DOCOMOMO / Australia ICOMOS – Sydney Talk Series

Japans Industrial Revolution – worth valuing?

Japan’s heritage is often thought of as wooden temples, stone based castles, cherry blossom and Mount Fuji but there is a reasonable amount of heritage relating to the early period of industrialisation – Japans Industrial Revolution as some call it, which occurred from 1850 to 1912. The modernisation of Japan was a significant event in the late 19th century where a
near colony dominated by Imperial powers rose to modernise, defeat Russia and become a colonial power in its own right all in about 50 years. One might even call it an outstanding event and suggest that surviving sites might indeed have universal and outstanding values worthy of World Heritage listing.

The KY World Heritage project began by the recognition by some Japanese, principally Ms Koko Kato, that some sites may have UOV. This idea garnered support to form a committee with funding available to undertake investigation and inspections. Dr Iain Stuart and Dr Michael Pearson are Australian ICOMITES on the panel of official foreign advisors to the KY committee. We have the role of assisting the representatives of the Japanese Government and other interest groups prepare a Draft Nomination document.

This talk by Dr Iain Stuart, speaking in a personal capacity, outlines the key places under consideration and their historical context, with comments on the process of nomination and how the project has evolved over time.

Dr Iain Stuart is an archaeologist who has worked in Government and in private industry over
the last 30 years. He considered himself “from Melbourne” although he has lived in Sydney
since 1993. He is a Board Member of TICCIH and of the Australasian Society of Historical
Archaeology as well as being a long-term member of ICOMOS.

Members of the public are welcome!

Time & Date: Thursday 2nd May 2013, 5.30pm for 6pm start

Cost: Members $7, non-members $12 payable at the door. Wine and nibbles will be
provided.

Venue: Godden Mackay Logan, 78 George Street, Redfern

RSVP: Miss Jane Vernon janev@gml.com.au or 02 9319 4811. Please note RSVP is
essential as places are limited.

MEMBERSHIP DUE: To friends and members. As you will probably know, annual membership fees are now due. (this is earlier than previous years, to bring us in line with international membership requirements)

Thank you to all those that have already responded and renewed. For others – please re-subscribe as a local or international member in order to receive the Docomomo International journal, and to support ongoing events and activism of Docomomo Australia and international.

Go to Docomomo Australia – membership tab to renew online.

Dedicated to the screening of documentaries and films on architecture, design and urbanism. Many films will be of great interest to Docomomo friends and members.

See attached flyer for further information and membership form.

Or go to www.robinboyd.org.au/dado.

First Film: ‘Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a breath of Air”

April 17 – Boyd Foundation, Walsh street, South Yarra

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Council House – Perth WA, “Turns 50 this year”

There is an exhibition and catalogue to celebrate its birthday current on show in Council House

See http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/03/25/3723156.htm

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“Living in Australia”, New Edition for sale.

Go to www.robinboyd.org.au

‘Living in Australia provided Robin Boyd with an opportunity to describe his own approach to design and his vision for Australian housing – housing that is appropriate to our lifestyle, environment, climate and culture. Originally published in 1970, this new edition includes recent colour photographs by John Gollings and essays by renowned architects Kerstin Thompson and Rachel Neeson reflecting upon the importance of Boyd’s work and its continuing relevance.’

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UIA Work Programme Architectural Heritage – International conference in Xian

Heritage | Work Programmes

This work programme is organising its second international conference in Xian, China, on 8 & 9 October 2013. This year’s conference will discuss how to preserve modern architectural heritage on the theme Other MoMo, relating to other modern movements and other forms of heritage. The meeting will take place at the University of Xian with the participation of UIA president Albert Dubler, the president of DoCoMoMo and the ICOMOS vice-president.

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FESA HOUSE, Perth – a fine piece of Western Australian brutalism is going to be demolished despite resistance from planners, architects and the WA Heritage Council.

This work programme is organising its second international conference in Xian, China, on 8 & 9 October 2013. This year’s conference will discuss how to preserve modern architectural heritage on the theme Other MoMo, relating to other modern movements and other forms of heritage. The meeting will take place at the University of Xian with the participation of UIA president Albert Dubler, the president of DoCoMoMo and the ICOMOS vice-president.

