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First International Conference

 

Eindhoven, 1990 (Sold out)

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Second International Conference

Dessau, September 16-19, 1992 (Sold out)

The functionalist dwelling: Successes and failures - Conceptions and conflicts regarding the restoration and renovation of the settlement ‘Reform’ in Magdeburg - The phenomenon of ‘Modernity’ in domestic architecture - The essence of the modern movement - Conserving the 20th century architectural heritage: Approaches to a common problem - Swedish Modern Movement architecture from the 1930s: Its characteristics and how to protect and take care of it - Modern movement documentation as a central resource for architectural education

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Third International Conference - Barcelona, September 16-19, 1994

Lectures :Artistic autonomy or functional determinism: The dilemma of form in Modern Architecture by Juan Antonio Cortes- Megaform and landform as a remedial strategy by Kenneth Frampton - The art of building cities by Antonio Monestiroli - The selective inventory of Modern Movement works: Monuments versus ordinary architecture by Gérard Monnier - The division of function in the modern city: The debate between CIAM and Team X by Dennis Sharp - The problem and Myth of technology in Modern Movement architecture by Igansi de Sola-Morales - The critical restoration of Modern Architecture by Bruno Reichlin

Registers Session: Modern Slovenian Architecture and the Conservation of Monuments by Stane Bernik, Jelka Pirkovic, Gojko Zupan—Possible Selection of Criteria fo Safeguarding the 20th Century Built Heritage by Gilles Barbey, Michel Clivaz—The Modern Movement in Leningrad: problems of the register by Boris Kirikov, Maria Makogonova—Chronological and Sylistic Criteria or the Modern Movement by Janis Kubickova—The Architecture of Modernity in Québec : modern movement of international style ? by France Vanlaethem—The Modern Movement in the City of Salvador by Angela West Pedrao, Anna Beatriw Galvao—Noticing the Ordinary : an archaeology of building provision by David Whitham

Technology Session : Specific Technologies for the Maintenance of Modern-Movement Architecture by Pier Giovanni Bardelli, Angelica Frisa Morandini ; Antonietta Cerrato, Katerina Mele ; and Carlo Ostorero—The Restoration of the Two Buikdings of Ernst Neufert in Jena by Susanna Engelmann—Industrial Thought on Technique qs Seen Through the Works of Jean Prouvé by Susqnnq Ferrini—The Ferro-Cemento Experimentql Storehouse by Pier Luigi Nervi by Claudio Greco—The Hanken Building-Swedish School of Economics and Business : Restoration Priciples by Juha Lemstrom—Rennovation Problems of the Hans Scharoun Building on the WUWA Housing stat by Jadwiga Urbanik

Architectural History Session : The Sixth Plane and Illumination by Susan Bower – The Paradox of the Modern Movement: Fifty Years of Reconstruction and Conservation in the Netherlands by Robert Docter and Peter van Dun – Aviation Architecture and its Message of Modernity by Marieke Kuipers – Hygiene, Technology and Economy: The 1930s Architecture of the Finnish Defense Forces by Anne Mäkinen

Education Session : The Restoration Project for the Domehouse of Zonnestraal by Aimée de Back – Learning Technology in Perspective Through Transcription by Daniel Bernstein – Importance of the Modern Movement in the Training of New Architects by Mabel Scarone – The Danger of History for Architects by Dietrich W. Schmidt – Typological Approach to Modern Architecture by Giuseppe Strappa – Modern-Movement Design Projects and Realizations in the Training of Young Architects by Krystyna Styrna Bartkowicz and Maria J. Zychowska

Iberian Modern-Movement Architecture : The Battle for ‘A Mexicana’ or Long Live ‘A Mexicana’ by José Manuel Fernandes – Differential Traits of Galician Rationalism: Tradition and Modernity by Fernando Agrasar Quiroga – The Conservation of the Barcelona Pavilion by Isabel Bachs – The Recuperation of a Master Work of Catalan Modernity by Mario Corea – Focal Points and Multiple Poles by José A. Sosa Díaz-Saavedra and María Luisa González García – The Modern Movement in the Canary Islands: Urban Renewal, Architecture and Criticism by María Isabel Navarro Segura – The Restoration of the Casa Bloc by Jaume Sanmarti. 30 euros

