Docomomo Electronic Newsletter 13– February 2009 if you cannot read this E-mail, please click here DOCOMOMO 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
ABOUT DOCOMOMO	EDITORIAL
Created in 1988, Docomomo International is a non-profit organization devoted to the documentation and conservation of the buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement. Through its numerous activities, Docomomo International fosters projects and research on modern architecture, promotes the survey of its documentation and built heritage, encourages the development of appropriate techniques and methods of conservation and opposes destruction and disfigurement of significant works. Since its creation, the organization has established itself as a major player not only in the realms of documentation and preservation, but also in the broader field of architectural culture. Its pluralist, interdisciplinary dimension, has brought together historians, architects, town-planners, landscape architects, preservationists, professors and public officials... At present, it includes fifty-seven national and regional chapters and more than 2300 members worldwide.	2008 was another brilliant year for Docomomo. The Tenth International Conference and the Second Student workshop organized by Docomomo Netherlands in the Van Nelle Factory in September gave us the splendid opportunity to meet again and exchange views on modern architecture. 400 delegates from all over the world attended the event and six new chapters joined our network: Canada-Atlantic Provinces, Curaçao, Ecuador, Guatemala, Uruguay and Peru. The proceedings of the conference were distributed during the conference. 2008 was also the year, Docomomo International was officially accepted as an “NGO with operational relationship with UNESCO” which will give more strength and power to our campaigns and safeguard actions. Docomomo publications were also numerous in 2008. in addition to the two issues of the Docomomo Journal, “Canada Modern” (DJ38-March 2008) - which was published in two editions French and English and given to all attendants to the Icomos conference in Quebec City in September 2008 - and “Post-War Housing” (DJ39-Sept. 2008), most chapters also published monographs, guides books to modern architecture, technical dossiers and national registers. Among these, the proceedings of the Eight International Docomomo Conference which were published by Docomomo US (see section USA). Today, 36 chapters and three international committees of specialists have answered our call listing all Docomomo activities worldwide scheduled for the year. We would like to thank them all for their warm reactions, increasingly detailed information, and short but lively reviews of events, books and journal issues… Wishing you all a fruitful and enriching 2009! Maristella Casciato, chair
DOCOMOMO INTERNATIONAL
Maristella Casciato, chair Emilie d’Orgeix, secretary general Anne-Laure Guillet, director Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine Palais de Chaillot 1, place du Trocadéro 75016 Paris | France p +33 (0)1 58 51 52 65 e docomomo@citechaillot.fr w www.docomomo.com
2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Docomomo Argentina Workshop: Student Workshop, Buenos Aires. Docomomo Argentina will organize a student workshop at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, to explore and apply the design method necessary to work on the conservation and conversion on modern movement buildings. info: docomomo@arg.net.ar Docomomo Australia International Symposium and Public Lectures: Keeping the Past Public: the Documentation and Conservation of Modern Places, Melbourne, February 4–6, 2009. This symposium will be held at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning. It will examine the myriad of challenges surrounding the documentation and conservation of twentieth century sites, including individual buildings, townscapes and communities. Emphasis will be focused on the architectural legacy of modernism, in all its international guises, and on public sites. These discussions on modern sites will be complemented by other presentations on the management of townscapes in contexts that are much older (for instance Afghanistan and Indonesia), but that face fundamental challenges presented by twentieth century effects of war and globalization. Symposium International Plenary Speakers include Hilde Heynen and Miles Glendinning. info: hlewi@unimelb.edu.au website: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/past-public Conference: (Un)Loved Modern, Sydney, July 7–10, 2009. This conference organized by Australia Icomos in association with Docomomo Australia and other interested groups will address the challenges of conserving twentieth century heritage with particular emphasis on vulnerable periods and styles, single houses under threat, and re-engaging with the original designer. Plenary sessions will feature keynote speakers from around the globe, with parallel streams of paper sessions, and tours of significant Sydney twentieth century places. website: http://www.aicomos.com Docomomo Austria Tours: Salzburg, January–June 2009. Docomomo Austria, in collaboration with the Chamber of Architects and Engineers and Initiative Architektur, will organize seven