Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
7 December 2017
Come and Forget the Internet, with Evgeny Morozov
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Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
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David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
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Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
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Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
14 March 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Warsaw: With Kuba Snopek
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond the North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
21 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in London: With Léa-Catherine Szacka
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Looking beyond the North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
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7 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Frankfurt: With André Bideau
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
4 April 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Paris: With Pierre Chabard
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 September 2016, 6pm
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
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Roger D’Astous fonds
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Le fonds témoigne des activités personnelles et professionnelles de Roger D'Astous, de sa carrière d'architecte et de sa contribution à l'architecture québécoise. Il nous renseigne sur sa formation académique à l'École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, sur son séjour en tant qu'apprenti à l'atelier de Frank Lloyd Wright à Taliesin (Arizona et Wisconsin), ainsi que sur sa pratique professionnelle en tant qu'architecte. Ces projets professionnels sont principalement concentrés au Québec, à Montréal, en Montérégie, dans les Laurentides, à Laval, ainsi qu'en Ontario (dont à Brockville et à Kingston). Le fonds contient, entre autres, 4 100 dessins d’architecture, 2 581 documents photographiques, 7 maquettes et 1,23 m.l. de documents textuels.
1893-1998, surtout 1951-1998
Roger D’Astous fonds
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Le fonds témoigne des activités personnelles et professionnelles de Roger D'Astous, de sa carrière d'architecte et de sa contribution à l'architecture québécoise. Il nous renseigne sur sa formation académique à l'École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, sur son séjour en tant qu'apprenti à l'atelier de Frank Lloyd Wright à Taliesin (Arizona et Wisconsin), ainsi que sur sa pratique professionnelle en tant qu'architecte. Ces projets professionnels sont principalement concentrés au Québec, à Montréal, en Montérégie, dans les Laurentides, à Laval, ainsi qu'en Ontario (dont à Brockville et à Kingston). Le fonds contient, entre autres, 4 100 dessins d’architecture, 2 581 documents photographiques, 7 maquettes et 1,23 m.l. de documents textuels.
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1893-1998, surtout 1951-1998
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14 items ; 29 cm
L'histoire, par ailleurs : Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen = Besides, history : Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen : exhibition products, 2017.
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