Learning from... Bahrain
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
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AP032.S2.SS3.D13
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Drawings and documents concerning the Irvine Coast Bridge in Newport, California.
1989-1990
Irvine Coast Bridge (Newport Coast Project)
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AP032.S2.SS3.D13
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Drawings and documents concerning the Irvine Coast Bridge in Newport, California.
File 13
1989-1990
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ARCH220741
textual records
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Newport Coast Vacation Club
AP142.S1.D291
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File documents an unexecuted project for a resort for the Disney Development Company, near Newport Beach, California, United States. Material in this file was produced in 1994 and 1995. File contains drawings.
1994-1995
Newport Coast Vacation Club
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AP142.S1.D291
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File documents an unexecuted project for a resort for the Disney Development Company, near Newport Beach, California, United States. Material in this file was produced in 1994 and 1995. File contains drawings.
File 291
1994-1995
textual records
ARCH220735
textual records
photographs
ARCH216435
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freeway approach and interchange
Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation
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ARCH216435
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freeway approach and interchange
photographs
photographs
ARCH281523
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California counterpoint : new West Coast architecture, 1982 / organized by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and the San Francisco Art Institute. –New York : Rizzoli : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982.
1982
Negatives for "California Counterpoint: New West Coast Architecture"
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California counterpoint : new West Coast architecture, 1982 / organized by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and the San Francisco Art Institute. –New York : Rizzoli : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982.
photographs
1982