DOCOMOMO International Presentation at ETSAB
ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior d´Arquitectura de Barcelona
DATE: 9/5/2011
Ana Tostões, Chair of DOCOMOMO International, will present the institution at the Escola Tècnica Superior d´Arquitectura de Barcelona (Architecture School - ETSAB-UPC) together with a lecture called Transcontinental Modernity.
ETSAB Conference Hall, May 9th 2011 at 11:00am
DOCOMOMO International at ETSAB
Presentation, Lecture and Meetings
DATE: 9/5/2011
Ana Tostoes, Chair, and Ivan Blasi, Secretary of
DOCOMOMO International presented the institution at the Barcelona Architecture School (
ETSAB) in front of an audience of students and professors and with the presence of Ferran Segarra, director of the ETSAB, Zaida Muxí, subdirector, Susana Landrove, director of
DOCOMOMO Iberia, and Lluís Hortet, director of the
Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
Ana Tostoes presented the lecture entitled
Transcontinental Modernism.
After the presentations, the Chair met with ETSAB Professor Pedro Azara regarding the safeguard of the US Embassy built by Josep Lluís Sert in Bagdad. More information can be found at
Bagdad US Embassy.
Another meeting took place with professor Antoni Ramon and architect Guillem Aloy to speak about their current research on Modern theatre architecture and the possibility of collaborating together with a publication.
The director of the ETSAB invited
DOCOMOMO to join him for lunch together with Prof. Mario Gandelsonas, Dean of
Princeton University School of Architecture. Closer collaboration and information exchange was agreed.
DOCOMOMO Colombia
Meeting
DATE: 18/5/2011
Wednesday 18
th May 2011
DOCOMOMO International meeting with members from DOCOMOMO Colombia Place:
DOCOMOMO International Headquarters in BarcelonaTime:
10:00amParticipants:
Maria Pia Fontana, Miguel Y. Mayorga (Colombia) and Ivan Blasi DOCOMOMO Colombia has undergone some internal changes and the new Chair will be Maarten Goossens, replacing Paula Echeverri.
The working group will also be restructured with a minimum number of 10 International Members. Contacts will be done with specialists who have dealt with issues related to Modern Movement Architecture to encourage them to participate in Docomomo events and research projects. Cultural institutions, Museums and Libraries will also be contacted and invited to become part of
DOCOMOMO Colombia.
Any change regarding the headquarters which are now at the Universidad de los Andes, will be reported to
DOCOMOMO International in order to have a contact person who should deal with payment and will receive the
DOCOMOMO Journal.
Several fiches for the ISC/Registers have been produced in the last years but not sent to the Committee. A
DOCOMOMO Colombia Register will be set up and the information which could be important for the ISC/Registers will be sent to the Chair and Secretary of the Committee for their checking. Meanwhile,
DOCOMOMO International, together with the ISC/Registers, is organizing the International Register. Each Chapter has been asked to send 5 fiches on Health for the 2011 ISC/Register homework.
DOCOMOMO Colombia will send an outline of 5 buildings before the 1
st July.
DOCOMOMO Colombia also wants to strengthen its web page. It will organize, systematize and put order to the events, conferences, publications and research materials related to Modern Movement in Colombia and transfer them to the web page in order to evaluate the work done since 2006, when
DOCOMOMO Colombia was established. This will also allow it to have a perspective of the work which has done and prioritize future approaches.
Regarding
DOCOMOMO International’s web page, direct links to the Chapter’s pages are being established. Those events that each chapter considers most important may be published in
DOCOMOMO International’s page.
In the next weeks more information regarding the 2012 International Conference in Espoo will appear as well as the Call for Papers.
DOCOMOMO International is open to questions from its Chapters and members at
docomomo@miesbcn.com and Provença 318 Pral., Barcelona.
A similar report of the meeting, prepared by Maria Pia Fontana and Miguel Y. Mayorga, has been sent to Maarten Goossens and
DOCOMOMO Colombia.
Ivan Blasi
Secretary General
Docomomo International
UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL)
DOCOMOMO International representation
DATE: 24/5/2011
DOCOMOMO international will be represented by Agnès Cailliau (
DOCOMOMO France) at the UNESCO
Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) meeting. The results of this important meeting will become a´soft-law´ (non-binding) to assist UNESCO Member States in meeting the urban challenges of tomorrow.