walks, scheduled on Fridays, in the region of Salzburg. The tours will be organized in different buildings and renovation projects from historical monuments to social housing compounds of the postwar period. info: info@docomomo.at website: http://www.docomomo.at Publication: Moderne Zwei: Baukultur 1948–1984, Fall 2009. The report on the symposium organized by Docomomo Austria in Salzburg in October 2008 will be published in Fall 2009. Case studies as of architects Gerhard Garstenauer (Felsenbad’s public baths, and conference center in Bad Gastein, Salzburg) and Anton Schweighofer (City for Children, Stadt des Kindes) demonstrated the full lack of support against irreverent and insensitive care of important buildings when heritage protection is missing. info: info@docomomo.at website: http://www.docomomo.at Symposium, Fall 2009. Date and place will be announced later in the year. info: info@docomomo.at website: http://www.docomomo.at Docomomo Brazil Course: Conservation of Modern Architecture, February 2–November 13, 2009. The Center for Advanced Studies on Integrated Conservation (CECI), the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (Iccrom) and Docomomo Brasil promote the first edition of a course focused on the conservation of modern architecture in the Latin American context. info: ccomas@uol.com.br website: http://www.ceci-br.org/novo/www/site/index.php?com=pagina&id=1987 Publication: Inventário de Arquitetura Moderna em Porto Alegre, 1945–65, April 2009. The RS chapter of Docomomo Brazil collaborated with PROPAR-UFRGS (the Graduate Studies Program of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) and the Department Projects-ETSAB-UPC (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura of Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña) on this research on the diffusion of modern architecture in the south of Brazil. A selection of thirty buildings will be published late April in a book funded by AECI (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional). info: ccomas@uol.com.br website: http://www.docomomo.org.br/ VIII National Seminar: Modern and Contemporary City. Synthesis and Paradox of the Arts, Rio de Janeiro, September 1-5, 2009. The Rio de Janeiro chapter of Docomomo Brazil is in charge of the organization of this seminar, to be held in the fairly celebrated former headquarters of Brazil’s Ministry of Education, with the support of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense and FIOCRUZ. Proceedings will be published by Docomomo Brazil. info: ccomas@uol.com.br website: http://www.docomomo.org.br/ Docomomo Canada–Atlantic Conference: From Theory into Practice: Thinking Critically about Architecture, History and Theory, Toronto, May 20–24, 2009. The annual conference of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, will be hold at Ryerson University. The sixth session, “From Theory to Practice: Critical Approaches to the Conservation of Modern Architecture” will be organized by Docomomo Atlantic and Docomomo Quebec. info: vanlaethem.francine@uqam.ca, steven.mannell@dal.ca & ssac-seac@canada-architecture.org website: http://www.canada-architecture.org/conference09.php Docomomo Canada–Ontario Technical Workshop: Conserving the Modern, February 4–5, 2009. Parks Canada will offer its two-day workshop in Ottawa. It addresses the heritage values of the built heritage from the 1940s to 1980s, and how to conserve character-defining modern materials and assemblies. info: heritage.workshops@pc.gc.ca Docomomo Canada–Quebec Photography Competition: "Montréal à l'œil", June-October 2009. Docomomo Quebec in collaboration with the Centre d'histoire de Montréal invites everyone to participate in the 31st edition of the photography competition "Montréal à l'œil" and submit photographs showing modern landscapes and monuments of Montreal. info : docomomo@uqam.ca Website: www.docomomoquebec.uqam.ca Docomomo Chile Seminar: Third Docomomo Chile Seminar, Valparaíso, November 2009. Docomomo Chile will organize its third National Seminar in the city of Valparaíso. Following the experience of the second seminar held in 2007 in Antofagasta, the call for papers will have an international scope. info: info@docomomo.cl Docomomo Colombia Publication: Dearquitectura 3, Bogota, February 2009. The Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and Design (Los Andes University) will present the work being done on behalf of Docomomo Colombia during the past six years. This third issue of Dearquitectura magazine will be dedicated to the modern movement, with an editorial reference to the constitution of Docomomo Colombia, the review of eight MoMo representatives, and the publication of archival material. info: docomomocolombia@uniandes.edu.co website: http://arquitectura.uniandes.edu.co/scripts/p_intro.htm Seminar: National Seminar, Bogota, October 22–23, 2009. The Colombian chapter will hold its third national meeting at the Instituto Carlos Arbeláez Camacho (ICAC), Javeriana University. The proceedings will be published by Docomomo Colombia. info: docomomocolombia@uniandes.edu.co Docomomo Cuba Lectures: Cuban and International Modern Movement Issues, Havana, 2009. Program of lectures to be delivered by relevant members at the Architects Association and the Association of Writers