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international working party for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement Proceedings VIIIth International Conference Import-Export: Postwar Modernism in a Expanding World, 1945-1975 Editors Theodore H.M. Prudon Hélène Lipstadt DOCOMOMO International DOCOMOMO US New York, 2008 In memory of Paul S. Byard (1939-2008) His enthusiastic support made this conference a success Contents The VIIIth International DOCOMOMO Conference Import-Export: Postwar Modernism in an Expanding World, 1945-1975 Preface Influence And Transformation: The Saskatchewan Power Theodore H. M. Prudon and Hélène Lipstadt ............................ 1 Corporation Headquarters Bernard Flaman ....................................................................... 67 DOCOMOMO US and Change in Preservation in America Theodore H. M. Prudon and Hélène Lipstadt ............................ 3 A Modern Museum in an Old House by the Sea: Lina Bo Bardi and the Modernism of Bahia The 2004 Conference Theme Silvana Rubino ........................................................................ 73 Hélène Lipstadt.......................................................................... 5 Augusto H. Álvarez: Pioneer and Innovator of Mexican Modernity María de Lourdes Cruz González Franco ............................... 79 INTERNATIONALIZATION ....................................................... 7 From International to National and Back: the heritage of Modern Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Sandy Van Ginkel, Blanche Lemco and Movement in the new socialist town of Nowa Huta The Internationalization Of CIAM Roberta Chionne ..................................................................... 87 Kelly Crossman ....................................................................... 11 Kunio Maekawa’s “Technical Approach” to the Creation of a Brazilian Modernism on the European Campus: Modern Japanese Architecture The Casas do Brasil in Paris and Madrid Hiroshi Matsukuma .................................................................. 95 Martina Millà Bernad................................................................ 19 Study on Collaborative Projects by Modern Architects: Sunset or Sunrise? Modernist Embassy Architecture and the Urban Design Projects from 1945-1970 Twilight of British Empire Yasunori Kitao ....................................................................... 103 Miles Glendinning .................................................................... 25 The Role of Architectural Precast Concrete Technology in the Socialist Realism vs. Socialist Modernism: Internationalization of Postwar Modernism History and Meanings of the Tower of the Central Committee Jack Pyburn ........................................................................... 113 of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia Vladimir Kulić ........................................................................... 31 1945–1970: How the Media Built Brazilian Architecture Beatriz Santos de Oliveira ..................................................... 121 Claude Laurens and a New Architecture for “le Nouveau Congo”: Assessing Postwar Tropical Modernism in a Colonial Negotiating Diversities: Passages to Modernity of Context Post-Independence India: 1947-1957 Johan Lagae ............................................................................ 37 Kiran Joshi ............................................................................. 129 (Inter)nationalizing Modernism: The Case of Finnish The Iconic and the Ordinary Architecture Ela Kaçel .............................................................................. 139 Petra Čeferin ........................................................................... 43 The United Nations Headquarters in the 21st Century: The Demonstration of Everyday Modernism: documenting the Restore or Rethink architecture of the VIIth British Empire and Commonwealth David N. Fixler ....................................................................... 145 Games in Western Australia of 1962. Hannah Lewi............................................................................ 51 Is Modernism Un-American? Rethinking Richard Neutra’s Monumental “Failure” at Gettysburg Internationalization and Decolonization at the New York World’s Christine Madrid French ........................................................ 151 Fair of 1964–1965 Julie Nicoletta .......................................................................... 59 POLARIZATION .................................................................... 159 Late Modern Buildings in a Historic Town Center: A Case Study Grazyna Hryncewicz-Lamber ................................................ 275 Fading Architecture of Progress: modernizing Hong Kong and ‘liberated’ China, 1945-1966 The Reconstruction of the “Mostra D”Oltremare” in Naples Jeffrey W. Cody ..................................................................... 161 Paola Ascione and Marisa Zuccaro ....................................... 283 The Stalinstadt Experiment: East Germany, 1950-1961 Vällingby Center, Stockholm after fifty years: Lars Scharnholz..................................................................... 169 preservation and revitalization Britt Wisth .............................................................................. 291 Another Kind of Modernism- Trends in Postwar Architectural Ideology and Practice in Socialist Bulgaria 1944—1989 Architectural Ideals in Rebuilding and Rehabilitation of Modern Milena Metalkova-Markova.................................................... 175 Housing Sonja Viden ........................................................................... 297 Ideology and Aesthetics in Brazilian-U.S. Relations 1945–60 Sonia Marques and Guilah Naslavsky................................... 183 Deconstructing Formalism: Socialist Realism versus Modernist RESISTANCE AND INDEPENDENCE ................................. 303 Architecture Carmen Popescu ................................................................... 193 Preservation As Confrontation In The Work Of Lina Bo Bardi Zeuler R. Lima ....................................................................... 305 Postwar Low-cost Housing in South Africa: Ideal and Reality Alta Steenkamp ..................................................................... 201 The São Paulo Museum of Art Marcos José Carrilho............................................................. 315 Eladio Dieste’s Latin American Modernity RECONSTRUCTION AND REBUILDING ............................ 207 Pablo Castro with Jennifer Lee.............................................. 321 The Reconstruction of Dunkirk Alternate Visions for a Modern Singapore Philippe Louguet .................................................................... 211 Dinesh Naidu, Ho Weng Hin and Tan Kar Lin ....................... 329 The Reconstruction of Le Havre (1945–59): Perret Confronts The International and the Regional in Late Twentieth Century Industrialized Construction, or the Demise of the Frame Bosnian Architecture Yvan Delemontey .................................................................. 219 Erika Tapp ............................................................................. 337 Something Old, Something New: Postwar Planning and Justifying the Ornamental in Postwar Modernism: Preservation in Paris Rudolph’s Arts Center at Wellesley Tami Hausman ...................................................................... 227 John Rhodes ......................................................................... 343 Irredentist Urbanism: Border Dispute, Rapprochement and Australian Resistance, Subsequent Fall: Modernism and the Modern Architecture in Alsace-Lorraine, 1945-1965 National Gallery of Victoria (1968) Charissa N. Terranova............................................................235 Philip Goad ............................................................................ 349 The Postwar Productions of the Public Works Department of Brussels: Postwar Modernity and the City: Singapore (PWD) Confrontational Testimony of a Changing Political Debate Wong Yunn Chii ..................................................................... 243 Iwan Strauven and Benoit Moritz..,.......................................359 To Rationalize, Functionalize, and Internationalize Japan: The “The Hidden Face of the Sun”: European Travellers in Role of the Architects in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommuni- American Counterculture. cations in the Postwar Period – The Case of Hideo Kosaka Caroline Maniaque ................................................................ 365 Kenji Watanabe and Yoshiyuki Yamana ................................ 251 Groothandelsgebouw Rotterdam Reviewed Hielkje Zijlstra ........................................................................ 259 The Future has a Dubious Past: The Ambiguous Role of the “Old” in the Plan for the “New Warsaw”—1949-1955 David Snyder ......................................................................... 267 TIME ZONES ......................................................................... 373 The Modern Movement in Maryland: Research Contexts, Issues, and Methodologies The IS Bank Skyscraper: the modern office block in Turkey Mary Corbin Sies and Isabelle Gournay ................................ 473 Elvan Altan Ergut ................................................................... 375 The Impact of Modernity and Tradition in Post-1950 Kathmandu Valley Architecture APPENDIX .................................................................................
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