The intergovernmental meeting of experts (category II), will be held at UNESCO Headquarters from May 25 to 27, 2011, in Paris.
More info:
UNESCO
Selim Omarovich Han-Magomedov, 1929-2011
The famous researcher dies in Moscow
DATE: 3/5/2011
On May 3rd 2011, the honorable member of DOCOMOMO Russia, the internationally famous researcher of Soviet Avant-garde Architecture Selim Omarovich Chan-Magomedov passed away in Moscow.
DOCOMOMO International wishes to express its condolences to his family and friends.
Carmen Córdova, 2011
DATE: 1/2/2011
It is with regret and sadness that DOCOMOMO Argentina informs to the international DOCOMOMO community that architect Carmen Cordova passed away a few weeks ago.
The name might sound unknown for most of you, but Carmen Cordova has been one of the most outstanding representatives of Modern Movement practitioners in Argentina. Together with her partner and then husband, Horacio Baliero, they were the authors of the remarkable Colegio Mayor Argentino in Madrid, Spain (included in the International Register/pictures attached), among other interesting examples of the adaptation of modern ideas to the local context.
She has also been involved in the academic life at the University of Buenos Aires, being the first woman architect to be elected Dean of the School of Architecture by the end of the 80’s. It was at that time that she received the first news about DOCOMOMO and it was her who gave to our team all her support in the pioneering years. Her enthusiastic and positive attitude to face every day tasks and her kind sound support to new projects was an inspiring model for all of us.
DOCOMOMO International wishes to express its condolences to his family and friends.
DOCOMOMO US Tour Day
5th Annual Tour Day
DATE: 8/10/2011
COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND
OCTOBER 8-10, 2011
TOUR DAY 2011 is the fifth annual DOCOMOMO US National Tour Day providing exclusive access to the architecture and interiors of the Modern Movement.
The knowledge of local experts and enthusiasts paired with the resources of the national community of preservationists, architects, and educators combine to create exciting and enriching tours. Each tour is uniquely designed to take full advantage of the Modern resources the region has to offer.
More info:
Tour DayViennese WERKBUNDSIEDLUNG
Support the on-site Museum
DATE: 6/7/2011
Docomomo Austria would like to ask all Docomomo Working Parties for support in creating an appropriate on-site museum for the Viennese WERKBUNDSIEDLUNG.
Please sign the online petition:
WerkbundsiedlungMourad Benmbarek, 2011
Docomomo Morocco Vice-Chair dies
DATE: 8/8/2011
On August 8th 2011, the honorable member of DOCOMOMO Morocco, the internationally famous architect of the new Agadir, Mourad Benmbarek, passed away.
DOCOMOMO International wishes to express its condolences to his family and friends.
Condolences
(English text below)
Nous avons appris avec une profonde affliction le décès de Monsieur Mourad Benmbarek, vice président de Docomomo Maroc, qui nous a quitté subitement le lundi 8 août 2011.
En ces douloureuses circonstances, docomomo.maroc, présente ses condoléances les plus sincères à ses enfants à tous les membres de sa famille, ainsi qu’aux amis et confrères, que Dieu ait l’âme du défunt en sa sainte miséricorde.
Monsieur Mourad Benmbarek, l’un des premiers architectes nationaux du Maroc, homme de grande culture et militant de l’architecture du mouvement moderne, rédacteur en chef de la revue marocaine d’architecture et de l’urbanisme A+U. Il a aussi connu un parcours très honorable dans sa vie professionnelle marocaine et internationale.
Responsable des études du service central de l’urbanisme, lors de la reconstruction de la ville d’Agadir détruite par le séisme en 1960. Monsieur Mourad Benmbarek, ancien président du Conseil supérieur des architectes, il a milité pour obtenir la marocanisation de l’Ordre des architectes et la reforme des textes d’exercice de la profession qui fut obtenue en 1976.
Monsieur Mourad Benmbarek a marqué le paysage urbain au Maroc par des ouvrages important et résolument moderne d’une architecture militante dans des domaines aussi variés telle que les sièges de Banque Al Maghrib ; le Centre National de la Monnaies ; Le siège de l’Administration des Douanes et des Impôts Directs. L’Aéroport Mohamed V de Casablanca – Nouasser, et d’autres ouvrages de tourisme tel les hôtels de la Royal Air Maroc RAM a Agadir et a Marrakech. La tour Atlas a Casablanca pour le compte des Habous et d’autres ouvrages.