 

Fourth International Conference - Universality and Heterogeneity - Bratislava, September 18-20, 1996

Between the Barrier and the Sieve: Finding the Border in the Modern Movement - Modernism in Central Europe: Its background, correlation and manifestations - Towards a reintegration of MoMo architectural cultures - For a historical critique of the idea of unity in the Modern Movement - Universality across time: The prehistory of Modernism

Architectural History:-The Lessson of Eastern Europe by András Ferkai—Architecture as Object and Habituality: Karl Tiege, a Master Builder of Utopias? By Manuela Castagnara—Bohuslav Fuchs—A Synthesiser of Regional Traditions and International Trends by Jan Sedlák—Zlin Architecture: A Lesson of Universitality and Heterogeneity in Modern Moevement by Peter Lizon—German Influences in Slovak Architecture, 1918-1945 by Matús Dulla and Henrietta Hammer—Modern Movement and National Identity:The Cubic House and Its Critique in Early Republican Turkey by Sibel Bozdogan—Tracing German Speaking Jewish Architects by Myra Warhatig and Henry Wingler—Le Corbusier in La Plata: The Curuchet House—Urban Insertion and Transcendental Message

Gardens and Landscapes Session: Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture in America by Charles Birnbau—Green Modernity: The Transcendence of Burle Marx’s work by Guilherme Mazza Dourado—Landscape for Living: Ducthe Resdential Landscape Architecture by Jan Woudstra—Landscape and Architecture at La Foundation Maeght by Jan Birksted

Education Session: Intentions and Policies for the ISC-E. Latin Experience at the University of Buenos Aires by Mabel Scarone—From Virtual  Space to the Apple Tree: Student Projects for the Future Bahaus Competition by Penyo Stolarov

Register Session: Official Point of View and Personal Regard on the DOCOMOMO International Selection by France Vanlaethem—Is It In or Is It Out? Developing a DOCOMOMO Registry in the Northeastern United States by Andrew Wolfram, Theodore Prudon and the DOCOMOMO Northeastern US WP—Vancuover’s Recent Landmark Program by Robert G. Lemon and Marco D’Agostini—The Modern Movement in Palm Springs, California, USA by Anthony A. Merchell—DPH and DOCOMOMO—Register of Modern Movement Architecture in the Sity of Sao Paolo, Brazil by Mirthes I. S ; Baffi, Clara Correia d’Alambert and Wlater Pires—Dutch MoMo—Monuments Under Discussion by Marieke Kuipers

Preservation Session: Aspects of Preservarion of the Early Modern Movement in Denmark by Helen G. Zlling and Ola Wedebrunn—Preserving Modern Housing: Two Contrastnig Excperiences in London by Catherine F. A ; Croft—Modern Architecture as Educational Catalyst by Allen Cunningham—Rehabilitation Technology User Expecttations and Aura—Daniel Bernstein

Urbanism Session: Urbanism in the Modern Movement in Wroclaw by Wanda Kononwicz—Oswaldo Bratke: Two Urban Challenges in the Amazon by Hugo Segawa –Avant garde and « Traditional » Elements in 1960’s Urbanism: The Cqse of Cunbernauld New Town by Miles Glendinning—Town Planning After the War in its Mid-Life Crisis: Current Developments in Conservation in the Netherlands from a Policy Point of View by Rob Docter—The Influence of the Modern Movement in Argentine Housing by Alfredo Conti.

