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 Salman / Prudon
2006
Proceedings of the IXth International DOCOMOMO Conference
international working party for
documentation and conservation
of buildings, sites and neigborhoods of the
modern movement

Conference
Proceedings
IXth International Conference
September 25-29, 2006

Editors
Yildiz Salman
Theodore H.M. Prudon
Katherine Malishewsky

DOCOMOMO International
DOCOMOMO TR
Istanbul Technical University
Middle East Technical University
Yildiz Technical University
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INTRODUCTION

DOCOMOMO, Network of Shared Reversing Modernist Historiography:

Modernisms The Organicist Revival
Mariastella Casciato, Zeynep Mennan, Turkey

Preface The International Regional Style: From

Yildiz Salman Recife to Tel Aviv
Guilah Naslavsky, Izabel Amaral, Brazil
Conference Theme
Yildiz Salman DISMANTLING DICHOTOMIES
Chair: Rejean Legault

OPENING LECTURE Modern Spanish Architecture from

Within
Other Modernisms: Critique of the Canon Iñaki Bergera, Spain
and Beyond
Sibel Bozdoğan, Turkey & USA Shifting Otherness (es): Foreign
Perceptions of Architecture in Socialist
KEYNOTE SPEECH Yugoslavia
Vladimir Kulić, USA
Constructing the ‘Other’ in Turkey: A
Historical Appraisal Libido Operandi: History, Heritage and
Uğur Tanyeli, Turkey the Future
Andrew Leach, Australia

PAPERS The Reverse of the Reverse: Another

Modernism According to Lina Bo Bardi
DEFINITIONS, BOUNDARIES, Zeuler R. Lima, USA
PARADIGMS
Constructing Modern Man: Hugh
RECASTING MODERNISM Ferriss’s Metropolis of Tomorrow
Chair: Nancy Stieber Adnan Morshed, USA

On the Edge of Modernism: The MOBILISATION & EXCHANGE

Architecture of Jože Plečnik
Petra Čeferin, Slovenia EXCHANGE THROUGH NAMED
INDIVIDUALS
Mies and the Canon of American Chair: Allen Cunningham
Modernism:Diffusing the Boundaries of
the National and the Universal Marcel Janco, Between the Dada
Dorit Fershtman, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Israel Performances in Zurich and the Modern
Housing Projects in Bucharest
Mythopoiesis: Dutch Forum and the Stefania C. Kenley, France
Story of Another Idea
Dirk Van Den Heuvel, The Netherlands Modernism, Colonials and the Lesson
of Travel: Australian Architects in
Europe and Great Britain, 1925-1940
Philip Goad, Australia

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The Architect, the Writer and the Secularisation of an Islamic

Client: Cultural Roots and Intersections Community: The Istanbul Plan of Henri
- Samuel Rosoff, Vladimir Nabokov, Prost
Pinhas Rutenberg İpek Akpinar, Turkey
Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch, Israel
Modernist Ghosts – Silhouettes in
NATIONAL EFFECTS OF Bulgaria: Unfulfilled Utopian Dreams or
MOBILIZATION Traumatic Cityscape Scars?
Chair: Bernd Nicolai Milena Metalkova-Markova, Japan

The Perception of Turkish Modern Criticizing Modernism: The “Lyrical

Architecture Through the Education Approach” of Romanian Socialist
Buildings in Ankara, 1923-1950 Architecture in the Late 1960s and the
Leyla Alpagut, Turkey 1970s
Carmen Popescu, France
A Two-way Street: Migrations of the
Modern Across Portuguese-Speaking TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES,
Countries PRACTICES
Madalena Cunha Matos, Tânia Beisl Ramos,
Portugal NEW TYPOLOGIES AND CHANGES
IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY
A Quest for Expressions of Identity: Chair: Ola Wedebrunn
Some Cases in The Netherlands East
Indies in the Early 20th Century Early Factory Design As “Other
Arief B. Setiawan, USA Modernism”
Pedro Belo Ravara, Portugal
From Igloo to Bungalow: Meanings of
Modernism in Canadian Arctic Society Building Materials and Building
Andrew M. Waldron, Canada Materials’ Commercials Form “New
Architecture”
IDENTITIES & SUBJECTIVITIES Ürün Biçer Özkun, Turkey

