Preservationists focus on Modern Movement.DOCOMOMO DOCOMOMO Documentation and Conservation - Modern Movement (New York, NY urban design organization) 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 "Import/Export: Postwar modernism in an Expanding World, 1945-1975," from September 26 to October 2 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . This is the first DOCOMOMO conference devoted entirely to the postwar period. It is also first to consider the impact of preservation on modernism and conversely, the impact of modernism on preservation. Speakers from 25 different countries will be engaged in presentations, panels and teaching technology seminars. The conference week will be divided into three distinct components. At Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 68 historians, architects, planners and preservation professionals from around the world will present their papers. The presenters were selected from 288 abstracts submitted in response to a Call for Papers. Presentation themes are Internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , Polarization, Reconstruction and Rebuilding, Resistance and Independence, Time Zones, Utopias. AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture Continuing Education Units continuing education unit (CEU), n educational classes or experiences for licensed dental professionals that extend, update, or renew their knowledge of practices in their field. Some classes may be required for relicensing. will be granted to conference attendees. For a complete schedule click http://www.docomomo2004.org/conference.htm. A separate series of technology sessions organized by DOCOMOMO US will be held at Baruch College September 30 through October 2. International and U.S. professionals will deliver presentations on The 20th Century Metal and Glass Curtainwall, Concrete Restoration in Modern Buildings, Stone and Technology in the Modern Movement, Chroma Short for "chrominance." The attributes of a color, which include its hue (frequency) and saturation (amount of black). See hue and saturation. : Color and Conservation in Modem Buildings. For a complete schedule click http://www.docomomo2004.org/technologyseminars.htm. AIA Continuing Education Units will be granted for attending the technology seminars. "As the home of "Corporate Modernism" on one hand, and the United Nations on the other, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of evokes the multiple and often conflicting postwar social, cultural and political dimensions as well as the optimism and anxiety that so greatly shaped modernism and made it much more than merely a style," said Theodore H.M. Prudon, Ph.D., FAIA FAIA Florida Association of Insurance Agents FAIA Food Additives and Ingredients Association (Kent, UK) FAIA Fellow, American Institute of Architects (honorary position) , and president of DOCOMOMO US. "We will consider postwar modernism as an international phenomenon and the convergence of specialists from all over the world should be of interest to architects, historians, planners and preservationists." The conference is open to professionals and the public alike. Separate registration for the conference, technology seminars and tours can be made online at http://www.docomomo2004.org/registration.htm. Discounts are offered to members and AIA members. Continuing Education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). Credits will be granted to conference and technology seminar attendees --approximately 12 to 15 credits each for the conference and the seminar. Founded in 1995, DOCOMOMO US currently has chapters in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. |
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