Adaptive Reuse. Modernity Towards a Better Future

Dans le cadre de leur cycle de conférences 2016 "Projet, histoire, construction. Nouveaux regards sur le patrimoine récent", le laboratoire TSAM et Docomomo Switzerland ont le plaisir d'accueillir Ana Tostoes pour une intervention consacrée à l'actualité du projet de sauvegarde du patrimoine moderne.

The Modern Movement has demonstrated its long term legitimacy, as a concept endowed with an extraordinary longevity. Relating technology, form and social commitment to one another, through an optimistic faith in progress, modern architects sought to attain new heights of functionality and flexibility in use. Do.Co.Mo.Mo. International’s challenge is to find ways to deal with this modern legacy in relation to the continuously changing context of the current times, including physical, economic and functional changes, as well as fast-moving socio-cultural, political and scientific contextual values.
In its pursuit of the task of conserving and rebuilding, Do.Co.Mo.Mo. must itself be modern and sustainable in order to continue to fulfil the Modern Movement’s social and collective project, as modernity and sustainability are part of the primary nature of Modern Movement project itself.
In Do.Co.Mo.Mo.’s view, the Modern Movement still carries on today and into the future, as an ever-present social, spatial and technological project engaged with the community, constantly engaging with the challenge of creating a better place to live.

Ana Tostões PhD, is architect, architectural critic and historian, Chair of Do.Co.Mo.Mo. International, Do.Co.Mo.Mo. Journal Editor. She is Full Professor at Tecnico, Lisbon University, where she is in charge of the architectural PhD program. Her research field is the twentieth century architectural theory and urban history, focusing the worldwide cultural transfers.

jeudi 3 mars 2016, 18h30

ARCHIZOOM - Project Room

EPF Lausanne