Nous sommes à Dieu et à lui nous retournons.
Docomomo Marroc
With deep sorrow we received the news of the death of Mr. Mourad Benmbarek, Vice-Chair of Docomomo Morocco, who suddenly passed away on Monday, August 8, 2011.
In these painful circumstances, Docomomo Morocco presents its deepest condolences to his children, to all family members, as well as friends and brothers. God have his departed soul in His holy mercy.
Mr. Mourad Benmbarek, was a leading national architect in Morocco, a man of great culture, an activist of the architecture of the Modern Movement and editor of A + U, the Moroccan Architecture and Urbanism Journal. He also achieved a very honorable professional career both in Morocco and internationaly.
He was responsible for the central planning studies during the reconstruction of the town of Agadir, destroyed by the 1960 earthquake and former president of the High Council of Architects, where he campaigned for the recognition of the Moroccan Association of Architects and the updating of the professional practice documents, obtained in 1976.
Mr. Mourad Benmbarek marked the urban landscape in Morocco with important works of Modern architecture such as the headquarters of the Al Maghrib Bank, the Centre National de la Monnaie, or the headquarters of the Administration des Douanes et des Impôts Directs, the Mohamed V Airport in Casablanca - Nouasser, and other structures such as the Royal Air Maroc RAM Hotels in Agadir and Marrakech and the Atlas Tower in Casablanca on behalf of Habous.
Nous sommes à Dieu et à lui nous retournons.
Docomomo Morocco
For more information you can watch this interesting interview:
Mourad Benmbarek
Mass Housing in the Socialist Block
Edinburgh College of Art
DATE: 7/9/2011
DOCOMOMO-EAHN International Conference on Mass Housing
Edinburgh College of Art
7th-8th September, 2011
The day-long conference on the 8th is supplemented by a number of related tours and events on the 7th, 8th and 9th, which are also advertised on the poster. All events are free of charge but must be booked ahead of time (there are limited numbers for some events). Please contact Amy Hickman by email (a.hickman@ed.ac.uk) specifying the events you would like to attend.
Wednesday 7 – Thursday 8 September 2011
Conference on Mass Housing in the Socialist Bloc
Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh)
Edinburg, Scotland, September 7 - 08, 2011
European Architectural History Network (EAHN) and Docomomo International organize a conference on ´Mass-housing after 1945´, to be analysed in an East/West comparing context and perspective. The conference aims to present an overview of the state of the art concerning the study of the postwar mass-housing, as well as to open the debate on issues of preservation, rehabilitation, inventory.
The confeernce will be followed by an architectural tour (September 9-11).
OVERVIEW OF SCHEDULE
Wednesday 7 September: CONFERENCE DAY 1
• Morning: Visit to ‘official´ inventorisation archive (RCAHMS)
• Afternoon: Visit to ‘community-led´ recording/heritage initiative (W.Hailes)
• Evening: DOCOMOMO-Scotland party/lecture (tbc)
Thursday 8 September: CONFERENCE DAY 2 (based at ECA)
• Morning: National overview papers
• Afternoon: Thematic papers/round-table
• Evening: Reception + welcome to tour participants (with lecture?): tbc
Friday 9 September: TOUR DAY 1/POST-CONFERENCE DAY
• Morning: bus tour of mass housing in Cumbernauld and Glasgow
• Afternoon: walking tour of central Glasgow
• Evening: symposium/reception at GSA
Saturday 10 September: TOUR DAY 2
• All-day bus tour focusing on Scottish Castles (Stirling, St Andrews etc)
Sunday 11 September: TOUR DAY 3
• All-day walking tour of central Edinburgh
MASS HOUSING CONFERENCE:
DETAILED INFORMATION
• INTERNATIONAL ORGANISERS: EAHN (Carmen Popescu)/DOCOMOMO-International (Miles Glendinning)
• LOCAL ORGANISERS: Edinburgh College of Art/Glasgow School of Art/DOCOMOMO-Scotland (Miles Glendinning, Florian Urban, Diane Watters, Carsten Hermann, Amy Hickman and others)
• TOPIC: Mass housing in Eastern Europe
• FUNDING: no funding/ speakers pay for their transportation
• ACCOMMODATION: speakers staying in local scholars´ homes (for
nights of 6, 7, 8 September as required/or accommodation for 2 nights in local hotel)
DAY 1, Wednesday 7 September:
STUDY VISITS TO...
