Proceedings of the 10th International DOCOMOMO Conference The Challenge of Change Dealing with the Legacy of the Modern Movement This page intentionally left blank Proceedings of the 10th International DOCOMOMO Conference The Challenge of Change Dealing with the Legacy of the Modern Movement edited by: Dirk van den Heuvel Maarten Mesman Wido Quist Bert Lemmens IOS Press © 2008 IOS Press and the Authors. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-58603-917-2 Published by IOS Press under the imprint Delft University Press Publisher IOS Press BV Nieuwe Hemweg 6b 1013 BG Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31-20-688 3355 fax: +31-20-687 0019 e-mail: [email protected] www.iospress.nl www.dupress.nl LEGAL NOTICE The publisher is not responsible for the use which might be made of the following information PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS Contents Modern Architecture is Durable: Using Change to Preserve Maristella Casciato xiii Introduction Organising Committee 10th International DOCOMOMO Conference xv CHANGE AND CONTINUITY 1 Issues of Temporality - Paradoxes and Challenges of Modern Heritage Introduction to the session Horacio Torrent 3 Being and Becoming of Modern Heritage The Challenge of Planned Conservation Andrea Canziani 5 Notes on the Unfinished Modern Monument: Clorindo Testa’s Civic Center in Santa Rosa, La Pampa Cláudia Costa Cabral 11 Historic Present: the Modern Movement in Situation Zeuler Lima 17 Architecture and Temporality in Conservation Theory: The Modern Movement and the Restoration Attitude in Cesare Brandi Fidel Meraz 23 Metsäpaviljonski, Form Follows Wood Cristian Suau 27 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY 2 Buildings and Ideologies Introduction to the session Dirk van den Heuvel 35 The Evolution of Intervention Criteria in Modern Movement Restoration: Essential Problems and Circumstantial Problems GATCPAC’s Conservation Projects as a Case Study Martín Capeluto and María Turull 37 Anatole Kopp (1915-1990): the Engaged Architect and the Concept of Modern Architecture Anat Falbel 43 The Cubanacán Art Schools Rehabilitated Universo García Lorenzo 49 Modern Movement Conservation as Progressive Practice Byker and British Welfare State Housing Aidan While and John Pendlebury 55 v Rewriting the Past: The Demolition of Modern Buildings and Monuments in Post-Communist Poland Krystyna Wieszczek and Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira 61 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY 3 Monuments and Icons Introduction to the session Nancy Stieber 69 The Trojan Horse: Contemporary ‘Iconic’ Architecture and the Falsification of Modernism Miles Glendinning 71 Transformations of a Suburban Estate Designed by Gregory Ain Preservation of the Mar Vista Tract After 60 years Yasuko Kamei 75 Neglectfulness in the Preservation and Continuity of Late-modern Architecture the Case of St Peter’s Seminary by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia Mhairi McVicar and Cristian Suau 81 The Obsolescence of the Monument, the Future of Airport Icons Nathalie Roseau 87 Reconstructing the Philips Pavilion, Brussels 1958 Elements for a Critical Assessment Sven Sterken 93 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY 4 Myth, Authenticity and Lived Practices Introduction to the session Hilde Heynen 101 Beyond Oscar Niemeyer: Authorities, Remodelings, Paradoxes and Peculiarities in the Preservation of Modern Buildings in Brazil Carlos Eduardo Comas, Cecília Rodrigues dos Santos and Ruth Verde Zein 103 Myth, History and Conservation in Tel Aviv Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch and Ron Fuchs 109 Rietveld at Bergeijk Madeleine Steigenga 115 Viva Stirling’s Florey building Igea Troiani 121 Questioning Material/Conceptual Authenticity France Vanlaethem and Céline Poisson 127 CITIES AND LANDSCAPE 1 Cities Introduction to the session Paul Meurs 133 The Urban Validity of Modern Experiences Carmen Blasco Sánchez, Francisco Martínez Pérez and Julia Deltoro Soto 135 vi Translating the New Old-World into the New New-World Reassessing Ernst Plischke’s Plan for Naenae, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Ian Bowman 141 Transformation an Alternative Approach Renewing the Postwar City Arjan Gooijer, Gert Jan te Velde and Henk van Schagen 147 Plymouth: City of the Welfare State in the 21st Century Jeremy Gould 153 The Pittsburgh Civic Arena: Memory and Renewal Robert Shaw Pfaffmann 159 CITIES AND LANDSCAPE 2 The Landscape of Modernity Introduction to the session Louise Noelle 169 Modern Urban Landscape to Sustainable Urban Landscape A Challenge for Chandigarh Parmeet Singh Bhatt 171 Landscapes of the Recent Past: Identifying Key Problems Regarding the Conservation of Designed Landscapes Jan Haenraets and Obas John Ebohon 177 Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Everyday Modernism in Australian Suburban Communities Hannah Lewi 185 Ecological