Main entry:

Teyssot, Georges, 1946-

Title & Author:

La pelouse comme théâtre : pastoralisme et espace urbain.

Publication:

[1998]

Description:

1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. master

Notes:
Title from CCA calendrier des activitiés, sept. 1998-avr. 1999.
CCA event no.: PP-100509.
The sound volume is low and not always synchronized with the video. Also, the video is slightly out of focus between ca. 35-ca. 40 min.
Content of original VHS cassette reformatted onto 1 DVD-R on Sept. 20, 2012.
Recorded and produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Speaker: Georges Teyssot.
Lecture In French; introductory remarks in both French and English.

Summary:

Videorecording of a lecture held Sept. 10, 1998 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. Georges Teyssot, Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, looks at how the lawn has influenced the North American suburb. The event was the first in a series of lectures entitled "Terrains de rêve" = "Fields of Dreams" and was held in conjunction with the exhibition "Surface du quotidien : la pelouse en Amérique" = "The American lawn : surface of everyday life", held at the CCA June 16-Nov. 8, 1998. Includes introductory and closing remarks by Nancy Dunton and comments by Phyllis Lambert

Subject:

Lawns United States.
Suburbs United States.
Landscape architecture United States.
Pelouses États-Unis.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Landscape architecture
Lawns
Suburbs
United States

Form/genre:

NTSC standard.
Lectures.
Video recordings.
Videocassettes.
Videotapes.
VHS (TM)
DVDs.
Optical disks.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Reformatted audiovisual materials.

Added entries:

Dunton, Nancy H.
Lambert, Phyllis.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Terrains de rêve (Lecture series) (1998 : Centre canadien d'architecture)

Pastoralisme et espace urbain

Holdings:

Location: Library main av cca productions 274239
Call No.: Box 9 (BIB 208002)
Notes: VHS master
Status: Available

Location: Library main av cca productions 279670
Call No.: Box 9 (BIB 208002)
Notes: DVD consultation copy
Status: Available