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    Docomomo Journal 45 (2011/2)

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Reco.mo.mo: Reconstructie van modern erfgoed
Seminar 20 mei 2011, Utrecht
DATE: 20/5/2011
Docomomo Nederland creëert een nieuw platvorm waar ontwerpers, planners en academici kennis kunnen uitwisselen: een jaarlijks seminar en de uitgave van een bijbehorend boekwerk rond het thema.

Seminar 20 mei 2011:Het reconstrueren van (modern) erfgoed is de laatste jaren een fel omstreden thema in erfgoedkringen, maar ook bij ontwerpers en daarbuiten. Het idee om een gebouw (of een interieur, een park, een plein) met nieuwe materialen te herbouwen staat haaks op één van de belangrijkste principes van de hedendaagse westerse monumentenzorg: behoud van het fysieke object in zijn oorspronkelijke materialiteit als historische bron. Een sleutelrol in deze discussie neemt het begrip ‘authenticiteit’ in.

Is een gebouw alleen ‘authentiek’ als het in zijn materiële substantie en op de oorspronkelijke locatie wordt bewaard?
 
Op 20 mei organiseert Docomomo haar jaarlijkse seminar rondom dit thema. Diverse sprekers zullen ingaan op onderwerpen zoals: het wezen van authenticiteit: idee of materiaal / de waarde en het eventueel vervangen van originele materialen / de reconstructie van moderne stedenbouwkundige ruimtes / onderzoekmethoden naar het oorspronkelijke staat / technieken van de reconstructie en uiteraard de presentatie van een aantal recente praktijkvoorbeelden.
 
De middag zal worden afgesloten door een debat.

More information: docomomo.nl
9th Docomomo Brazil Conference
June 7-10, 2011, Brasilia
DATE: 7/6/2011
Interdisciplinaridade e experiências em documentação e preservação do patrimônio recente

Após quase vinte anos de atividades do DOCOMOMO Brasil, assiste-se hoje a um incremento exponencial nas pesquisas sobre o patrimônio edificado recente. Cresce o número de conjuntos urbanos e edificações do século XX reconhecidos como patrimônio cultural, multiplicam-se os acervos documentais e publicações a seu respeito, acumulam-se experiências e reflexões vinculadas à sua preservação.

Nesta perspectiva, a interdisciplinaridade é fator inerente à cultura preservacionista em Arquitetura e Urbanismo. São fundamentais os aportes da História, na consolidação de narrativas críticas; da Sociologia e Antropologia, na aferição de valores culturais; da Engenharia, no diagnóstico das condições materiais dos bens; das Artes, na conservação e restauro das obras integradas a edifícios; da Geografia, no estudo das questões populacionais e regionais; da Ciência da Informação, na conservação e divulgação de acervos documentais; do Direito, na normatização dos bens patrimoniais; da Comunicação Social, no diálogo com as comunidades envolvidas.
O propósito do 9º Seminário DOCOMOMO Brasil é agregar, de modo interdisciplinar, o conjunto de práticas neste universo, compartilhando conhecimentos e consolidando princípios contribuindo eficazmente para a preservação do patrimônio cultural recente.

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Exposición Equipamientos II
Ocio, deportes, comercio, transporte y turismo, 1925-1965. Registro docomomo ibérico.
DATE: 26/6/2011
Inauguración de la exposición equipamientos ii. Ocio, deportes, comercio, transporte y turismo, 1925-1965. Registro docomomo ibérico

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4th Docomomo Mexico Seminar
La arquitectura hospitalaria de la Modernidad en México: salud, higiene y bienestar social
DATE: 30/6/2011
El Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la UNAM y DOCOMOMO México invitan al programa IV Seminario DOCOMOMO México, “La arquitectura hospitalaria de la Modernidad en México: salud, higiene y bienestar social”

Aula Francisco de la Maza, UNAM-Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Circuito M. de la Cueva, Cd. Universitaria, CoyoacánMéxico, D.F., 04510

Thursday, June 30, 2011
09:00 - 12:00h

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Docomomo US Tour Day
5th Annual Tour Day
DATE: 8/10/2011
Columbus Day Weekend

Date: 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 Day 2011
Docomomo Scotland Lecture
25 August 2011
DATE: 25/8/2011
Dear docomomo members and friends
 
I am pleased to announce the next docomomo Scotland event. This will be a talk entitled  A Socialist America  –  The Influence of the USA on radical architecture in the 1920s USSR and Germany, by Owen Hatherley, on 25 August 2011 at 6pm at the Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
“The Communist leader Earl Browder once said ´Communism is Americanism´. This counter-intuitive statement fits very closely many of the architectural ideas of the left-wing avant-garde in the 1920s, who morphed a variety of commercial, Americanised forms to fit their own ends: from quasi-architectural slapstick stage sets, to hybrid skyscrapers, to Taylorised social housing. This talk will discuss the architectural avant-garde’s fixation with the dreamlike possibilities in the ´bad new things´ of their day and ask whether any insights can be learned from that today.”

