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Learning from... Saadiyat
Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
21 August 2014 , 6pm
21 August 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
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events
events
Date:
21 August 2014
6pm
21 August 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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events
events
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A meeting about a book of sources that centres African archives
Institutional Performance Festival
A meeting about a book of sources that centres African archives
Institutional Performance Festival
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18 October, 3pm
18 October, 3pm
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events
events
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18 October
3pm
18 October
3pm
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events
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online
online
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30 June, 10am
30 June, 10am
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events
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30 June
10am
30 June
10am
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online
online
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
Date:
27 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
27 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
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UFA, Université des Futurs Africains 2. It Matters What Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories of the Future
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
UFA, Université des Futurs Africains 2. It Matters What Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories of the Future
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
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events
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27 July 2023
6pm to 7:30pm
27 July 2023
6pm to 7:30pm
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research
research
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Visiting Scholars 2018
Visiting Scholars 2018
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Elisa Dainese,Dalhousie University, Canada Architectural Culture in Translation: Postwar Cities and African Villages Martina Hrabová, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic The Geography of an Intellectual Field: The Social Network of Le Corbusier’s Studio Lina Malfona, Rome Sapienza, Italy Political Mind: Alvaro Siza’s Urban Projects From(...)
Elisa Dainese,Dalhousie University, Canada Architectural Culture in Translation: Postwar Cities and African Villages Martina Hrabová, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic The Geography of an Intellectual Field: The Social Network of Le Corbusier’s Studio Lina Malfona, Rome Sapienza, Italy Political Mind: Alvaro Siza’s Urban Projects From(...)
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June 2018 to September 2018
June 2018 to September 2018
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Visiting Scholars 2018
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Elisa Dainese,Dalhousie University, Canada Architectural Culture in Translation: Postwar Cities and African Villages Martina Hrabová, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic The Geography of an Intellectual Field: The Social Network of Le Corbusier’s Studio Lina Malfona, Rome Sapienza, Italy Political Mind: Alvaro Siza’s Urban Projects From(...)
Visiting Scholars 2018
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Elisa Dainese,Dalhousie University, Canada Architectural Culture in Translation: Postwar Cities and African Villages Martina Hrabová, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic The Geography of an Intellectual Field: The Social Network of Le Corbusier’s Studio Lina Malfona, Rome Sapienza, Italy Political Mind: Alvaro Siza’s Urban Projects From(...)
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research
research
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June 2018 to
September 2018
June 2018 to
September 2018
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events
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
9 May 2013 , 7pm
9 May 2013 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Johannesburg
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Learning from... Johannesburg
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
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events
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Date:
9 May 2013
7pm
9 May 2013
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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events
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
Date:
28 January 2016
28 January 2016
Title:
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
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Date:
28 January 2016
28 January 2016
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CD035.S2
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This series consists of a slide collection on urbanism in Africa from the1980s to 2000. It contains slides on urbanism in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, including slides showing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but also slides of Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kumasi, Ghana.
CD035.S2
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This series consists of a slide collection on urbanism in Africa from the1980s to 2000. It contains slides on urbanism in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, including slides showing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but also slides of Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kumasi, Ghana.
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1980s-2000
1980s-2000
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Reference slides on urbanism in Africa
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CD035.S2
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This series consists of a slide collection on urbanism in Africa from the1980s to 2000. It contains slides on urbanism in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, including slides showing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but also slides of Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kumasi, Ghana.
Reference slides on urbanism in Africa
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CD035.S2
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This series consists of a slide collection on urbanism in Africa from the1980s to 2000. It contains slides on urbanism in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Tunisia, including slides showing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but also slides of Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya; and Kumasi, Ghana.
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Series
Date:
1980s-2000
1980s-2000
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photographs
photographs
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Reference number:
PH1984:0547:010
PH1984:0547:010
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Subject:
architecture, topographic
architecture, topographic
Date:
1889
1889
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1889
1889
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Subject:
architecture, topographic
architecture, topographic
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photographs
photographs
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Reference number:
PH1984:0547:007
PH1984:0547:007
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Subject:
architecture, topographic
architecture, topographic
Date:
1889
1889
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1889
1889
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Subject:
architecture, topographic
architecture, topographic
