The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
Main galleries
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
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The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
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The Good Cause
Journeys and translation
Archis, Architecture en uniforme, Architecture in Uniform, Cold War, Guerre froide, La bonne cause, NAi, paix, peace, reconstruction, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Second World War, The Good Cause
28 March 2011
Journeys and translation
During the Second World War, exhibitions and publications played a critical role in the war effort. They were organized internationally as moments of reflection and propaganda, productions of a disciplinary approach to architecture and urban design. This display springs from Jean-Louis Cohen’s research for Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second(...)
Hall cases
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
A Paper War: Pictures and words, 1939-1945
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During the Second World War, exhibitions and publications played a critical role in the war effort. They were organized internationally as moments of reflection and propaganda, productions of a disciplinary approach to architecture and urban design. This display springs from Jean-Louis Cohen’s research for Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second(...)
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Architecture as Evidence
Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 June 2016 to 11 September 2016
Architecture as Evidence
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Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Octagonal gallery
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447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Paris : Hazan, ©2011.
Architecture en uniforme : projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale / Jean-Louis Cohen.
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447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Paris : Hazan, ©2011.
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9 items : ill. ; 56 cm. or smaller.
Architecture en uniforme : projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale = Architecture in uniform : designing and building for the Second World War : exhibition products, 2011.
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9 items : ill. ; 56 cm. or smaller.
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2 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (89 min., 18 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master, 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 16 min., 43 sec.) : sound, color
Causerie avec le commissaire = Curator talk, 2011 Apr. 13.
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2 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (89 min., 18 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master, 1 streaming video file (1 hr., 16 min., 43 sec.) : sound, color
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8 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (approximately 381 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master
[2011]
Cinéma en temps de guerre = Wartime cinema.
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8 videocassettes (Mini-DV) (approximately 381 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master
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[2011]
books
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300 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Berlin : Bauwelt, 1936.
Bau-Entwurfslehre : Grundlagen, Normen und Vorschriften über Anlage, Bau, Gestaltung, Raumbedarf, Raumbeziehungen, Masse für Gebäude, Räume, Einrichtungen u. Geräte mit d. Menschen als Mass u. Ziel : Handbuch für d. Baufachmann, Bauherrn, Lehrenden u. Lernenden / Ernst Neufert.
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300 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
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Berlin : Bauwelt, 1936.
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[124] p. : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Hamburg : Eckardt & Messtorff, [1945]
Das Gesicht der Hansestadt Hamburg im Wandel der Jahre 1939 - 1945 : Bilder aus Vorkriegs- und Kriegszeit / zusammengestellt und erläutert von F. Werner. = The features of the Hansestadt Hamburg during the course of the years 1939 to 1945 : showing pre-war and post-war photos of the town / selected and described by F. Werner.
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[124] p. : all ill. ; 28 cm.
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Hamburg : Eckardt & Messtorff, [1945]