Kecheng Liu, UIA work programme director

“FESA HOUSE, Perth – a fine piece of Western Australian brutalism is going to be demolished. The place was considered for State Register listing but was deemed ‘below threshold’ by the Minister of Heritage in 2012 and the Crown land was subsequently released for redevelopment under the State Government’s hotel development incentive package.”

Tusculum – Thursday 6 December | 6 for 6.30 PM

Presented by the AIA NSW Chapter & Docomomo

David Fixler | Innovation becomes Tradition:  Modern Architecture as Institutional Heritage in America

American colleges and universities have always sought to achieve an optimal balance of respect for tradition and embrace of innovation in their mission, academic programs and physical environment.  Nowhere has the tension inherent in this balance been more apparent than in the widespread embrace of modern architecture in the Post World War II era. As these works have aged, many institutions have been wrestling with the conundrum of respecting their status as heritage while also keeping them relevant and progressive – and thereby true to the spirit in which they were originally conceived.   The range of quality, importance and consequently treatment of these structures varies widely; this talk will start with a brief discussion of the kinds of issues facing modern resources in general and will then focus in particular on the renewal of two iconic American educational buildings – Alvar Aalto’s Baker House at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Louis Kahn’s Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania.

PETER COX on Energy Efficiency in Heritage and Traditional buildings from 12^th - 20th Century

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At the conclusion of the symposium “Classroom to Campus: the heritage of modern education” at the University of Melbourne, and sponsored by Docomomo Australia, a walking tour of education buildings was led around the campus and beyond. Highlights included the refurbishment of Ormand College’s library / learning centre and Newman College.

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From Classroom to Campus: The Heritage of Modern Education,
The University of Melbourne, November 26-28^th.
This two day symposium includes two evening public lectures:

Monday 26th, 6.00 pm - David Fixler (EYP Architects, Boston)
Innovation becomes Tradition: Modern Architecture as Institutional Heritage in America

Tuesday 27th, 6.30 pm - John Allan (Avanti Architects, London)
Learning and legacy – the British experience

Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th:
An exciting program of international and national speakers and round-table discussions with leading academics and architects on strategies of heritage conservation, documentation and adaptive re-use of modern schools and university campuses.

See this website for flyer, program and registration details
http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/heritage/classroom-campus
Docomomo is pleased to announce its support for this symposium and in particular the keynote lecture by John Allan.

OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST IN MELBOURNE THIS MONTH:

John Andrews Symposium. October 18 – 19, The University of Melbourne

Forum on Ancient Chinese Architectural history, October 27-28,

The University of Melbourne“Pictures from FINLAND”,
November 7 th @ 6.00, at the Boyd Foundation, Walsh Street, South Yarra.
Please join us to hear about the Docomomo International Conference recently held in Helsinki.
Nigel Lewis, Fooi- Ling Khoo, David Brand and Philip Goad will show a selection of pictures from their architecture tours.

Docomomo Journal 47 (2012/2)
Update
DATE: 1/12/2012

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As we announced at the 2012 Conference that took place in Espoo, Finland, DOCOMOMO International has been working this year on 2 special issues of the DOCOMOMO Journal on Modern Furniture.

We will be sending Journal 47 to all members at the beginning of December 2012 and we hope you will enjoy it. We also wish to thank the guest editor of these two issues, Bárbara Coutinho, for her work.

This symposium, which includes public lectures by leading international conservation practitioners, plenary talks by historians and educationalists, as well panel presentations and themed roundtable discussions, will explore the historical documentation, conservation and potential heritage values of once modern and now ageing educational campuses in Australia and around the world.

The event brings together practitioners from heritage, architecture, education, planning and landscape spheres, alongside researchers and policy-makers. Lectures and workshop sessions will encompass broad consideration of heritage values, beyond the aesthetic and stylistic, to include aspects of planning and landscaping, construction, educational reform, along with the social values connected to classroom and campus use and memory. Topics of discussion and debate will include:

• How to promote sympathetic and nuanced engagement with extant modern campuses as an institutional responsibility of stewardship, while acknowledging the real pressures of institutional development, renewal and branding through design.
• Strategies for broadening heritage consideration, documentation and evaluation to include the more intangible histories and associations of memories around the social and transformative experience of learning.
• Strategies for considering the campus as a crucial urban and suburban site that is porous and impacts upon local community contexts.

