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20th century, Alfred Gotthold Meyer, Allemagne, Deutscher Werkbund, engineering, Friedrich Naumann, Germany, ingénierie, Ingenieur-Ästhetik, Joseph August Lux, Karl Marx, Katherine Romba, Munich, Rudolf Metzger, William Morris, XXe siècle
14 October 2010
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
Starting From... The Bubble
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
Hall cases
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
Materiality of Parkour
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 February 2009
Materiality of Parkour
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Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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AP178.S1.1991.PR05.SS1.068
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Original file title: GEC ingénierie - honoraire
2000
Details of the GEC Ingénierie fees, Plano Centre Ville de Montreuil, Montreuil
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AP178.S1.1991.PR05.SS1.068
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Original file title: GEC ingénierie - honoraire
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2000
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The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) - New Campus Center Competition fonds documents the projects of 4 of the 5 finalists (Eisenman, Hadid, Jahn/Sobek and Sejima/Nishizawa) of the international competition Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Design Competition for the University’s New Campus Center held by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) of Chicago in November 1996. The fonds contains 20 presentation panels and 7 models. _____________________ Le Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) - New Campus Center Competition fonds documentent les projets soumis par 4 des 5 finalistes (Eisenman, Hadid, Jahn/Sobek et Sejima/Nishizawa) au concours international Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Design Competition for the University’s New Campus Center lancé par l’Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) de Chicago en novembre 1996. Le fonds contient 20 panneaux de présentation et 7 maquettes.
[1997]-1998
IIT - New Campus Center Competition fonds
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The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) - New Campus Center Competition fonds documents the projects of 4 of the 5 finalists (Eisenman, Hadid, Jahn/Sobek and Sejima/Nishizawa) of the international competition Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Design Competition for the University’s New Campus Center held by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) of Chicago in November 1996. The fonds contains 20 presentation panels and 7 models. _____________________ Le Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) - New Campus Center Competition fonds documentent les projets soumis par 4 des 5 finalistes (Eisenman, Hadid, Jahn/Sobek et Sejima/Nishizawa) au concours international Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Design Competition for the University’s New Campus Center lancé par l’Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) de Chicago en novembre 1996. Le fonds contient 20 panneaux de présentation et 7 maquettes.
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[1997]-1998
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117 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Paris : Institut français d'architecture, ©1989.
Norman Foster et Ove Arup : ingénierie et architecture.
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117 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Paris : Institut français d'architecture, ©1989.
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34, [1] pages [i.e.] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
Hull, Québec : EXIGE, 1991.
Projet d'aménagement du Théâtre Cartier : étude de faisabilité, Ville de Hull : ingénierie de conservation : rapport d'expertise / coordonnateur et consultant principal, Le Groupe-conseil EXIGE inc ; sous-traitants, Gavazzi, Dionne inc., GOG - Expert en toiture et étanchéité.
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34, [1] pages [i.e.] leaves : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
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Hull, Québec : EXIGE, 1991.
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23 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm
[Paris] : Hélium : Fondation Louis Vuitton, [2014], ©2014
Le vaisseau de verre de Frank Gehry : un chef-d'œuvre d'architecture en pop-up et en dessins / texte et illustrations de Didier Cornille ; ingénierie papier de Bernard Duisit.
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[Paris] : Hélium : Fondation Louis Vuitton, [2014], ©2014