THE SEARCH OF A NEW IDENTITY Other Actors, Other Histories: The

Chair: Neslihan Dostoğlu Role of Building Contractors in
Historiography – The Case of Italia’61,
Dynamics of Unwanted Heritage and Turin, Italy
New Identities Cristiana Chiorino, Italy
Anita Bakshi, Serhat Başdoğan, Turkey
Skyscrapers for the Skymasters:
The Other’s Other: Self-Exoticism Modern Landmarks in the “Concrete
and National Identity in Postcolonial Atlantis” of Eurovision in The
Philippine Architectures, 1946-1998 Netherlands
Edson Cabalfin, USA Marieke Kuipers, The Netherlands

POLITICISING TRACES OF THE Industrialisation, Technology and

MODERN Reinforced Concrete in the Early
Chair: Gülsüm Baydar Republic of Turkey: “The Silo of Ankara”
Case
Hilal Örmecioğlu, Turkey

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NEW MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGIES The Other and the Other Modernism:
- FROM INNOVATION TO Art Deco Picture Palaces of Bombay
PRESERVATION Mary N. Woods, USA
Chair: Wessel De Jonge
TRANSFORMATIONS OF PHYSICAL
Industrialisation of the Building Stone AND SOCIAL LANDSCAPES
Trade in France in the 1950s: An Chair: Murat Güvenç
Alternative to Heavy Prefabrication?
Yvan Delemontey, France Other Modernisms: Recording Diversity
and Communicating Histories in Urban
Technology Transfer and “Climatic” West Africa
Architecture: Jean Prouvé in Africa, Ola Uduku, UK
1949-1958
Franz Graf, Switzerland CASE STUDIES
Chair: Wessel De Jonge
Modern Architecture in Argentina:
Internationalism, Regionalism and Priory Heights and Priory Green Estate
Permanence – London, UK
Stella Maris Casal, Argentina John Allan, UK

Evolution of Stone Cladding and Against Winds and Tides. A Critical

Composite Panel Technologies, 1958- Review of the Alterations and
1972: Extensions to the Oceanographic
Conservation Strategies Institute (Enrique Gebhard, 1941) at
Kyle Normandin, Nathan Walker, Michael Montemar, Chile
Scheffler, USA Maximiano Atria, Chile

Innovations and Experiments in Modern POSTERS

Belgian Architecture: Abraham Lipski’s
Preflex Beam DEFINITIONS, BOUNDARIES,
Stephanie Van De Voorde, Ronald De Meyer, PARADIGMS
Belgium
Magazines in Review: “Synthesis of the
EVERYDAY MODERNISMS AND Arts” and Brazilian Modern Architecture
URBAN ENVIRONMENT — “Pedregulho Housing Development”
Maria Beatriz Camargo Cappello, Brazil
ARTICULATING THE PLAYFUL AND
THE ORDINARY IN THE CITY Moderate Modernity: Interpretation of
Chair: Epp Lankots the Ottoman Past in the Architectural
Historiography of Late Ottoman / Early
Boomtown Shanghai, c. 1930: Modern Republican Turkey
Houses and Apartments to Let and for Gül Cephanecigil, Turkey
Sale!
Eunice Seng, USA Redefining the Relationship Between
Modernism and Regionalism in Early
Ordinary Stories from an Exceptional Twentieth Century Belgium
Building: “Everyday Life” in the Leen Meganck, Belgium
Hukuçular Apartment
Funda Uz Sönmez, Ahsen Özsoy, Turkey

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H. F. Mertens, One of the Overlooked Modernism versus Romanism in the

Modernists of Everyday Architecture Architecture of Italy’s Colonial Empire:
Ingrid Ostermann, Germany The Project for the Government Palace
in Addis Abeba, 1938-1941
MOBILISATION AND EXCHANGE Riccardo Forte, Italy

