{"id":13499,"date":"2016-08-17T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2016-08-16T16:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T15:43:37","slug":"c20-society-on-keeping-it-modern-getty-grants-include-eileen-gray-and-lina-bo-bardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=13499","title":{"rendered":"C20 society on \u2018Keeping it Modern\u2019 Getty Grants: include Eileen Gray and Lina Bo Bardi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twentieth Century Society (C20) has released a congratulatory commentary on the recent Getty Grant \u2018Keeping it Modern\u2019 awards, which offers grants to significant C20th buildings, noting that previous winners have recently attended their conservation management and planning sessions on conserving modern concrete, and welcoming two female award winners.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Twentieth Century Society writes:<\/p>\n

The Getty Foundation has announced its 2016 Keeping It Modern grantees. Of the nine recipients, for the first time since the initiative\u2019s 2014 launch, two of the projects are\u00a0designed by women.<\/p>\n

Eileen Gray\u2019s Villa E-1072 on France\u2019s C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur will receive $200,000. The\u00a0holiday home of Gray and her then-partner, architectural critic Jean Badovici, was built between 1926-29. It has decayed from environmental stress and decades of neglect from private owners. The building is now in the care of the nonprofit Association Cap Moderne.<\/p>\n

Lina Bo Bardi\u2019s Casa de Vidro \u2013 or Glass House \u2014 in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, will be awarded $195,000. The architect and her husband\u2019s onetime residence, built between 1950 and 1952, is in good shape. It has been maintained since 1995 by the Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi, which will use the Getty grant to develop a more strategic preventive maintenance plan.<\/p>\n

In all, $1.3 million will be dispersed among the grantees, which also include Keeping It Modern\u2019s first project in Africa. The Nickson and Borys Children\u2019s Library in Accra, Ghana, will receive $140,000. The 1966 example of Tropical Modernism was designed by the architectural firm Nickson and Borys. The Accra Metropolitan Assembly now owns the building, which is maintained by the Ghana Library Board. The Getty funds will go toward developing a conservation plan.<\/p>\n

The other grant recipients<\/a> are Wallace Harrison\u2019s First Presbyterian Church in Connecticut; Eladio Dieste\u2019s Cristo Obrero Church in Uruguay; Gevorg Kochar and Mikael Mazmanyan\u2019s Sevan Writers\u2019 Resort in Armenia; Frederick Gibberd\u2019s Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in the Britain; Gautam Sarabhai\u2019s workshop building in India; and Andrija Mutnjakovic\u2019s National Library of Kosovo in Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Keeping it Modern grants go to significant C20th buildings, but the Getty look for projects which offer scope to explore issues and develop solutions in the field of architectural conservation. \u2018These latest grants underscore that purpose\u2019 said Antoine Wilmering, senior program officer at the Getty Foundation. \u00a0The newest Keeping it Modern projects will address conservation issues such as how to treat ageing concrete and the use of clear or coloured glass, sometimes embedded in concrete.<\/p>\n

Last week recipients of previous grants attended workshops in London on conservation management and planning and on conserving modern concrete, organised by the C20 Society and funded by the Getty Foundation. It is heartening that the Foundation is doing so much to support good conservation planning and sympathetic concrete conservation for C20 buildings.<\/p>\n

View the news release<\/a><\/p>\n

Find out about\u00a0the grants…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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