Legislating Architecture explores how architecture is shaped by law and other societal regulatory systems. The film, directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, presents excerpts from conversations conducted with architects including Luigi Snozzi, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, and Christian Kerez. It is a point of departure for an issue of ARCH+ also entitled(...)
27 October 2016, 6pm
Legislating Architecture: Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth
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Legislating Architecture explores how architecture is shaped by law and other societal regulatory systems. The film, directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, presents excerpts from conversations conducted with architects including Luigi Snozzi, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, and Christian Kerez. It is a point of departure for an issue of ARCH+ also entitled(...)
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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals that appeared in response to the political, social, and artistic changes of the period. Clip/Stamp/Fold 2 investigates how a diverse group of(...)
Octagonal gallery and library rotunda
12 April 2007 to 9 September 2007
Clip/Stamp/Fold 2: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X
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Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals that appeared in response to the political, social, and artistic changes of the period. Clip/Stamp/Fold 2 investigates how a diverse group of(...)
Octagonal gallery and library rotunda
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
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
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60 pages illustrations, plans, diagrams.
[London], [New York] Longmans [1960]
How to build for climate [by] A.E.S. Alcock [and] Helga M. Richards.
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60 pages illustrations, plans, diagrams.
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[London], [New York] Longmans [1960]
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30 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Waukegan, Ill. : Cyclone Fence Co., [approximately 1943]
Your fence, how to choose it, how to use it.
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30 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Waukegan, Ill. : Cyclone Fence Co., [approximately 1943]
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62 pages illustrations, plans, diagrams
London, New York, Longmans, Green [1958]
How to build to size and shape. Illus. drawn by Helga M. Richards.
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62 pages illustrations, plans, diagrams
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London, New York, Longmans, Green [1958]
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192 pages 105 plates, illustrations, facsimiles 26 cm.
London, Bell, 1969.
How to identify old prints, by F.L. Wilder.
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192 pages 105 plates, illustrations, facsimiles 26 cm.
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London, Bell, 1969.
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How to build decks.
US : Lane Books, 1973 (1977)
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US : Lane Books, 1973 (1977)