Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens, and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common(...)
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4 November 2014 to 19 April 2015
Rooms You May Have Missed
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Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens, and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common(...)
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Ideas of living
David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, applies a sensory studies approach to the analysis of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his anthropological and archival research. These range from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine(...)
Shaughnessy House
26 February 2015 , 6pm
The Sensory Interior
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David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, applies a sensory studies approach to the analysis of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his anthropological and archival research. These range from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine(...)
Shaughnessy House
Join architect Umberto Riva for tea and conversation about his work and the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva.
5 November 2014 , 5:30pm
Rooms in Milan: a discussion with Umberto Riva
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Join architect Umberto Riva for tea and conversation about his work and the exhibition Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva.
Architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai present[ed] his latest work. Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva present[ed] the work of Bijoy Jain and Umberto Riva, architects deeply engaged with architectural processes, materials and craft.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
6 November 2014 , 6pm
Rooms in Mumbai: a Discussion with Bijoy Jain
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Architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai present[ed] his latest work. Rooms You May Have Missed: Bijoy Jain, Umberto Riva present[ed] the work of Bijoy Jain and Umberto Riva, architects deeply engaged with architectural processes, materials and craft.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
19 February 2015 , 6pm
Windows and Screens: Georges Teyssot
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Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
Building Knowledge
This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 April 2015 , 6pm
Building Knowledge
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This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 21 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2015], ©2015
Des pièces à ne pas manquer : Umberto Riva, Bijoy Jain / Mirko Zardini.
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239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 21 cm
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2015], ©2015
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1 item : color illustrations ; 90 cm
Des pièces à ne pas manquer : Umberto Riva, Bijoy Jain = Rooms you may have missed : exhibition products, 2014-2015.
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1 item : color illustrations ; 90 cm
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The sensory interior.
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1 streaming video file (1 hr., 5 min., 44 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2015]
The sensory interior.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2015]