12th International Conference 2012, Espoo, Finland
The Survival of Modern, from Coffee Cup to Plan
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DOCOMOMO Suomi/Finland will host the 12th DOCOMOMO International Conference in Espoo, Finland in 2012.
The conference will be held in cooperation and with the support of the City of Espoo and Espoo City Museum.
Espoo is part of the greater metropolitan Helsinki area and parts of the the program are held over the capital region. The program is prepared and realized in collaboration with public and private organizations, the principal ones being the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the City of Helsinki, the Architectural Department of Aalto University, Museum of Finnish Architecture, the National Board of Antiquities, the Ministery of Environment and the Ministery of Culture and Education.
The time of the proposed conference coincides with the greater Helsinki region being the World Design Capital 2012, with numerous events and exhibitions dealing with design in all its aspects.
The proposed theme is THE SURVIVAL OF MODERN, FROM COFFEE CUP TO PLAN.
12th International Conference 2012, Espoo, Finland
Call for Papers / www.docomomo-fi.com/conference2012/
DATE: 25/7/2011
12th International Docomomo Conference, Espoo, Finland, August 2012 Docomomo Suomi/Finland will host the 12th Docomomo International Conference in Espoo, in 2012
The Conference will be held in cooperation and with the support of the City of Espoo and Espoo City Museum
Web page:
12th International Docomomo Conference
SCHEDULE 25th July 2011: Call for papers
October 15, 2011: Deadline for abstracts
December 15, 2011: Notification of acceptance
March 1st, 2012: Deadline first version full paper
April 10, 2012: Deadline final version full paper
May 31, 2012:Early registration ends
August 2-7, 2012: Workshop
August 7-10, 2012: Conference
August 11-12, 2011: Post-conference tours
CALL FOR PAPERS Docomomo invites architects, researchers, historians and other parties involved in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of modern towns and buildings to investigate on the theme: The Survival of Modern - From Coffee Cup to Plan. The proposed theme gives an opportunity to discuss Modern architecture and town-planning from a holistic point of view. The concepts of space and scale in Modern architecture are challenged in an age of new ecological and economical needs for more building density and energy-saving technical solutions. The theme also builds on and adds to the themes of previous Docomomo conferences.
The concept of space in architecture and town planning has changed radically during the last hundred years. The modernist vision of townscape opened up the closed urban surroundings of the 19th century with dramatic consequences. The introduction of new building materials and pre-fabricated building techniques influenced the architecture whereas the uses of zoning in dividing urban landscape to separate functions and neighbourhood-unit concept in organizing suburban areas led to a new paradigm in urban planning.
All this has had a great impact on us, not only from architectural point of view, but also through changes in the relationship between nature and the built environment, development of urban infrastructure, and developments in environmental psychology and its uses and misuses in planning. The four sub-themes examine the concept of space and design in four different scales and offer views on how the fundamental urban qualities of modernism can be preserved and what they have to offer for contemporary planning.
1. Environment What is a good living environment? What is the sense today of preserving modern heritage?
Points of interest: environmental psychology, scale, urban density, nature and environment, challenges of sustainable development, landscape architecture, architecture of the infrastructures.
2. Urban Space How to protect and improve modern urban space?
Points of interest: the ideal of openness and the contemporary requirements for sustainable development, ecologically and economically motivated requirements for density, challenge of sustainable urban planning. The form of the modern city in the scope of a social responsible approach.
3. Open Plan Where to draw the line between the architect´s intention and the preservation of modern building? Points of interest: open floor plan, the ideal of flexible space and the anticipation of the future needs in relation to original arrangement of spaces and original interior program, questions of conservation in situations of shifting purposes/function, everyday environment and its changes, Techniques and constructive issues regarding durability and change.
4. Interior Design How to preserve modern interior designs and furnishings?
Points of interest: total work of art, innovation in details, the preservation of hardware, built in furniture - loose furniture, balance between the interior and its surroundings, the detail scale and the concept of global design.
