Greece. The new idea of ​​synthesis in art and architecture DOCOMOMO International would like to draw your attention to the new book with the title: Bauhaus and Greece. The new idea of ​​synthesis in art and architecture, the published volume of proceedings of the international conference held in Athens in May-June 2019. The……

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  • Selection from the DOCOMOMO Registers

    Selection from the DOCOMOMO Registers With the DOCOMOMO Journal and book publications DOCOMOMO has gathered the knowledge around the globe which is collected in documentation fiches and displayed in the virtual exhibition MoMoVe.   Besides two dedicated publications have given visibility to the diversity of Modern Movement in the different countries. In 2000 Dennis Sharp & Catherine Cooke edited THE……

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  • Book Party by DOCOMOMO International

    Book Party by DOCOMOMO International Since January 2022, DOCOMOMO International is hosted by Heritage & Architecture with prof. Uta Pottgiesser as president and dr. Wido Quist as Secretary General at TU Delft, The Netherlands. DOCOMOMO invites students, staff and members to join the Book Party on Wednesday, 6th April 2022 from 12.30-13.30h and from 17.30-18.30h in……

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  • A call to save the VPÚ skyscraper by Josef Havlíček and Karel Honzík

    A call to save the VPÚ skyscraper by Josef Havlíček and Karel Honzík Extract from an essay by Jakub Potůček, art historian. Translated into English “In the online version of the daily Metro, an article appeared at the end of November with the catchy headline House of Joy: Žižkov’s landmark awaits revival. Interesting reading? But……

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  • Docomomo Journal

    DOCOMOMO Journal moving to new platform At the beginning of the Delft mandate, we have recognised the great value of the tremendous work done in Lisbon to bring the DOCOMOMO Journal available open access next to the printed versions. We are in the process of bringing this even a step further by implementing the Open……

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