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Docomomo Electronic Newsletter 9 – February 2008 DOCOMOMO 2008 |
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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. |
2008 is
the sixth year of Docomomo International in Paris. With the opening of the
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in September 2007, Docomomo was
finally settled in its new office space, located right next to the Cité’s
library, thus encouraging even tighter links between Docomomo and the Cité.
This also emphasized our main mission, which is to create the most fruitful
environment for scholarly research and conservation actions to broaden
knowledge and increase world awareness of modern heritage. 2008
will also see the opening in September of the tenth Docomomo Conference in
Rotterdam on The
Challenge of Change. Two
issues of the Docomomo
Journal will
be published in 2008. The first (DJ 38- March 2008), dedicated to modern
architecture in Canada - published in English in March and in French in
September- , will also be offered to all congressists attending the Sixteenth
General Assembly of Icomos in Quebec City in September 2008. The second (DJ39 – September 2008), planned for
Docomomo Tenth International Conference in Rotterdam, will focus on post-WWII
housing and rehabilitation projects. All but
a few chapters have answered our call for news. We wish to thank them all for
their warm reactions, increasingly detailed information, and short but lively
reviews of events, books, journal issues… Wishing you all a splendid New Year 2008! Maristella Casciato, chair |
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Docomomo Argentina Student Workshop: Buenos Aires, 2008. info:docomomo@arg.net.ar website: http://www.fadu.uba.ar/sitios/docomomo/index.html Docomomo Australia info: rharch@ozemail.au Docomomo Belgium Publication: Isia
Isgour 1913–1967, Brussels. The Centre
for Flemish Architectural Archives (CVAa), institutional member of the
Belgian chapter, will publish a catalogue on the work of the modernist architect
Isia Isgour. The catalogue will contain three introducing chapters on the
live, work and actual transformations of Isgour’s oeuvre. info: cvaa@vai.be Publication: Johan
Wambacq, Het paleis op de Heide. Architect Maxime Brunfaut en het sanatorium
van Tombeek, Brussels. In
cooperation with the Amsab Institute for Social History and the Brussels
University Press, the Centre for Flemish Architectural Archives (CVAa) will
publish a fascinating manuscript on the live and work of the Belgian
modernist architect Maxime Brunfaut (1909–2003) based on long interviews with
the architect at the end of his life. info: cvaa@vai.be Docomomo Brazil Regional Seminar: Challenges of Preservation: References of Modern Architecture and
Urbanism in North and Northeast of Brazil, Salvador, Bahia, June 4–6,
2008. The Salvador
chapter of Docomomo Brazil and the Faculty of Architecture of the Federal
University of Bahia (the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism and
the Conservation and Restoration Course on Historic Monuments and Ensembles,
CECRE) will hold its second meeting. info: docomomobahia@gmail.com website: www.docomomo.org.br Regional Seminar: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do
Sul, August 18–20, 2008. The Rio
Grande do Sul chapter of Docomomo Brasil will hold its second seminar at the
School of Architecture, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in
collaboration with its Graduate Studies Program in Architecture,
PROPAR-UFRGS. info: docomomo@ufrgs.br websites: http://www.ufrgs.br/docomomo & www.docomomo.org.br Publication: Lucio
Costa e as Missões: um Museu em São Miguel, Summer 2008. The Graduate
Studies Program in Architecture (PROPAR-UFRGS), the National Institute of Historic
and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN), with the collaboration of Docomomo Brazil
(chapter Rio Grande do Sul) will issue a book organized by Carlos Eduardo
Comas on the museum designed by Lucio Costa in the ruins of the Jesuit
Mission of São Miguel Arcanjo in southern Brazil, with texts by Maria Elisa
Costa, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Marcos José Carrilho and Ricardo Rocha. The