Those interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract before 15 October 2011.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Abstracts are to be submitted via an online system operated by Tavicon Ltd. The online form can be found
here.
Please, make sure that the e-mail address entered into the form is correct as all correspondence regarding the abstract will be sent to this e-mail address. After submitting your abstract you will receive an automated e-mail message within 15 minutes confirming that your abstract has been received. The e-mail will also include a url that will allow you to access your abstract for as long as the Call is open. If you don’t receive the e-mail message, please, check your spam folder since it might end up in there or contact Tavicon Ltd at docomomo2012@tavicon.fi
The abstract is submitted by pasting the text into a field, the maximum number of characters allowed is 500 words. Attachment option is not available. You will find further instructions from the online form. Please note that each presenter is allowed to submit only one abstract for consideration.
Please note that submitting an abstract to the Conference represents a commitment to participate.
Deadline for abstracts is October 15, 2011
Please note that the on line –system to submit abstracts will be closed by October 16, 2011.
After the closure of the Call your abstract will be forwarded to reviewers.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2011.
Abstracts will be published and made available to conference participants as a Book of Abstracts. Please note that no editorial changes are made, your abstract will be published in the Book only if we have received your registration and payments accordingly.
GENERAL INFORMATION Espoo is part of the greater metropolitan Helsinki area and parts of the conference program are held over the capital region. The Conference is hosted by the City of Espoo and Espoo City Museum and realized in collaboration with public and private organizations, the principal ones being the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the City of Helsinki, Museum of Finnish Architecture, The National Board of Antiquities, the Architectural Department of Aalto University, the Ministry of Culture and Education and the Ministry of Environment.
The Conference coincides with the Helsinki region being the World Design Capital 2012, with numerous events and exhibitions dealing with design in all its aspects.
Scientific Committee:Ana Tostões, Docomomo International Chair
Timo Tuomi, Finland Organizing Committee
Andrea Canziani
Carlos Eduardo Comas
Mart Kalm
Marieke Kuipers
Tommi Lindh
Tapani Mustonen
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Ola Wedebrunn
Yoshiyuki Yamana
Organizing Committee:Ana Tostões, Chair Docomomo International, Executive Committee
Ivan Blasi, Secretary Docomomo International, Executive Committee
Timo Tuomi, Docomomo Finland Conference Chair, Executive Committee
Panayotis Tournikiotis, Chair Docomomo Greece, Executive Committee
Hubert-Jan Henket, Honorary President
The Board of Docomomo Finland:Timo Tuomi, Chair of the Conference
Leena Makkonen, Chair Docomomo Finland
Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen
Olli-Paavo Koponen
Juha Lemström
Hanni Sippo
Other Organizers:Leena Hiltunen, Vantaa City Museum
Maija Kairamo, The Finnish Committee for the Restoration of Viipuri Library
Juulia Kauste, Museum of Finnish Architecture
Esa Laaksonen, Alvar Aalto Foundation
Tommi Lindh, Ministry of the Environment
Tiina Merisalo, Helsinki City Museum
Aino Niskanen, Architectural Department of Aalto University
Satu-Kaarina Virtala, Icomos
Keynote speakers:Álvaro Siza
Mikko Heikkinen
Juha Leiviskä
Juhani Pallasmaa
Anthony Vidler
Contact Details:For information on the scientific program please contact:
Docomomo FinlandE-mail: secretary@docomomo-fi.com
For information on abstract form, registration, payments, accommodation and travelling to Finland etc. please contact:
TAVI Congress BureauMs. Annikka Lampo, Project Manager
E-mail: docomomo2012@tavicon.fi
Tel. +358 3 233 0430, fax. +358 3 233 0444
www.tavicon.fi
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12th International Docomomo Conference
12th International Conference 2012, Espoo, Finland
NEW DEADLINE
DATE: 31/10/2011
12th International Docomomo Conference, Espoo, Finland, August 2012The deadline to receive abstracts concerning Docomomo´s International Conference in 2012 has been extended to October 31 2011.