The “Libyan Rationalism” in Italian Modern Roman-Catholic Churches and

Colonial Architecture and Its Coming Phenomenological Markers of Modern
Back in the Theoretical Debate on Identity
“Mediterranean Modern” Timothy Parker, USA
Vittoria Capresi, Austria
(Re)Constructing Identities in Planned
Architecture and Exile: Felix Candela in Cities: The Central Bus Station in
Mexico Brasilia
Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, Mexico Luciana Saboia, Brazil

Mecidiyeköy Liqueur and Cognac Between Modernism and “Socialist”

Factory Realism: Alternative Modernities at
Erkan Kambek, Turkey the Rest Homes and Sanatoria in the
Northern Caucasus, 1928-1938
Forms of Modernism in Shanghai: The Danilo Udovicki-Selb, USA
Work of Hungarian Architect Laszlo
Hudec Between the Two World Wars The Other Japanese Modernist: Togo
Luca Poncellini, Lenore Hietkamp, Italy Murano
Kenji Watanabe, Japan
Nieuw Zeeland Architectuur
Nicole van Ruler, New Zealand EVERYDAY MODERNISMS & URBAN
ENVIRONMENT
Travels and Modern Architecture: Latin
American Modernisms Conserving Everyday Modernism:
Horacio Torrent, Chile Peoples’ Architecture in Chandigarh
Sangeeta Bagga Mehta, India
IDENTITIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES
“House Churches” Endangered! The
Ibirapuera: Metropolitan Public Space Heritage Problem of Post World War II
and Modern Architecture in the 1950s Roman-Catholic Churches Considered
Ana Claudia Castilho Barone, Brazil from a Belgian Perspective
Zsuzsanna Böröcz, Belgium
Carlos Arniches, A Modern With His
Own Identity Housing in Diyarbakır – A Historical
Maria Concepción Diez-Pastor, Spain Perspective
Yaşar Subaşı Direk, Turkey
Mizrahi-Orthodox Architectural
Spatial Design as an Expression of Saugey’s Gamble: The Geneva
Subordinate Relations and Control in Experiment in Multifunctional Urban
Israeli Society Architecture
Ron Fleisher, Israel Catherine Dumont d’Ayot, Switzerland

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Republican Period Modernism

Reflected in Boyabat’s Local
Architecture
Ayten Erdem, Rabia Özakın, Uzay Yergün,
Turkey

Regional Policies for the Modernisation

of Rural Areas During the Early Years of
the Turkish Republic
Zeynep Eres, Turkey

The Architecture of Small and Medium

Dutch Industry during the Postwar
Reconstruction Years: Image and
Modernity
Rafael García, Spain

Battling for Modernism: Rethinking

and Safeguarding a Significant Recent
Landscape at the Bannockburn
Battlefield Memorial Site
Jan Haenraets, Scotland

Urban Design Laboratory: Matera,

1951-1954: Modern Architecture in a
Rural Context
Andreas Sicklinger, Italy

The Changing Landscapes of the City

of Nicosia in the Modernisation Period
Bahar Uluçay, Pınar Uluçay, Turkey

CLOSING SPEECH(S)

Confession- DOCOMOMO Ankara

Allen Cunningham, France

APPENDIX
Conference Program

Posters Presentation list

Conference Photos
Credits
Sponsors

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TRAVELS AND MODERN amongst others, have recently begun

