Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
Main galleries
20 October 2010 to 13 March 2011
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment
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Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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Pioneers of the Bijlmermeer
Bijlmermeer, Journeys: How Travelling Fruit, Ideas and Buildings Rearrange Our Environment
30 April 2016
30 May 2003
Toys and Transport
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
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142 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Paris, France : Harmattan, ©2000.
Mobilité & esthétique : deux dimensions des infrastructures territoriales / sous la direction de Claude Prelorenzo & Dominique Rouillard.
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142 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Paris, France : Harmattan, ©2000.
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222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Bruxelles : Archives de la ville de Bruxelles, 2004.
Bruxelles et la Jonction Nord-Midi : histoire, architecture et mobilité urbaine / edité par Serge Jaumain ; avec la collaboration [de] Frédéric Boquet [and others] = Brussel en de Noord-Zuidverbinding : geschiedenis, architectuur en stedelijke mobiliteit / samengesteld door Serge Jaumain ; met medewerking van Frédéric Boquet [and others].
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222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
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Bruxelles : Archives de la ville de Bruxelles, 2004.
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163 pages
Paris : Recherches, 2004.
Trafics en ville : L'architecture et l'urbanisme au risque de la mobilité / Serge Wachter.
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163 pages
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Paris : Recherches, 2004.
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447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Paris : Hazan, ©2011.
Architecture en uniforme : projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale / Jean-Louis Cohen.
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447 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Paris : Hazan, ©2011.
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Europan 1 à 6 projets négociés / [responsable de l'édition, Didier Rebois ; préface Yvette Jaggi].
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214 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm
Paris : Europan, 2004.
Europan 1 à 6 projets négociés / [responsable de l'édition, Didier Rebois ; préface Yvette Jaggi].
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214 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm
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Paris : Europan, 2004.