theme was presented at the first Regional Seminar of Docomomo Brazil in Porto
Alegre, 2006. Docomomo Canada–Atlantic Provinces Exhibition and Publication: Building New Brunswick / Bâtir le Nouveau-Brunswick, New
Brunswick, June 21, 2008. Opening and
book launch on at the Beaverbrok Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick,
Canada. The exhibition will encompass the entire architectural history of the
province, with a concentration on structures from the post-1945 era. A
concurrent publication by Goose Lane Editions will be released at the same
time. The event will also include several exhibition tours and lectures on
modern architecture in New Brunswick, and its often underappreciated status
in Eastern Canada. The exhibition will run until the end of August 2008. websites: http://www.beaverbrookartgallery.org/
& http://www.gooselane.com/ Docomomo Chile National Assembly: Evaluation and Planning for the Second Stage 2000–10, June 2008. Docomomo
Chile will hold its Second National Assembly to evaluate the actions taken
since its incorporation to Docomomo International in 2004, and to plan the
upcoming two years. As was the case in the First Assembly, the meeting will
take place in a modern landmark. In that occasion, the new legal status of
Docomomo Chile as a non-profit corporation will be celebrated. info:info@docomomo.cl website: http://www.docomomo.cl/ Docomomo Colombia Discussion Session: Second National Docomomo
Colombia Meeting, Bogota, mid-March, 2008. Docomomo
Colombia Organizing Committee, Department of Architecture, Faculty of
Architecture and Design, University of Los Andes, Bogotá-Colombia, is calling
for a national wide meeting in Bogotá, for the constitution and formalization
of a national chapter for the documentation and conservation of modern
heritage in Colombia. info:docomomocolombia@uniandes.edu.co website:http://arquitectura.uniandes.edu.co/scripts/p_intro.htm Exhibition: Modern
Imaginario in Colombia, Bogotà. Universidad de
los Andes, Facultad de Arquitectura & Diseño, Departamento de
Arquitectura, Bogota. Docomomo Cuba Seminar: Cuban
Architecture and Town Planning in the 1960s, Havana, April 16–18, 2008. Docomomo
Cuba, in collaboration with the Architecture Society of UNAICC, the Fine Art
Society of UNEAC and the National Heritage Council, will hold the Second
Workshop in Havana in April 2008. The main objectives will be to analyze the
meaning and significance of the Cuban architecture and town planning in the
Sixties and its outstanding cultural role, and to evaluate the new
international influences on the Cuban architecture and town planning and its
repercussion. info:choy@cubarte.cult.cu & aochoa@planmaestro.ohc.cu Docomomo Czech Republic Exhibition: The Lost World of Brno’s
Interwar Cafes, Brno, February–April
2008. This exhibition, organized
by Brno City Museum, will be open from February 20 until April 20, 2008. It
will focus on the interwar cultural life and its relations to the cafes,
symbols of modern life. website: www.spilberk.cz Exhibitions: Architect Jan Vanek (1891–1962):
Civilized Living for Everybody and Frantisek Lydie Gahura (1891–1958): Architecture
and Statuary, Brno,
May–September 2008.
The two retrospectives
will be organized by Brno City Museum, from May 14 to September 28, 2008. The
first will be dedicated to the initiator of modern furniture design and later
of the whole concept of living culture. The second, to the architect of Zlin
master plan and one of the two main Bata’s architects. website: www.spilberk.cz Exhibition: Jíri Kroha (1893–1974),
Architect, Artist, Designer, Theoretician: a 20th-Century Metamorphosis, Ostrava, May–June 2008. The Heritage Museum
Ostrava will present a retrospective of the contradictory architect and
author of Sociological Fragment of
Living (1930–33). website: www.npu.cz Exhibition: Adolf Loos – Works in the Czech
Lands, Prague, September
2008–March 2009. The Prague City Museum
will present works designed by of one of the worldwide reknown fathers of
modern architecture in his fatherland. website: www.muzeumprahy.cz The Brno City Museum will
celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the symbol of modern style of the new
republic, from October 8 to November 9, 2008. website: www.spilberk.cz Tour: The
Porthania Building, Helsinki, March 2008. Docomomo