• (a.m.) THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL
MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND and
• (early p.m.) WESTER HAILES Community heritage initiative/archive
(details tbc)
LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING: DOCOMOMO Scotland party and lecture
(venue: ECA Hunter Lecture Theatre). Time tbc: probably 17.00 (DOCO-Sco. Convener: Carsten Hermann; Secretary: Clive Fenton)
DAY 2, Thursday 8 September
MAIN CONFERENCE SESSION
SPEAKERS:
• Annie FOURCAUT, Professor, Centre d´histoire sociale du XX siècle, UMR 8058 CNRS Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
• Miles GLENDINNING, Professor of Architectural Conservation University of Edinburgh/ESALA
• Mart KALM, Professor in history of architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Art and Culture at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn
• Katherine LEBOW, Lecturer in European History, University of Newcastle
• Juliana MAXIM, Assistant Professor, University of San Diego
• Henrieta MORAVCIKOVA, Head of the Department of Architecture, Slovak Academy of Science, Bratislava
• Vera MARIN, associate, urban planner at SC SQUARE B.A.U. - architecture and urban planning office, president and project coordinator at ATU- Association for Urban Transition
• Stefan MUTHESIUS, University of East Anglia
• Carmen POPESCU, independent scholar
• Ola UDUKU, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh/ESALA
• Florian URBAN, Head of Architectural History and Urban Studies, Glasgow School of Art
• Danièle VOLDMAN, Professor, Centre d´histoire sociale du XX siècle, UMR 8058 CNRS Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
• Kimberly ZARECOR, Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames/Iowa
OVERVIEW:
Following the international conference, ‘Trash or Treasure´, organized by DOCOMOMO International in August 2007 (and hosted at Edinburgh College of Art), this two-day conference will continue the international debates on post-war mass-housing, focusing on the specific issues of Eastern Europe. Its structure is as follows:
On Day 1 (7 September) there will be study visits to two alternative local initiatives of mass housing inventorisation.
On Day 2 (8 September) the main conference session will present case-studies from different countries in Eastern Europe, set in the wider global/European ‘geopolitical´ context of mass housing, and will also explore methodological perspectives, including issues of recording/inventorisation; it will end with an open discussion. The proceedings will be published electronically by DOCOMOMO International, and will feed into a proposed Housing theme session in the 2012 DOCOMOMO Conference in Helsinki.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Location: Hunter Lecture Theatre, ECA, Lady Lawson St/74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Catering: delegates make own arrangements: ECA canteen is immediately adjacent: open all day 0900-1600
Morning (chair: Ola Uduku)
09.00-09.15 Registration
09.15-09.35 Miles GLENDINNING: Introductory global overview (including Hong Kong/Singapore); outline of key issues for discussion
SESSION 1: THE GEOPOLITICS OF MASS HOUSING: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES, EAST/WEST
09.40-10.00: Juliana MAXIM - Romania: The microrayon: the organization of mass housing ensembles, Bucharest, 1956-1967
10.05-10.25 Henrieta MORAVCIKOVA - Slovakia: Concentrated response to the issue of prefabricated mass housing: Bratislava 1958 - 1989
10.30-10.45 Mart KALM - Estonia
10.55-11.15 Katherine LEBOW - Poland (Nowa Huta)
11.15-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-11.50 Florian URBAN - Germany (DDR/BRD)
11.55-12.15 Stefan MUTHESIUS - England
12.20-12.40 Annie FOURCAUT - Housing estates: the French case (50s-80s)
12.40-13.00 DISCUSSION
13.00-14.00 LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon (chair: Carmen Popescu)
SESSION 2: ON-GOING PROJECTS/METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES
14.00-14.20 Kimberly ZARECOR - Czech Republic: Bigness of another sort: The Challenge of a Mass Housing Inventory in Czechoslovakia
14.25-14.45 Danièle VOLDMAN - Housing in Europe East and West 1947-1989
14.50-15.10 Vera MARIN: [The Association for urban transition: civil society and mass-housing in post-socialist Bucharest]
15.10-15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30-15.50 Carmen POPESCU - response/moderator of the debate
[proposed topic: investigate the hybrid field of practice of mass housing between research, legislation, architecture, urban planning, social sustainability, ecology, and political activism]
15.50-16.30 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
DOCOMOMO Curaçao Lecture and Workshop
Alejandro Echeverri. Urbanismo Social
DATE: 23/8/2011
Date: August 23
Time: 20’ o clock
Place: Aula of the University of Curacao
Language: English
Entrance: free
Medellin’s rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. Francis Fukuyama recently published an article in the New York times calling it half a miracle. Alejandro Echeverri, who recently got the Red Curry Stone Price together with mayor Sergio Fajardo, will lecture Tuesday evening and reveal some of their urban and social strategies that have proven to be very successful.