ARCHITECTURE: to be revised; while still little has been
LATIN-AMERICAN MODERNISMS investigated or discussed about Ernesto
Rogers in Argentina, Cornelius Van
Horacio Torrent Eesteren or Joseph Albers in Chile to
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile mention only a few examples. Hence,
El Comendador 1916 –Providencia-Santiago- still pending is the reprocessing of
Chile
discourse and research expansion to
[email protected]
incorporate the notion of “international
1. It is a well known fact that Le Corbusier dialogue” as proposed by Christiane
travelled to South America in 1929 Crasemann Collins. Particularly in
as well as the local and international the historiography of Latin American
repercussions of his conferences architecture and urbanism, a certain way
gathered in “Precisions”. By contrast, of thinking – of questionable value – is
little is known of the visits of other still present: that which points north as
modern architects who settled in Latin the place of universal values, travelers
American lands during the 20th century. operate as one-way transfer vehicles
So far, the attention has been focused and the residents of the South appear
around the possible influence of these as importers of ideas, concepts and
visits on the local architectural and urban shapes. These are interpretations that to
cultures as inputs for the development some extent reflect a troubled expression
and promotion of new points of view of a situation located far and away from
and proposals of modern architecture. the centers of intellectual production,
However, the interpretations that arose while also almost surreptitiously posing
around the visits and arrivals of European a cultural inferiority. It is thus necessary
modern architects have responded to overcome these conditions to provide
more to a general and simplified version recognition for more complex forms of
upon apparent epidermal consequences the extension of modern architecture.
such as the spread of the style, the
reproduction of forms or the promotion 2. The travelers arriving to the Americas
of modern ideas in an under developed in the first half of the 20th century brought
environment. The research paradigm at least an image, an illusion and a claim
has referred mainly to the reception as part of their luggage. The image
conditions of modernity on American was of a rather vacant continent where
lands. This is often understood in terms there was abundant food and work. The
of an affirmation of some supposed illusion was built upon some kind of
cultural inferiority fighting some Western adventure, a place of religious freedom,
superiority. coexistence and peace. The claim was
conjoined with the idea of welfare based
Karl Brunner’s stay in Chile and on the possibility of accumulation and
Colombia, that of Alfredo Agache in enjoyment of a certain material culture.
Rio de Janeiro, Maurice Rotival in
Caracas or Hannes Meyer in Mexico, They crossed the Atlantic with the

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idea of living “the New World dream” social renewal that could to be seen in
(fare la America) as an opportunity to these seemingly new born societies,
achieve social position according to the and which altogether shaped the future
possibilities given and known by the horizon of architecture.
immigration tradition forged since the
19th century to populate the American Latin America, even from afar, was a
territorial extension. They came on an fertile place for the development and
impulse and attraction: from the inability implementation of these ideas. Its
to thrive in their own homelands, with character as the ‘promised land’
the hope of accumulating capital in confirmed the symbolic importance to
America and finally returning to Europe architects in considering America as
to its enjoyment. But they also came to the place where they could finally build
settle, to achieve a certain wealth and the project of modern architecture to
to climb the social ladder. Faced with its whole extent. It would become the
overcrowding they came from places place of hope of achievement, the place
where they had little chance of personal where the modern project could “take
or professional achievement, America place.” Within modern architecture was
was a place of opportunities provided embedded the need to find a place free of
by nature, where it would be possible the weight of history, a place upon which
to contribute to the development of to build the new world. As proposed by Le
an atmosphere of wealth, a place of Corbusier in the prologue of Precisions,
prosperity. These adventurers reached it is in America, where “architecture will
these lands attracted by the hope and be born”.
visions of a new life; by the possibility
of transformation of a barren land into a
civilized, prosperous and growing place.
The architects who traveled to America
also brought a preconceived image
of their destination, an image that
matched their hopes of achievement:
the “Amerikanismus.” The term refers
to the impact that the idea of America
produced in Europe during the twenties,
noted accurately by Gramsci to consist
of a kind of fascination rooted in the Figure 1. Map showing the travels from Europe to
Latin America of the eight architects considered.
European imagination to think of
Source: Horacio Torrent, 2006.
America as the place for modernity. As
such, certain trips are key moments for
3. Latin America would be the place
modern architecture, for instance, the
of transit and long-term stay for a
one of Erich Mendelsohn in 1924, that
considerable number of modern
allowed him to set up a photo book that
architects. At least three moments of
gathered interpretations of the American
arrivals, trips and visits, were defining
landscape. This fascination took on some
for the experience of modernity in Latin
ideas contained in the “New World dream”
America. Eight cases represent those
as a place of possibilities. But mostly
moments.
took the place of a model project for
modernity, articulated through industrial
A first moment of arrival was that of
efficiency and technological change,
those architects formed in modern
combined with strong components of