 Technology Session: DOCOMOMO’s Technology Data-Base; Towards a World-wide Network—Concrete and California Modernism by Jeffrey M. Chusid—Folk Roots in MoMo’s Technical Innovations: A  Case Study by Jorge O. Gazaneo;

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Fifth International Conference - Vision and reality: Social aspects of architecture and urban planning in the modern movement - Stockholm, September 16-18, 1998
Keynote lectures: The Modern vision and its critics - ‘Visions’: An empty expression or a designed future? For a return to the tasks and goals of architecture - The social concepts of Modernism and their application in different states - Contradictions and achievements of the Modern Movement in the United States, 1932-50
Nordic session: Modernism as a vehicle for social change in the Nordic Welfare-states - “One day we shall inherit the Earth”: Swedish functionalism as a vision and in reality - Norway - Vision and reality: Denmark - Finnish Modernism: Future ideas and hard realities - Social aspects and Modern architecture in Iceland
Primary session: Confronting the ‘Modern’ in architecture: The limits, the limit - The Eichler Homes and the hybridization of California Modernism - The birth of Modern architecture in Japan: Internal and external aspects in the 1920s and 1930s - 30 euros

Sixth International Conference - The Modern City facing the Future - Brasília, September 19-22, 2000

Opening session: Hubert-Jan Henket
Main Theme Sessions: Modern movement and Urban history by Jean-Louis Cohen - Le Corbusier and Latin America: Urban Thinking / Urban projects – A Third world Modern Urbanism by Milton Santos – Latin American cities by Silvia Arangos – French Modern Cities, by Philippe Panerai – Rome, the city of the future in the lessons of history; typological models and strategies of intervention by Maria Letizia Conforto – Paradoxes in the conservation of newness: the invention of an antipodean “civic domain” by Hanna Lewi – The conception of Abuja, the new capital city of Nigeria, as synthesis of planning principles from Europe.
Brasilia Session: City and citizenship: a contribution to the study of the modern city considered a work of art: Chandigarh and Brasilia by Matheus Gorowitz – Living with Brasilia. A resident’s perspective of the confrontation between heroic vision and social reality by Rosane Bauer – What do we really know about Brazilia? Misleading and prejudice in canonical books by Ruth Verde Zein and Ana Gabriela Gohinho Lima – A legal system for urbanism: the modern movement unseen face by Sarah Feldman – Architectural and social modernity: the image of Brasilia in the European movies by Mario Campos – Brasilia reproduced as backdrop by Sunil Bald.
History and Theory Session: Buildings building the city: Saõ Paulo in the Fifties by Carlos Martins – Ancient and Modern Cities in the work of Constantine Doxiadis by Panayotis Tournikiotis – Brazil in Modern architectural handbooks by Nelci Tinem and Lucia Borges – Matrix of man by Hilde Heynen – About the teaching of theory and history of Modern Architecture: for the dissemination of new notions and conceptions by Pasqualino Romano Magnavita.
Housing session: Fifty years after the INA-Casa by Paola Di Biagi – Modern city as a tool of Russification: Estonian experience by Mart Kalm – The Heritage of the grands ensembles by Philippe Panerai – A la recherche de la maison moderniste perdue by Sonia Marques and Edja Trigueiro – Creating historic modern cities by learning from modern historic rules by Paul Meurs.
Public Space session: SOS Berlin Alexander Platz: the raising of DDR Modernism by Maria de Betania Cavalcanti-Brendle – Airport as city square: Toronto Edmonton and Winnipeg airports, 1964 by Bernard Flaman – In search of the sublime Villanueva and the Central University Campus in Caracas by Silvia Hernandez de Lasala – Clone city: Modernism, landscape and the crisis of the European conurbation by Miles Glendinning – Rethinking the core of the city: beyond the functionalism in the Hiroshima Place Center by Kenzo Tange by Kenji Watanabe – Public spaces by Burle Marx by Guilherme Mozza-Dourado – The “ville verte”: rethinking City Landscape by Franco Panzini.
Urban Conservation Session: Urban Conservation Session report by Paul Meurs – The modern movement city planning in the Russian Provinces by Jan Molena and Ivan Nevzgodine – Contextualism & rupture. Modernism in the post-war reconstruction of Lübeck by Klaus Brandle – Large scale interventions in Boston’s Back Bay (1950-present): a self-correcting modernist Urbanism by David Fixler and Hélène Lipstadt – Brussels skuscrapers: problems of identity. Destroying in the name of protection by Sarah Moutury.
Register Session: Coming of age: Scottish new towns in the 21st century by David Witham – The social housing in the 1920s: the garden city concept by Jean-Marc Basyn and Luc Verpoest – X-ray the city! Ernest Fooks, modern planner in the new world by Catherine Townsend – Modern shops and modern shapes – registration versus regeneration by Marieke Kuipers.
Technology Session: Power architecture in modern New Zealand by Andrew Stuart Leach – Essential war material, modernism harbinger: unseasoned hardwood and its implications for the post-war Australian city by Philip Goad – Brazilian modern architecture: climatic adaptation principles by Griselda Pinheiro Klüppel – Transitions in modernist factory planning in Saõ Paulo 1945-55: The influence of British and North-American design idea by Philip Gunn.
Closing lectures: Reconsidering Chandigarh: the question of preservation and intervention in the sector 17 Central Chowk by Jadish Sagar – Brasilia facing the future by Paulo Zimbres – The modern city facing the future by Allen Cunningham – The reception of modern architecture by Fabienne Chevallier - 30 euros