In parallel the Faculty of Engineering (UOC) is organizing in collaboration with urbam, EAFIT Medelllin a workshop for the envolved professionals regarding integral urban planning on Curacao.
De workshop werd gefinancierd door KULTURA.
Pedro Vieira de Almeida, 1933-2011
Portuguese internationally acclaimed architect dies
DATE: 12/9/2011
On September 12th 2011, the honorable and internationally acclaimed portuguese architect, Pedro Vieira de Almeida, passed away.
DOCOMOMO International wishes to express its condolences to his family and friends.
Pedro Vieira de Almeida worked in Portugal, Cabo Verde and Mozambique and had a very active role as a theoretician, crític and architecture historian.
His restless spirit, the lucidity of his reflections, the inclusive nature of his thoughts, demanding accuracy of his work, his debating side and permanent criticism help define an attitude without precedent in the architectural profession, where practice and theory are articulated in the framework of a global work. If in his disciplinary practice his works contributed with innovative established positions the establishment of methodologies supported by a rigorous critical analysis, the theoretical construction that he developed reflects this permanent reflection.
His first thoughts on the theory of architecture and phenomenology of space, also pioneers in the international architectural culture, were confirmed in the effort exerted in his thesis: O Ensaio Espaço da architecture (1962-64). Inaugurating what might be called a generation of founders of criticism, Pedro Vieira de Almeida tended to develop his work as a growing commitment in the field of architecture history, the articulation of the theory of space with the value of time and the notion of the past, and analyzing the aspects of the architectural production in a global interpretation system.
At the end of the 1950s he joined the studio of Teotonio Pereira and Nuno Portas, where he remained throughout the 1960s, collaborating on several projects: the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1962), the House of Vila Viçosa (1959) and the monastery of Sassoeiros . He received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the "Estudo das relações entre o espaço da arquitectura e o comportamento" in England, and he organized an introductory workshop to architecture at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes. From this moment are his reflections "espacio perdido” (Lost space, Artes Oficial y Letras, 1965) or the first reviews on the work of Siza (Arquitectura, Hogar y Arquitectura, Madrid, 1967). The end of the 1960s was marked by the controversy that undermined the consensus and unanimity in the class of architects: the exhibition on the life and work of Raul Lino, the first monographic study of an architect in Portugal. Pedro Vieira de Almeida offered another look at the work of Raul Lino, remarking the Modernity in the appropriation of space and the patent organicity in the enhancement of the site, in the sensitivity in the landscape: "I was trying to understand what can be analyzed and framed against what can link to a critical sense of Modernity "(1979).”
In 1970, already on his own and defender of the small professional architecture studio, he won the competition for the construction of the Igreja dos Olivais (church completed in 1979) and two years later he won the first prize in the international competition for the Urbanization of Vilamoura. In 1972 he began the Plano Morfológico da Avenida da Liberdade which would again become the subject of his research, combining the knowledge on the city and urban history, the genesis of the project and the defense of unity values, that is, the avenue as a structuring axis of the city and the valuation not only of buildings but also of the urban environments (Arquitectura no. 139, 1980).