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discourse but transplanted by choice housing, developed on his иCity Blockи

in their search of a place of business to proposal for urban design.He also
develop the profession. There is plenty published Vivienda y Ciudad (House
information on many of these architects, and City) in 1936.
who came to settle in Latin America in
this first period. For instance, Gregory A second important moment coincides
Warchavchik (1896-1972) was born in with the exile caused by the Spanish
Odessa, Ukraine, studied Architecture in civil war. It is important to note that those
Rome during the 20s, moved to Brazil who came here to stay also carried the
in 1923 to work in São Paulo, was hired intention to settle not only were looking
by one of the most important contracting for a new life, but also a whole project:
firms, the Simonsen Group, when he the building of the avant-garde the
was 27 years old. He arrived looking European experience had canceled.
for job opportunities and for chances
to implement some of the ideas that Antonio Bonet (1913-1989) was born
at that time were forming his vision of in Barcelona and studied architecture
architecture. He is considered the first at the ETSAB from 1929 to 1936. He
modern architect of Brazil for the design was a member of the GATCPAC since
and construction of “the Modernist 1932, and worked with Le Corbusier
House.” In 1925 he published one of the and collaborated with Sert and Lacassa
first manifestoes of modern architecture on the Spanish Pavilion in Paris in
in Brazil, entitled “Futurism”. 1937. Because of the Civil War, he
moved to Argentina in 1938. He met J.
This case coincides very much with Ferrari Hardoy and Juan Kurchan at the
that of Wladimiro Acosta (Wladimir Atelier of Le Corbusier. They founded
Konstantinovsky) (1900-1967), also the “Austral Group”, the Argentinean
born in Odessa. Acosta studied at the avant-garde team devoted to promote
School of Arts in Odessa, fought in the new ideas on the relation between
World War I, and became an architect landscape, climate and architecture, as
at the Istituto d’Architettura in Rome reinterpreting modern architecture. His
in 1919. From 1922 on, he studied most representative projects are the
building engineering and urban design buildings in Paraguay and Suipacha
and designed his early projects in Berlin. streets in Buenos Aires (1938-39), the
In 1928 he moved first to Argentina, then Punta Ballena urban development, and
to Sao Paulo (1930) and came back to the Solana Beach restaurant, both in
Buenos Aires in 1931, where established Uruguay (1945).
his private practice. He arrived, like most
immigrants, in search of having a land of Similar is the case, of Felix Candela
their own. In his case, “the New World (1910-1997). Born in Madrid, he studied
dream” would forcefully raise up modern architecture at the ETSA – Madrid,
architecture and give body and place and graduated in 1935. Because of he
to building in this land. This is how he fought on the republican side of the
developed the “Helios System”, devoted Civil War, he sought refuge in Mexico in
to design housing typologies through 1939. He developed his first project in
an environmental approach. His work Chihuahua for the Spanish colony and
included “Helios houses” in Buenos then he established himself in Acapulco,
Aires, Rosario, and Córdoba. Acosta designing and building residences. Based
also formed part of the team for the in Mexico DF, he founded a construction
design of the Hogar Obrero workersи firm named “Cubiertas Alas” to develop

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the concrete laminated shells he had Buildings in Colonia Roma.

