Concrete – Conservation Challenges

Docomomo dossier 10

Red: Ola Wedebrunn & Jadwiga Urbanik

 

Articles from the Docomomo International Technology seminar in Wroclaw, Poland, on the renovation and re-use of Modernism's concrete buildings.

 

Content:

The Centennial Hall in Wrocław – history and renovation

Jerzy Ilkosz, Jadwiga Urbanik

 

The former brewery U-Turm in Dortmund – renovation, conversion and expansion of a listed building

Matthias Pfeifer

 

Robert Maillart’s innovative views in using concrete

Denis Zastavni

 

The Valtschiel Bridge in Donat – conservation, culture and heritage

Jürg Conzett

 

Brno Fair (1928) – a jewel of functionalist architecture

Iveta Černá

 

Concrete Pirouette – structural repair and material care. Steps of restoration, static and aesthetic, in the conservation of four case studies

Ola Wedebrunn

 

Concrete Heritage in the Netherlands – repair strategies for plastered and exposed concrete structures

Wessel de Jonge

 

Concrete housing in the Netherlands - Interwar and post-war experiments

Marieke Kuipers

 

Erich Mendelsohn’s Red Banner Factory in Leningrad 1926-1928: rehabilitation and conservation proposals 2007-2010

Sergej Fedorov & Matthias Pfeifer

 

Techniques, damage processes and conservation of concrete stone and cement plaster

Ivo Hammer, with contributions of Marko Goetz

 

Tokyo Olympic facilities in the sixties: conservation and present status

Ayako Horiuchi

 

Le Corbusier’s National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo - a prototype for a Museum of Unlimited Expansion

Yamana Yoshiyuki