Seventh International Conference - Image, use, heritage, the reception of architecture of the modern movement - Paris, September 18-19, 2002

Seventh International Conference –The Reception of Architecture of the Modern Movement: Imqge, Usage, Heritage-- Paris. September 16-19, 2002

Introduction: Preface by Francesco Bandarin and Jacqueline Bayon—Une Histoire Culturelle de la Modernité Architecturale by Jean-Yves Andrieux—La  Modernité Française de L’entre-Deux-Guerres et L’esthétique de la Réception by Fabienne Chevallier

Prelude : The Challenges of the Modern Movement : UNESCO’s World Heritage Center and the Programme on Modern Heritage by Franceso Bandarin—« Back From Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement» by Hubert-Jan Henket—What Happened ? by Wessel de Jonge—La politique de l’institut français d’architecture en Faveur de L’héritage du Mouvement Moderne by Jean-Louis Cohen—La Réception de L’Architecture du Mouvement Moderne by Gérard Monnier

Chapter 1 : Buildings Urban Themes and their Interpretations : Introduction by Panayotis Tournikiotis—The Iconic Status and Historical Significance of hte Leicester University Engineering Laboratory, designed by James Sterling and James Gowan by Edwin S. Brierly—Myths of the Mies Pavillion by Emma Dent Coad—Eero Saarinen’s Arch and Social Distinction : the lessons from Pierre Bourdieu for Modern Movement Critical Reception and History by Helen Lipstadt—La Reception du Palais l’UNESCO : la modernité internationale sur la scène française by :Claude Loupiac—Une Doctrine –les cinq points de l’architecture moderne- et son manifeste- la Villa Savoie : leur réception par les architectes italiens de 1933 a 1960 by  Marcello Pazzaglini et Silvia Salvati

Chapter 2 : Publics and Usages : Introduction by Jean-Yves Andrieux—Today’s Image of Swedish Housing Areas Built Between 1930 and 1965 by Marina Botta—Obsolescence et Modernité Architecturales by Isabelle Chesnau—Modernity of Modern Imagery :Reception of the Szent Istavàn Park Apartment Complex in Budapest by András Ferkai—La Réception et le quartier des grattes-ciel, centre de Villeurbanne, ou pourquoi des grattes-ciel a Villeurbanne en 1932 ? by Emmanuelle Gallo—The Politics of Utopianism : the conception and reception of Mass Housing in England by Miles Glendinning

Chapter 3 : Writings on and Images of the Modern Movemnt : Introduction by Catherine Cooke—Building Soberly, Acting Bizzarely : Architects and the Modern Movement by Inge Bodbrecky—Constructing an Image : photographie of Finnish architecture by Petra Ceferin—The Media and the Modern Movement in Nigeria and the Gold Coast  by Hannah le Roux—La Réception de l’unité d’habitation de Marseille de Le Corbusier dans les revues d’architecture en Italie by Nicoletta Trasi—L’architecture à la télévision française (1945-1980) :vers un lieu de débat sur le mouvement moderne ? by Alice Thomine

