FRIDAY, MARCH 20

Today at the 19th International Docomomo Conference

  • Travel Notes
    For bus transportation between USC SoA and the Getty Center, meet on Watt Way, starting at 3:15pm

    Buses depart promptly at 3:30pm, 4pm, and 4:30pm. Please arrive 15min prior to departure time to board. If you’re driving separately, allow 45min for travel time.

    Parking Validation: Take your parking ticket with you. There is a validation machine at the auditorium and the reception.

    Upon arrival: Take the elevators up to T1 Level to ride the tram up to the Museum. After the reception, buses board on P1.

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    4–6:30pm
    Getty Center Open Hours
    Getty Center, 1200 Getty Dr.

    6:30–7pm
    Closing Remarks
    Getty Center

    7–8pm
    Closing Keynote: Frida Escobedo
    Getty Center

    8–10pm
    Closing Reception sponsored by Getty
    Getty Center

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    9–10:45am
    Session 7
    USC SoA

    11am–12:45pm
    Session 8
    USC SoA

    1:45–3:30pm
    Session 9
    USC SoA

  • 8am–2pm
    Registration
    Watt Hall Courtyard

  • 8am
    Breakfast
    Verle Annis Gallery/Harris Hall – enter from Harris Hall Courtyard

    10:45–11am
    15min Break
    Verle Annis Gallery/Harris Hall

    12:45–1:45pm
    Lunch
    Verle Annis Gallery/Harris Hall

Featured
Open Hours at The Getty
Mar 20
Open Hours at The Getty

Ahead of the Closing Plenary and Reception, conference attendees are invited to enjoy open hours at The Getty.

Closing Keynote | Frida Escobedo: Underlying Futures
Mar 20
Closing Keynote | Frida Escobedo: Underlying Futures

Frida Escobedo, award-winning Mexican architect and founder of her eponymous studio, will deliver the closing speaker at the 19th International Docomomo Conference. Her keynote, Underlying Futures will unearth a plural prospect of the future, engaging with the themes of climate, community and creativity as they relate to modern architecture.

Closing Reception
Mar 20
Closing Reception

Celebrate the conclusion of the IDC’s academic sessions at the closing reception hosted by the Getty. Set on a hilltop in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Getty Center offers panoramic views of Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean.

Featured
Innovation & Local Tradition in Climate-Responsive Design
Mar 20
Innovation & Local Tradition in Climate-Responsive Design

SESSION CHAIR: Wessel de Jonge Delft University of Technology

From Health to Climate: Czech Modernist Avant Garde and the Sun
Alexander Kuric Czech Technical University in Prague

Farouk El Gohary: Shaping Gulf Modernism via Liverpool
Marco Sosa Zayed University

Sunny Side of Soviet Modernism: Post-Stalin Architecture in Baku
Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson Utile

"Sun Acceptance"/Adaptation-Restoring the Roofs at Taliesin West
Rebecca Barron The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Schools of Modernity: Pedagogy, Politics, Architecture
Mar 20
Schools of Modernity: Pedagogy, Politics, Architecture

SESSION CHAIR: Andrea Canziani Italian Ministry of Culture

A School Designed by Students in Uruguay in the Late 20th Century
Alfredo Peláez Iglesias La Universidad de la República (Udelar)

Late Modern Schools: Ecuadorian Architecture's Hybrid Modernism
Veronica Rosero Añazco Universidad Central del Ecuador; Nestor Llorca Vega Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE)

The Final Facade: International Style at Robert College
Zeki Furkan Sarilican Rutgers University

A Social History of America’s Concrete College Campuses
Emma Connolly Thomas Jefferson University

Revitalizing Modern U.S. Embassies as Hubs for Culture and Diplomacy
Mar 20
Revitalizing Modern U.S. Embassies as Hubs for Culture and Diplomacy

SESSION CHAIR: Jorge Otero Pailos Columbia University GSAPP

Speakers include:

Jorge Salcedo, Office of Cultural Heritage OBO, Department of State

Katie Gerner, AIA, Associate Principal Annum Architects

Jorge Otero-Pailos, Artist, Architect, Professor and Director of Historic Preservation at Columbia University GSAPP

Svein Lund, Architect, Founding Partner & Chairman Lundhagem Arkitekter

Jonas Norsted, Partner/Architect Atelier Oslo Arkitekter

Twentieth-Century Infrastructure: Legacies, Challenges, and Adaptations
Mar 20
Twentieth-Century Infrastructure: Legacies, Challenges, and Adaptations

SESSION CHAIR: Elsa Haarstad Getty Conservation Institute

LAX: First Modern Airport, Last Relic of the Jet Age
Juan Villafañe Krueck Sexton Partners

Los Angeles in Pieces: Episodes in the Morphological Evolution of the Los Angeles Basin
Duke Dunham Harvard Graduate School of Design

A Planning Paradox: Canberra, Australia's National Capital
Rachel Jackson GML Heritage

Highways to Walkways: Urban Mobility and Regeneration Challenges in Chicago
Zixuan Zheng Illinois Institute of Technology

Retrofitting Modernism: Industrial Building Afterlives and Data Infrastructure in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
Xinwen Zhang University of Hong Kong

Modernists Plans, Daily Strains: Mobility in New Belgrade
Mariolina Affatato – Politecenico di Torino

Late 20th Century Heritage: Preserving the Impermanence of Innovation
Mar 20
Late 20th Century Heritage: Preserving the Impermanence of Innovation

