Docomomo International | Conferences

Docomomo Conferences

Every two years Docomomo organizes an international conference, providing an opportunity to inquire into a theme that deals with an important aspect of the modern movement. The conferences are also a platform where specialists from all over the world can meet, exchange knowledge and make contacts.

The two-day tours following the three days of the conference are an opportunity for the participants to visit the modern heritage of the region hosting the event.
Since 2006, an international student workshop is organized in the frame of the conference, gathering worldwide universities and schools of architecture to combine theory and practice on a case study with the participation of different generations of researchers in the field. The first workshop focused on the Ataköy neighborhood, in Istanbul, and the last one, in 2008, worked on the Lijnbaan/Coolsingel-strip in Rotterdam.

The next and Eleventh Conference will take place in Mexico City, on August 19–27, 2010 and will be dedicated to “Living in the Urban Modernity.”

It will be held at the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University (UNAM), declared World Heritage by Unesco in 2007. The Third International Docomomo Student Workshop will take place at the Xochimilco Campus of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). Original papers are invited for submission before September 15, 2009 under the following sub-themes:

(1) Modern Living;
(2) Civic and Social Infrastructures;
(3) The Modern City;
(4) Technology for a Modern Habitat;
(5) The University City.

Dates to remember:
May 2009: call for papers
September 15, 2009: deadline for submission of abstracts
November 10, 2009: notification of acceptance
March 1st, 2010: deadline for submission of first version full papers
April 10, 2010: deadline for submission of final version full papers
August 19–24, 2010: student workshop
August 24–27, 2010: conference
August 28–29, 2010: post-conference tours

Read the call for papers
Visit www.docomomo2010.unam.mx
Write to docomomomexico2010@gmail.com

The First Conference was held in Eindhoven in 1990 where the Docomomo founding statement was issued.

The Second Docomomo Conference in 1992 was hosted at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.

The Third Conference was organized by the Fundaciò Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona, Spain, in 1994.

A Fourth Conference on the regional aspects of modernity took place in Bratislava and Sliac, Slovakia in September 1996.

The Nordic chapters hosted the Fifth Conference in 1998, in Stockholm, Sweden, on the social aspects of the modern movement.

The Sixth Conference dedicated to the topic of the modern city facing the future took place in Brasilia, Brazil, in September 2000 and celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the new capital.

The Seventh Conference on the reception of modern architecture was held at the Unesco headquarters, Paris, France, in September 2002.

The Eighth Conference on “Import-Export: Postwar Modernism in an Expanding World 1945–75” was held in New York City in September 2004, at Columbia University.

The Ninth conference and the First International Docomomo Student Workshop were held in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2006, on the topic of “Other Modernisms”.

Finally, in September 2008, Docomomo celebrated its Tenth International Conference back in the Netherlands, twenty years after the founding conference in Eindhoven. Dedicated to “The Challenge of Change,” the conference and student workshop were hosted in the Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam.

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