DoCoMoMo Journal 54 (2016/1) - Housing Reloaded

The theme of this 54th docomomo Journal is Housing Reloaded facing Post-War Housing Complexes in Europe The debate focuses on the challenges and strategies that have been encountered in efforts to preserve collective housing in Europe, seen as a major issue in the contemporary agenda. Symbols of architectural, technological and social aspirations, these grands ensembles of Mass Housing have nowadays begun to be appreciated by users and authorities, as integral part of the current city. Whether discussing demolition (as faced by the Smithsons´ Robin Hood Gardens and Toulouse´s Le Mirail, and commonly seen as a focus for social marginalization), or the growing phenomenon of heritagization (as implicit in the type of person now using the Marseille Unité d’Habitation), the debate today has mainly become centred on the question of: how to keep these large structures alive, while meeting contemporary standards of comfort? Characterized by adventurous experiments in the use of new materials and techniques, space creation and gender transformations, the obsolescence of these big complexes is determined on two different levels: the technical one (regarding comfort, such as thermal or acoustic, and the need for mechanical and safety improvements, as infrastructures, systems, elevators), and the functional one (involving space dimensions, organisation, orientation, and the introduction of new uses); all while complying with current regulatory standards. In addition, these buildings have frequently been intensively used and modified.

After the 3 R’s discussion (Tostões, DJ 52, 2015) on Asia and America, the aim is to address this type of question, and consider the large variety of strategies presented in this issue concerning experiences developed mainly in Switzerland, but also in France, Italy, Belgium and Portugal. We believe that this issue deserves an in-depth approach, considering Northern and Eastern Europe to be pointed out in a next DJ issue.

We wish to thank Franz Graf and Giulia Marino, for accepting the challenge to be guest editors of this DJ. Due to their painstaking and rigorous work, and to the skills of the experts who contributed with their knowledge and experience, it is possible to present this Journal, addressing such an important question.

In particular, the research conducted at TSAM — Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture, at EPFLausanne, deserves to be mentioned as an exceptional experience. Combining theoretical knowledge and technical know-how, the laboratory develops strategies for the preservation of modern architecture, including maintenance, conservation, restoration, rehabilitation, restructuring, redeployment and extension. This is exemplified in the rehabilitation plan developed for the Cité du Lignon (2008–2011) (DJ 44, 2011), which was distinguished with the Europa Nostra (2013) and SIA Awards (2014), and in the preservation process conducted at Miremont-Le-Crêt. With a not-so-happy ending, it is told the story of the Cité de L’Etoile, caught between indiscriminate demolitions and restoration efforts. Representing an important turning point in attitudes to post-WW II housing, is the case of Corviale, which had always been seen as a symbol of social failure among large-scale housing in Europe, and which now is starting to be admired and gathering support for its preservation. The evolution of doctrines on modern architecture conservation is revealed on the story of restoration conducted over the years on the iconic Marseille Unité d’Habitation, while Bloco das Águas Livres shows how different rehabilitation approaches can be addressed inside the same building. The challenges presented by modern prefabrication systems in rehabilitation processes are explored in the “EH, Evolutionary Building” prototype housing and in the Ieder Zijn Huis. Finally, landscape is presented as an approach that cannot recommend a heritagization perspective, since it is constantly changing.

The Documentation Issues section presents the amazing story of the re-birth of the Cercle de L’Ermitage in Epesses. It tells how it was possible to rediscover Sartoris´ original design, through research that managed to clarify different layers in time, functions and works of alteration. Some thoughts on conservation and museography are also discussed through André Wogenscky and Marta Pan´s House Workshop.

