What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
10 May 2017 to 15 October 2017
Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
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.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
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.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 June 2016, 6pm
Amy Kulper: Architecture’s Digital Turn and the Advent of Photoshop
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In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Excerpts from "Remembering postmodernism: trends in recent Canadian art" related to Melvin Charney
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File containing excerpts from "Remembering postmodernism: trends in recent Canadian art", by Mark A. Cheetham with Linda Hutcheon, which makes references to Melvin Charney and his works. Original folder inscribed in graphite: 1991 "REMEMBERING POSTMODERNISM" CHEETHAM
1991
Excerpts from "Remembering postmodernism: trends in recent Canadian art" related to Melvin Charney
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File containing excerpts from "Remembering postmodernism: trends in recent Canadian art", by Mark A. Cheetham with Linda Hutcheon, which makes references to Melvin Charney and his works. Original folder inscribed in graphite: 1991 "REMEMBERING POSTMODERNISM" CHEETHAM
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1991
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London : Academy Editions, 1987.
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London : Academy Editions, 1987.
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72 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
London : Published by Institute of Contemporary Arts, [1986], ©1986
Postmodernism / editor, Lisa Appignanesi.
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72 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
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London : Published by Institute of Contemporary Arts, [1986], ©1986
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x, 207 pages ; 24 cm
Cambridge : Polity Press, 1989.
Against postmodernism : a marxist critique / Alex Callinicos.
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x, 207 pages ; 24 cm
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Cambridge : Polity Press, 1989.
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6 pages ; 28 cm
Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, [1985]
Postmodernism : a bibliography / Mary Ellen Huls.
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6 pages ; 28 cm
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Monticello, Ill. : Vance Bibliographies, [1985]
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x, 195 pages ; 21 cm
London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.
The politics of postmodernism / Linda Hutcheon.
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x, 195 pages ; 21 cm
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.