Monumental modernism: Legacy or waste?

Chairs: 

Claudia Costa Cabral – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Fernando Diez – Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Oscar Crivelli, Jorge Heinzmann, Mercado del Plata Building, Buenos Aires, 1948-1961. Source: Roberto Fiadone, Creative Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)

Presentations:

– Monumental Modernism: Legacy or Waste                          

Claudia Costa Cabral

Fernando Diez

– Housing Problem in Italy and Large-Scale Buildings in Second Half of the 20th Century. A Fragile Heritage      

Francesca Albani

– Ibirapuera Gymnasium: renewal of use, private concession and preservation in São Paulo.

Renato Luiz Sobral Anelli

– Mending Wall – Continuity in the Modernist City: Interpreting Smallbrook Ringway Centre, Birmingham

Michael Dring

– New Old London: Modern Large-Scale Housing for the Traditional City

Jaime Silva

Ana Tostoes

– Revisiting Merihaka’s Parking Structures P1 and P2

Karita Rytivaara