Chapter 4 : Heritage and Conservation Strategies : Introduction by France Vanlaethem—De la Stigmatisation à la monumentalité du Mouvement moderne : l’œuvre de Le Corbusier en Gironde by Bruno Fayolle-Lussac—Fairy Tales and Fair Practice, Considering Conservation, Image and Use by Marieke Kuipers—La Cité Modèle du Heysel :aspect patrimonial by Sarah Moutury—Rose Seidler House : the representation of use value in modern places by Alexandra Teague—Evaluating Modern Heritage in the Federal Government of Canada’s Building Inventory by Andrew M. Waldon

Chapter 5 : Writings and Images on the Modern Movement (2) : Introduction by Richard Klein—The Reception and Image of Modern Industrial Buildings by Nina Rappaport—White Modernism ? One of the Major Misunderstandings in the Reception of the Modern Movement by Barbara Klinkhammer—The Reception of the Brazillian Trend by Hugo Segwa—La Fortune Critique de Louis Sullivan et Frank Lloyd Wright en Allemagne : une page d’écriture de la modernité by Helene Jannière—La Réception de Robert Mallet-Stevens : la redécouverte d’un architecte au succès controversé by Nathalie Roulleau-Simonnot

Chapter 6 : Reception and Technical Innovations : Introduction by Ola Wedebrunn and Jaques-Yves Andrieux—The Role of Technology in Modern Architecture by Massimo Dringoli—Le Pan de Verre de l’UNESCO : entre ouvert et fermé, double et simple by Daniel Bernstein and Vanessa Fernandez—Réhabiliter ou Rénover le Patrimone architectural contemporain : le cas du centre administratif et siège mondial de Nestlè à Vevey by Dominiaue D. J. Gilliard—Stone-faced Precast Panel Technology : monitoring intervention techniques for stabilisation by Kyle C. Normandin—Modern Movement Clashes over the Traditions of Building and Living by Carlo Pozzi—Colour : an uknown feature of Wroclaw  « Nues Bauen » Architecture by Jadwiga Urbanik and Agnieszka Gryglewska

Chapter 7 : Buildings, Urban Schemes and their Interpretations (2)

Introduction by Kaisa Broner Bauer –  After the Modern Movement : The Falchera Neighborhood in Torino, an Example of Reception of the Modern Movement, between the Abstract Model and Quotidian Use by Pier Giovanni Bardelli, Carlo Caldera, Marika Mangosio, Carlo Ostorero, Caterina Mele –La médiatisation d’Habitat 67 et le mythe de la fin de l’architecture moderne by Hubert Beringer –Life and Death of a Modern Avenue : W-3, Brasilia by Frederico Rosa Borges de Holanda, Alexandre Sampaio da Silva, Lilian Maria Borges Leal de Britto, Lucia Helena Ferreira Moura, Ronald Belo Ferreira –Le Lycée Camille-Sée (Paris, 1934) ou la modernité célébrée by Marc Le Cœur – The Architecture of the “Record Years”: Characteristics to Preserve and Develop by Sonja Vidén

Chapter 8 : The Values of the Modern Movement: Local Reception and the International Dimension Introduction by Daniéle Voldman –  Reflections on Modern Movement Architecture in the Mass Media of the Urals Region, Russia by Olga Alekseevna Bukharkina and Lyudmila Ivanovna Tokmeninova –  Modernity and Architecture in New Zealand by Andrew Leach –  The Political Treatment of the Modern Movement: The Case of Belgrade by Aleksandra Stupar – Le Corbusier et Saint-Dié: les termes du débat by Vincent Bradel –  La réception de l’architecture brésilienne à Royan by Gilles Ragot

Chapter 9 : Events and Demonstrations Introduction by Jean-Yves Andrieux –Australian Reception: The International Architectural Exhibition in Melbourne, 1927 by Philip Goad – “When camels fly”: The 1934 Levant Fair, Tel Aviv by Raquel Rapaport, Horacio Schwarz and Arie Sivan –Le concours international pour le siege de l’Organisation Mondiale de la santé (OMS), en 1959: un outil d’innovation by Aymone Nicolas –Tropical Extravaganza in Berlin: The Reception of the “Niemeyer House” at the Interbau-Berlin, 1957 and of Brazilian Architecture in German, Swiss and Austrian Journals of the 1940s and ‘50s by Márcio Correia Campos –From Event Architecture to Ephemeral Permanence: Archigram in the Antipodes by Louise Annabelle Noble