You can send your proposal to the following web page where you will find the complete information:
Docomomo International Conference 2012
Docomomo Journal 43 (2010/2)
Brasilia 1960-2010
DATE: 1/5/2011
The argument of this docomomo Journal is Brasilia. We are very pleased to celebrate the 50–year anniversary.
Since Brasilia’s World Heritage inscription in 1987, the city has developed public awareness regarding the value of a major accomplishment in the history of urbanism. The singularity of Brasilia lies in its ability of being simultaneously rooted in the past while looking ahead to the future, envisioning an approach that should affirm Brazil’s industrialization effort and the need to provide access to life quality incorporating a specific genuine cultural tradition; an approach where the new capital should be the image of the homeland. Lúcio Costa, the architect who sensed and perceived the need to rescue architectural heritage, formulated unprecedented theoretical principles, articulating both realities. He was aware of the fact that modern architecture was a powerful means to foster a national identity because, according to modern principles argued in Brazil, a bond should exist between an erudite avant-garde and traditional popular features. Costa revealed the structural resemblance between raw architecture from the 18th century—the plain Portuguese style—and the new constructions, discovering the same logic, rationality, rigor and strictness.
In fact, the construction of the Modern Brazilian Architecture is part of a larger cultural process which links tradition and innovation. Like Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh, the Punjab new capital, Brasilia was built according to modern standards, evolving from a perfect articulation between the Pilot Plan conceived by Lúcio Costa, the main buildings designed by Niemeyer, the landscape idealized by Burle Marx, and finally, the public art sculptures created by various artists. The grand ideal of modern movement, the synthesis of art, was fulfilled by means of a symbiosis between architecture, urbanism, landscape and visual arts.
On the 21st of April 1960, the opening of Brasilia was celebrated as something far greater than the simple inauguration of a new capital. Brasilia acquires a great echo, as a symbol of national identity and progressive political program, that, at the time, has exceeded the disciplinary universe of architecture and urbanism. Actually, there was a sense of proud amongst all Brazilian people, as the new city sought to provide a better future and overall progress. The success of this new architecture surpassed regions, social classes and nations! Everyone embraced the modern architectural language: upper class people, constructors or even humble workers.
Today, 50 years after, it is time to debate Brasilia’s unprecedented modernity and to reflect both on the incomprehension of the critic and on the happiness of the inhabitants. It’s time, 10 years after docomomo Journal 23 concerned with “the Modern City Facing the Future”, to re-evaluate the memory of the past, the present and the future with a wide range of issues dealing with documentation and conservation topics. I wish to thank both Sylvia Ficher and Andrey Rosenthal Schlee who acted as guest editors of the Brasilia Dossier. Due to their knowledge and commitment, and the skill of a brilliant range of researchers, it is possible to extend this debate over Brasilia’s challenge as a modern movement universal ideal, its current reality and its evolving process: analyzing the competition process held in 1956 and presenting the proposals on an international context; reflecting on Brasilia’s contribution to the symbolic image and the new monumentality; presenting some case studies selected from the large scale buildings to the works of art dimension.
Facing the near future and searching for sustainable solutions, it is time to go deeper on the global design issue, undertaking an innovative conservation research as a condition for building a better future.
As Gropius stated, the “design from the cup of coffee to the urban plan” ability is the challenge for the next docomomo International Conference that will take place in Espoo, Finland, from the 7th to the 10th August 2012.
Ana Tostões, Chair of docomomo International
Materials inside-outside, Brno, Czech Republic
International experiences and the current restoration of the Tugendhat House
DATE: 30/6/2011
MATERIALS INSIDE – OUTSIDE. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND THECURRENT RESTORATION OF THE TUGENDHAT HOUSE IN BRNO
International Conference on occasion of Docomomo International Scientific Committee /Technology ISC/T seminar. Thursday, June 30, 2011
Brno, University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Poříčí 5 639 00 Brno, Czech Rupublic
New ISC/Theory+Education Web Page
http://docomomo-isc-et.org/
DATE: 28/7/2011
Docomomo ISC/Education+Theory Chair, Theodore Prudon, has announced that with the help of secretary Lorena Perez and Emily Piper and Kaity Ryan, the Docomomo ISC/E+T website has been launched.
