Joelho #09 Reuse of Modernist Buildings: Pedagogy and Profession

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JOELHO 9 integrates a series of events organized within the framework of the European Erasmus Project "Reuse of Modernist Buildings" (RMB), in which academics and students developed new pedagogical methodologies and practices to take on the challenge of adapting the vast real estate produced in the 20th century. The educational research on the reuse of modernist buildings will support the design of a new curriculum to train architects in the methods and tools required to transform buildings and urban areas that were planned according to modernist concepts. To frame this pedagogical approach, JOELHO presents and discusses professional production that offers the best practices in RMB.

JOELHO 9 also features the 2nd RMB Workshop, "Coimbra Modern City Today: From Functional Buildings to Community Spaces," which brought together students and professors from five European schools in Coimbra for a week in April 2018, at the Convento de Santa-Clara-a-Nova. The reuse of modernist buildings engages with the artistic approach of Miguel Palma, an inspiring reuse of images of modernist objects (cars, planes, boats, bridges) in provocative collages.