Finland chapter will organize a guided tour in the recently restored
University of Helsinki Porthania Building 1938/1950–57 by Aarne Ervi
(1910–1977). The restoration received the Europa Nostra 2006 Medal in the
Architectural Heritage category. The tour is open to members and interested
public. info:secretary@docomomo-fi.com website: http://www.docomomo-fi.com/ Summer excursion: The Eric Bryggman buildings, Turku and Salo, June 2008. The Finnish
chapter organizes every summer a bus trip to a significant MoMo site. In 2007
it was Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto; the 2008 is Eric Bryggman (1891–1955) in
Turku and Salo. The excursion includes the Resurrection chapel (1938–41), Åbo
Academies Book tower (1934–35) and the Bryggman´s coastal villas from 1930s
and 1940s. info:secretary@docomomo-fi.com website: http://www.docomomo-fi.com/ Tour: The
Tilkka Hospital, September 2008. Docomomo
Finland will organize a guided tour on an ongoing renovation site the Tilkaa
Military Hospital 1934-36 by Olavi Sortta (1896–1968). The hospital is being
changed into a combined medical center and elderly people apartment house. info:secretary@docomomo-fi.com website: http://www.docomomo-fi.com/ Seminar: Docomomo
Suomi Finland ry Seminar 2008, November 2008. The yearly
November seminar will be organized on a current theme. The 2006 theme was the
problems of concrete, 2007 theme was the re-use of MoMo buildings. info:secretary@docomomo-fi.com website: http://www.docomomo-fi.com/ Docomomo France General Assembly: Postwar Reconstruction of French Port Cities, Paris, January 21,
2008. Docomomo
France intends to reflect upon the port cities of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Calais
and Dunkerque and their postwar reconstruction, with the participation of Jean-Marie Francescangeli, from the
Municipality of Dunkerque, Urbanism and Heritage Department. The meeting will also offer the opportunity to discuss
the valorization of the Parisian public transportation (RATP), with Yo
Kaminagaï, in charge of the RATP Space and Heritage Department. The think-tank meeting will be held on January 21, from 6 to
8 pm, at the Art and Archeology Institute. info:agnes.cailliau@wanadoo.fr & claude.loupiac@wanadoo.fr website: http://www.archi.fr/DOCOMOMO-FR Docomomo Germany Seminar: Relating
to Modern Buildings Today: Sweden (Potential
of the Architectonic Heritage of the Modern – Northern Europe), Karlsruhe,
January 25, 2008. Docomomo
Germany will hold its first 2008 seminar in Karlsruhe University, Faculty of
Architecture, from 9am to 6pm. Among the presentations will be: The
Scandinavian Situation (Ola Wedebrunn), Case-Study/Project (Vicky Wenander),
The Göteburg City Hall (Claes Caldenby). info:docomomo@bauhaus-dessau.de website: http://www.docomomo.de/ Exhibition: “Bellevue”
Momoneco – Architecture of the Modern 1929–38, Karlsruhe, January 25,
2008. Opening in EG
exhibition Hall, Arne Jacobsen (Denmark). info:docomomo@bauhaus-dessau.de website: http://www.docomomo.de/ Docomomo Greece Publication: Faces
of Modernity in Athens between the Wars: Art and Architecture, Athens,
2008. The
proceedings of the Greek chapter’s fourth national seminar will be published in
the Greek Docomomo series “The Notebooks of the Modern” as number 05 (Futura
publications, in Greek). info: tourni@central.ntua.gr Docomomo Italy Exhibition and Conference: Piero Bottoni in Bologna and Imola. House, Town, Monument. 1934–1969,
Imola, October 11–26, 2008. A
preservation campaign to restore Piero Bottoni’s Villa Muggia in Imola has
been launched by the association Segni
del Moderno. Docomomo Italy will take part in the exhibition and
conference which will discuss modern heritage conservation’s issues. info:info@villa-muggia.it website: http://www.villa-muggia.it/ Docomomo Italy + Docomomo Switzerland Preservation Campaign: The
Marchiondi Institute in Milan under Threat. The Marchiondi Institute
built in 1953–57 by Vittoriano
Viganò (1919–1996), one of the most
significant examples of Italian postwar architecture, is due to be
transformed into a “social multicenter”, based on a project which gives
little consideration to its morphological, typological and material identity.
Docomomo Switzerland and Docomomo Italy are engaging in the safeguard battle.