and Artists. info: choy@cubarte.cult.cu & aochoa@planmaestro.ohc.cu Publication: Docomomo Cuba Bulletin, Havana, 2009. Issues 7, 8 and 9 will be published and presented together with cultural activities. The Bulletin is published in collaboration with Docomomo Cuba’s members, academic staff and researchers of the Association of Writers and Artists. info: choy@cubarte.cult.cu & aochoa@planmaestro.ohc.cu Exhibition: National Schools of Arts, Havana, November 2009. The exhibition will present the restoration works of the Cubanacán Schools. It will be shown at the Villena Gallery, Association of Writers and Artists. Proposed curators are María Elena Martin and Universo García. info: choy@cubarte.cult.cu & aochoa@planmaestro.ohc.cu Docomomo Curaçao Docomomo Curaçao + Docomomo Dominican Republic + Docomomo Puerto Rico Seminar: Docomomo Regional Miniseminar, Willemstad, April 27–28, 2009. Docomomo Curaçao, together with Docomomo Dominican Republic and Docomomo Puerto Rico, will hold the first regional Docomomo miniseminar at the University of the Netherlands Antilles. Amongst the speakers will be Sofia Saavedra Bruno (Curacao), Wessel de Jonge (The Netherlands), Eduardo Luis Rodriguez (Cuba), Hannia Gomez (Venezuela), Ivonne Marcial (Puerto Rico), Gustavo Luis Moré (Dominican Republic), Michael Newton (Curacao) and Ronald Gill (Curacao). The seminar will be followed by tours on the mentioned islands. It will coincide with the annual meeting of Contemporary Caribbean Architecture in Santo Domingo. info: sofias@onenet.an Docomomo Cyprus Exhibition: Two Trips to Le Corbusier, Nicosia, until January 31, 2009. The exhibition, presented at the ground floor of the ‘Alexandros Demetriou’ Apartments Building—one of the emblematic modern buildings of Nicosia—is co-organized with the School of Architecture, NTU Athens and Panayotis Tournikiotis. A number of lectures and presentations took place during the double-opening of the conference and the exhibition, on the theme ‘Trips to Modernism’, bringing Le Corbusier’s trips together with past and future trips to modern architecture. info: docomomo.cyprus@gmail.com Publication: Modern: The Challenge of Change X2, Nicosia. In 2009 Docomomo Cyprus plans to publish the proceedings of the conference which aimed to bring the international discussion of modernism and change to the local scene. This first scientific meeting of Docomomo Cyprus was co-organized with the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus in December 2008. It was held in the ground floor of ‘Alexandros Demetriou’ Apartment Buildings and was funded by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education. info: docomomo.cyprus@gmail.com Docomomo Czech Republic Publication: Materiality, Brno, January 2009. Docomomo Czech Republic will publish the proceedings of the international symposium on the Preservation of Modern of Movement Architecture that was held in Brno, in April 2008. The publication, edited by Iveta Cerna and Ivo Hammer, will focus on four main themes: theory and history, international contributions, Czech contributions, and the Tugendhat House. info: Jakub.Kyncl@knesl-kyncl.com Lecture: Lubomir and Cestmir Slapeta, Prague, January 20, 2009. The lecture, organized by Docomomo Czech Republic together with the Icomos Czech national committee, will be delivered by Vladimir Slapeta at the National Museum. It will be accompanied with comments on original 8mm films. info: Jakub.Kyncl@knesl-kyncl.com Docomomo Denmark Seminar: The Challenge of Change in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, Copenhagen, March 27–28, 2009. This two-day seminar will be held as a joint event with other Nordic Docomomo chapters. Scheduled for end of March, it will take place at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. info: ola.wedebrunn@karch.dk Docomomo Dominican Republic Competition: Photographing the Work of Guillermo González. Docomomo Dominican Republic is supporting the photography competition launched by Risoris Silvestre on the work of arq. Guillermo González. info: glmore@tricom.net Docomomo Ecuador Publication: Visions of Modern Architecture in Ecuador. Volume I, Cuenca, February 2009. The book will collect the works of students from the Master of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad de Cuenca. info: mpa@ucuenca.edu.ec Publication: Guayaquil, February 2009. Members of Docomomo Ecuador will publish articles in the review of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. info: comptef@hotmail.com Seminar: Modern Architecture in Ecuador, Loja, April 3–4, 2009. The seminar will introduce Ecuadorian MoMo to students of the School of Architecture of the Universidad Tècnica Particular de Loja. info: khsotox@utpl.edu.ec website: www.utpl.edu.ec Docomomo Finland Tour: Interesting Interiors in Helsinki, Helsinki. Docomomo Suomi Finland will organize a tour in some of the interesting interiors in Helsinki. The Tove Jansson (artist and writer, creator of the Moomin characters) Residence, alterations by architects Raili and Reima Pietilä, and the Lallukka Artists´ block of flats by architect Gösta Juslen 1933. The tour is open to members. info: secretary@docomomo-fi.com website: www.lallukkasaatio.net Seminar: Save the Interiors, early April 2009. The Spring seminar of Docomomo Finland will be organized on the theme ‘Save the Interiors.’ Endangered interiors in listed buildings and important interiors in not-so-important buildings will be the topic of the Spring Seminar. info: secretary@docomomo-fi.com Summer excursion: Villa Oivala by Oiva Kallio 1924, early June 2009. A boat trip to the architect Oiva Kallio’s summer house in the Helsinki archipelago will be organized in June. info: secretary@docomomo-fi.com Seminar: Paimio Sanatorium, Turku & Tampere, early October 2009. Docomomo Finland is a co-organizer, with the Marc2010 group, of a two-day seminar on Alvar aalto’s Paimio Sanitorium. info: secretary@docomomo-fi.com Docomomo France Meeting: March 14, 2009. Docomomo France will hold its annual meeting: 27 rue Ballu, 75009 Paris. info: oliviernouyrit@yahoo.fr Tour: Cité des Poètes, Pierrefitte, May 17, 2009. Docomomo France will organize its first modern housing promenade with the association Promenades Urbaines in Pierrefitte, to the north of Paris (10 euros for members, 3 euros for students). info: oliviernouyrit@yahoo.fr Docomomo Germany Conference: How to Deal with the Modern Movement Buildings? Focus on Great Britain, Karlsruhe, January 30, 2009. This one-day conference is organized by Docomomo Germany e.v. together with the Faculty of Architecture of Karlsruhe University and Beton Marketing Süd. Alex Dill, Dennis Sharp, James Dunnet, Igea Troiani, Alan Powers will be amongst the speakers. info: docomomo@bauhaus-dessau.de website: www.arch.uni-karlsruhe.de/fam/ Exhibitions: Great Britain Projects: Docomomo UK and Bauen im Bestand: Gestaltungspreis-Wüstenrot Stiftung, Karlsruhe, January 21–February 16, 2009. info: docomomo@bauhaus-dessau.de website: www.arch.uni-karlsruhe.de/fam/ Exhibition: Cultivated Modernism, Dessau, Fall 2009. The exhibition will present an overview of the position and quality of the practice of renovation of modern movement architecture; it will include a publication. The Wüstenrot Foundation in collaboration with Docomomo Germany and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will open the exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau. The touring exhibition will be shown in a number of venues in Germany and abroad. info: docomomo@bauhaus-dessau.de Docomomo Guatemala Publication: E-Bolletin Docomomo Guatemala, February 19, 2009. The Guatemalan Docomomo chapter will launch its E-Newsletter and present it to the academic, cultural and political community, as well as to journalists. info: raulmonterroso@gmail.com website: http://mm-guatemala.blogspot.com Seminar: First National Seminar, Guatemala City, April 23, 2009. The Guatemalan chapter will hold its first national meeting at the Metropolitan Cultural Center of Municipality of Guatemala City, in collaboration with the School of Architecture (San Carlos University), and URBANÍSTICA-Public Space Workshop (Municipality of Guatemala City). The proceedings will be published by Docomomo Guatemala. info: raulmonterroso@gmail.com website: http://mm-guatemala.blogspot.com Exhibition: Guatemala Abstracta: The Modern in Architecture and Arts, Guatemala City, July 2009. Docomomo Guatemala, in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center, URBANÍSTICA-Public Space Workshop (Municipality of Guatemala City) and the Carlos Mérida Modern Art Museum, will present the first national exhibition on modern culture: architecture, visual arts, furniture and objects of design. info: raulmonterroso@gmail.com website: http://mm-guatemala.blogspot.com Tour: Walk Modernist Buildings in the Historic Center, Guatemala City, August 2009. Docomomo Guatemala will organize its first walking tour inside Guatemala City Historic Center. Modernist buildings in walking distance will be visited by the members of the chapter and individuals interested in local architecture. The event will be part of the official activities of the XII Historic Center Festival and will intend showing how dynamic the city is with different buildings typology, from colonial and modern to contemporary architecture. info: raulmonterroso@gmail.com website: http://mm-guatemala.blogspot.com Docomomo Hungary Publication: The Memoirs of Gábor Preisich, May 2009. The Hungarian Museum of Architecture in collaboration with Docomomo Hungary will publish the memoirs of Gábor Preisich (1909–1998) architect, town planner, university professor, a member of the Hungarian Chapter of CIAM from its beginnings in 1929 up to its self-dissolution in 1938. He designed some key buildings of Hungarian modern movement. Between 1951 and 1975 Preisich worked as the Head of the Planning Office of the City of Budapest. info: ritookpal@gmail.com Exhibition: Gábor Preisich, May 2009. The book launch of the Memoirs of Gábor Preisich will be accompanied by an exhibition from designs, photographs and documents kept at the Hungarian Architecture Museum and the architect’s family in the HAP Architecture Gallery in Budapest. info: ritookpal@gmail.com Conference: Postwar Cities in Hungary, Budapest, mid-November 2009. The Budapest City Archives will organize a conference which will discuss the history, urban design, architecture and sociology of Hungarian postwar cities. info: ritookpal@gmail.com Docomomo Italy Conference: Restoration of the Sacra Famiglia Church