Docomomo International and  Japan conference board informs that the registration for the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, 29th August – 2nd September 2021, is open at http://docomomo2020.com/registration/!

IMPORTANT NOTICE: 
The 2020+1 conference will be held with hybrid format, through a mixed system between online and PRESENTIAL lectures.Authors can present their papers with pre-recorded video presentations. At the real-time conference, the video recording will be broadcasted at the scheduled place and time. The authors for presenting physically in Tokyo are welcome. The digital proceedings will be published in 2021 before the conference including both online and alive presentations.

The NSW Minister for Heritage, the Hon. Don Harwin, has resolved to make an Interim Heritage Order for the MLC Building. The Heritage Council of NSW had previously recommended to the Minister that the building be placed on the State Heritage Register but, by placing an IHO over the building, the Minister has decided to … read more…

Join our hosts including Phillip Goad, Peter Maddison or Denise Whitehouse and curator Ian Wong at Walsh Street for a presentation of the I-CONIC Australian Design series of films produced by The Robin Boyd Foundation. Each one hour session will feature film screening of two of the five short films by Ian Wong and Tim … read more…

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers of the SAHGB Annual Symposium 2021 under the theme “Architectural History + Climate Emergency” (Online, 11th and 18th June 2021) is open. “The architectural world is urgently focused on fighting the Climate Emergency, but most architectural history remains uncomfortably detached from this central challenge … read more…

Getty Conservation Institute Free Online Publication: The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework: A Tool for Assessing Heritage PlacesBy Susan Marsden and Peter Spearritt, Los Angeles, Getty Conservation Institute Publications, 2021 Docomomo International is happy to share the release of the Getty Conservation Institute publication The Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework:A Tool for Assessing Heritage Places, By Susan Marsden … read more…

Docomomo International’s chair Ana Tostões will participate as speaker on the online conference “Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning the Modern City”, on 2nd March 2021. Organized by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and Liverpool School of Architecture, the conference aims “to explore architectural production in the blurred era of independence to the post-colonial period of the … read more…

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for the DOCONF2021 – happening in Budapest, 8-9 October 2021 – with the theme “Facing Post-Socialist Urban Heritage”, is open until 31st March 2021. “The DOCONF2021 is the 4th international doctoral / postdoctoral conference in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning organized by the Department … read more…

Docomomo International  shares an article written by Rui Leão, chair of Docomomo Macau, “Design Activism in the Context of Macau” in urbanNext, about the Portuguese School of Macau, designed by the Portuguese architect Raul Chorão Ramalho. “This article focuses on the EPM or Portuguese School of Macau and on the building’s struggle to “survive” as … read more…

In the context of the 16th International Docomomo Conference Tokyo Japan 2020+1, Docomomo International invites bachelor and master students to participate on the Online Docomomo School 2020+1 Tokyo, happening from 26th July to 4th August 2021. Summary In 2021, the DOCOMOMO Online School will be focusing on in-depth research on urban modern heritage and its relation to Japanese … read more…

Docomomo US is accepting article submissions for publication on its website and in its biweekly newsletter on a wide range of issues concerning modernism. In particular, Docomomo US invites submissions on the following two topics for inclusion in upcoming newsletters: Travel & LeisureThe Docomomo US 2021 annual theme is Travel & Leisure. Two special edition summer … read more…

Modern Melbourne Modern Melbourne is a series of filmed interviews and rich archival material that documents the extraordinary lives and careers of some of our most important architects and designers including Peter McIntyre, Mary Featherston, Daryl Jackson, Graeme Gunn, Phyllis Murphy and Allan Powell. Melbourne’s modernist architects and designers are moving into the later stages … read more…