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Learning from... Nairobi
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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9 October 2014 , 6pm
9 October 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
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9 October 2014
6pm
9 October 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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textual records
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AP140.S2.SS4.D1.P4
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mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence from publisher Gerd Hatje, dated between 1972 and 1974, including: folder 1 - letter from Gerd Hatje to James Stilring, dated 18 February 1972, passing on reader's comments ("I have the feeling these comments are made by Robert (sic) Middleton, but I'm not sure."), annotated in red ink by James Stirling with preliminary responses - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, dated 29 Feb 1972, responding to comments - mock-up of cover and inside page, "Presentation by Leon Krier," "Buildings & Projects / 1950 - 1973" - photocopy of illustrations and labels to accompany John Jacobus introduction - stapled and bound set of photocopies of Leon krier drawings for Derby - alternate versions for cover of book, photocopies, some annotated in green ink, inscribed: "Presentation by Leon Krier" and then annotated "layout by Leon Krier or design by Leon Krier" folder 2 - page layouts, mostly photocopies with at least one original layout (black ink), some pages annotated or check-marked in red marker - page layouts for book, chronology of projects, captions, numbers of words for each project, mostly photocopy, some ink, some annotated folder 3 (labelled "Book Preparation" - three alternate designs for cover, originals, black and red ink on tracing paper - complete original book layout, mostly black ink, some red ink and brown marker on tracing paper folder 4 - "Chronological List of Works by James Stirling 1950 - 1972," photocopy from A+U Feb 1975, annotated - book layout, annotated with letters keyed to captions in red marker, annotated in red ink throughout - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, 24 Jan 1975, doesn't like typeface chosen by Gerd Hatje ("returned marked 'nein'"), notes other specific preferences regarding dust jacket (Bembo 270 typeface, red "JS" as previously decided, axonometric will be half-size, cover should be glossy black) - letter from Ruth Wurster (Verlag Gerd Hatje) to James Stirling, 4 Feb 1975, enclosing proofs of title pages - letter from James Stirling to Gerd Hatje, responding to letter from Ruth Wurster folder 5 - book layout, photocopy, a few corrections in red marker
AP140.S2.SS4.D1.P4
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mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence from publisher Gerd Hatje, dated between 1972 and 1974, including: folder 1 - letter from Gerd Hatje to James Stilring, dated 18 February 1972, passing on reader's comments ("I have the feeling these comments are made by Robert (sic) Middleton, but I'm not sure."), annotated in red ink by James Stirling with preliminary responses - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, dated 29 Feb 1972, responding to comments - mock-up of cover and inside page, "Presentation by Leon Krier," "Buildings & Projects / 1950 - 1973" - photocopy of illustrations and labels to accompany John Jacobus introduction - stapled and bound set of photocopies of Leon krier drawings for Derby - alternate versions for cover of book, photocopies, some annotated in green ink, inscribed: "Presentation by Leon Krier" and then annotated "layout by Leon Krier or design by Leon Krier" folder 2 - page layouts, mostly photocopies with at least one original layout (black ink), some pages annotated or check-marked in red marker - page layouts for book, chronology of projects, captions, numbers of words for each project, mostly photocopy, some ink, some annotated folder 3 (labelled "Book Preparation" - three alternate designs for cover, originals, black and red ink on tracing paper - complete original book layout, mostly black ink, some red ink and brown marker on tracing paper folder 4 - "Chronological List of Works by James Stirling 1950 - 1972," photocopy from A+U Feb 1975, annotated - book layout, annotated with letters keyed to captions in red marker, annotated in red ink throughout - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, 24 Jan 1975, doesn't like typeface chosen by Gerd Hatje ("returned marked 'nein'"), notes other specific preferences regarding dust jacket (Bembo 270 typeface, red "JS" as previously decided, axonometric will be half-size, cover should be glossy black) - letter from Ruth Wurster (Verlag Gerd Hatje) to James Stirling, 4 Feb 1975, enclosing proofs of title pages - letter from James Stirling to Gerd Hatje, responding to letter from Ruth Wurster folder 5 - book layout, photocopy, a few corrections in red marker
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1972 -1974
1972 -1974
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Mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence
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AP140.S2.SS4.D1.P4
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mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence from publisher Gerd Hatje, dated between 1972 and 1974, including: folder 1 - letter from Gerd Hatje to James Stilring, dated 18 February 1972, passing on reader's comments ("I have the feeling these comments are made by Robert (sic) Middleton, but I'm not sure."), annotated in red ink by James Stirling with preliminary responses - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, dated 29 Feb 1972, responding to comments - mock-up of cover and inside page, "Presentation by Leon Krier," "Buildings & Projects / 1950 - 1973" - photocopy of illustrations and labels to accompany John Jacobus introduction - stapled and bound set of photocopies of Leon krier drawings for Derby - alternate versions for cover of book, photocopies, some annotated in green ink, inscribed: "Presentation by Leon Krier" and then annotated "layout by Leon Krier or design by Leon Krier" folder 2 - page layouts, mostly photocopies with at least one original layout (black ink), some pages annotated or check-marked in red marker - page layouts for book, chronology of projects, captions, numbers of words for each project, mostly photocopy, some ink, some annotated folder 3 (labelled "Book Preparation" - three alternate designs for cover, originals, black and red ink on tracing paper - complete original book layout, mostly black ink, some red ink and brown marker on tracing paper folder 4 - "Chronological List of Works by James Stirling 1950 - 1972," photocopy from A+U Feb 1975, annotated - book layout, annotated with letters keyed to captions in red marker, annotated in red ink throughout - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, 24 Jan 1975, doesn't like typeface chosen by Gerd Hatje ("returned marked 'nein'"), notes other specific preferences regarding dust jacket (Bembo 270 typeface, red "JS" as previously decided, axonometric will be half-size, cover should be glossy black) - letter from Ruth Wurster (Verlag Gerd Hatje) to James Stirling, 4 Feb 1975, enclosing proofs of title pages - letter from James Stirling to Gerd Hatje, responding to letter from Ruth Wurster folder 5 - book layout, photocopy, a few corrections in red marker
Mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence
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AP140.S2.SS4.D1.P4
