Docomomo International

Docomomo International
Founded1988 by Dutch architects Hubert-Jan Henket and Wessel de Jonge in Eindhoven
Location
ServicesProtection and conservation of Modern Architecture
Chair
Ana Tostões
Websitewww.docomomo.com

Docomomo International (sometimes written as DoCoMoMo or simply Docomomo) is a non-profit organization whose full title is: International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement.

Mrinalini Rajagopalan, author of "Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, Contested Histories and the Question of Authenticity," described it as "the key body for the preservation of modernist architecture".[1]

  1. ^ Rajagopalan, Mrinalini (2012). "Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, Contested Histories and the Question of Authenticity". In Crysler, C. Greig; Cairns, Stephen; Heynen, Hilde (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory (paperback ed.). SAGE Publications. p. 324. ISBN 9781446282632. Retrieved 8 August 2014.