Crisis and the Modernist Residential Landscape: Pontchartrain Park, New Orleans, Louisiana Carol McMichael Reese, Jane Wolff 191 Mountains and Modernity Bernese Modernist buildings in its environment Bernd Nicolai 197 SHIFTS IN PROGRAMME AND FLEXIBILITY 1 Meandering in Modern Ensembles Introduction to the session Hugo Segawa 205 The Curves of Time: Pamphulha, 65 Years of Change Leonardo Barci Castriota 207 Moroccan Modernism Revamped Flexing between Infrastructural Opportunism and Heritage Commodification Aziza Chaouni 213 Conservation Development Strategy for the University of East Anglia William Fawcett, Katie Thornburrow and Joseph Saunders 219 Modernist Housing for Contemporary Families The arrival of the Athens Charter in Lisbon Nelson Mota 225 vii Facing the Future: Five Residential Buildings in Santiago and the Challenge of Flexibility Andres Tellez 233 SHIFTS IN PROGRAMME AND FLEXIBILITY 2 F(r)ictions of Flexibility Introduction to the session Marieke Kuipers 241 Conservation as Project Dealing today with Latin American modern heritage – a realistic approach Maximiano Atria 243 Adaptive Rehabilitation of the Riachuelo Building in the Historical Centre of São Paulo Paulo Bruna and Sonia Gouveia 249 Large Scale Projects of the Modern Movement Changing or Developing Architectural Genius? Alex Dill 255 Restoring the 20th Century Richard Klein 259 Bolgatanga Library: Adaptive Modernism in Ghana 40 Years on Ola Uduku 265 EDUCATION IN TRANSFORMATION Education in Transformation Introduction to the session Changmo Ahn 275 Lessons on Architecture for the Future of the Past Beatriz Santos de Oliveira 277 Preventative Conservation of Modern Architectural Heritage Study Programme Maria-Elena Ghersi Rassi, Alvaro Gonzalez Bastidas 283 How Should we Teach the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Architecture? Franz Graf 287 Experiencing the Modern in Lisbon Jorge Spencer, João Paulo Martins, José Neves, Pedro Belo Ravara 295 Modern Education and the Education in Transformation of the Modern the Experience of the Masters Degree in “Rehabilitation of the Built Environment” Gonçalo Canto Moniz and José António Bandeirinha 301 TECHNOLOGY, PROGRESS AND SUSTAINABILITY 1 Building Skins: Conservation and Adaptive Re-use Introduction to the session Wessel de Jonge 309 The Feet of the Duck or Dynamic Insulation Tackling Single Glass Facades of Modern Movement Buildings Tom Haartsen and Eric van den Ham 311 viii Comfort Conditions in Early Post-Colonial Architecture in Ghana Victor Kootin-Sanwu 317 Simulation of Natural Ventilation Flows Possibilities for the Restoration of the Viipuri Library Ventilation System Ulrike Passe, Preston Stoakes and Francine Battaglia 323 Modern Glass Walls on the Way to Sustainability Comparing Examples from Germany and Brazil Uta Pottgiesser 331 Sustainability, A Modern Movement Nina Rappaport 337 TECHNOLOGY, PROGRESS AND SUSTAINABILITY 2 Materials - Conservation strategies and methodologies Introduction to the session Kyle Normandin 345 The Pirelli Skyscraper in Milan, Italy Modern and Contemporary Technologies Paola Ascione 347 Dalle de Verre: Modern Stained Glass Flora Chou 355 Securing Ornamental Design in Modern Havana Heritage:Architectural High Rise Building Regino Gayoso Blanco 361 The Original Intention – Intention of the Original? Remarks on the Importance of Materiality Regarding the Preservation of the Tugendhat House and Other Buildings of Modernism Ivo Hammer 369 Concrete Repairs and Coatings for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Amanda Thomas Trienens, Glenn Boornazian and Norman Weiss 375 SHORT PAPERS CHANGE AND CONTINUITY Historical Research, Architectural Design and the Conservation of Modern Paulista School Buildings The Case of the Gymnasium of Itahaém André Augusto de Almeida Alves 385 Preserving the Body in Greek Modern Architecture The Sanatorium “Sotiria” in Athens Katerina Chatzikonstantinou 389 Change and Permanence in Greek Modernity The Case of Takis Zenetos Elias Constantopoulos 393 Paradoxes in the Rebuilding of Casto Fernández-Shaw’s Porto Pí Petroleum Station Luis Maldonado Ramos, David Rivera Gámez, Fernando Vela Cossío 397 ix Chandigarh: Managing the Challenge of Change in an Icon of the Modern Movement Sangeeta Bagga Mehtaa, Rajiv Mehtab 401 A Roof over One’s Head: Luxury for Everybody Vienna’s Social Housing Project, 1923-2008 Inge Podbrecky 405 Paradoxes and Contradictions in Conserving Modernisms from the 1960’s Case Study: Pihlajamäki Housing Area – Protective Plan, Regeneration and Repair Guidelines Riitta Salastie 409 Making a Home of Modernism Architectural Alterations in the Dessau-Törten Siedlung, 1928-2007 Andreas Schwarting 413 Tropical Modernism: the Legacy of the Modern Movement in Sri Lanka, with Respect to Three Practitioners Rajiv Wanasundera 417 RESTRUCTURING CITIES AND LANDSCAPE Inseparable links: Architecture, Nature, Landscape The Tourist Village “Le Rocce”, Restoration