The need to develop sustainable sites, neighbourhoods and landscapes is one of the main issues for the 21st century. Postwar collective housing remains one of the most significant modern products representing efforts to develop architecture as a vehicle for an egalitarian society and where thousands of people still live today. The proper rehabilitation of these structures, while addressing the demands of the contemporary agenda, would represent a tremendous potential achievement, in an overall context of economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Ana Tostões
Chair of docomomo International

Zara Ferreira
Secretary General of docomomo International

INDEX

EDITORIAL
The European Large Scale Heritage
BY ANA TOSTÕES AND ZARA FERREIRA

INTRODUCTION
Housing Reloaded Collective.Housing in Europe, 1945–2015
BY FRANZ GRAF AND GIULIA MARINO

ESSAYS
Georges Addor´s Housing Complexes: an Observatory on the Conservation of “Large-Scale” Heritage
BY GIULIA MARINO

The Miremont-le-Crêt: Preserving a Geneva Post-War Modern Icon
BY PATRÍCIA VENDRELL DUARTE

The Cité de l´Etoile, Bobigny, 1956–1963, Georges Candilis, Alexis Josic, Shadrach Woods Architects
BY RICHARD KLEIN

The Controversial History of the “Steel and Glass” by Lods, Depondt and Beauclair. The GEAI Housing Estate LaGrand´Mare in Rouen (1968–2016)
BY GIULIA MARINO

“EH, Evolutionary Building” Prototype Housing at Solomeo by R. Piano & P. Rice Engineers and Architects with Gruppo Isovibro Perugia: Architectural Study and Guidelines for Conservation and Reuse
BY CARLO NOZZA

Reloaded Corviale, a City with a Single Building (1973–84). Mario Fiorentino Architect, Rome
BY ROSALIA VITTORINI

Preserving Portuguese Modern Movement Housing. Rehabilitation and Conservation Practises in Bloco das Águas Livres as a Prominent Example
BY CATARINA TELES

The Marseille Unité d´Habitation after Le Corbusier: Or the Chronicle of a Permanent Construction Site
BY YVAN DELEMONTEY

Willy Van Der Meeren´s Ieder Zijn Huis: Saving a Fragile Giant
BY MAURIZIO COHEN

Postwar Residential Housing Landscapes in France: A Retro-Prospective Approach
BY BERNADETTE BLANCHON


DOCUMENTATION ISSUES

Restoration of the Cercle de L’Ermitage in Epesses, Switzerland
BY JEAN-CHRISTOPHE DUNANT

André Wogenscky and Marta Pan´s House Workshop: Thoughts on Conservation and Museography
BY AUDREY AULUS

NEWS
APPENDIX
http://www.docomomo.com/pdfs/events/docomomo_news/072101_dj%2054_reduced5.pdf

DoCoMoMo - 14th International Conference, Lisboa, Portugal- 6-9 Sep 2016

Adaptive Re-use. 

The Modern Movement 

Towards the Future

6-9 Sep 2016,  Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 

 Lisboa,  Portugal

http://www.docomomo2016.com

14^th International docomomo Conference

ADAPTIVE RE-USE
The Modern Movement Towards the Future
Lisbon, Portugal
1-12 September 2016

Website: http://www.docomomo.com/events?sec=1&id=108 

THEME
In pursuit of the mission of docomomo, as updated in the Eindhoven-Seoul Statement 2014 (http://www.docomomo.com/pdfs/about/eindhoven/051623_110638_2014-09-26%20Eindhoven-Seoul%20Statement%202014.pdf), the theme of the 14^thInternational docomomo Conference will be Adaptive Reuse. The Modern Movement Towards the Future: The aim is to promote the conservation and (re)use of buildings and sites of the Modern Movement, to foster and disseminate the development of appropriate techniques and methods of conservation and (re)use, and to explore and develop new ideas for the future of a sustainable built environment, based on the past experiences of the Modern Movement.


The Modern Movement has demonstrated its long term legitimacy, as a concept endowed with an extraordinary longevity. Relating technology, form and social commitment to one another, through an optimistic faith in progress, modern architects sought to attain new heights of functionality and flexibility in use. The challenge for today is how to deal with this modern legacy in relation to the continuously changing context of the current times, including physical, economic and functional changes, as well as fast-moving socio-cultural, political and scientific contextual values.

Preserving the architectural heritage of the 20^th century requires us to take account both of the opportunity and the duty to reuse buildings which have lost their original function, which are physically and/or technically obsolete, and which no longer meet today´s ever-more demanding standards. Such matters as the demand for material and technology reuse and for spatial and functional transformations, and the updating of regulations concerning fire, seismic stability, user safety, energy efficiency and environmental comfort legislation, are all part of the contemporary agenda. This inevitably highlights the question of the value of the existing built fabric, which can be a strong resource that calls for our attention in terms of social, economic and environmental sustainability.

