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Docomomo.bc: Events & Notices Until Sept 3rd 2006 at the West Vancouver Museum and Archives Living on the Edge: West Vancouver Modernist Homes 1940 -1970 features significant residential buildings and their plans, exterior and interior photographs and covers/articles from magazines that promoted modern trends in architecture, interiors and design. Along with the residences are interior furnishings and art by local designers and artists, including B.C. Binning, Winston Elliott and Gordon Smith. Living on the Edge Lecture Series Saturday May 20, 1:30pm Tuesday May 30, 6:30 pm Tuesday June 27, 6:30pm Admission by Donation BC Momo: Modern Movement Architecture in BC is available at the Museum Gift Shop For more infomation go to www.wvma.net. or contact the Museum at: 604-925-7295. Heritage in the Age of Smart Growth In North America, Smart Growth has emerged as an important topic on the urban agenda. It transcends a broad range of disciplines that have a stake in the built and natural environment such as planning, transportation, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture and the environmental sciences. The Smart Growth movement arises from the ongoing debate concerning urban sprawl and the inefficient use of natural resources. However, many of its fundamental principles also reinforce heritage conservation objectives. Heritage preservation is an important component of sustainable development, and provides significant economic, social, and quality of life benefits. It also serves to alleviate some of the demands placed on our diminishing natural resources. Through adaptive re-use and regeneration, heritage preservation can help to accommodate the type of growth that is anticipated for major Canadian cities, towns and settlements in the decades ahead. TOPICS: Call for Papers: Conserving the Modern in Canada: buildings, ensembles and site: 1945-1975 The "Conserving the Modern in Canada" conference is seeking proposals (due 15 October 2004) for papers to be presented at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario from May 6 to 8, 2005. This will be the first national Canadian conference on the conservation of the built heritage of the modern era and will focus on buildings, structures, districts and landscapes constructed between 1945 and 1975, and the issues related to their conservation and presentation. Conference participants will be architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, conservation professionals, archivists, historians, academics, students, facility managers, owners and developers among others. Susan Algie, James
Ashby Call for Papers: OBSOLESCENCE in Modern Architecture Submission of paper proposals are welcomed on the theme of obsolescence for the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, 6-10 April 2005, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The session on Obsolescence in Modern Architecture welcomes paper proposals dealing with the theme of obsolescence from multi-disiplinary perspectives, including but not limited to the histories of design, art, architecture, urbanism, preservation, technology, real estate, and finance. For more information, see the Call for Papers under Annual Meetings/Future at www.sah.org; or email daniel.abramson@tufts.edu. IMPORT/EXPORT: POSTWAR MODERNISM IN AN EXPANDING WORLD, 1945–1975 The VIIIth International DOCOMOMO Conference New York, New York Post Conference Technology Seminars DOCOMOMO US, the United States chapter of the international organization dedicated to the Documentation and Conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement, will host the VIIIth International DOCOMOMO conference. The opportunities the international expansion of postwar modernism offer for preservation and architecture to engage the central issues of our times will be discussed by speakers from 25 countries. A separate post conference series of technological seminars will be devoted to the restoration of curtain walls, concrete, stone, and color in postwar structures. Tours to important modern movement buildings in the New York region and New England, many of them not easily accessible, will be organized. Information about the program, registration, tours and lodging is constantly updated on the conference website. Early registration ends on June 30. For more information and to register, please visit: www.docomomo2004.org and www.docomomo-us.org. CONTACT: AB PREFAB Wednesday May 12th, 2004 at 8PM Vancouver
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James Ashby is the senior conservation architect with Public Works & Government Services Canada in Ottaw and the former restoration coordinator at the Henry Ford Museum. He has an MA in Conservation Studies from the University of York (UK) and is an ICCROOM, Rome alumnus. He is an expert in the conservation of aluminum. Promotion sponsors: Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Canadian Art Deco Society, Vancouver Museum, Architectural Institute of British Columbia DOCOMOMO.BC's CD-ROM "BC MOMO" will be available for sale at the special price of $25, to mark the launch of the CD. WALKING TOURS Domomomo.bc offers a guided walking tour of the Vancouver Burrard Street Corridor for interested groups. For information contact: info@docomomobc.org The Architectural Institute of BC offers an number of summer walking tours of Downtown Vancouver, China town and the Downtown East Side. Contact the AIBC at www.aibc.ca. |
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The
Dymaxion Dwelling Machine is "the most important pre-fabricated house
design of the 20th century" (Martin Pawley). The subject of the talk
will be the conservation and restoration of Buckminster Fuller's 1946
Dymaxion Dwelling Machine at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan,
which was done under the direction of James Ashby.