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The Argentine DOCOMOMO working party was established shortly before the First International DOCOMOMO Conference in Eindhoven, in 1990, and was the only working party from the Americas present at that meeting. Since then, has been active in every international event, and its members engaged in the ISC's on Register, Education, Publications and Urbanism, individually. As a body, the group had been long involved in both research and teaching programmes concerning the Modern Movement. Some senior members directly involved as trainees or young practitioners with some of the most representative professionals of MoMo architecture of our country. Most of them are part of other specialists organisations such as ICOMOS . (International Council of Monuments and Sites) and TICCIH (the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage) or WHC (World Heritage Committee).
We also keep links with the most prestigious professional organisations and education centres, both at national and international level, and have permanently introduced the aims and activities of DOCOMOMO (lectures, articles, the media, etc.). Although our mayor aims are currently focused on actions concerned with register, research and teaching activities, we have also worked together with ICOMOS on its request to prepare the preliminary lists of monuments to be included in the World Heritage List.
DOCOMOMO
ARGENTINA Casilla
de Correo 3881 1000
Buenos Aires Argentina Tel/Fax
+54 11 4797 2514
+54 11 4782 3654 E-mail docomomo@arg.net.ar 22
The register chapter is considered as an open chapter. Following a preliminary list of the most relevant examples, some of which are included in the Argentine chapter of The Modern Movement in Architecture, Selections from the DOCOMOMO Registers (Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 2000) there is at present a register programme for those non monumental MoMo buildings that have contributed to spread the modern image in our urban areas. This is carried out with the aid of university volunteer trainees. Research
is currently focused on the technological aspects of conservation and it
is being supervised with the co-ordination of the "Centro para la
Conservacion del Patrimonio Urbano Rural", University of Buenos
Aires. Principles,
methods and designing techniques that have been explored and detected in
the gathered documentation in those research activities are transferred to
undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We consider this as a fundamental
achievement, since the Modern Movement had been studied in Argentina to
date only from its historic point of view. Our aim now is to approach,
from the preservation point of view and the conservation of those
testimonies as social, economic and cultural resources demanding a new
different scientific, technical and methodological approach, a different
angle to that applied to the heritage of other periods. Those methods and
techniques are being carefully studied and developed presently in our
country. Parallel, the principles of the Modern Movement in the field of
architectural design are once again beginning to loom as a living source
for the designs of buildings and urban spaces, fit to challenge the
demands of an ever changing world. Mabel M. Scarone (co-ordinator) Stella Maris Casal Alfredo Conti Juan
María Cardoni Jorge
O. Gazaneo Fabio
Grementieri José
Aldo Piña Jaime
Sequeira Norberto
de la Torre Esteban
Urdampilleta Honorary Members: Mario
Roberto Alvarez Tomás
Maldonado Héctor
Morixe
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