In its pursuit of the task of conserving and rebuilding, docomomo must itself be modern and sustainable in order to continue to fulfil the Modern Movement´s social and collective project, as modernity and sustainability are part of the primary nature of Modern Movement project itself. In our view, the Modern Movement still carries on today and into the future, as an ever-present social, spatial and technological project engaged with the community, constantly engaging with the challenge of creating a better place to live.

Contributions are invited to put together under discussion themes such as the interrelationship of modernity and modern heritage, economy and energy saving, the social mission of architecture and the responsibility of architects towards the future. These themes are intended to be discussed both as MoMo concepts, to be analysed chiefly through documentation, and as contemporary modern interventions, to be debated in accordance with the needs and conditions of today. As a multidisciplinary platform, this conference aims to investigate a cross-section of subjects that are raised by the challenge of preserving, renovating and transforming the Modern Movement legacy worldwide, alongside with the complex background of today´s changing times. In the end, the goal is to achieve a pluricultural comparison of standards and practices for intervention on 20^th century heritage.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alvaro Siza Vieira (Portugal)
Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal (France)
Caruso St John Architects (United Kingdom)
Joan Busquets (Spain)
Juhani Pallasmaa (Finland)
Rem Koolhaas (Netherlands)
Winfried Brenne (Germany)

SUBTHEMES & SESSIONS

T01 Landscapes
S01 Marginal Landscape
S02 Outside In: Landscape and Building
S03 Architecture and Tourism: Rethinking Modern Leisurescapes

T02 Cities
S04 Reuse and Valorisation of Modern Architecture in Small Towns: Images, Plans, Strategies
S05 Urban Conservation, Modern Heritage and Public Policies: Towards a Sustainable Approach

T03 Public Spaces
S06 Reinventing Modern Children´s Spaces and Places
S07 Large Spaces into Specific Places. Challenges in Converting Buildings for Cultural Uses

T04 Complexes
S08 Industrial Buildings and Areas as Zones of Transformation
S09 Conservation Planning for C20 Buildings
S10 The Modern Campus: Landscape Identity and Architectural Adaptation
S11 Retrofitting the Modern: The Preservation of Post-War Social Housing Estates and their Adaptation to Contemporary Environmental Standards
S12 Revisiting African Modernism

T05 Buildings
S13 "A Mass of Tradition and Association": Reviving and Reliving the Buildings of Brutalism
S14 Conservation and Reuse of Modern Movement Houses
S15 The Modern Healthcare Architecture: Obsolescence and Transformation
S16 Intangible Heritage and Re-Design
S17 Fifty Years after the Second Vatican Council. Taking the Modern Church into the 21st Century

T06 Construction and Technology 
S18 Structures of the Modern Movement in the Post-WW II, Post-Colonial Societies
S19 Balancing Material Selection Process with Conservation
S20 Innovative Construction Experiments

T07 Interior Design and Furniture
S21 The Modern Interior - Toward a Re-Evaluation in the Context of Adaptive Reuse

08 Theory
S22 Between Theories and Practices in the Conservation of Modern Heritage
S23 CIAM Revisited
S24 Second Life: Modern Housing and the Aesthetics of Growth and Change
S25 Education for Re-Use
S26 Reuse as Activism: Towards Hybrid Strategies of Curating and Preservation of Modern Architectural Heritage
S27 docomomo International of Tomorrow
S28 Exploring Theories for Adaptivity
S29 Disruption and Continuity: the Challenge of Conversive Modernism

DATES TO REMEMBER
May-28 June 2015_Call for sessions [CLOSED].
31 July 2015_Call for sessions´ notification of acceptance [CLOSED].
3 August-18 October 2015_Call for papers [CLOSED].
30 November 2015_Call for papers´ notification of acceptance [CLOSED].
1 January 2016_Opening date for registration [CLOSED].
28 February 2016_Full paper submission deadline (1st version) [CLOSED].
Registration deadline for speakers and session chairs [CLOSED].
27 March 2016_Deadline for session chairs return papers with comments to speakers.
17 April 2016_Full paper submission deadline (final version).
1-5 September 2016_docomomo Student Workshop
6-9 September 2016_14th International docomomo Conference
10-12 September 2016_doco Tours