designed. At the same time he started
researching on new structural forms of Bonet, Candela, Cetto and Meyer
reinforced concrete for architecture. represent prominent architects,
ideologues and practitioners of the more
During this third phase, the migration radical modern architecture movement
was the result of the rise of the National that arrived to Latin America, the
Socialism and the Nazis in Germany and equivalent of those masters that for the
the start of the Second World War. The same reasons had migrated to North
best known figure of that phase is Hannes America. But many others would bring
Meyer (1889-1954). Well known as the modernity in their luggage: Bernard
second director of the Bauhaus, he was Rudofsky, arrived in Sao Paulo in 1938
invited to Mexico by the government exiled by the Italian racial laws. He
to become the director of the Institute would only remain three years in Brazil
of Urbanism and Planning, which to settle finally for New York in 1941. The
closed few years later. He developed German architect Paul Linder, a graduate
studies on workers’ housing, planning of Munich, a contributor to both Gropius
for hospitals, and school buildings for and Bruno Taut, arrived in Lima in 1939;
several national services. He also had Leopoldo Rother installed himself in
a private professional practice where he Bogotá in1936; Tibor Wiener and Walter
developed proposals for a Sports and Reis came to Chile between the decades
Cultural Centre for the Spanish colony in of the thirties and forties. Daniele Calabi,
Mexico, a Housing Estate in Tacubaya, a Veronese architect of Jewish descent
and the block for Corpus Christi in who went into exile in 1938, arrived at
Mexico DF. first in Buenos Aires, to settle soon after
in Brazil.
Max Ludwig Cetto (1903-1980), would
also establish his residence México en The third transfer followed at the
1939. Born in Koblenz, Cetto studied end of World War II. A special case
in Darmstadt and Münich with Heinrich is the emigration of Italians to South
Wölfflin, and in 1923 at the Technical America. Ernesto Lapadula, would
University of Berlin. In 1926 joined the establish in Cordoba, Argentina, in
team led by Ernst May in Frankfurt. 1949. He had previously participated
He published a letter against Hermann in MIAR and built the Palazzo della
Goebbels in Das Neue Frankfurt. After Civilittá Italiana in the EUR of 1942. At
the Frankfurt team went to Moscow, the opposite extreme lies the arrival of
Cetto moved to Berlin. In 1937 he Lina Bo Bardi in Brazil, precipitated by
started planning his exile, with the help the rising ideological conflicts of the
of Sigfried Giedion, and left Germany reconstruction of Italy. Lina Bo Bardi
presumably on a study trip to England (1914-1992) was born in Rome, she
and America. The trip started in Bremen, graduated in architecture at the Istituto
continued to Southampton, and then on Superiore d’Architettura di Roma in
to New York and Los Angeles, where he 1939. She moved to Milan and started
collaborated with Richard Neutra (1938), designing for Gio Ponti’s office, and set
and ended in Mexico in May 1939, where up a private practice in association with
he finally settled. He collaborated with C. Pagani. In 1943, bombing destroyed
José Villagrán during 1939-40, and with her office. For years she wrote for many
Luis Barragán (1940-46). He designed Italian magazines, shared the direction
several buildings as the Apartments of Domus, and created the “A” magazine

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together with Bruno Zevi. Disappointed cultures as Lina Bo did, or the forms that
with the Italian post-war transition and the theory of modern architecture could
recently married with Pietro M. Bardi, take on from the context as in the case of
she moved to Brazil in 1947. Her first Tedeschi. Latin American historiography
building was her own house, the Glass speaks frequently of the idea of a
House in Sao Paulo in 1951. From 1957 direct and literal transfer of the ideas
to 1959 she taught at the University of of modern architecture. While, indeed,
Sao Paulo. She is very well known for the architects who traveled to Latin
the building of the Sao Paulo Art Museum America and brought their ideological
finalized in 1968. She introduced a new agendas and aspirations of building
vision in the relation between popular art projects canceled in Europe could it is
and modern architecture in Brazil during in this soil that it could come to fruition.
the fifties and sixties. The conceptual baggage they brought
along was full of ideas, tools meant to
But more significant is the arrival of the transform the urban world, and a few
group composed by Enrico Tedeschi, architectural forms. They also brought a
Cino Calcaprina, Luigi Piccinatto, Guido preconceived image of their destination,
Oberti, and Ernesto Rogers, who in an image that matched their hopes of
1948 arrived with the particular goal of accomplishments. In their idealistic
establishing a new experience at the representations America was a place for
University of Tucuman. Enrico Tedeschi an urban and architectural utopia, but
(1910-1972) also born in Rome, finally it was also the real arena where
graduated in architecture at the Instituto the possibilities of implementation
Superiore dиArchitettura di Roma in would take singular force. In almost
1934. Recruited by the Italian forces as all cases, the vicissitudes of exile, and
lieutenant, he fought in the war in North the necessary personal adjustments
Africa. He was a member of APAO иthe to the new life, probably suggested a
Association for Organic Architecture- greater attention to the geographical,
and co-directed the journal Metron from cultural and social conditions of this
1945 to 1948. He moved to Argentina, new place. Little have we analyzed and
as part of a group of Italian architects reflected upon these successive arrivals
and urban planners, to teach at the that certainly proposes a different way of
School of Architecture of the University understanding modernity as one more
of Tucumán in 1948. He taught History concerned with its place of destination
of Architecture for five years, developed than its place of departure. Here a
several designs for residences related change of focus in the historiography
with climate issues, and participated as seems necessary.
head of urban planning. He established
his professional practice in Mendoza
in 1954 and published “Theory of
Architecture” in 1963. He was the founder
of the Institute of Architecture and
Urbanism at the University of Mendoza.