SESSION CHAIR: Kyle Normandin WJE

Evolving Late 20th-Century Heritage: Making the Case for Graffiti
Rosa Lowinger RLA Conservation

From Megastructure to Prosumer: A BIPV-Based Retrofit Strategy
Alexander Eberl Institute of Housing Research, Graz; Maria Bertel, Andrea Jany, Paul Schweighofer, Teresa Weber – University of Graz; Gloria Calleja-Rodríguez CEMOSA; Sophie Gledhill, Jan-Bleicke Eggers – Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE); Ian Major Technological University of the Shannon (TUS); Werner Stutterecker University of Applied Sciences Burgenland

Tripoli Fairgrounds in Lebanon: Embracing Modernism Today
Maya Hmeidan UNESCO; Pamela Jerome Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC; Paul Gaudette WJE

Balancing Seismic Safety and Architectural Integrity
Phillip White CO Architects

Local Tradition in Climate Responsive Design
Mar 20
Local Tradition in Climate Responsive Design

SESSION CHAIR: Kuukuwa Manful Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Kinshasa’s Tropical Modernism: Climate, Identity, and Legacy
Manlio Michieletto German University in Cairo

Tropical Concrete Markets: S.I.D.E.C.'s Repeatable Construction
Genta Kokubu,Yoshiyuki Yamana – Tokyo University of Science

Kuwait’s Rethinking Climate-Resilient of Brutalist Architecture
Zainab Murtadhawi Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research; Rabab Kazem National Council for Culture, Arts & Letters, Kuwait

The Multiple Lives of the Sunflower Swimming Pools
Laurent Duport Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier

Creativity and Collaboration Interior Design
Mar 20
Creativity and Collaboration Interior Design

SESSION CHAIR: Horacio E. Torrent Schneider Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile

Colour, Creativity, and Conservation: Sydney Opera House's Interiors
Laura Matarese Sydney Opera House

Non-Contradictory Complexity
Marta Peixoto Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Ana Tostões Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa

Otilia Muras and Héctor Giraldi, Uruguayan Architectural Coupling
Soledad Cebey Universidad de la República (Udelar)

Quiet Collaborations: The Work of Stained Glass Artist Jane Marquis
Katie Horak Architectural Resources Group

Modern Design for Solar Control and Comfort: Successes, Failures, and Adaptations
Mar 20
Modern Design for Solar Control and Comfort: Successes, Failures, and Adaptations

SESSION CHAIR: Chandler McCoy Getty Conservation Institute

Casting Shadows: Brise-Soleils in Henry Klumb's Architecture
José Lorenzo-Torres Perkins&Will

Climate-Responsive and Resilient Marcel Breuer’s Pre-Cast Façades
Miguel Calvo Salve Marywood University

Environmental Management in Le Corbusier’s Museum in Chandigarh
Ana Paula Arato Gonçalves Vincent Laudato Beltran, Chandler McCoy – Getty Conservation Institute; Michael Henry Watson & Henry Associates

Innovative Energy Conservation of The Gregory Bateson Building
Alice Valania, Naomi Miroglio – Architectural Resources Group

Interior Spaces of Collective Imagination: Modernism, Identity, and Adaptation
Mar 20
Interior Spaces of Collective Imagination: Modernism, Identity, and Adaptation

SESSION CHAIR: Zsuzsanna Böröcz Docomomo Belgium

Palace of Serbia: Collaborative Framework of Yugoslav Modernism
Milena Kordič, Dejan Todorovic – University of Belgrade; Rade Mrljes Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute of Belgrade

The Wicked Problem of Modernist Stained-Glass Church Windows
Eva Storgaard University of Antwerp; Zsuzsanna Böröcz Docomomo Belgium

The Role of Shop Interiors for the Spirit of a Fashion Brand
Bárbara Coutinho Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa

CITY ERASED: The Zoë Dusanne Salon
Elisa Renouard University of Washington

Architecture, Memory, and the Politics of Preservation in the Post-War World
Mar 20
Architecture, Memory, and the Politics of Preservation in the Post-War World

SESSION CHAIR: Javier Ors Ausín World Monuments Fund

The Sudan National Museum: Interwoven Histories of Architecture, Heritage and Politics
Mai Abusalih Docomomo Sudan

Modernists after Modernism: Interior Architects in Türkiye
Deniz Hasirci, Deniz Avci Izmir University of Economics; Zeynep Tuna Ultav Yasar University; Melis Örnekoğlu-Selçuk,Ghent University

Preserving Post-War Adaptive Housing, the Mémé by Atelier Kroll (1970-1976)
Emma Simonin, Giulia Marino – Université catholique de Louvain

Modern Identity: Technology, Climate and Culture Shaping Modern Ideals for Local Contexts
Mar 20
Modern Identity: Technology, Climate and Culture Shaping Modern Ideals for Local Contexts

SESSION CHAIR: Debora Barros WJE

Iron in the Tropics: Standard Eiffel Markets in French Indochina
Adrien Boyette, Yoshiyuki Yamana – Tokyo University of Science

Flat or Slanted Roof: Identity in Modern Tropical Architecture
Arief B. Setiawan Kennesaw State University

Tunisian Modernist Architecture Challenged by the Climate
Alia Bel Haj Hamouda, Salma Gharbi, Alia Ben Ayed – Carthage University