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Eleventh International Docomomo Conference
Living in the Urban Modernity

Mexico City, August 19–27, 2010

The rapid growth of urban areas from cities to metropolis in the twentieth century created a favorable environment for establishing a discourse on modern architecture. The advancement of technology and the introduction of new materials, which brought about new forms of expression, were not the only triggers for transformation. Concerns for wellbeing, such as hygiene, education, health, leisure and the right to work were also fundamental in shaping buildings and cities, leading to innovative architectural proposals within the framework of a diverse urban structure.

Call for Papers and Case Studies
For the 2010 Docomomo Conference, Docomomo Mexico proposes to analyze the different elements that transformed the city and its architecture.
Architects, researchers, historians and other parties in the process of preservation, conservation, renovation or transformation of modern towns and buildings are invited to investigate on the manifold challenges and dilemmas posed by living the urban modernity.

Original papers are invited for submission under the following sub-themes:
(1) Modern Living
(2) Civic and Social Infrastructure
(3) The Modern City
(4) Technology for a Modern Habitat
(5) The University City

Read the complete Call for Papers in attachment.
Those interested in presenting a paper or a case study should submit an abstract before
September 15, 2009 to docomomomexico2010@gmail.com.

The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Architecture of the National University, UNAM, declared World Heritage by Unesco in 2007.

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Autres conférences

7th International Congress
The History of Modern Spanish Architecture
Journeys in the transition of Spanish architecture
towards modernity

Columbia University (New York), November 13, 2009
Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), April 22-23, 2010

The congress will focus on the concept of the journey as a cultural action and how the movement of information towards Spain during the beginning of the modern movement happened, through the journeys of some of its major figures. Those journeys had very different aims and lengths: simple pleasure, political, economical, artistic reasons...
The fact is that, with two wars in the backdrop, they had their influence in the doing of a group of good architects working in the 1950s, appearing from out of nowhere, who became the masters of the excellent Spanish architects of the 1980s and 1990s.

The two main themes will be:

a The architects’ journeys
This section will focus on the documentation and study of Spanish architects traveling abroad and of foreign architects visiting Spain during the 20th century, before and after the civil war, until 1975, regarding both their motives and implications as well as what they learnt or showed. Inside this panel there will be two groups: journeys from Spain, and journeys to Spain.

b The journeys’ ‘politics’
This section will be dedicated to the study and documentation of the journeys, motivated not only by architectural interests but rather with a political or social background, linked to exhibitions or propaganda promoted by public institutions, or to collaborations derived from agreements between Spain and other countries, such as the Paul Bonatz exhibition in Madrid 1942, the postwar American propaganda journeys, or the stages of Spanish architects in the US linked to the 1950s agreements.

Abstracts (English or Spanish) are to be sent to congresoarq@unav.es
before October 15, 2009.

More information at http://www.unav.es/arquitectura/
Write to congresoarq@unav.es

The Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference
Interior Lives

Columbia University (New York), November 13, 2009
Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), April 22-23, 2010

The conference will consider the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer architectural and design historians; the methodological issues that arise from the use of ethno/auto/biographical sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed; and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice.

Papers may take the form of historical or contemporary case studies that examine an aspect of the visual, material or spatial culture of the interior with reference to the conference theme of life writing, and might explore:
The Lives of Interiors and Interior Objects: Ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lifecycle of interiors; the lives of interior objects; the significance of the interior as a site in which memories are produced, represented and invoked.
Interiority/Private Lives: Embodied histories and the use of biographical approaches and sources to historicize socio-spatial practices; examine psychic and spatial dimensions of interiority.
Professional Lives: The use of biographical methods and materials to investigate the professional activities of designers; map professional and client networks; explore, locate and account for aspects of professional practice.
Shared Lives: The use of life writing to represent and account for shared histories and experiences; histories of public environments and their social use; private lives in public spaces, such as the representation of personal and collective histories in the museum or gallery.
Methodologies and Sources: Biography as a form of historical writing on the interior; auto/biography as an investigative/analytic tool; the use of auto-ethnographic narratives as a means of exploring the interiors of minority groups and cultures; auto-ethnography as an approach to thinking about disciplinary developments.

300-word abstract should be submitted to mailto:mirc@kingston.ac.uk before January 8, 2010.

More information at http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/the-modern-interiors-research-centre-conference-may-2010-uk/

icam 15
15th International Conference of Architectural Museums

May 29–June 3, 2010
Paris, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine

In a period of economic crisis, of urban and social mutations, is indefinite expansion still the expected future for architectural institutions? Are we engaged in a period of changes, concerning the organization of our institutions, their budgets or their acquisition policies? Can this foster, for example, the merging of cultural institutions of various scope (on architecture, design, visual arts, etc.), or lead to a greater focus on ‘star’ people or material? What new opportunities stand in front of us?

Three sessions shall explore these issues: in managing architectural centers (session 1, Mergers and Partnerships), in dealing with prominent figures (session 2, The Icon and the Star), and in building up an archival collection (session 3, Challenges and Opportunities).
Two sessions shall deal with exhibitions, raising issues never addressed so far in icam conferences: the architecture book as exhibit (session 4) and the use of text in exhibitions (session 5).

Session 1. Changing Institutions: Mergers and Partnerships
chair: Dietmar Steiner, director of the Architekturzentrum, Vienna.

Session 2. The Icon and the Star
chair: Ulf Grønvold, Chief curator Architecture, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo.

