Session "Second Life: Modern Housing and the Aesthetics of Growth and Change" at the 14th Docomomo International Conference, Lisbon

From 6 until 9 September, the 14th Docomomo International Conference of  will be held in Lisbon. The theme of the conference will be he theme of the 14th International docomomo Conference will be Adaptive Reuse. The Modern Movement Towards the Future. 
Dirk van den Heuvel and myself we will chair the session "Second Life: Modern Housing and the Aesthetics of Growth and Change".

The papers that will be delivered at our session are:
"Which Second Life? Adaptive Reuse as a Contested Paradigm", by Maren Harnack, and Jörg Stollmann.
"UJ Klarenstraat, Amsterdam: The Transformation of a 1950s Modern Housing Block" by Patricia van Ulzen.
"Strategies for Adaptive Reuse: High-Density State Housing in Kuwait", by Asseel Al-Ragam.
"Living a Manifesto: The Second Life of EDF’s Housing Towers in Ivry-sur-Seine (Atelier de Montrouge, 1963-67) by Catherine Blain.
​Click here to download the programme of the conference.