Corollary of the developed theories, the plan of Telheiras-EPUL (1973-1974) was the realization of the critical combination of Modern urbanism with the traditional city (Arquitectura no. 137, 1980). During the Revolution his generosity and his political commitment led him to Trás-os-Montes, where he directed the Office of
Technical Assistance (OAT) of Braganza (1975-1977) and in the following two years he worked in the reconstruction of Mozambique. Back in Lisbon he delved into his reflections, publishing the reference work História da Arte Moderna (1986), an unorthodox interpretation of the pioneer advance of history, also present in the essay “A Noção de passado na Arquitectura das décadas difíceis” (Rassegna, Milano, 1994), at the same time as he organized exhibitions on key authors of our culture: Carlos Ramos or Viana de Lima. His doctoral thesis Os Concursos de Sagres - "Representação 35". Condicionantes e Consequências he resumed his critical lifetime´s work, equating in a controversial way the history of the 20th century as it had been established until then, focusing his research on the roots that had forged the period of the Estado Novo and launching innovative possibilities of interpretation of the taboo situation established until that moment.
By establishing critical construction, Pedro Vieira de Almeida influenced the architectural debate since the 1960s onwards. He participated actively in numerous seminars, conferences, meetings and discussions. His work was published in several national and international publications such as Arquitectura, Hogar e Arquitectura,
Informação Social, Colóquio-Artes, Rassegna, Arquitectos. His teaching activities began at AR.CO where he was Professor of Architecture Theory and History (1973-75), and since the 1980s he was Professor of Architecture Theory in the Escola Superior Artística do Porto and research fellow of the Estudos Arnaldo Araújo Center.
He proposed a critique of the origins of architecture that dealt in depth with the understanding of the architectural work in a relationship between structure and art, as a direct consequence of social processes, in which we can find a historical and interpretative coherence. Claiming an ethic of loyalty to the ideas, he defended – to achieve the survival of the intellectual – a controlled self marginalization or a conscious marginal role. By denouncing the fact that theoretical reflection may not be dissociated from action – Modernity demonstrated that the role of those who deal with the art of architecture is fundamental – Pedro Vieira de Almeida was able to highlight what cannot be seen and can be discovered when looking at reality in a new way, which contributed to the maturity of Portuguese architectural culture.
Major works:
Raul Lino, exposição retrospectiva da sua obra, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/
Árvore-Centro de Actividades Artísticas, 1970 (collaboration).
Arquitectura do Século XVIII em Portugal. Pretexto e argumento para umaroximação semiológica, Separata, Braga, 1973.
Modernismo-Posd-modernismos, Paris, Centre Pierre Francastel, 1984.
História da Arte em Portugal, vol.14, alfa, 1986 (collaboration).
Carlos Ramos, exposição retrospectiva da sua obra, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, 1986 (collaboration).
“Forma e Imagem no Urbanismo de 700 e 800”, in Estudos de História e Arte.
Homenagem a Artur Nobre de Gusmão, 1995 (collaboration)
Viana de Lima arquitecto 1913-1991, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1996.
Eduardo Nery 1956-1996, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1997.
“Arquitectura e Poder: representação nacional”, Portugal:Architektur Im. 20 Jahrhundert, DAM;PF 97, 1997 (collaboration).
Os Concursos de Sagres - “Representação 35”. Condicionantes e Consequências, Universidad de Valladolid, 1998.
Apontamentos para uma Teoria da Arquitectura, Lisboa, Horizonte, 2009.
UIA Jean Tschumi Prize 2011
Docomomo Mexico Chair, Louise Noelle Gras
DATE: 18/4/2011
The 2011 session of the UIA prizes met in the city of Nanjing, China on 11 April 2011.
Having reviewed all the candidatures proposed by the UIA Member Sections that fulfilled
the requirements, the jury decided that the JEAN TSCHUMI PRIZE 2011 was awarded ex-aequo to Kenneth Frampton, UK, proposed by AIA and UAR and to Louise Noelle Gras, DOCOMOMO Mexico, proposed by FCARM.
Louise Noelle Gras’s career is dedicated to both architectural education and architectural
history and criticism. As an eminent teacher for more than 35 years, she has contributed to
the in-depth study of 20th century Latin American architecture. As an historian and critic,
she has been very active in promoting and defending 20th century architecture at the head
of many relevant organisations.
Kenneth Frampton has contributed to architectural education as an outstanding teacher
for more than 45 years. As a distinguished architectural historian and critic he is the author
of many major books on the critical history of modern architecture. He has influenced
generations of architects and at the same time his work as an author goes far beyond the
interest of architects only.