The review of these architects show

how in different ways, they carefully
adapted their proposals to local social
forms, to problems of climate – such as
the Grupo Austral – or attention to local

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS

The Scientific Committee selected some of the abstracts to be presented in poster format.
Two interactive poster sessions are scheduled for all posters. All posters were displayed and accessible
during the conference.

DEFINITIONS BOUNDARIES PARADIGMS

MAGAZINES IN REVIEW: “SYNTHESIS OF THE ARTS” AND BRAZILIAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE — “PEDREGULHO
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT”,
MARIA BEATRIZ CAMARGO CAPPELLO, Brazil

MODERATE MODERNITY: INTERPRETATION OF THE OTTOMAN PAST IN THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIOGRAPHY

OF LATE OTTOMAN / EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY
GÜL CEPHANECIGIL, Turkey

REDEFINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MODERNISM AND REGIONALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
BELGIUM
LEEN MEGANCK, Belgium

H. F. MERTENS, ONE OF THE OVERLOOKED MODERNISTS OF EVERYDAY ARCHITECTURE

INGRID OSTERMANN, Germany

MOBILISATION AND EXCHANGE

MODERNISM TRANSFORMED? SWEDEN AND THE NEW EMPIRICISM

LENA BERG VILLNER, Sweden

THE “LIBYAN RATIONALISM” IN ITALIAN COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS COMING BACK IN THE THEORETICAL
DEBATE ON “MEDITERRANEAN MODERN”
VITTORIA CAPRESI, Austria

ARCHITECTURE AND EXILE: FELIX CANDELA IN MEXICO

JUAN IGNACIO DEL CUETO RUIZ-FUNES, Mexico

MODERNISM IN ARGENTINA: THE GAME OF MULTIPLE-CHOICE

FABIO GREMENTIERI, Argentina

MECIDIYEKÖY LIQUEUR AND COGNAC FACTORY

ERKAN KAMBEK, Turkey

FORMS OF MODERNISM IN SHANGHAI: THE WORK OF HUNGARIAN ARCHITECT LASZLO HUDEC BETWEEN THE
TWO WORLD WARS
LUCA PONCELLINI, LENORE HIETKAMP, Italy

NIEUW ZEELAND ARCHITECTUUR

NICOLE VAN RULER, New Zealand

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TRAVELS AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE: LATIN AMERICAN MODERNISMS

HORACIO TORRENT, Chile

FRUITFUL “SIDETRACK” IN NORWEGIAN MODERNISM

ELISABETH TOSTRUP, Norway

IDENTITIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES

IBIRAPUERA: METROPOLITAN PUBLIC SPACE AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN THE 1950S

ANA CLAUDIA CASTILHO BARONE, Brazil

CARLOS ARNICHES, A MODERN WITH HIS OWN IDENTITY

MARIA CONCEPCIÓN DIEZ-PASTOR, Spain

MIZRAHI-ORTHODOX ARCHITECTURAL SPATIAL DESIGN AS AN EXPRESSION OF SUBORDINATE RELATIONS AND

CONTROL IN ISRAELI SOCIETY
RON FLEISHER, Israel

MODERNISM VERSUS ROMANISM IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF ITALY’S COLONIAL EMPIRE: THE PROJECT FOR THE
GOVERNMENT PALACE IN ADDIS ABEBA, 1938-1941
RICCARDO FORTE, Italy

