Learning from... Athens
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(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
7 April 2016, 6pm
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(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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architecture
1937
View of the Pavillon de l'Enseignement, 1937 Exposition internationale, Paris, France
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View of the Pavillon de l'Enseignement Ménager, 1937 Exposition internationale, Paris, France
PH1998:0032:062
architecture
1937
View of the Pavillon de l'Enseignement Ménager, 1937 Exposition internationale, Paris, France
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1900
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1900
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Paul Gers describes the business as a "confiseur". A collection of views of the exhibition published in Ohio in 1900 describes it as a café.
1900
View of people gathered around stand near entrance to pavilion of the Direction de l'enseignement, Tunisian section, Exposition universelle, 1900, Paris France
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Paul Gers describes the business as a "confiseur". A collection of views of the exhibition published in Ohio in 1900 describes it as a café.
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Architectural Education in the Intermediate Zone
Oussouby Sacko on African architectural identity and his studies in China, interviewed by Cole Roskam
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Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
31 May 2017 to 24 September 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton
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Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 September 2011 to 8 January 2012
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View
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After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 September 1993 to 28 November 1993
"Letters from the People": Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Octagonal gallery