Chapter 10 : Modern Architecture and the Construction of Identities

Introduction by Stanislaus von Moos –La réception de l’habitation coloniale moderne en Libye (1930-1940).  Théories, modèles, débats by Riccardo Forte –The Modern Movement Put into a Different Context by Hiroyasu Fujioka –Attitudes Towards Modern Architecture in the USSR and Russia (second half of the 20th century): A Testimony by Andrei Gozak –The Welsh Heritage of Modern Movement - Questions of International Import Raised by one Small Country by Judi Loach –Professional Reception vs. Cultural Context - For Whom do we Preserve the Architecture of the Modern Movement? by Anja Kervanto Nevanlinn

Chapter 11 : Modern Heritage as World Heritage Introduction: Panel on Modern Heritage as World Heritage: Identification and Preservation of Modern Urban Heritage by Francesco Bandarin –Modern Heritage as World Heritage: How to find Advocates for Modern Heritage? by Fabio Grementieri –How Should the Basic Requirements of the World Heritage List be Interpreted in the Case of Modern Architecture? by Jukka Jokilehto –Identification et preservation du patrimoine moderne urbain by Jean-Louis Cohen

Epilogue L’architecture moderne vivante by Dani Karavan. 40 euros

. Preservation technology dossiers


Dossier 1 - Curtain Wall Refurbishment: A challenge to manage - January 1996
Lectures: An image of modernity: An American history of the curtain wall - Curtain walls in the Netherlands: Refurbishing an architectural phenomenon - A future for curtain wall: Typology, development, lifespan and refurbishment - Curtain walls as a system of building physics: A perspective for refurbishment - Natural stone: Ageing curtain walls in the United Kingdom - Redevelopment of postwar real estate
Case studies: Curtain walls in the USA: Failures, investigation and repair - Blaak 333 (Kraaijvanger, 1961): A critical review of a second life - The Rijnhotel (Merkelback & Emming, 1957): An approximate image - City savings Bank (Tvarozek, 1930): Slovakia’s first curtain wall refurbishment - St. Cuthbert’s (Marwick & Sons, 1936): An early curtain wall - The Thyssen Haus (HPP Architects, 1957): A curtain wall replaced from head to toe - The Amoco building (Stone, 1970): Recladding of a marble landmark o Boots factory (Williams, 1932): Careful medication for a curtain wall - 20 euros

Dossier 2 - The Fair Face of Concrete: Conservation and repair of exposed concrete - 1997
History and development: Concrete is art: The design potential of concrete - A miracle material: The abstract expression of concrete - A Modern Movement in engineering: Technology and architecture - José Luis Delpini: Centennial of an unknown master engineer - Concrete Atlantis: The ‘faces’ of concrete in the United States - Authenticity is more than skin deep: Conserving Britain ‘s postwar concrete architecture
Diagnose and remedy: Concrete diagnose: Failure and repair of reinforced concrete o Preserving more… by doing less!: Principles of electro-chemical concrete repair - Durability of electro-chemical repair in the Netherlands: Housing Frederikstraat, The Hague (1978) - Concrete repair and material authenticity: Evaluation of material authenticity: Evaluation of electro-chemical preservation techniques
Case studies: Restoring brilliant ornamentation: Bahá’i house of worship (Louis Bourgeois, 1920-53) - An unobtrusive treatment: Pumping station Parkluizen, Rotterdam (1968) - A brilliant match?: Pumping station Parkluizen, Rotterdam (1968) - Investments in an invisible future: The Nubar Bey villa at Garches (Auguste Perret, 1931) - A delay of decay: Notre-Dame de Royan (Guillaume Gillet, 1958) - Spiritual architecture in concrete: St. Antonius Church (Moser, 1927) and Goetheanum (Steiner, 1928) - Patch repair leaves architectural integrity: The Beethoven hall of the Stuttgart Liederhalle - A multi phased approach: Promontory apartments, Chicago (Mies van des Rohe, 1949) - A tailored remediation tragedy: Finsbury Health Center (Tecton & Lubetkin, 1938) - 20 euros