Session 3. Challenges and Opportunities: Building up an Archive Collection
chair: Sofie de Caigny, Coordinator, Centre for Flemish Architectural Archives (Architecture Institute Flanders), Antwerp.

Session 4. “Do not Judge the Book by its Cover”: Architecture Books in Exhibitions
chair: Irena Murray, Sir Banister Fletcher Director, British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects, London.

Session 5. Exhibitions: the Place of Text
chair: Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.

Visit http://www.icam-web.org/news.php?subnode_id=1&page_id=229

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Public Life in the In-Between-City
International Conference

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, I.I.T.
June 6–10, 2010

What are the phenomena of publicness under emergent life-styles?
What are the patterns and qualities of public spaces in the In-Between-City?
What are the potential contributions of researchers and designers to publicness and public spaces in the In-Between-City?

Through examinations of, among others, the following themes – definition of public space/place; single vs. multiple interpretation/identity; unity vs. discontinuity in space and time; abstract vs. real belonging; the planned/designated vs. the spontaneous/subversive – we would like to reexamine the appearance, meaning, performance and form of publicness in the public spaces of the dispersed urban surroundings.

Researchers, designers, theoreticians, practitioners and scholars of various fields and backgrounds are invited to submit a 500-words abstract to plic2010@gmail.com by December 15, 2009.

Scientific Committee: Marc Augé | Iris Aravot | Peter Bishop | Margaret Crawford | Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch | FKL architects | Einat Kalish Rotem | Zvi Koren | Claudio Millul | Yael Moria | Franz Oswald | Elisheva Rosenberg | Tom Sieverts | Els Verbake

more information http://plic.ar.technion.ac.il
contact plic2010@gmail.com

1st International Meeting EAHN
European Architectural History Network

Guimarães, Portugal
June 17-20, 2010

Call for papers and Discussion Positions.
Submission deadline: October 30, 2009.

The time has come for scholars who share research and teaching objectives in architectural history to gather at a single pan-European meeting. In accordance with the EAHN mission statement, this meeting proposes to increase the visibility of the discipline, to foster transnational, interdisciplinary and multicultural approaches to the study of the built environment, and to facilitate the exchange of research results in the field. Though the scope of the meeting is European, members of the larger scholarly community are invited to submit proposals related not only to Europe’s geographical framework, but also to its transcontinental aspects.

The main purpose of the meeting is to map the general state of research in disciplines related to the built environment, to promote discussion of current themes and concerns, and to foster new directions for research in the field.

The call for papers can also be read at www.eahn2010.org.

Sessions
Spaces and Leisure in Early Modern Europe.
Local Dynamics in Global Empires.
Architecture in the 19th Century Photographs.
Architectures of the Suburb.
The Figure in the Grotto: Materialization and Embodiment in the Renaissance.
Territorial Defensive Systems of European Colonies: 15th to 18th Centuries.
The Changing Status of Women in Architecture Between the Wars.
The Urban Cities: Cultural Urbanism in the Heyday of Functionalism.
Fictionalizing the City.
The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings.
Museums of Architecture / Architecture in the Museum.
‘Authors’ of Architectural History from the Ottoman Empire to Nation-States.
Port Architecture of Ancient Roman and Medieval Europe.
Modernization of the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Italian Civic Palace in the Age of the City-Republics.
Remembering Totalitarianism: The Redemption of Former Rule in the Built Environment.
Common Housing in Pre-Industrial Western Cities: The Architectural History Approach.
At the Crossroads of Painting, Mathematics and Cultural Change: The Professional Architect in Early Modern Europe.
Princely Palaces in Renaissance Europe.
Village Architecture in the Age of a Sustainable Future.

Round tables
Medieval Architectural Heritage: What is Real?
Still on the Margin: Reflections on the Persistence of the Canon in Architectural History.
Setting a Research Agenda for 19th and 20th Century Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning: Current and Emerging Themes and Tools.
Return to the Material.
Beyond the Spatial Turn: Redefining Space in Architectural History.

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Association of Art Historians Summer Symposium
Architectural Objects
Discussing Spatial Form Across Art Histories

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
June 24–25, 2010

This symposium explores the role of architectural theory and practice within multiple art histories, working across theoretical and aesthetic categories to redefine notions of space and form.
From Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, to the spatial environments of Le Corbusier and Robert Morris, this interrelationship has challenged and reconfigured canonic divisions between architecture, ornament, sculpture and performance.
Within a global perspective, the architectural object can be traced throughout many histories of cultural production, demonstrated within the sculpted interiors of temples and mosques, the conceptual forms of the stupa or reliquary, or the use of decorative ‘architectura’ within ornamental schemes.

Exploring the architectural object as a recurring and ever-changing phenomenon, a two-day symposium will consider a diverse range of papers that discuss this theme across cultural and temporal divides. Topics might include but are not restricted to:
• Sculptural practice and architectural ornament;
• Anthropological and cross-cultural studies of the architectural object;
• Monumental buildings as public sculpture;
• Performing architecture; the social production of space;
• Interior design and sculpture; the structural/decorative divide;
• The architectural maquette as art object; history of the conceptual model;
• The church and the miniature; religious contexts.

300-word abstracts, along with CV, are to be sent to Lara Eggleton laraeve8@gmail.com and Rosalind McKever rosalind.mckever@gmail.com before February 15, 2010.

More information at
http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=33