Mapping Rural Montréal
On a tour of downtown Montréal, San Francisco-based artist Amy Franceschini shows participants ‘rural’ sites and activities and questions the dichotomy of country and city. Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, a collaborative and experimental studio that addresses ecological issues, as well as the online magazine, Atlas. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do(...)
4 April 2009
Mapping Rural Montréal
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On a tour of downtown Montréal, San Francisco-based artist Amy Franceschini shows participants ‘rural’ sites and activities and questions the dichotomy of country and city. Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, a collaborative and experimental studio that addresses ecological issues, as well as the online magazine, Atlas. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do(...)
Luca Danese was an architect and hydraulic engineer active in northeastern Italy in the first half of the 17th century. His career, while rooted in the peculiar geography of the Po River Delta, interacted with and was shaped by the broader hydropolitics of the papal government that was busy transforming Rome’s water infrastructure. Further, it was the period when, with(...)
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research fellow 2023, seminar, research, Andrea Bagnato, Luca Danese, Italy, 17th century, hydropolitics, water
6 July, 6 p.m.
Research Fellow Seminar: Andrea Bagnato
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Luca Danese was an architect and hydraulic engineer active in northeastern Italy in the first half of the 17th century. His career, while rooted in the peculiar geography of the Po River Delta, interacted with and was shaped by the broader hydropolitics of the papal government that was busy transforming Rome’s water infrastructure. Further, it was the period when, with(...)
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research fellow 2023, seminar, research, Andrea Bagnato, Luca Danese, Italy, 17th century, hydropolitics, water
L’OEUF (Daniel Pearl, Bernard Olivier, and Sudhir Suri) is a Montreal-based architectural practice founded in 1992. Toronto architect Joe Lobko and Florence Portes, chef des services aux femmes at the Mission Old Brewery in Montreal, will join L’OEUF in a conversation on their book Community Inspired Housing in Canada. Co-edited with Daniel Wentz and published by the(...)
29 January 2015 , 6pm
L’OEUF, Joe Lobko, and Florence Portes want to speak with you
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L’OEUF (Daniel Pearl, Bernard Olivier, and Sudhir Suri) is a Montreal-based architectural practice founded in 1992. Toronto architect Joe Lobko and Florence Portes, chef des services aux femmes at the Mission Old Brewery in Montreal, will join L’OEUF in a conversation on their book Community Inspired Housing in Canada. Co-edited with Daniel Wentz and published by the(...)
Learning from... Bahrain
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
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
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AP149.S1.1971.PR01.002
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1972
L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens
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AP149.S1.1971.PR01.002
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
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1972
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ARCH253668
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1972
L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
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1972
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136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Rennes : Apogée, ©2007.
Une écologie du paysage urbain / Philippe Clergeau.
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136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Rennes : Apogée, ©2007.
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271 pages, 47 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
[Paris] : Aubanel, ©2006.
Gilles Clément, une écologie humaniste / Gilles Clément, Louisa Jones.
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271 pages, 47 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
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[Paris] : Aubanel, ©2006.