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Tarih: 26 - 29 Eylül  2004
Yer: The Venue ve Colombia Üniversitesi, New York - ABD

The conference theme for the VIIIth International DOCOMOMO Conference, “Import/Export: Postwar modernism in an Expanding World, 1945-1975”, renders it the first DOCOMOMO International meeting entirely devoted to the postwar period and the first to consider not just the impact of preservation on modernism but the impact of modernism on preservation. Preservation is defined as both traditional conservation and rehabilitation through (design) intervention. We will consider postwar modernism as an international phenomenon, for it is the appearance of modernism in all parts of the world and the scale of that manifestation that distinguish the modernism of the postwar from that of the interwar period. The conference will therefore bring together the too often separate, and sometimes opposed, perspectives of architecture, planning, landscape, and preservation.

As the home of "Corporate Modernism" on the one hand, and of the United Nations on the other, New York evokes 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. The Historic Preservation program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University is hosting the VIIIth Conference. Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus is on the Upper West Side area of the Manhattan Island. The campus, planned and built by the American Beaux-Arts architects, McKim, Mead and White, in 1893-1915, was later the object of unrealized projects by I.M. Pei and James Stirling. The campus today includes buildings by American postwar modernists Harrison and Abramowitz and contemporary designs by Gwathmey Siegel, James Stewart Polshek and Partners, Robert A.M. Stern, and Bernard Tschumi. Founded in 1754, Columbia will be hosting the conference during the year in which it celebrates its 250th anniversary and has recognized the VIIIth Conference as one of its Anniversary year activities.

Beginning on Sunday, September 26th, the conference will open at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The two main conference days are Monday and Tuesday, September 27 and 28, 2004, organized around three parallel sessions each day for paper presentations. In addition, posters will be prominently displayed and poster presenters may be asked to make formal presentations of their work. This multi-session format has been selected to provide as many people as possible with the opportunity to present their work and research to smaller audiences, thereby encouraging direct discussion and exchange.

Wednesday, the 29th of September, will be largely dedicated to local tours, while the day will end with the final event in a yet to be confirmed but spectacular location. Fees for the conference itself are in line with the amounts charged at DOCOMOMO 2002. Regional tours organized by the different chapters of DOCOMOMO US will be conducted at the end of the week, October 1 and 2, and open to conference participants through a separate registration process.

Participation
In response to our Call for Papers, issued in April of 2003, we received some 288 abstracts from all over the world. The Program Committee selected 68 for presentation in a blind review process. These 68 papers represent historians, architects, planners, and preservation professionals from 25 different countries. Additionally, the Program Committee selected a number of the abstracts submitted for poster presentations. Following the conference procedures, all posters will be published on the DOCOMOMO website.

Technology Seminars
Several technology seminars will be organized by DOCOMOMO US as an adjunct to, but separate from, the conference, and thus requiring a separate registration fee. Depending on space and interest, the suggested subjects are the curtain wall, concrete restoration, stone technology as well as color investigation and restoration. Many international professionals will be invited to make presentations. The intention is to provide an international perspective on these problems.

Contact
Web: http://www.docomomo2004.org/
www.docomomo-us.org