Dossier 3 - Reframing the Moderns, Substitute Windows and Glass - April 2000
History and developments: Windows - Steel framed windows of the 1930s: Metal window industry in Finland - Glass as matter: A brief history of manufacturing and application - Window glass technology in the 20th Century: Glass manufacturing in the United States
Strategies ans policies: Framing opinions: English campaign to conserve windows - Keep the spirit!: Window replacement in Rotterdam’s 1900-1960 districts - An artificial look: PVXC replacement windows in Tallinn
Case study: Restoration of a 19th Century curtain wall: The Reliance Building of Chicago, USA - Modern buildings and their windows: some restoration experiences in Germany - Restoration of transparency: The Casa del Fascio in Como (Giuseppe Terragni, 1932-36) - Preservation of steel framed windows: The Weisse Stadt Estate in Berlin-Reinickendorf, 1929-30 - Modification of existing windows: Vestersø Apartment House (Fisker & Møller, 1937-39) - The window and the plane: The Central Post Office in The Hague (Bremer, 1939-49) - Retention and replacement, a careful balance: The Westman House in Lund, Sweden (1939) - Euro-legislation calls for changes: Copenhagen’s White Meat Town (1932-34) - Light and air in a poisonous and noisy world: Sveaplan School in Stockholm (Ahrbom & Zimdahl, 1936) - Re-use of a building where less is more: Rietveld’s School of Art, Arnhem (1958-63) - 20 euros

Dossier 4 - Wood and Modern Movement - August 2000
Lectures: Beyond the balloon frame: Engineered wood comes of age in USA - Understanding and interpreting the spirit is a necessity for Restoration: Timeless patterns in Alvar Aalto’s use of wood o Modern times for Norwegian wood - The Venice pavilion of Alvar Aalto: Problems in the conservation of Modern Architecture - Konrad Wachsmann’s use of log building traditions in Modern Architecture - Prototype of the undulating wooden ceiling in Viipuri Library: A case study o Wood and acoustics in the Scandinavian concert hall of the Modern Movement - Architectural principles in wooden Functionalism in Finland
Articles: Wide-spanned wood structures in the Modern Movement in Germany and Austria - West Coast regionalism: An overview of the development of wood Modernism in British Columbia - Paradox of Modernity: Why K. Knutsen’s cottage in Portor is out of tradition - From corner-timbered log wall to light-frame structures: research project 98-99 - Life cycle assessment: Essential instrument for decision on environmental issues - Expressions and trends for woods windows in Europe - Thermotimber: A new material for rerestoration - 20 euros

Dossier 5 - Modern Colour Technology: Ideals and Conservation - July 2002
History and developments: Colour and Modern Movement architecture - Colour concepts and colour scales in Modern architecture - restoring and colouring in the architecture of Loos - Creating a cosmos of colours - Colour in Russian Modern architecture during the interwar period - Colour images section History and Developments
Diagnosis and remedy: Polychrome or monochrome? - Surprising colours of a transparent factory: the van Nelle complex in Rotterdam - The reproduction of historical colours with modern paints - Modernism and colour, a problem with source materials - Colour images section Diagnosis and Remedy
Case study: Colours of the Copenhagen airport 1939 - E 1027 maison en bord de mer o Lay out of the Aubette in Strasbourg by Theo Van Doesburg and its restoration - Focus on original finish and colour during restoration of Le Corbusier’s Maison Guiette (1926) in Antwerp - Miving in a painting - The Renaat Braem house (1958) - Colour on plaster and framework - Modern colours reviewed - Henry van de Velde: A welcome home… - 20 euros

