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Metaphors for the Nile
Metaphors for the Nile
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Samaa Elimam traces readings of the world's longest river
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Figuring Territory
Figuring Territory
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15 August 2022
15 August 2022
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Figuring Territory
Figuring Territory
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21 July 2000
21 July 2000
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events
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21 July 2000
21 July 2000
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exhibitions
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
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Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
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9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
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Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
9 December 1998 to
28 March 1999
9 December 1998 to
28 March 1999
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Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Starting From... Pink
Starting From... Pink
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Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
11 September 2009 to 17 January 2010
11 September 2009 to 17 January 2010
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Starting From... Pink
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Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Starting From... Pink
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Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
11 September 2009 to
17 January 2010
11 September 2009 to
17 January 2010
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Mirrors / Miroirs
Mirrors / Miroirs
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Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
22 June 2017 to 14 January 2018
22 June 2017 to 14 January 2018
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Mirrors / Miroirs
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Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Mirrors / Miroirs
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Description:
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
22 June 2017 to
14 January 2018
22 June 2017 to
14 January 2018
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Starting From... The Bubble
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(...)
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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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
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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(...)
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(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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26 November 2009 to
17 January 2010
26 November 2009 to
17 January 2010
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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books
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16 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
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16 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
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[Montréal?] : [publisher not identified], [1989]
[Montréal?] : [publisher not identified], [1989]
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Le logement, métamorphose et métaphores.
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16 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
Le logement, métamorphose et métaphores.
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16 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
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books
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[Montréal?] : [publisher not identified], [1989]
[Montréal?] : [publisher not identified], [1989]
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books
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xviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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xviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Sainte-Foy, Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992.
Sainte-Foy, Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992.
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Les Métaphores de la culture / sous la direction de Joseph Melançon.
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xviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Les Métaphores de la culture / sous la direction de Joseph Melançon.
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xviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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books
books
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Sainte-Foy, Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992.
Sainte-Foy, Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992.
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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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Paris : Editions du Centre Pompidou/CCI, ©1987.
Paris : Editions du Centre Pompidou/CCI, ©1987.
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Hans Hollein, métaphores et métamorphoses : 18 mars/8 juin 1987, Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou / [conception de l'album: François Burkhardt, Claude Eveno, Hans Hollein].
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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Hans Hollein, métaphores et métamorphoses : 18 mars/8 juin 1987, Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou / [conception de l'album: François Burkhardt, Claude Eveno, Hans Hollein].
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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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books
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Paris : Editions du Centre Pompidou/CCI, ©1987.
Paris : Editions du Centre Pompidou/CCI, ©1987.
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PHCON2002:0016:093:016
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Passages underlined on pages 92-93, 111, 122 and 125. There is a drawing on the first page. There is a receipt from Paperback Corner (MacDougal & 9th) 7 March 1973.
PHCON2002:0016:093:016
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Passages underlined on pages 92-93, 111, 122 and 125. There is a drawing on the first page. There is a receipt from Paperback Corner (MacDougal & 9th) 7 March 1973.
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published 1972
published 1972
Title:
Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
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PHCON2002:0016:093:016
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Passages underlined on pages 92-93, 111, 122 and 125. There is a drawing on the first page. There is a receipt from Paperback Corner (MacDougal & 9th) 7 March 1973.
Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
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PHCON2002:0016:093:016
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Passages underlined on pages 92-93, 111, 122 and 125. There is a drawing on the first page. There is a receipt from Paperback Corner (MacDougal & 9th) 7 March 1973.
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books
books
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published 1972
published 1972
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