MODERN ROMAN-CATHOLIC CHURCHES AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL MARKERS OF MODERN IDENTITY

TIMOTHY PARKER, USA

LOST MODERNISM: MODERN BUT ISOLATED AND CONTAINED

SERHAT PETROSSIAN, SEVADA PETROSSIAN, Armenia

BRAZILIAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN SCHOOLS FOR INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

ARTEMIS RODRIGUES FONTANA FERRAZ, Brazil

(RE)CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN PLANNED CITIES: THE CENTRAL BUS STATION IN BRASILIA

LUCIANA SABOIA, Brazil

BETWEEN MODERNISM AND “SOCIALIST” REALISM: ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES AT THE REST HOMES AND
SANATORIA IN THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS, 1928-1938
DANILO UDOVICKI-SELB, USA

THE OTHER JAPANESE MODERNIST: TOGO MURANO

KENJI WATANABE, Japan

THE INVENTION OF ORDERS: MIXTURE OF MODERNISM AND TRADITION IN KOREAN ARCHITECTURE

DON-SON WOO, Korea

TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, PRACTISES

REDISCOVERING MOGENS LASSEN’S COLOURS: PAINT RESEARCH AT FUNCTIONALISTIC VILLAS FROM 1930S
FILIZ KUVVETLI, Denmark

EVERYDAY MODERNISMS & URBAN ENVIRONMENT

OTHER MODERNISM: GARDEN DESIGN IN TEL AVIV – PALESTINE DURING THE 1930S-1940S
TAL ALON-MOZES, Israel

CONSERVING EVERYDAY MODERNISM: PEOPLES’ ARCHITECTURE IN CHANDIGARH

SANGEETA BAGGA MEHTA, India

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“HOUSE CHURCHES” ENDANGERED! THE HERITAGE PROBLEM OF POST WORLD WAR II ROMAN-CATHOLIC
CHURCHES CONSIDERED FROM A BELGIAN PERSPECTIVE
ZSUZSANNA BÖRÖCZ, Belgium

HOUSING IN DIYARBAKIR – A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

YAŞAR SUBAŞI DIREK, Turkey

SAUGEY’S GAMBLE: THE GENEVA EXPERIMENT IN MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN ARCHITECTURE

CATHERINE DUMONT D’AYOT, Switzerland

REPUBLICAN PERIOD MODERNISM REFLECTED IN BOYABAT’S LOCAL ARCHITECTURE

AYTEN ERDEM, RABIA ÖZAKIN, UZAY YERGÜN, Turkey

REGIONAL POLICIES FOR THE MODERNISATION OF RURAL AREAS DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TURKISH
REPUBLIC
ZEYNEP ERES, Turkey

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM DUTCH INDUSTRY DURING THE POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION
YEARS: IMAGE AND MODERNITY
RAFAEL GARCIA, Spain

BATTLING FOR MODERNISM: RETHINKING AND SAFEGUARDING A SIGNIFICANT RECENT LANDSCAPE AT THE
BANNOCKBURN BATTLEFIELD MEMORIAL SITE
JAN HAENRAETS, Scotland

TWO CONFIGURATIONS OF “TRADITIONAL” URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD ON THE “MODERN” GRID PATTERN IN SEOUL,
1940
SONG INHO, Korea

CONTRIBUTION OF TURKISH ARCHITECTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF PAKISTAN: VEDAT DALOKAY

NEELEUM NAZ, Pakistan

URBAN DESIGN LABORATORY: MATERA, 1951-1954: MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN A RURAL CONTEXT

ANDREAS SICKLINGER, Italy

THE CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF THE CITY OF NICOSIA IN THE MODERNISATION PERIOD

BAHAR ULUÇAY, PINAR ULUÇAY, Turkey

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MODERNISM IN KOREA

IN-SUK YOON, Korea

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Conference Management

Alabanda Meetings
Irem Toprak

2006 proceedings 599

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