Disciples, Devotees, Scholars, and Friends

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Abstract

It is a long-standing and well-appreciated tradition of Docomomo International to emphasize its diversity expressed in buildings, sites, and neighborhoods due to different geography, language, education, and personalities. The term multiple modernisms has been coined to express regional, stylistic, and constructive differences in the formal and philosophical expression of Modern Movement across the globe, within the continents, and even within countries. Docomomo conferences and Docomomo Journals have used and interpreted the term over the last 30 years to express and acknowledge the diversity in the growing community of national working parties. We only need to refer to the recent Docomomo Journal no. 67 (2022) on Multiple Modernities in Ukraine1, or no. 36 (2007) on Other Modernisms2, published in parallel with the 2006 Docomomo International Conference in Istanbul and Ankara (Turkey) with the same title. Other issues highlighted local and regional particularities together and, at the same time, referenced common roots and personal links, such as the preservation technology dossier no. 13 on Perceived Technologies in the Modern Movement 1918-1975 published by the International Specialist Committee on Technology (ISC/T) in 2014. In that publication, the specific and long-term collaborations of architects with engineers and artists were explored often leading to exceptional solutions in structure, design, and function.

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Pottgiesser, U., & Quist, W. (2024). Disciples, Devotees, Scholars, and Friends. Docomomo Journal, (72), 2–3. https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.72.ed

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2024-12-07

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Author Biographies

Uta Pottgiesser, Delft University of Technology

Is professor of Heritage & Technology at TU Delft and Professor of Building Construction and Materials at OWL, University of Applied Sciences (TH OWL). She studied Architecture at TU Berlin and holds a doctorate from TU Dresden and is chair of DOCOMOMO International, also board member of DOCOMOMO Germany. Her concern is with the protection, reuse and improvement of the built heritage and environment.

Wido Quist, Delft University of Technology

Wido Quist is Associate Professor in Heritage & Technology and leading the section Heritage & Architecture at TU Delft (The Netherlands). He is Secretary General of Docomomo International, Chair of Docomomo Netherlands and was a board-member for many years of WTA NL-VL. Since 2022 he is – together with Uta Pottgiesser - editor in chief of the Docomomo Journal. His research and teaching centres around the preservation and adaptive re-use of the built legacy of the 20th century, connecting the specialist disciplines. Intertwining Values, Design and Technology, he is an expert on the crossing between historical knowledge of modern building materials and strategies for conservation and re-use.

References

Pottgiesser, U. & Quist, W. (eds.), (2022), DOCOMOMO Journal 67, p.112. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.67

Tournikiotis, P. (ed.) (2007), DOCOMOMO Journal 36, pp. 116. https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.36

Zupančič, B. (2024), Letters from Paris and Architect Dušan Grabrijan’s Archive. In: Koselj, N. & Zatrić, M., DOCOMOMO Journal 72, p. 72. https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.72.01