ISC/U+L 2011 Meeting in Edinburgh
April 20, 2011, 8.00pm
DATE: 1/5/2011
International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscape (ISC U + L)
The Committee met on Wednesday 20 April 2011, 8.00 pm at Spoon Cafe, 6a Nicolson Street, Edinburgh.
The matters which were discussed were the liaison with Docomomo International, the ISC/U+L website, and the committee´s role in facilitating potential new working parties.
The progress with the 2010-2012 Plan of Action was also discussed.
More information can be found in the Minutes document here attached.
ISC/T 2011 Meeting in Brno
June 29 - July 3, 2011
DATE: 29/6/2011
Docomomo´s ISC/Technology will meet at Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, from June 29 to July 3 2011.
The conference will give the opportunity to inform the interested public, including students, architects, conservationists, craftsmen and conservators etc, about the current state of the restoration of the Tugendhat House with an international perspective.
The members of THICOM are expected to take part of this conference, coinciding with the 5th THICOM meeting on July 1st.
ISC/U+L Landscape Conference
April 21, 2011
DATE: 1/5/2011
Landscapes of the recent future
Conserving the 20th century´s landscape design legacy
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - Edinburgh College of Art
Status of the conservation and protection of landscapes of the mid and late 20th century
Raising awareness of issues
Approaches and practical challenges to conservation
Stimulating action
ORGANIZED JOINTLY BY:
DOCOMOMO International Committee on Urbanism and Landscape (ISC/U+L) and
Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), with support from DOCOMOMO Scotland.
LOCATION:
Hunter Lecture Theatre, Room O.17, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF.
ISC/R 2011 Homework
Call for Homework: HEALTH
DATE: 1/7/2011
During its last meeting at the XIth International DOCOMOMO Conference in Mexico, the ISC/Registers proposed and the Council meeting approved that the registers theme for 2011 will be ‘HEALTH and Modern Architecture’.
Therefore all working parties are kindly requested to submit 5 fiches, together with a motivation text clarifying the wp’s selection by July 1st, 2011.
You will find more information in the PDF document and the Guidelines on this link:
ISC/RegistersISC/ Education + Theory
2011 Winter Newsletter
DATE: 0/0/2011
From its beginning DOCOMOMO International in the Eindhoven Statement has expressed a great deal of interest in the subject of education in its many forms. For that purpose an ISC was created that is currently called ISC Eduction + Theory. While any discipline needs a theoretical underpinnings, the word theory was added to the name of the committee because its first impact would be on teaching but should by no means not be limited to that and should expand into the practice of preservation.
The efforts of the committee and its various members over the years has varied widely and more recently has been very limited. In an effort to expand the dialogue beyond the traditional discussions at the international conferences every two years, we have created this newsletter that we anticipate will appear at least every two months. I am very grateful to Lorena Perez, our ISC Secretary as well as Kaitlin Ryan and Emily Piper, both of whom are doing Graduate Studies at Columbia University, in making this newsletter possible and their willingness to continue to work with the committee and subsequent newsletters.
With that said we are looking forward to your participation and comments because this committee can not be successful, effective or meaningful without your help.
Theodore Prudon
Chair, ISC Education + Theory
President, DOCOMOMO US
ISC/Urbanism + Landscape
Conference on Mass Housing in the Socialist Bloc
DATE: 7/9/2011
Wednesday 7 – Thursday 8 September 2011Conference on Mass Housing in the Socialist BlocEdinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh)
- Full programme will be released in due course
- Initial details from organizers, Miles Glendinning (m.glendinning@eca.ac.uk) and Carmen Popescu (crmv@noos.fr)
- Conference followed by EAHN Tour of Central Scotland, 8-11 September
ISC/Urbanism + Landscape
Mass Housing in the Socialist Block
DATE: 20/8/2011
Wednesday 7 – Thursday 8 September 2011
Conference on Mass Housing in the Socialist Block
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