Owen Hatherley, a London-based freelance writer, has recently published two books, Militant Modernism, a defence of modernism against its defenders, and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, a selection of his columns originally published in Building Design magazine. He is also a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New Statesman, and he writes his own internet blog, Sit down man, you´re a bloody tragedy at blog.

Mr Hatherley is currently researching a PhD thesis on Americanism in the USSR and the German Weimar Republic.

Clive B Fenton


This event is free for docomomo members, £5 for non-members, £2 for students/unwaged.

RSVP to mail@docomomoscotland.org.uk

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Docomomo Curaçao Lecture/Workshop
Alejandro Echeverri: Urbanismo Social.
DATE: 23/8/2011
Alejandro Echeverri: Urbanismo Social

Date: August 23
Time: 20:00h
Place: Aula of trhe University of Curaçao
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.
  
Docomomo Venezuela: Hic et nunc
Perspectivas de Historia, Teoría y Crítica en Arquitectura
DATE: 29/9/2011
The coordination of the Masters Program in History, Theory and Criticism at the University of Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela, invites to the opening of the Introductory Course Cohort of the 5th Magister in History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture

La Coordinación del Programa de Maestría en Historia, Teoría y Crítica de la Universidad de Los Andes de Mérida, Venezuela invita a la inauguración del Curso Introductorio a la V Cohorte de la Maestría en Historia, Teoría y Crítica de Arquitectura


Hic et nunc : Perspectivas de Historia, Teoría y Crítica en Arquitectura

Celebrating 50 years of architectural studies at the ULA, and in particular the closure of the exhibition "50", currently in the spaces of the Art Gallery La Otra Banda, Mérida.

En la celebración de los 50 años de estudios de Arquitectura en la ULA, y en particular y la clausura de la exposición “50”, actualmente  en los espacios de la Galería de Arte La Otra Banda, Mérida /

Fecha / Date:  29 - 30 de septiembre, 2011
Lugar / Place:  Salas Anfiteátricas, Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño, Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela
Hora / Time: 8:30 am
Docomomo Scotland
Historic Concrete Seminar
DATE: 4/11/2011
Dear DOCOMOMO members and friends

You are warmly invited to the forthcoming seminar day on the theme of Historic Concrete jointly organised by DOCOMOMO Scotland and the Institute of Historic Building Conservation on 4th November 2011 (9.30am – 4.30pm).

The seminar will look into the development of concrete construction in Scotland, its historical importance, and its repair and conservation.

This will be held at the offices of Page/Park Architects, 20 James Morrison Street, Glasgow, G1 5PE.

The fee for this event, which can be considered part of Continuing Professional Development, is £30, with a £20 concessionary rate for students and the unwaged. DOCOMOMO members will receive a £10 reduction of their fee. This includes tea and coffee, but not lunch.

Please see the flier attached. For further information and to book a place please contact:
adminsecretary@ihbc.org.uk

Yours sincerely
Clive B Fenton
(Secretary, DOCOMOMO Scotland)
Docomomo Curaçao
Book Lecture: Jan de Heer, Rietveld & Curaçao
DATE: 2/2/2012
On February 2nd, at the invitation of the Foundation Docomomo Curaçao, Jan de Heer, will present his recently published book Rietveld & Curaçao. In a lecture, de Heer will elaborate on Rietveld´s Curaçao designs in the context of  his other work. The internationally renowned Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld has been to Curaçao twice between 1949 and 1952. On that occasion he made six designs for buildings and interiors, of which three were build on the island. The Monsignor Verriet Institute is the best known. This building is among the ten most outstanding examples of architecture of the Modern Movement in Curaçao. The list was compiled by the Foundation Docomomo Curaçao, which is committed to the preservation of buildings of this architecture style. On the website http://www.docomomocuracao.org/  several buildings of the Modern Movement in Curaçao can be seen. The public lecture begins at 19.30 in the NAAM building in Pietermaai, another building from the top ten. The entrance is free. The event was made possible by funding from the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund for the Caribbean Region.
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