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ana Tostoes, Chair
Zara Ferreira, Secretary General
Joana Gouveia Alves, Researcher

Художници говорят за изкуство

Галерия "Art Hall"

Красимир Терзиев  (част 1)дигиталната култура
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4EoJt_pF5gроект на фондация Отворени Изкуства / ВЪВЕДЕНИЕ В СЪВРЕМЕННОТО ИЗКУСТВО / ХУДОЖНИЦИ ГОВОРЯТ ЗА ИЗКУСТВО / Модератор: Вера Млечевска

Красимир Терзиев 

„В здрача на пост-медията. Всичко е дигитално, но можем ли да говорим за дигитално"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKOGui-TxBU

На 23 март във VIVACOM Art Hall се проведе втората лекция oт тазгодишната сесия на безплатния курс „Въведение в съвременното изкуство -- Художници говорят за изкуство" с участието на един от най-значимите български видео артисти у нас -- Красимир Терзиев.

Петер Цанев - част 1
"Психоанализа, съвременно изкуство и диспропорциите на естетическото съзнание"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV1v1UvjuIk

Петер Цанев - част 2
Психология на икуството чрез изкуството
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_hVvibZhss

Галерия "Саръев"
Въведение в съвременното изкуство
Кураторите говорят
13.11., 20.11., 25.11., 02.12.      2015 г.

Мария Василева
"Съвременна инвазия в музея"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1DIlcdZMhY
Петото издание на образователната платформа „Въведение в съвременното изкуство“ в София се проведе под мотото „Кураторите говорят“ и постави акцент върху фигурата на куратора – ролята му в съвременното изкуство, различните измерения на кураторството и преминаването в други 

Архитектурната среда на ХХ век / Architectural Environment Of The 20th Century

В изложба с това заглавие 
членове на ДОКОМОМО България представиха през 2002 г. 
идеите на ДОКОМОМО Интернешънъл и своето участие 
в дейността на международната организация - 
подготовка на регистрационни карти за сгради и комплекси на модерната архитектура, 
участие в международни конференции и публикации, 
алармиране за обекти на Модерното движение в България в риск.

Автори:

Петър Йокимов, Любинка Стоилова, Добрина Желева-Мартинс, 
Валентина Върбанова, Галина Иванчева, 
Юлия Радославова, Миряна Йорданова,  Искра Дандолова.  
Консултант: Христо Анастасов.

Under this title members of DOCOMOMO Bulgaria exposed in 2002 
the ideas of DOCOMOMO International and their participation 
in the international organization's activities, 
such as preparation of register fiches for sites of Modern architecture, 
presence at international conferences and editions, 
as well as alarming about objects of Modern Movement in Bulgaria at risk

Authors:

Petar Iokimov, Ljubinka Stoilova, Dobrina Zheleva-Martins, 
Valentina Varbanova, Galina Ivancheva, 
Julia Radoslavova, Miriana Jordanova, Iskra Dandolova. 

Consltancy: Hristo Anastasov.

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Beyond Modernism: A question and a challenge?

An article by Theodore Prudon, FAIA
http://docomomo-us.org/news/beyond_modernism_a_question_and_a_challenge

in view of the upcoming  fourth Docomomo US National Symposium entitled
Beyond Modernism, Theodor Prudon tells the history of Modern architecture and its preservation in the US


... For those of us closer to that first generation of modernists and the early attempts to advocating for preservation of their work, we can see how things began to change by simply looking at some of these individuals and their work. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius both die in the same year, 1969. Frank Lloyd Wright had died some years earlier, 1959, so had Le Corbusier in 1965 but Marcel Breuer survived the others until 1981. Similarly, to name only a few, such artists and Bauhaus teachers as Lazlo Moholy Nagy and Josef Albers had died respectively in 1946 and 1976. At the same time there is a more or less parallel rise of the next generations first with Edward Durell Stone(1902-1978), Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) and Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) to be followed by such architects as Charles Moore (1925-1993),Robert Venturi (1925- ) and Michael Graves (1934-2015) and by simply looking at those dates the generational transitions are readily apparent. The work Philip Johnson (1906-2005) represents a different case altogether.