info: breichlin@arch.unisi.ch
Seminar: Vittoriano Viganò. ‘A’ as
Asymmetry, Milan & Mendrisio,
May 14–15, 2008. The Polytechnic of Milan
and the Archive of the Modern (Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio,
Università della Svizzera Italiana) organize a two-day seminar dedicated to
the Italian modernist architect Vittoriano Viganò. The first day (Milan, May
14) will deal with Vigano’s works, his professional life, and his role as
educator. The second day (Mendrisio, May 15) will discuss the future of
Vigano’s Marchiondi Institute and open a wider outlook for modern heritage
protection. info: breichlin@arch.unisi.ch Docomomo Japan Meeting: National
General Meeting and National
Specialist Committee for Technology meeting, Kyoto, May 10–11, 2008. Docomomo
Japan will hold its national meeting and first Technology committee’s seminar
on Modern Technology at the Kyoto International Conference Center (designed
by Sachio Otani) and Kyoto Kaikan (designed by Kunio Maekawa), both included
in the 2004 Docomomo 100 Selection. info:docomomojapan@yahoo.co.jp website: www.docomomojapan.com Tour: Chochiku-kyo,
Kyoto, May 2008. Visit of the Chochiku-kyo
MoMo residence, one of the buildings selected in the 2000 Docomomo Japan
register. info:docomomojapan@yahoo.co.jp website: www.docomomojapan.com 2008 Selection: Meetings for the Ten Buildings Selection, Tokyo, January–April
2008. Docomomo
Japan’s National Specialist Committee for Register will have regular meetings
for 2008 selection of ten buildings from January to April in 2008 at the
Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ). info:docomomojapan@yahoo.co.jp website: www.docomomojapan.com Docomomo Mexico Seminar: Habitar
la Modernidad, Mexico City, April 4, 2008. Docomomo
Mexico will hold its third national seminar in the Instituto de
Investigacionse Estéticas, UNAM, from 9am to 3pm. Silvia Arango will give the
opening lecture. website: www.servidor.esteticas.unam.mx:16080/Docomomo Docomomo Morocco Tour: the
History of Agadir’s Reconstruction and the CIAM Debate, Agadir, February
29–March 2nd, 2008. February 29: meeting
with the officials in charge of the urban reconstruction. March 1st:
visit of the urban center, tourist district and new Talboj followed by a
debate on “architecture and urbanism in the 1960s, and modernism of the
second UIA congress.” March 2nd:
tour of the area: the birth of a metropolis. info:a.elhariri@gmail.com & docomomo.maroc@menara.ma Tour: The
Planned New Town of Casablanca – Between Romantic Utopia and
Rationalism, from Prost to Ecochard, Casablanca, April 18–20, 2008. April 18: conférence within the cycle
« Rencontre de l’histoire. Les acteurs d’aujourd’hui » (ESAC). April 19:
tour in Bouyer’s art deco downtown and in the social housing project by
Zevaco (the solitary architect). April 20:
visit of the Habous settlement and Mahkama: the neo-mauresque style and the
work of the architect Cadet. info:a.elhariri@gmail.com & docomomo.maroc@menara.ma Tour: Rabat,
the Birth of a Capital – Between Almouahad’s Traditional Monumentalism and
Style-Seeking, from Laprade and Prost to the 1920s, Rabat, May 30–June
1st, 2008. May 30:
meeting with Ben Mbarek (architect at the National School of Architecture).
May 31: tour of the administrative neighborhood by Laprade and at the
university (by Tastamin, Castelno). June 1st:
visit of the Oudaya Kasba, Challa and the medina (historical sites, fortified
heritage development), visit of Kenitra (twentieth century planned new town
and fluvial harbor), Mehdia citadel and Sidi Boughaba natural park. info:a.elhariri@gmail.com & docomomo.maroc@menara.ma Docomomo Netherlands 10th International Conference: The Challenge of Change, Rotterdam, September 13–20, 2008. The Dutch
chapter of Docomomo is honored to host the 10th International Docomomo Conference
with the general theme “The Challenge of Change”. The 2008 edition will mark
the twentieth anniversary of Docomomo. The venue will be the Van Nelle
Factory in Rotterdam. This renowned modern movement icon will accommodate the
conference program of parallel paper and case study presentations,
round-table sessions, the second edition of the international Docomomo
student workshop and public evening lectures by distinguished invited
speakers. Pre- and post-conference tours to Dutch MoMo buildings and other
landmarks of Dutch architecture will also be part of the conference program. September 13:
kick-off of the second edition of the international Docomomo student
workshop. Presentation of the workshop results during the conference, on
September 19. September
14-16: evening lectures, pre-conference tours and exhibition. September 16:
opening of the conference with an evening reception. September
17-19: 10th International Docomomo Conference with parallel paper, posters
& case study presentations and round-table sessions during the day,
followed by lectures and cultural events during the evening. September 20:
post-conference tours. Registration
opens January 15, 2008! info: conference@docomomo2008.nl newsletter:http://docomomo.nonverbaal.nl/nieuwsbrief/template_nieuwsbrief.html website: www.docomomo2008.nl Publication: Docomomo_nl
