Visiting Scholar, Mary Louise Lobsinger, Aldo Rossi, Critical Architectural Discourse, 1970s
9 March 2006
Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
events
Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
events
10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
20 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Katie Lloyd Thomas
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
books
Writing architectures : ficto-critical approaches / edited by Hélène Frichot and Naomi Stead.
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xvi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022
Writing architectures : ficto-critical approaches / edited by Hélène Frichot and Naomi Stead.
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xvi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022
books
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155 pages ; 21 cm.
Paris : Éditions de la Villette, [2019]
Critique et architecture : un état des lieux contemporain / Hélène Jannière.
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155 pages ; 21 cm.
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Paris : Éditions de la Villette, [2019]
textual records
AP197.S1.SS2.119
2009
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2009
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AP197.S1.SS2.097
2009
textual records
2009
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xxiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Paris : Editions de la Passion, [1999]
Le discours de Piranèse : l'ornement sublime et le suspens de l'architecture ; suivi d'un tableau de l'œuvre écrit de Piranèse et d'une nouvelle traduction de Ragionamento apologetico in difesa dell'architettura Egizia e Toscana, 1769 / Didier Laroque ; préfaces de Daniel Roche et de Baldine Saint Girons.
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xxiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Paris : Editions de la Passion, [1999]