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mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence from publisher Gerd Hatje, dated between 1972 and 1974, including: folder 1 - letter from Gerd Hatje to James Stilring, dated 18 February 1972, passing on reader's comments ("I have the feeling these comments are made by Robert (sic) Middleton, but I'm not sure."), annotated in red ink by James Stirling with preliminary responses - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, dated 29 Feb 1972, responding to comments - mock-up of cover and inside page, "Presentation by Leon Krier," "Buildings & Projects / 1950 - 1973" - photocopy of illustrations and labels to accompany John Jacobus introduction - stapled and bound set of photocopies of Leon krier drawings for Derby - alternate versions for cover of book, photocopies, some annotated in green ink, inscribed: "Presentation by Leon Krier" and then annotated "layout by Leon Krier or design by Leon Krier" folder 2 - page layouts, mostly photocopies with at least one original layout (black ink), some pages annotated or check-marked in red marker - page layouts for book, chronology of projects, captions, numbers of words for each project, mostly photocopy, some ink, some annotated folder 3 (labelled "Book Preparation" - three alternate designs for cover, originals, black and red ink on tracing paper - complete original book layout, mostly black ink, some red ink and brown marker on tracing paper folder 4 - "Chronological List of Works by James Stirling 1950 - 1972," photocopy from A+U Feb 1975, annotated - book layout, annotated with letters keyed to captions in red marker, annotated in red ink throughout - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, 24 Jan 1975, doesn't like typeface chosen by Gerd Hatje ("returned marked 'nein'"), notes other specific preferences regarding dust jacket (Bembo 270 typeface, red "JS" as previously decided, axonometric will be half-size, cover should be glossy black) - letter from Ruth Wurster (Verlag Gerd Hatje) to James Stirling, 4 Feb 1975, enclosing proofs of title pages - letter from James Stirling to Gerd Hatje, responding to letter from Ruth Wurster folder 5 - book layout, photocopy, a few corrections in red marker
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1972 -1974
1972 -1974
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
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20 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
20 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
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Cages for non-humans: An architectural history of animal farming
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
Cages for non-humans: An architectural history of animal farming
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
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20 July 2023
6pm to 7:30pm
20 July 2023
6pm to 7:30pm
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Learning from... Athens
Learning from... Athens
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Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
7 April 2016, 6pm
7 April 2016, 6pm
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Learning from... Athens
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Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
Learning from... Athens
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Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
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7 April 2016
6pm
7 April 2016
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
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7 March 2009
7 March 2009
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Exploring Urban Microclimates
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
Exploring Urban Microclimates
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
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7 March 2009
7 March 2009
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Freegans
Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
8 January 2009
8 January 2009
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Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
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Date:
8 January 2009
8 January 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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exhibitions
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Title:
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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4 December 1991 to
8 March 1992
4 December 1991 to
8 March 1992
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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events
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Siza Speaks
Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theater
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Date:
26 April 2012 , 7pm
26 April 2012 , 7pm
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Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
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26 April 2012
7pm
26 April 2012
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theater
Paul-Desmarais Theater
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Urban Diversity
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
22 January 2009
22 January 2009
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Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
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events
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Date:
22 January 2009
22 January 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Laboratories examines how architecture can respond to an uncertain post-September 11 world and construct a new stage for thought. Six young Montreal architecture firms present environments or installations that investigate the fundamental language of architecture and that affirm the civilizing power of the imagination. The contributing firms are Atelier Big City, Atelier(...)
Laboratories examines how architecture can respond to an uncertain post-September 11 world and construct a new stage for thought. Six young Montreal architecture firms present environments or installations that investigate the fundamental language of architecture and that affirm the civilizing power of the imagination. The contributing firms are Atelier Big City, Atelier(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
18 April 2002 to 15 September 2002
18 April 2002 to 15 September 2002
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Laboratories: Six Young Architectural Firms in the CCA Galleries
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Laboratories examines how architecture can respond to an uncertain post-September 11 world and construct a new stage for thought. Six young Montreal architecture firms present environments or installations that investigate the fundamental language of architecture and that affirm the civilizing power of the imagination. The contributing firms are Atelier Big City, Atelier(...)
Laboratories: Six Young Architectural Firms in the CCA Galleries
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Laboratories examines how architecture can respond to an uncertain post-September 11 world and construct a new stage for thought. Six young Montreal architecture firms present environments or installations that investigate the fundamental language of architecture and that affirm the civilizing power of the imagination. The contributing firms are Atelier Big City, Atelier(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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18 April 2002 to
15 September 2002
18 April 2002 to
15 September 2002
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Main galleries
Main galleries