More info:
UIAJean-Louis Veret, 1927-2011
DATE: 4/9/2011
Jean-Louis Veret, the last living associate of Le Corbusier, died on September 4 2011.
In 1952, after graduation from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, he joined the studio Le Corbusier. For the next three years he oversaw the construction of the Sarabai House and the Mill Owners Building in Ahmedabed, India. Upon his return in 1955 he cofounded The Atelier de Montrouge with Jean Renaudie, Pierre Riboulet and Gerard Thurnaer. Inspired by Le Corbusier´s "Athens Charter". The Atelier created urban planning studies and various public buildings in North Africa and France. He was one of France´s most distinguished architects in the last half ofthe 20t h Century, In 1968 Veret was named "Chief Architect of Public Buildings and Monuments" by Andre Malnaux.
In 1979 [ean-Louis Veret opened his own private practice, Shortly thereafter he commenced the
restoration ofthe Villa Savoye which continued in various phases until 1992. One of his most
internationally praised projects was also his smallest. This was the elegant Headquarters and retail shops ofthe Japanese cosmetic firm Shu Uemura. It´s black curvilinear facade can still be seen on Boulevard St. Germain just west of Cafe Deux Magots.
Among his many activities, jean-Louis Veret was Visiting Critic at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Visiting Professor at the school of Architecture Nancy (1981), Professor ofthe School of Architecture Paris la Villette (1985-1993), and participated in ministerial committees in France and abroad. He curated and organized numerous exhibitions, including in 1978 the exhibition "Colours of India" at the Galerie Bernheim, and in 1985 the exhibition "Architecture in India" at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Paris, where his experience with Le Corbusier is highlighted.
He organized the first exhibit of ROTHKO in France in 1962 in the Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and it was quite a big event.
He was the scenograph of a Play on the painter Claude MONET called: "Monet or the Passion for Reality" text and music by French comtemporary composer Michel Puig.which was played at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes in PARIS in 1979.
With the composer Yannis Xenakis he worked on the Competition for the Cité de la Musique in Paris, in 1984.
Jean-Louis Veret is survived by his wife Helene who was the French photo editor of Life Magazine and two daughters, Diane and Estelle.
Architectural history as [applied] science
Retirement of Prof. Luc Verpoest
DATE: 9/10/2011
Invitation for the Symposium "Architectural history as [applied] science", organized on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Luc Verpoest (KULeuven) on 1 October 2010.
Location: Provinciehuis Vlaams-Brabant, Provincieplein 1, B-3010 Leuven
Time: 9-10 November 2011
Language: English
Registration:
Magda Pluymers. Please mention your name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number.
Further information:
Ellen.VanImpe@vai.be.
RKM Program in Moscow
Secretary invited to sessions
DATE: 0/0/0
Futuro House at Espoo´s City Museum
Architect Matti Suuronen
DATE: 0/0/0
THE FIRST FUTURO HOUSE TO THE ESPOO CITY MUSEUM´S COLLECTIONS
The City of Espoo has obtained a Futuro house, designed by Architect Matti Suuronen, for the Espoo City Museum’s collections at the WeeGee Exhibition Centre. Suuronen, from Espoo, originally designed the Futuro in the 1960s as a holiday home. The house was assembled from mass-produced, reinforced polyester plastic components.
The serial number of the house acquired by the City of Espoo is 001, and it was presented to its first owner, all-round entertainer Matti Kuusla, in 1968. Kuusla’s Futuro attracted much publicity as it stood in the midst of rugged lakeside nature in Hirvensalmi.
The Futuro house quickly gained international fame, and the plan was to manufacture it through licenses in various countries. Shaped like a flying saucer, the building was displayed in a number of international fairs and presented in various media from trade journals to Playboy. However, the oil crisis of the Western countries in the 1970s raised the raw material prices for Futuro so high that the world conquest of the building ended.
The Futuro house has become one of the design icons of the 1960s and a monument marking the period’s faith in future. Very few Futuro houses have been preserved around the world. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, owns a prototype of the Futuro, and some houses are owned by private collectors.