The site will be further developed and additional content added. The next step will be to issue the next newsletter for the ISC (the first two are posted on the site).
Visit:
Docomomo ISC/E-T
Presentation text by Chair Theodore Prudon:
Dear Friends, welcome to the website of DOCOMOMO’s
International Scientific Committee (ISC) Education+Theory. The ISC Education+Theory is pleased to welcome you to its website, which was created with several distinct goals in mind. Our efforts seek to bring greater emphasis to the subjects of education and theory in the international DOCOMOMO community, its working parties and individual members, to work closely with the other ISC’s and to better communicate to the world at large the importance of preserving modern architecture.No aesthetically or technically outstanding or meaningful preservation can take place without an underlying theoretical concept and explaining these very ideas to practicing professionals, advocates, students or the general public. The so-called Eindhoven Statement formulated at the end of the first DOCOMOMO International some two decades ago recognized the importance of education and makes frequent reference to it as a major organizational goal. In this mission statement education is interpreted in its broadest possible sense. It is in not only that we want to continue that tradition and endeavor but we want to expand that and reach out to an ever larger and broader constituency. No other organization is doing this internationally.To do this successfully in any website or organization the interest and participation of the members and the various constituencies is of paramount importance. We urge you to contact us with thoughts, ideas, suggestions, news and activities that can be shared or discussed with others. The success of this website depends on our combined efforts. I look forward to hearing from all of you.
Theodore Prudon
Chair, ISC Education+Theory
President, DOCOMOMO US
Docomomo Journal 44 (2011/1)
Modern and Sustainable
DATE: 29/8/2011
Identified as a key issue for the future of environment, the argument of this docomomo Journal is Modern and Sustainable.
docomomo acknowledges the major relevance of reflecting on the Modern Movement heritage, focusing on two of the main contemporary issues: economy and energy. For this reason, the first docomomo Journal of the year 2011, that is to say, the first docomomo Journal of the 10’s, is dedicated to this issue.
In fact, Modern Movement Architecture is envisioned as a concept that deals with forms, spaces, techniques and social responsibility. In this docomomo Journal, the contributions on this discussion put together modernity and Modern heritage, economy and energy saving, the social mission and the responsibility of architects towards the future.
Modern Movement is often mistakenly related to a style, perceived in a skin–deep point of view and superficially adopted as simple form, as a modern shape, when in fact Modern Movement has always shown great concern with such issues, seeking for eficiency and economy, i.e., an accurate use of materials, a design approach that incorporates intelligent saving resources in order to create a better world.
This concept is nowadays synthesized in the so–called Sustainability, whose misuse might have lead sometimes to a trivialization of the word. That’s why the identified theme to focus on is Modern Movement as the absolute primacy of the process over the style, looking for quality of life. The devices created to be efficient according to place and climate, the reflection made on building physics, the relation between heritage, energy and economy, are themes to be discussed both as Modern Movement concepts, on a documentation level, and as Modern Movement intervention nowadays, on a conservation level. After all, ideals that move docomomo between documentation and conservation.
The aim is to contribute for the discussion that relates heritage, economic constraints and energy issues, gathered underneath a global strategy for the future in order to fullfill a Modern Movement purpose: a better life quality for all!
I wish to thank Theo Prudon who acted as guest editor of this “Modern and Sustainable” dossier. Due to his commitment, knowledge and know–how—acquired within a transversal framework as a practitioner architect, researcher and professor—and his clear–sighted capacity of synthesizing and finding solutions, together with the knowledge shared by a range of researchers, in connection with pioneer academic research on the subject carried out by Columbia, Cornell, École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, it is possible to extend this debate over the reflection on the creation itself and its durability, the tools created by Modern Movement architects to answer to efficiency and economy in a sustainable way.