...............
The fate of DOCOMOMO is also an important question, as follows:
Docomomo International found its original impetus and inspiration in saving interwar modernism not just because of its stylistic appearance but also because of its more progressive and social mission. The tuberculosis sanatorium Zonnestraal in the Netherlands built at the end of the 1920s became one of the focal points. The history and architecture of the sanatorium represented that progressive spirit having been funded and built by the members of the diamond workers union in Amsterdam for the betterment of its membership. In the beginning, reflecting that interwar spirit, the chapters were called “working parties”. However, in the US that early modernist focus quickly moved from the interwar period to the immediate postwar decades because few modernist examples existed for the period between the world wars.


The Docomomo US was officially found by 1995.
Since then up to the present the ideas about Modern architecture preservation have changed. 

our current question: is there a role for Docomomo beyond what has traditionally been defined as modernism? It is there that for two reasons we may be in the midst of another generational transition. First of all the world of preservation in general is changing. As is to be expected, the discipline has matured and is exploring different venues of design, interpretation and acceptance. Secondly, and maybe related to that development, for those of us who started advocating with Docomomo early on, we often experience the subsequent stylistic and cultural developments as deviating from the original tenets, while those who have arrived to the cause more recently tend to see the issue as a continuing and constantly re-emerging manifestation of modernist influenced principles and concepts. 



Theodore Prudon is the President of  DOCOMOMO US.
http://www.docomomo-us.org/ ; info@docomomo–us.org
Theodore Prudon, FAIA, FAPT, FoIFI, BNADr is an internationally renowned architect, preservation expert, architectural engineer, author, and educator with a career spanning 40 years. 

Театър "Нова Америка" - Театър "Ренесанс" - Профсъюзен дом на културата "Г. Димитров" - Музикален клуб "Sin City"

http://sofiazanas.blogspot.bg/2016/03/sin-city.html

Къщата с ягодите - Фамилна къща на Димитър Иванов, ул. "Сан Стефано" 6, София

Фрагмент от ОУП на София с очертанията на груповитуе културни ценности в Централната градска част на София и с интересуващата ни НКЦ на ул. "Сан Стефано" № 6.

Съставил: арх. Галина Иванчева.

    благодарност за интериорните снимки - 

от сайта на фотографа Здравко Йончев

                                               http://zdravkoyonchev.com/къщата-с-ягодите/

На 26.09.2017 г. БНТ новините [http://news.bnt.bg/bg/a/kakvo-se-sluchva-s-kshchata-s-yagodite],

а на 27.09.2017 г. в предаването "Денят започва с култура" на Българската национална телевизия бе сигнализирано, че част от оградата на къщата се е самосрутила. По този повод бяха дадени и други обяснения по казуса с къщата, но от интервютата и писмата не стана ясно защо събарянето на къщата продължава.

https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/158847-rukhna-ogradata-na-kshchata-s-yagodite

От коментарите във фейсбук, експертът от 

Националния институт за недвижимо културно наследство - арх. Яна Топалова обяснява, че

" .. има изследване и проект на колектив от УАСГ, който проект е предложил вариант за укрепване и, съответно, съхранение на автентичната ценност, като се задоволят и изискванията на собственика за съвременен комфорт на обитаване. Но, понеже, това е вариант със запазване на оригинала, и не предлага преизграждане, собственикът не е бил удовлетворен, не си е взел поръчания продукт, и също така не си е доплатил оставащата част от хонорара на колектива. ...
Договорът е сключен с ръководството на УАСГ, с Ректора; 

участваха най-добрите инженери конструктори, 

за съжаление междувременно инж. Йордан Милев почина. 
По отношение на архитектурата, арх. Кандулкова с малък екип направиха страхотно изследване за параметрите на допустимата намеса на база анализ на ценностите, 

и предложиха решение; за да не се нарушава фасадата, предложението беше укрепване отвътре, и то на определени места по стените - там, където не се засягаха ценни елементи от интериора, с карбонови нишки." 

28.09.2017 г.,  Л.С.