in Genoa by Ludovico Quaroni, Genoa, January 30, 2009. Quaroni’s project (1956) was left unfinished and the church never received the expected stone cladding. The conference—at Genoa’s Faculty of Architecture—will deal with the issues of conservation and enhancement of an unfinished building subject to an extended decay. It will be organized by Docomomo Italia, the School of Specialization in Restoration of Monuments (University of Genova), and the Direzione Generale per la Qualità e la Tutela del Paesaggio, l’Architettura e l’Arte Contemporanee (Ministry of Cultural Heritage). info: segreteria@docomomoitalia.it website: www.docomomoitalia.it Preservation Campaign: Foro Italico at Risk, Rome. Due to heavy-handed attempts to transform both the open spaces and the historical buildings, the memorial complex of Foro Italico is at risk. The Coni Servizi Society developed a project—as yet only along general lines—whose first alarming results led us to call for a clear, decisive, and urgent intervention from the institutions dedicated to the conservation of cultural landscape and architectural heritage in Italy. This intervention requires a high-quality project based on Foro Italico’s unique history, as opposite to occasional acts of maintenance which distort the site’s original characteristics. info: segreteria@docomomoitalia.it website: www.docomomoitalia.it Conference: Preventive Conservation and Maintenance of Modern Movement Architecture in Como, Como, October 2009. The conference is part of a project of Como Municipality on Terragni’s buildings, supported by Unesco Chair on Preventive Conservation and Docomomo, and financed by Fondazione Cariplo. info: segreteria@docomomoitalia.it website: www.docomomoitalia.it Docomomo Mexico Publication: Documenting for Conserving: The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Mexico, Mexico City, end of January 2009. Docomomo Mexico will publish, together with the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, Documentar para Conservar: la Arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno en México. The book will collect the articles from the first 20 issues of our Electronic Bulletin, as well as a brief presentation of the buildings selected for the Docomomo International Registers. info: docomomo_mexico@yahoo.com.mx website: http://servidor.esteticas.unam.mx/docomomo Seminar: Domestic Architecture, Mexico City, March 23, 2009. Manuel Rossen Morrison will be the keynote speaker of the third Docomomo Mexico Seminar dedicated to ‘arquitectura doméstica’. info: docomomo_mexico@yahoo.com.mx website: http://servidor.esteticas.unam.mx/docomomo Publication: DocoMex Electronic Bulletin, Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall 2009. Editions 22 to 25 of the Boletín Docomomo Mexico will be published and posted on Docomomo Mexico’s website. info: docomomo_mexico@yahoo.com.mx website: http://servidor.esteticas.unam.mx/docomomo Docomomo Japan Tour: visit of Seoul with a group of 30 members of Docomomo Japan, Korea, 13-15 March 2009. info: chezkenji@nifty.com Lectures: several lectures and guided tours on modern architecture with the Architectural Institute of Japan and the Japanese Institute of architects will be organized during the year. Info: chezkenji@nifty.com Docomomo Morocco Student workshop: MoMo, Casablanca, February 2009. Docomomo Morocco will organize at the School of Fine Arts and Architecture a workshop dedicated to modern architecture movement, focusing on modern architectonic language, grammar and glossary. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Meeting: 50th Anniversary of Agadir’s Reconstruction, March 2009. The board of Docomomo Morocco will meet in March to prepare the celebration of the anniversary of the reconstruction of the city. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Tour: Rabat, the Twentieth Century Capital of the Kingdom of Morocco, Rabat, April 2009. The third session of thematic visits will deal with the ‘ville nouvelle’ designed by Prost, and the administrative neighborhood by Laprade—which symbolized the Rabat’s opening to the world and the beginning of a social and cultural large-scale transformation of architecture and urbanism. Guided tours led by specialists will follow round-table conferences with architectural historians. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Exhibition: Cadet and Brion by Photograph Delgado, May 2009 This exhibition will be dedicated to two architects from the early twentieth-century, Cadet and Brion. They left their mark in Morocco with their architectural production that lasted more than thirty years, and paved the way for art deco creations and, later, for modern movement in Morocco. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Program: Schools in Danger, June 2009. Docomomo Morocco will launch the program “Ecoles en Péril” to face the threat over some emblematic twentieth-century schools in the country. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Publication: Agadir’s Reconstruction and the CIAM Debate, October 2009. Docomomo Morocco will publish the proceedings of the conference on the history of the reconstruction of Agadir and the CIAM debate. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Tour: Tangier Open City, Tangier, November 2009. The fourth session of thematic visit will be dedicated to the evolution of the city of Tangier. From an open city to a place of cultures’ fusion. The tour will focus on the new cosmopolitan city through a catalog of style, hybrid structures that transformed the urban space into a paradise for holiday resort. Guided tours led by specialists will follow round-table conferences with architectural historians. info: docomomo.maroc@gmail.com Docomomo Netherlands Publication: Report 2nd International Docomomo Student Workshop, February 2009. Part of the 10th International Docomomo Conference ‘The Challenge of Change’ was the second International Docomomo Student Workshop: ‘Strategies for the Coolsingel strip, Rotterdam’. It was organized by Docomomo Netherlands in collaboration with Docomomo International and the ®MIT Research Centre of the Delft University of Technology. Forty-eight students from seventeen countries participated. The report will discuss the assignment and its context, and will contain the solutions proposed by the various groups and the jury’s report. info: info@docomomo.nl website: http://www.docomomo2008.nl Publication: Newsletter 16 Docomomo Netherlands, Spring 2009. Docomomo Netherlands issues a Newsletter twice a year. The March 2009 edition will be devoted to the 10th International Docomomo Conference ‘The Challenge of Change’ that took place in the former Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam in September 2008. info: info@docomomo.nl website: http://www.docomomo2008.nl Publication: Report 10th International Docomomo Conference ‘The Challenge of Change’, June 2009. This report will propose a general overview of the conference and its outcomes, as well as the complete texts of keynote speakers Herman Hertzberger, Wessel de Jonge and Barry Bergdoll. info: info@docomomo.nl website: http://www.docomomo2008.nl Publication: Newsletter 17 Docomomo Netherlands, Fall 2009. Docomomo Netherlands issues a Newsletter twice a year. The topic of the Fall 2009 issue is to be determined. info: info@docomomo.nl website: http://www.docomomo2008.nl Docomomo New Zealand National meeting: Wellington, December 5, 2009. The meeting will follow Christine McCarthy’s annual symposium on New Zealand architectural history (December 4). Both events will be held at the School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington. info: julia.gatley@auckland.ac.nz website: http://www.docomomo.org.nz Docomomo Norway Tour: Nicolai Beer, Oslo, March 2009. Docomomo Norway will organize a tour to some of Nicolai Beer’s functionalistic housing complexes from the 1930s. The tour is open to members. info: docomomo@docomomo.no website: http://www.docomomo.no Tour: Forneby airport buildings, Oslo, May 2009. Docomomo Norway will organize a tour to Fornebu, which from 1939 to 1998 was the main airport of Oslo. The tour will start at the 1959 terminal building by Odd Nansen, where the main public hall has been preserved along with the wall paintings of artist Kai Fjell; the building was turned into an IT-center, and the new adjoining office structures being built as a part of developing the airport area into a new urban structure. The tour will proceed with the floatplane terminal building, a wooden functionalistic structure from the 1930s, still in use, and the listed control tower, which, together with a remnant of the original terminal from 1939, is the focal point of the new central park in the development project. Hangars and workshops from 1960–80 may also be part of the program. The tour is open to members and interested public. info: docomomo@docomomo.no website: http://www.docomomo.no Excursion: MoMo Sites and Buildings, Tromsø, September 2009. The Norwegian chapter of Docomomo will organize a summer excursion to Tromsø. It will include buildings from Jan Inge Hovig: Alfheim Swimming Pool (1965), Tromsdalen Church (1960–65) and Athletic Centre (1968). Other highlights will be: Erling Viksjø’s Tromsø Bridge (1958–60) and Blakstad/Munthe-Kaas’ Tromsø Museum (1959–61). The excursion is open to members and interested public. info: secretary@docomomo-fi.com & docomomo@docomomo.no website: http://www.docomomo.no Tour: Niels Juelsgate 32, Oslo, October 2009. Docomomo Norway will organize a visit to the recently restored Niels Juelsgate 32 (1939–41) by Gudolf Blakstad and Herman Munthe-Kaas. The tour is open to members. info: docomomo@docomomo.no website: http://www.docomomo.no Docomomo Puerto Rico Lecture: Saturday, May 2, San Juan, Residence Fullana (Arq. Henry Klumb) Terrace, 2009, (4:00 PM) Lecture by Miguel Rodríguez Casellas - Theory and Education Committee Soldados y turistas: la subjectividades de la arquitectura moderna en Puerto Rico. Cocktail: La ciudad desde arriba info: info@docomomopr.org Book Launching: Saturday, May 2, San Juan, Residence Fullana (Arq. Henry Klumb) Terrace ( 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM) Acceso a lo moderno 1.0. Presentation of the guide to Modern Movements Buildings in San Juan info: info@docomomopr.org Guided tours: Sunday, May3, San Juan. Starting from the University of Puerto Rico Educational area, four urban districts will be visited, illustrating commercial, housing and institutional examples of Modern Architecture Structures in San Juan.  info: info@docomomopr.org Lecture: Thursday, May 7, 2009, San Juan, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (6:00 PM). Lecture by Wessel de Jonge, NL, Rotterdam: "Van Nelle Reloaded 1928-2008". info: info@docomomopr.org Docomomo Peru Seminar: First Seminar of Docomomo Peru. Date to be defined. Info: pafbelaunde@terra.com.pe Docomomo Slovakia Exhibition: Modern Architecture in Registers, Bratislava, January–February 2009. The exhibition will present the recent research work done by the evaluation of the modern architecture in Slovakia. Prepared by the Institute of Construction and Architecture and Docomomo Slovakia, it will be held at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. info: katarina.andrasiova@savba.sk website: http://www.ustarch.sav.sk Seminar: Modern Architecture as a Heritage, Bratislava, February 2009. The seminar will be organized by the Department of Architecture USTARCH SAV in collaboration with Docomomo Slovakia. Invited speakers will comment the process of evaluating and listing of modern architecture heritage in Slovakia and Czech Republic. info: katarina.andrasiova@savba.sk website: http://www.ustarch.sav.sk Meeting: Slovak Docomomo working party national meeting, Bratislava, May 2009. info: katarina.andrasiova@savba.sk Publication: Docomomo National Register – Slovakia, December 2009. This bilingual publication will gather the works listed in national register with analytical texts, images and drawings. Docomomo Slovenia Publication: Docomomo Slovenia_100, October 2009. Docomomo Slovenia, in collaboration with ab architectural magazine, is preparing the publication of Docomomo Slovenia_100, a national selection of the 100 most important MoMo buildings. The launch event is scheduled for October. info: docomomoslovenija@yahoo.com Docomomo Switzerland Publication: Architectures de la Croissance – les Paradoxes de la Sauvegarde, Zurich, Summer 2009. Docomomo Switzerland, together with the ETH and Icomos Schweiz, will publish the proceedings of the February 2008 two-day seminar on the opportunities and limits of conservation and reuse of postwar architecture. Among the speakers were: Catherine Dumont d’Ayot, Richard Klein, Yvan Delemontey, Franz Graf, and Bruno Reichlin. info: dumontdayot@arch.ethz.ch Docomomo United Kingdom Lecture: Stefan Sebok and Walter Gropius’s Design for the ‘Total Theatre’: Fact or Fiction? London, January 27, 2009. In a controversial reappraisal of Walter Gropius’s work as a theatre architect, Lilly Dubowitz— who is a world famous pediatrician and not an architectural historian—will talk about her effort to find out about her uncle Stefan Sebok, who was a young Hungarian architect trained in Dresden. Sebok is known for his work with Moholy-Nagy at the Dessau Bauhaus and designs for a Danz Theater as well as Total Theater. The Kharkov Theater projects took him to the USSR where he worked for the Vesnin Bros. He was eventually killed by the KGB. Her unique collection of pictorial material has never been shown previously. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Tour: Heathrow Airport to Technical Block ‘A’ by Owen Williams, London, February 2009. This day-tour, led by James Dunnett. will start with breakfast in Richard Siefert’s Hotel in Kensington, proceed to The Heathrow Airport complex to see probably Owen Williams most spectacular structure: the ex BOAC workshop that is now Known as Technical Block A. This will be followed by visits Michael Mansers Hotel at Heathrow and other work by Siefert. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Lecture: Oscar Niemeyer’s Curves of Irreverence, London, March 10, 2009. Widely known as an architect and an academic, Styliane Philippou will talk about Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture of “spectacle . . . plastic freedom and . . . inventiveness in the possibilities opened up by reinforced concrete with an emphasis on his work at Brasilia.” This lecture, in partnership with The Concrete Centre, is planned to coincide with an exhibition in the ABA Gallery of new photographs of Niemeyer’s Buildings by Hanna Taylor. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Weekend Tour: Three Houses in Paris, France, March–April 2009. Philip Boyle will lead visits to the Maison Carré by Aalto, Maison de Verre by Pierre Chareau, and hopefully Les Maisons Jaoul by Le Corbusier. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Seminar: Modern Architecture in Turkey: From Poelzig and Taut to Tabanlioglu, London, April 27, 2009. Süha Ozkän (former founding director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and vice-chancellor of METU) will lecture on modern Turkish architecture. Not as widely known as it should be, it was —to a large degree— constantly reinforced by the country’s special relationship with Germany and Austria by academics such as Clemens Holzmeister, the teacher practitioner Hans Poelzig and the avant-garde writer and propagandist Bruno Taut, who in his short time in the country, designed the splendid Ankara University as well as Ataturk’s Catafalque. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Weekend Tour: Modernism in Wales, Cardiff, May 2009. Judi Loach will lead the tour, centered in Cardiff, with excursions west, north, and east to Newport. It will include: Sully Sanatorium; Sea Roads concrete Houses; Glascoed, Llanfihangel Pontymoile. Pontypool. Dupont factory; The Orchard, housing Dynas Powys; Crematorium, Coychurch; The Abbey and Margam Steelworks, Port Talbot: Penalta Colliery, Gelligaer; Big Pit, Blaenaf/von: Newport Civic Center: Evans & Shalev School: Housing, Richard McCormac: INMOS, R. Rodgers: and New Parliament Building. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Seminar and Exhibition: Chandigarh Furniture, Westminster, June 2009. At the University of Westminster, John O’Shea and Matthew Wickens will curate an exhibition of original furniture from buildings in Chandigarh together with a seminar on the work of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Max Fry and Jane Drew. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Possible Future Events: Mallet-Stevens by Richard Klein; Paul Rudolph by Timothy Rohan; Irish Modernism by Shane O’Toole; Adolf Loos by Panayotis Tournikiotis; visit to the Sugden House by A&P Smithson; a Leslie Martin event, led by James Dunnett. info: mail@pboyle.vispa.com website: www.docomomo-uk.co.uk Docomomo USA Meeting of the board: New Orleans, LA, March 2009 Members of the Docomomo US Board of Trustees will gather in New Orleans, Louisiana for its annual face-to-face business meeting, a tour of local modern monuments, and a special session focused on preservation education with the participation of several US programs. website: www.docomomo-us.org Spring Meeting: New York City, NY, Spring 2009 Docomomo US will host an event at The Kaufmann Conference Center, one of only four Aalto-designed projects in the United States and the only space Alvar Aalto designed in New York. website: www.docomomo-us.org Tour: National Modern Architecture Tour Day: USA, October 10, 2009 Docomomo US will host its third National Modern Architecture Tour Day on October 10, 2009. This annual event is organized by Docomomo US and its ten national chapters, in partnership with select other regional organizations. In 2008, tours showcasing Modern architectural heritage were held in over twenty U.S. cities, and included tours of the Art Deco District in Miami Beach, the architecture of R.M. Schindler in Los Angeles, endangered modern buildings in New Orleans and religious modernist buildings from Dallas to Stearns County, Minnesota to Connecticut and Westchester County, New York: Website: http://www.docomomo-us.org/october_4th_national_tour_day Publication: Preservation of Modern Architecture by Theodore H.M. Prudon Winner of the Association for Preservation Technology’s bi-annual Lee Nelson Book Award, this book is an architect’s guide to the preservation of modern architecture, filled with illustrative case studies and discussing both theories and practice. website: www.docomomo-us.org/journal/preservation_modern_architecture Publications: Proceedings of the VIII International Docomomo Conference, New York 2004 website: www.docomomo-us.org/publications
2009 EVENTS - INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST COMMITTEES
Docomomo ISC/Register Website: The MoMo Registers new website is a work in progress established by Docomomo chapters under the umbrella of the International Specialist Committee on Registers (ISC/R). Each year, chapters are invited to submit a new series of fiches. Since 2003 the selection has been related to a specific theme; the related fiches can be downloaded in pdf from the website. The Docomomo Register archive, all in hard copy format, can be consulted at the Netherlands Architectuur Instituut (NAi), Rotterdam. website: http://www.docomomo-registers.org Docomomo ISC/Technology Seminar: Concrete, Wroclaw (Poland), Fall 2009. The Technology International Committee of Docomomo is planning a seminar on the topic of Concrete to take place in Wroclaw. info: Ola.Wedebrunn@karch.dk Publication: Dossier 8: Restoring Postwar Heritage Papers from the Technology Seminars of the 2004 International Conference, New York website: www.docomomo-us.org/publications Docomomo ISC/Urbanism+Landscape Symposium: South City: Modernist Urbanism in the Southern Hemisphere — Past, Present and Future, Edinburgh (Scotland), January 22–23, 2009. An international symposium and masterclass will explore the potential contribution of modernist heritage to the future development of the southern hemisphere city. Docomomo International’s Southern Hemisphere regional forum will be launched at this event at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. info: m.glendinning@eca.ac.uk
E-NEWSLETTER AND CONTACTS
Docomomo E-newsletter aims at reinforcing our network, increasing the exchange of information on Modern heritage conferences, seminars, publications and preservation actions, and developing new activities and joint-projects with "sister" organizations such as ICOMOS, the WHC at UNESCO, WMF, ICAM, TICCIH, UIA, mAAN and EUROPA NOSTRA. Conceived as a living "stage" for exchange and discussions, the Docomomo E-Newsletter will be published three times a year. We will welcome all information about events, preservation campaigns and publications on the Modern Movement. Next issue will be published in April 2009. Please, feel free to send your contribution to docomomo@citechaillot.fr
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