Outcomes that will follow from the symposium include providing guidance and advocacy for documentation, heritage and conservation strategies and policies at local community and national levels. Future new directions for the conservation, adaptation and planning of the modern campus will be considered alongside propositions of frameworks for understanding new interventions.

Keynote Speakers : Keynote 1: David Fixler  Keynote 2: John Allan

Coordinator/s: Dr Cameron Logan & Assoc Prof Hannah Lewi

From Classroom to Campus Web Page

Please email us for relevant News and Events around Australia of interest to Docomomo friends and members.

UK- type listing of the English Pub:

The Guardian Newspaper online has a story about an initiative to nominate the typical English pub for UNESCO World Heritage status – by grouping numerous typical examples together under the banner of a “type” nomination. Other type listings including modernist examples have also succeeded, and this could be an interesting precedent for Australian modernism…. The Aussie Bowling Club perhaps??!!

Loss of ETA factory:

We received the news that the ETA Factory, designed by Frederic Romberg, 1958 has sadly been demolished.

Photos by Wolfgang Sievers

source Digital Picture Collection NLA

http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.pic-an13984657

Japan Architecture Tour – 27 September – 6 October 2012. A unique architectural experience spending 6 nights in Tokyo and 4 nights in Kyoto. A definitive display of Japanese architectural expression and culture visiting fascinating traditional and contemporary buildings in Tokyo, famous temples in Kyoto, several Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, wonderful Japanese gardens and some great art and architecture exhibitions.

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‘The architectural heritage of Melbourne. Is it still relevant in a modern city?’
with  Professor Harriet Edquist

In Conversation at Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St , Carlton

Events are free but please book on  9347 6633

Melbourne’s Buildings Discussion Series

Monday 2 July at 6.30 pm

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Documentary Film on Modern Design, at ACMI Melbourne.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter.

Screening in June see  http://www.acmi.net.au/lp_eames_architect_painter.aspx

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UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR HERITAGE LISTING:

96-98 Astor Terrace, Spring Hill, Queensland: Offices of Fulton & Colin Architects has been nominated for heritage listing. A submission to the heritage process has been made by Fulton Trotter Architects, who have contacted Docomomo regarding this initiative, and to share their report. Please see attached pdf document, which is interesting reading about the building’s significance, the architects and modernism in Brisbane.

view PDF Submission HRN: 602800: Heritage Listing – 96 Astor Terrace LQ

DOCOMOMO MEETING AND LECTURE EVENING

This Thursday March 15th from 6.15 Boyd House, Walsh St,  SOuth Yarra,
Dr Jan Haenraets will speak on “Modern Landscape Conservation and Management Planning”,
followed by a short Docomomo meeting over a glass of wine.

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*** Next Boyd Foundation OPEN DAYS and lecture series celebrating the work of Peter McIntyre – two open days “for a man who’s work could not be contained to the usual single day.”  (1.4.12 and 22.4.12 open days & 27.3.12 and 17.4.12 lectures)

For more information visit www.robinboyd.org.au

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Out of print for over 60 years – Victorian Modern has now been republished by the Robin Boyd Foundation 

Robin Boyd published his first book ‘Victorian Modern: 111 years of modern architecture in Victoria’ in 1947. Just before he died, in 1971, Robin Boyd was preparing to republish his first book, Victorian Modern. On the fortieth anniversary of his death, the Robin Boyd Foundation is pleased to complete the project.

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Docomomo Publications

This is a list of Docomomo publications that are available from Docomomo Australia and are offered at the same price of the euro price but without postage expenses.  (Postage is included within Australia).

Art Works: Drawings by Ken Woolley - $20.00
Preservation technology dossier 2:
The Fair Face of Concrete: Conservation and Repair of Exposed Concrete - $25.00
Preservation technology dossier 5: Colour and the Modern Movement - $25.00
Docomomo Journal 31 - $20.00
Docomomo Journal 32 - $20.00
Docomomo Journal 34 - $20.00 (Sold out in Europe)

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