Dossier 6 - Stone in Modern Buildings: Principles of Cladding - April 2003
Main themes: Experiencing Stone, structure and cladding - Marble sheeting in Modern architecture - Prerequisites and alteration of materials in the restoration of Modern buildings
Materials and diagnosis: Stone facing techniques in 20th Century handbooks - Characteristics of stone and the choice of quarry - Cladding technology, from slab to precast - Stone-faced precast panel technology: Monitoring and intervention techniques for stabilization
Case studies: palazzo della Civilità Italiana, Rome - Arhus Town Hall (Arne Jacobsen & Erik Møller, 1938-40) - Milá House, Barcelona (Antoni GaudÍ I Cornet with Josep Maria Jujol, 1905-10) - Shell House, Berlin (Emil Farhenkamp, 1930-32) - Post Office Building, Naples (Giuseppe Vaccaro & Gino Franzi, 1928-36) - Finlandia Hall, Helsinski (Alvar Aalto, 1967-71)
Posters: Techniques and experiments in fixing stone cladding - Natural polychromy and materiality in Angiolo Mazzoni’s buildings - The marble facing of Marconi’s obelisk at EUR, Rome - Gio Ponti’s Palazzo Rasini in Milan - Between autarky and innovation: Spatrisano’s House for the Disabled - The role of stone cladding in Modern Italian architecture - Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio in Como - Durability design in stone cladding facades - 20 euros

Dossier 7 – Technology of sensations: The Alvar Aalto Vyborg Library - September 2004
Introduction: preface by Tatyana Svetelnikova – The technology of sensations by Ola Wedebrunn
Case studies: Zonestraal: restoration of a transitory architecture, by Wessel de Jonge – The Narkofin House and the modern movement in Moscow, by Anke Zalivako – The Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg, by Maija Kairamo and Tapani Mustonen – The 1950s renovation of Viipuri Library, by Kirsti Reskalenko – What’s the time in Vyborg? by Liisa Roberts and al.
Construction of sensations: An analysis of the daylighting principles in two libraries designed by Alvar Aalto by Merete Madsen – The structure and system of Alvar Aalto’s round skylight by Markku Norvatsuo – Aalto and natural light by Tina Sarawgi – Thermal comfort in the Viipuri library, by Emmanuelle Gallo – Architectural paint research in the Vyborg Library, by Mariël Polman – An acoustic research of the undulating wooden ceiling in the Vyborg Library, by Bob Mortensen – Description of the building’s construction (English translation of a text by Alvar Aalto) – Epilogue, by Maija Kairamo. 25 euros

 

 Dossier 8 – Coming Soon

 

Dossier 9 - Climate and Building Physics in the Modern Movement

September 2006

Introduction preface by Jos Tomlow and Ola Wedebrunn—Building Sciences as Reflected in Modern Movement Literature by Jos Tomlow

Articles The Unbearable Lightness of Building : The «Functionality Differentiated Outer Wall» and the Preservation of Modern Movement Buildings by Wessel De Jonge—Hans Scharoun`s Schminke House in Löbau (Saxony): Building Science Aspects, Heating and Ventilation Concepts by Klaus Graupner—First Steps in Establishing the Discipline of Building Science : The Research Institute of Heat Insulation in Munich by Roland Gellert and Horst Zehender—Syzmon Sykrus—CIAM Representative of Poland and Pioneer in Integrating Building Science in Modern Movement Architecture by Jadwiga Ubranik—The Modern Movement and the Flat Roof Discussion by Anke Zalivako—Thermal Strategies : Towards a Modern Insulation by Torben Dahl—Severe Climate as a Conidtion : The Construction of Modern Movement Buildings in Siberia by Ivan Nevzgodin—Aspects of the Tropical Climate Adaptation in Brazilian Modern Movement Architecture by  Griselda Pihheiro Klüppel—Modern Movement Architecture and Heating Innovations in France 1900-1939 by Emmanuelle Gallo—Aire Conditioning and Installations in the Capitol Building in Madrid by César Martín Gómez. 20 euros

. Registers dossiers

Dossier 2 - The Body, Sport and Modern Architecture

 

Preface by Panayotis Tournikiotis

Panayotis Tournikiotis – Rethinking the Body: Sports in Modern Architecture

Niki Loizidi – Body and Sport as Institutions of the Aesthetic Ideology of Modernism

Dimitri Philippides – Athletics, Tourism and Ancient Glory

Maristella Casciato – Rome 1960: Olympic Games and Modernization

Fabienne Chevallier and Marie Vives – Architecture and Sport in France 1918-1945: A Political and Cultural History

Ivana Lazanja and Darja Radović Mahečić – The Croatian Sport Architecture of the Interwar Period

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