Contact:
Cultural director Georg Dolivo tel. +358(0)50 3603994
Director Timo Tuomi tel. + 358(0)50 5666106, e:mail:
timo.t.tuomi@espoo.fi To Museum´s web site:
Espoo Museums
Best wishes,
Anna Wessman
Espoon kaupunginmuseo / Esbo stadsmuseum / Espoo City Museum
ts. museolehtori / stf. museilektor / educator
anna.wessman@espoo.fiPuh/Tfn GSM 046 8772 127
Ignored Modernity. Universidad de Alcalá.
La Modernidad ignorada. Arquitectura en Luanda, Angola.
DATE: 9/11/2011
Ana Tostoes, Chair of Docomomo International has been invited to participate in the opening ceremony of the workshop and exhibition called The Ignored Modernity which will take place at the Universidad de Alcalá in Madrid.
The opening ceremony will also count with the participation of the ambassador of Angola in Spain, Victor Manuel Rita da Fonseca Lima and there will be a keynote lecture by architect Fernão Simões de Carvalho from Angola, one of the main architects of Modern Luanda, author of the first Urban Plan of Luanda.
What: "La Modernidad Ignorada. Arquitectura Moderna de Luanda”
When: November 9 at 12:30
Where: Salón de Actos de la E.T.S.A.G.
Ricardo Legorreta, 1931-2011
DATE: 30/12/2011
It is with regret and sadness that we received the information that Ricardo Legorreta passed away some days ago.
The name is familiar to all of us through his great works, but Docomomo will also remember his lecture as keynote speaker next to Louise Noelle at the International Docomomo Conference which took place in Mexico City in 2010.
His restless spirit and the lucidity of his reflections, his debating side and permanent criticism together with his enthusiastic and positive attitude has been an inspiring model for all of us.
DOCOMOMO International wishes to express its condolences to his family and friends.
Kharkov Conference
Docomomo Ukraine proposal
DATE: 1/2/2012
"Ukrainian Architectural Avant-Garde: Studies and Protection"
Ana tostoes, Chair of Docomomo International, has been invited to the Conference organized by the group of professionals from Kharkov who will present Docomomo Ukraine in Finland.
In Ukrainian cities such as Kharkov, Lvov, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, and many others, there are a lot of outstanding examples of Modern architecture and urban development. Not all of them are identified, even fewer properly studied and documented. In our country a vast field of activity lies to researchers and restorers of Modern Movement works.
The purpose of the Conference is to focus efforts of the architects, scientists, cultural community, state and local authorities in the Ukraine on studies and protection of the architectural heritage left over from the rough of the twentieth century, as well as ensure the prerequisites for bringing this matter to the international experience, primarily through the creation in our country the Chapter of DOCOMOMO International – the international public organization, which today is engaged in systematically documenting and protection of monuments of the Modern Movement in more than 50 countries.
Kharkov was chosen to host the conference not accidentally. Here, in the 1920s – 1930s the first in the Ukraine and one of the largest complexes of Modern architecture in the world appeared.
Conference organizers – DOCOMOMO International, Initiative Group of the Ukrainian DOCOMOMO Chapter, Kharkov National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, V. N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Kharkov State Academy of Arts and Design, Kharkov National Municipal Academy, "RodDom" Institute – tend to make Kharkov a place of regular international meetings on issues of protection of the modern architecture heritage.
During the Conference the Constituent Assembly of Ukrainian DOCOMOMO Chapter will be held with the participation of heads of DOCOMOMO International.
The Conference will be held in Kharkov from 1st to 3rd February, 2012. The opening of the Conference will take place on February the 1st at 10:30 a.m., registration of participants will be opened at 09:00 a.m. in Gosprom building, the 5-th entrance, at Svobody Square, 5.
Docomomo Belgium: Hubert-Jan Henket and John Allan
Launch event
DATE: 15/3/2012
DOCOMOMO Belgium proudly invites you to the
first Launch Event next week:
Thursday March 15th at 20:00.
Auditorium Stynen, Abbaye de La Cambre 21, 1000 Brussels
entrance : Free
Subscription on
info@docomomo.be is desirable
At this event the international guest speakers are:
Hubert-Jan Henket, co-founder and honorary president of DOCOMOMO International will speak about DOCOMOMO and its importance as international network and collaboration platform.
After the lecture by Henket, the British architect
John Allan (Avanti Architects) gives a disquisition about the conservation problems of modern heritage.
More info:
docomomo belgium
Don’t hesitate to spread this invitation in your organization/institution.
DOCOMOMO Belgium
