Dear Docomomo members, please note that you have received, or will receive shortly, the Journal issues 70 and 72. Our Journal 71 is an online-only publication and will not be distributed in physical format. All Journals are of course available online!
DOCOMOMO International managed to produce another two thematic issues of DOCOMOMO Journal in 2024 and next to those, a yearly OPEN issue was started. In total 37 submissions (including editorials, book reviews, etc.) were published!
DJ #70 with the title “From Constructivism to Modernism in Kharkiv” was published in May and DJ #72 with the title “The Way towards Regional Modernities” was published online in December. We are grateful to the guest-editors of this issue: Natasa Koselj and Mejrema Zatrić.
DJ #71 was the first OPEN issue of DOCOMOMO Journal, aiming for contributions that do not fit within the topic of the thematic issues but fit the overall scope of the journal. All contributions to the open issue undergo the same peer reviewing process under the wings of the editors-in-chief.
The editors-in-chief thank all authors, reviewers, guest-editors and all other cooperators of the journal for their commitment in 2024! The graph shows that more and more readers are able to find our journal: compared to 2023, 2024 saw an increase in views with more than one third!
2025 is well on its way: the articles for DJ #73, guest edited by Zsuzsanna Böröcz and Deniz Hasirci are in the final stage of reviewing and the articles for DJ #75, guest edited by Liutauras Nekrošius and Kateryna Didenko are being finalised!
DJ #74 is the open issue for 2025 and is accepting contributions, so if you have a paper that fits in the scope of the journal, please submit and we will be happy to review and publish (when accepted).
No. 72 (2024)The Way towards Regional Modernities
This issue of Docomomo Journal on the architects Dušan Grabrijan (1899-1952) and Juraj Neidhardt (1901-1979) keeps with the tradition of collaboration and discourse. The authors investigate, describe, and interpret the friendship, exchange, and works of both architects and their role in the modernization of Yugoslav architecture since the 1920s based on their international experience. Grabjian, the first graduate of Jože Plečnik at the University of Ljubljana, went to study in Paris in 1925-26, and Neidhardt worked in the studio of Le Corbusier in Paris from 1933-35.
Both Grabrijan and Neidhardt played crucial roles in articulating a Yugoslavian architectural identity that straddled modernism and regionalism. Their work in Bosnia and Herzegovina was groundbreaking in its insistence that modern architecture could not simply be imported from the West; it had to be adapted to the local climate, materials, and ways of life. They both remain influential in the study of how architecture can reconcile the tension between modern abstraction and regional specificity, and their work continues to be studied as a model for integrating global and local architectural practices.
Published: 2024-12-07