Newsletter dedicated to ‘Technology’, February 2007. info:info@docomomo.nl website: www.docomomo.nl Docomomo Puerto Rico Article and Forum: Metropolitan San Juan: Fragmented City, Winter 2008. Docomomo
Puerto Rico will publish an article and will carry out a public forum
discussing the development of Metropolitan San Juan as a fragmented
discontinuous city composed of large mono-functional districts. The research,
lead by Docomomo Puerto Rico’s Urbanism Committee, contributes toward an
understanding of the effects of modern urbanism and planning policies on San
Juan’s urban form. info: urbanismo@docomomopr.org Seminar: Dream
Machines: the fantastic self in Puerto Rican Modern Architecture, Fall
2008. A whole day
seminar will be divided into two sessions. The morning session will address
historical issues, while the afternoon session will focus on the traces of the
so-called “modern architectural escapism” that remain on the contemporary
cultural scene. This seminar is organized by Docomomo Puerto Rico’s Education
and Theory Committee. info: teoria@docomomopr.org Round Table: Why
were these buildings registered in Docomomo Puerto Rico?, February 2008. An
informative conversation with the building care-takers and users of the
Educational buildings registered in 2007 Registration Committee Homework. info: vice@docomomopr.org Conference: El
verde moderno, April 2008. Docomomo
Puerto Rico in collaboration with the Landscape Department, Polytechnic
University of Puerto Rico will hold a conference during the Landscape
Designers Week. website: www.docomomopr.org Docomomo Slovenia Publication: Atlas
Ravnikar, Ljubljana, January 2008. Atlas Ravnikar is a pocket size brief guide to
Edvard Ravnikar’s architecture, published by Docomomo Slovenia for the
centenary of his birth. It includes the introduction to his architecture, a
list of 190 Ravnikar’s built buildings and projects, a description of 16 most
important buildings, a short biography, Ravnikar’s quotations and 6 maps
describing the location of his buildings. Author: Natasa Koselj, language:
Slovene/English. The book will be launched the last week in January, at
Mladinska knjiga, Slovenska c. 29. info: docomomoslovenija@yahoo.com Lecture: The
Brick in Aalto’s Architecture, Ljubljana, February 22, 2008. Esa
Laaksonen, director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, will give a public lecture
about the role of the brick in Aalto’s and other MoMo Finnish architecture,
at 11am at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. info: docomomoslovenija@yahoo.com Docomomo Switzerland Conference: Architectures
de la Croissance – les Paradoxes de la Sauvegarde, Zurich, February
28–29, 2008. Docomomo
Switzerland, together with the ETH and Icomos Schweiz, organizes a two-day
seminar which aims at proposing a productive debate on the opportunities and
limits of conservation and reuse of postwar aarchitecture. Among the speakers
will be: Catherine Dumont d’Ayot, Richard Klein, Yvan Delemontey, Franz Graf,
and Bruno Reichlin. The location will be the ETH Zurich, Hauptgebäude,
Semperaula. info: dumontdayot@arch.ethz.ch Docomomo United Kingdom Publication: Architect
as Artist, London, January 11, 2008. A new book by
Richard England, Architect as Artist
(edited by Dennis Sharp), will be launched with the architect at the RIBA
Bookshop (66 Portland Place London WC!) at 6pm. Lecture: Docomomo
UK Spring Lecture Series, London, January 15, 2008. Prof Judi
Loach at 7pm at The Gallery (70 Cowcross Street London EC1). Lecture: Building
for the Island of Stone and Concrete, London, January 17, 2008. Architect
Richard England will speak about his work of over fifty years as the leading
architect and artist in Malta, at The Gallery (70 Cowcross Street London
EC1). This special lecture is promoted by Docomomo UK and BookART. Exhibitions: Bruce
Goff and Vancouverisms: Arthur
Erickson and his Followers, London, June 20–July 20, 2008. During London
Architecture Biennale 2008, two exhibitions in which Docomomo UK is
collaborating on will be hold. Bruce
Goff at Tate Modern: speakers at the symposium will include Joe Price Jr,
Herb Green, Charles Jencks, Bart Prince, Nick Jeffrey, Dennis Sharp, Peter
Cook. Second exhibition Vancouverisms:
Arthur Erickson and his followers including Bing Thom and James Cheng and
Fast + Epp, engineers will be shown in the Canada House (Trafalgar Square
SW1) and will include a symposium. info: dsharp@sharparchitects.co.uk Lecture: Indian Modernism and Chandigarh,
London, April 15, 2008. Prof. Maristella
Casciato, chair of Docomomo International, at 7pm (drinks from 6.30) at The
Gallery (70 Cowcross Street London London EC1). This lecture is in
partnership with The Concrete Centre. Annual Study Tour: Moscow’s and St Petersburg Modernist Heritage, May 21–25, 2008. info: mail@pboye.vispa.com Docomomo
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ISC/Registers Call for 2008 Homework: The Machine, Industry and Modern Architecture. All
chapters are kindly requested to submit 5 new (mini)fiches (and one of those
items more elaborated in a ‘large’ fiche), together with a motivation text.