Seeking sustainable solutions is also the way we choose to envisage the “Survival of Modern. From coffee cup to plan”, the main concept of the 12th International docomomo Conference which will take place in Espoo, Finland, from the 7th to the 10th August 2012. The Conference themes will range from Environment and Urban Space large scale to the discussion on creation and its consciously operative conservation as Modern Heritage—the global design issue—and the relevance of furnishing in the adequacy of everyday environment space. These are certainly challenging issues that may support us, both undertaking an innovative conservation research and practice, and formulating new ideas for the future of the built environment based on the past experiences of Modern Movement Architecture as a condition for building a better future.
Ana Tostões, Chair of docomomo International
Docomomo Journal 45 (2011/2)
Bridges and Infrastructure
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This docomomo Journal is dedicated to a reflection on Bridges and Infrastructures, envisaged as key structures for an enriched comprehension of Modern Movement.
The search on Bridges and Infrastructures has to do with a matter of connecting. To launch bridges seems to be a kind of life requirement, as far as it is the way to connect sides, which means improving relations and energies, desire and intelligence. Bridges and Infrastructures have the function of connecting pieces of land and the role of creating a connected world. The matter is to make links and establish a network. In fact, it is a global network made of works of art, which have a physical and material presence balancing between values such as economy and elegance and providing a better life for every man. Seeking audaciously for innovation, research contributes to these large scale structures as it has been improving material capacities and technical creation. It is a huge field that lay infinite possibilities for art and science to perceive changes of social, aesthetic, technical standards and norms, to quote Sir Ove Arup.
The search on Bridges and Infrastructures has to do with a matter of moving. Bridges and infrastructures are fantastic topics to make one go deeper on the reflection that moves us on the universe of Modern Movement. A process that we believe to be an open one, daily set up in accordance to the continuous transformation which is the very character of the modernization process. What Octavio Paz names as the modern tradition: a process of permanent transformation. Primarily, it has to do with mobility, transportation, in a word: movement, with Space, Time and Architecture, to quote Giedion. Movement is the most precise (and simultaneously, the most ethereal: all that is solid melts in the air, stated Marx) to characterize the Modernity and the Modern Movement in response to the contemporary situation. In fact, the bridge does not define space, it organises space, space envisaged as the place where movement occurs, as a flow way of people, goods, energies, promoting movement and time acceleration. It is the aesthetics of mobility and an inspiration for Modern Movement architecture and its fascination for speed transformation infrastructures, in other words, for tangible and abstract architectural problems as referred to by E.Mock.
Finally, the search on Bridges and Infrastructures has to do with a matter of nature envisaging the landscape as an ongoing medium of exchange. Bridges and the large scale Infrastructures are a kind of an aesthetically sublime second nature, as Goethe claimed in his Italienische Reise. It is a route, a way, as well as a place and a work of art; it puts together practical devices and intense cultural symbols. A bridge of dreams as John Allan suggests, is made of the intuition and innovation desire remembered always by Freyssinet as a love without limits (un amour sans limite). Because one can see it is an aesthetic experience, beyond all the technical requirements that fixed the interaction between man and nature. The progress fulfilled through the Bridges and Infrastructures constitute the large and universal scale laboratories that have been fostering several micro scale solutions, procedures and technologies.
Due to the scientific commitment, the inexhaustible energy, the intense creativity of the guest editors, Kyo Takenouchi and Ola Wedebrunn, who accepted the challenge to work this issue, it was possible to put together a competent, brilliant and generous range of experts around this theme. In fact, the Bridges and Infrastructures issue came up to us as a brainstorm, as a bridge of desire that took place between Tokyo and Copenhagen. At the end of a year in which a violent earthquake and tsunami with devastating consequences occurred in Japan, docomomo is proud to present this Journal, which symbolically includes the report of docomomo Japan 150, future and legacy, the exhibition presented in September at the main Tokyo Subway Station, revealing how important it is for docomomo to be close to the public, how vital it is to use bridges and to connect people.
Ana Tostões, Chair of docomomo International
