Световен ден за опазване на паметниците на културата и забележителните места

18th of April 2010 - International Day for Monuments and Sites

On the proposal of ICOMOS, 18 April was endorsed as The International Day for Monuments and Sites by UNESCO in 1983. This special day offers an opportunity to raise public awareness concerning the diversity of the world’s heritage and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve it, as well as to draw attention to its vulnerability. For several years now, ICOMOS suggests a topic to be highlighted on this occasion. This has allowed our members and our committees to hold activities, conferences, colloquia or other events to raise awareness on this cultural heritage among the public, the owners or the public authorities by linking a global theme to local or national realities.



http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/modernheritageproperties.pdf
http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/bib/worldheritage-industrialsites.pdf


Theme for 2010 – “The Heritage of Agriculture”
Celebrate the world’s heritage on 18 April 2010!
A contribution to the United Nations 2010 International Year of Biodiversity
http://www.international.icomos.org/18thapril/2010/18_April_2010_Agricultural%20Heritage_Eng_20100323.pdf?lng=en&menuID=9&submenuID=7&idnews=278

Modern Movement Architecture and Urban Design in Eastern Mediterranean Cities

Dear friends:
Docomomo International and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe organise a debate session within the frame of the Coup de Dés programme, that provide an opportunity to discuss Modern Movement Architecture and Urban Design in Eastern Mediterranean Cities, and to analyse contemporary interventions.

Free entrance
Limited seats

Dear Docomomo friends,
2010 is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Melnikov. The Melnikov House (1927-1929) is under threat of being taken into private hands, against the desires of the author of the house and of his son Viktor (1914-2006), well-known artist and custodian of the house for 30 years.

Please, read the Press Release document enclosed.
We will keep you updated with more information regarding the campaign to protect the building.

Kind regards,

Ana Tostoes, Chair Docomomo International
Ivan Blasi, Secretary General, Docomomo International


The Melnikov House (1927-1929) is under threat of being taken into private hands, against the desires of the author of the house, Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) celebrated architect of the Avant-garde period, and of his son Viktor (1914-2006), well-known artist, and custodian of the house for 30 years.

It was stipulated in Viktor Melnikov’s will that the house should become a State Museum to Konstantin Melnikov and himself (father and son.) Viktor’s daughter, Yekaterina Karinskaya is the executor of the will and is currently resident in the house.

However, the owner of half of the house, former director of property developing company Rosbuilding, Senator Sergei Gordeyev, wants to gain full ownership of the house and open a privately owned museum there. Mr. Gordeyev has stated that he does not want to honour Viktor Melnikov’s wishes either that should be a museum to father and son nor that it should be State owned.

In 2007, Mr Gordeyev founded the International Melnikov House Committee (IMHC) from representatives of the Russian and international cultural and architectural communities and architectural conservation bodies. Many members of the IMHC fear that Mr Gordeyev perceives the body as having a purely decorative character: the IMHC met once but since then have only heard from Mr Gordeyev in the form of a single reply to a collective IMHC letter. (Please see MAPS website for all IMHC correspondence www.maps-moscow.com)

Members of the IMHC listed below firmly believe that the wishes of Konstantin and Viktor Melnikov must be upheld in decisions concerning the future of the house.

Over the last five years, court cases have been in process, addressing the issue of the ownership of the property and archive. Formally, the instigators of the court proceedings are the younger daughter of Viktor Melnikov, Yelena, and her cousin Alexei Ilganaev. Mr Gordeyev actively supports them and participates in these processes with the aim of acquiring the entirety of the house and three quarters of Konstantin Melnikov’s archive.

David Sarkisyan, former Director of Moscow’s Shchusev State Architecture Museum, and member of the IMHC, who died in January this year, played an important regulating role in this matter.

We members of the IMHC believe that the Melnikov House is in jeopardy. We believe that the Russian Ministry of Culture must come forward to claim and defend the portion of the house left to the Russian State and people by Viktor Melnikov. We believe that the Russian Ministry of Culture has a responsibility to negotiate with all parties interested in the future of the house.

If action is not taken now, the Russian State, is putting the Melnikov House at risk, and in doing so is denying the Russian people and the international community their legacy. 2010 is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Konstantin Melnikov.
signed:
Clementine Cecil (Moscow Architecture Preservation Society)
Jean-Louis Cohen (University of Paris, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Nataliya Dushkina (Moscow Architecture Institute)
Yekaterina Karinskaya (granddaughter of Konstantin Melnikov)
Anke Zalivako (Technical University of Berlin)

All press enquiries should go to:
MAPS Trustee and IMHC member Clementine Cecil +44 7968 003 595
clem@maps-moscow.com
IMHC member Natalia Dushkina
IMHC member Jean-Louis Cohen
IMHC member Yekaterina Karinskaya (granddaughter of Konstantin Melnikov)
+7 499 241 1873

http://www.melnikovhouse.org/home.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Melnikov
http://translate.google.bg/translate?hl=bg&langpair=en%7Cbg&u=http://www.maps-moscow.com/%3Fchapter_id%3D139

Арх. Радослав Радославов

Повод за този пост е една дискусия в блога на WhAT Association за изложбата "Преоткрий София - 130 години столица" относно къщата на Недков и кооперацията на Недков на бул. "Витоша" 48.

Тук публикувам снимки на 4 произведения от архитект Радослав Радославов и неговия племенник Константин Джангозов.
И двамата са учили при Огюст Пере в Париж.
Радославов завършва 1914 г. след като е учил заедно с Ле Корбюзие, а Джангозов - се дипломира през 1934 г.
Ето едни от най-добрите примери на българския предвоенен модернизъм в София:


двете жилищни кооперации - на Недков и Урумов на бул. Витоша 48 и 59 и ул. "Неофит Рилски";






Къща Платнаров на бул. Хр. Смирненски 36;



Апартаментна кооперация на бул. В. Левски 66 (надстроена наскоро от арх. Стефан Добрев за собственото му ателие-мезонет).

И четирите сгради са в София, а проектите са от периода 1937-40 г.