The typological range is larger than just factory buildings (e.g. the silo of
Banham’s Concrete Atlantis): also
company towns (e.g. Zlin of the Bata company) or converted industrial
buildings may be included (e.g. Van Nelle Design Factory). The ISC/R is
specially interested in the motivation texts that explain the chapter’s
selection and give more national/regional background of the relations between
industry, machine-made products, industrialization of building processes and
modern architecture. Deadline: Submissions
for the Register Homework, June 15, 2008. All
Docomomo chapters are kindly requested to send a CD and a printed copy of the
5 fiches and motivation text by surface mail to: Docomomo
ISC/Registers, NAi/Collection, Museumpark 25, NL-3015 CB Rotterdam. Meeting:
Annual Session of the ISC/Registers,
Paris (France), July 2008. ISC/Registers’
next official meeting will be
dedicated to the inspection of the 2008 homework submissions by the chapters,
and to the organization of the 2009 ISC/Registers seminar in Spain, as
a sequence to the previous seminars (Athens 2004, The Body, Sport and Modern Architecture; London 2006, The Postwar Modern House). The meeting
will be hosted by Docomomo International headquarters, in the recently opened
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, at the beginning of July 2008. 10th International Conference: Poster Session on ‘Education’, Rotterdam (The Netherlands),
September 13–20, 2008. Docomomo
chapters who have submitted the 2007 homework are invited to participate in
the poster-exhibition on the occasion of the 10th International Docomomo
Conference ‘The Challenge of Change (see
Docomomo Netherlands section). The A1-size posters should contain a short
written explanation of the presented selection of educational buildings, and
images of the 5 selected buildings. website: www.docomomo-registers.com ISC/Technology Seminar:
Visions of Housing. Reworking Modern
Movement, Pärnu (Finland), April 25, 2008. This case study-seminar
will be dedicated to Parnu Kek, a 1970s social housing and industrial area with
characteristic aesthetics and technology. It will address the following
issues: how to trace and define the qualities of this period, its structures
and details? How to maintain and renew this area without losing its
architectural value? What technologies to work with? What about the social
values? How to maintain the vision? Experts will address social, aesthetic,
and technological visions of questions and possibilities of sustainability.
The seminar will be hosted by Estonian Academy of Art and lead by Professor
Mart Kalm. info: ola.Wedebrunn@karch.dk website: www.reworking-the-modern-movement.org ISC/Urbanism+Landscape Program:
Thematic Symposia and Electronic Publication Since mid-2007, a
combination of a new series of thematic symposia and an enhanced system of
links on the Docomomo website were organized. The last symposium proceedings “Trash
or Treasure” were circulated through Docomomo’s E-Newsletter at www.archi.fr/DOCOMOMO/docomomo_electronic_newsletter7.htm,
and then placed permanently on record in an electronic archive, accessible by
a direct link. These conferences, once
published electronically, will be not only of intrinsic thematic importance,
as a cumulative web-based ISC/U+L equivalent to the published dossiers of the
ISC/Technology over many years, but will also be a useful way of trialing a
wider electronic archive of open-access information. Other Activities
The possibility of
contributing actively to policy debates as well as just to
research/dissemination was opened up by courtesy of the UIA, who sought
Docomomo’s opinion on a report on Unesco’s Historic Urban Landscape
Initiative, a post-Vienna 2005 project. Our initial response argued that the
traditional ‘Altstadt’ concept of urbanism was too narrow to act as an
adequate vehicle for an expanded concept of urban heritage, especially in
relation to the often vast MoMo environments. We also offered to co-operate
with Unesco on this initiative through a permanent liaison arrangement with
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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
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