OUR PLASTIC HERITAGE: WHERE ARE WE NOW?

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https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.66.i

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2022-12-12

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No. 66 (2022): Modern Plastic Heritage

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Introduction

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Copyright (c) 2022 Zsuzsanna Böröcz, Robert Loader, Silvia Naldini

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OUR PLASTIC HERITAGE: WHERE ARE WE NOW?. (2022). Docomomo Journal, 66, 4-7. https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.66.i

Abstract

This Docomomo Journal on plastics is the result of collaboration between two Docomomo International Specialist Committees1 (ISCs): the Committee for Technology (ISC/T) and the recently formed Committee for Interior Design (ISC/ID). The two ISCs hosted, together with the Dutch and Belgium Working parties, successive specialist events in October 2017 (TU Delft) and March 2018 (University of Antwerp) which served as a platform for networking, discussion and, subsequently, for dissemination of knowledge on plastics in Modern Movement architecture and design with in-person visits to relevant buildings, institutions and companies.

Author Biographies

  • Zsuzsanna Böröcz, KU Leuven, University of Antwerp, Docomomo International, Docomomo Belgium

    Zsuzsanna Böröcz is an art and architecture historian (Ph.D. KU Leuven 2004).
    She is guest professor at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture and affiliated to both
    the KU Leuven Department of Architecture A2I research group Architecture Interiority
    Inhabitation and the University of Antwerp Faculty of Design Sciences Henry van de
    Velde Research Group. She is also President of Docomomo Belgium and co-chair,
    together with Bárbara Coutinho, of the Docomomo International Scientific Committee
    on Interior Design.

  • Robert Loader

    Robert Loader is an architect based in London with extensive experience in
    repairing and upgrading historic buildings and neighbourhoods. Current research
    focuses on the materials and conservation of building facade components developed
    in the twentieth century. He is Secretary of Docomomo UK and Chair of the Docomomo
    International Specialist Committee on Technology.

  • Silvia Naldini

    Silvia Naldini is senior researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture
    of Delft University of Technology and has been active in the field of Conservation
    and Maintenance of Monuments for more than thirty years. She works in (EU)
    international and national research projects and transfers scientific knowledge
    into practice (Monumentenwacht). Recent research concerns Professionalism in
    Monuments Conservation and Integral Transformation of Museums. She is editor
    of the Rondeltappe book series on Conservation and Transformation and of the
    DOCOMOMO International journal.