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6 June 2022
Welcome Home
Taqralik Partridge speaks with Rafico Ruiz and Ella den Elzen about the importance of Inuit homes and homelands
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Designing a Space for Home
Tiffany Shaw, Rafico Ruiz, Ella den Elzen, exhibition design, asinnajaq, Towards Home, Ruovttu Guvlui, ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ
6 September 2022
Designing a Space for Home
Tiffany Shaw speaks with Rafico Ruiz and Ella den Elzen about in-between spaces, exhibition design, and connections to land
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
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Lionel March fonds
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
circa 1957 - 2017
Lionel March fonds
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
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circa 1957 - 2017
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3 items : illustrations ; 97 cm or smaller
ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ = Ruovttu guvlui = Vers chez soi = Towards home :. Angirramut = Ruovttu guvlui = Vers chez soi = Towards home : exhibition products, 2022-2023.
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10 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm
Madras, India : HUDCO Zonal Office, 1989.
The next step towards getting a Laurie Baker home / HUDCO.
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10 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm
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Madras, India : HUDCO Zonal Office, 1989.
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ix, 384 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2005.
Edge of the orison : in the traces of John Clare's 'journey out of Essex' / Iain Sinclair.
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ix, 384 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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London : Hamish Hamilton, 2005.
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223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm
[Salenstein] : Braun, 2023.
Tiny living spaces : innovative design solutions / Lisa Baker.
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223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm
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[Salenstein] : Braun, 2023.