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Direct from Nature
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Allemagne, Arts and Crafts, Arts et artisanats, Germany, ornament, ornement, photographie, photography, plant, Walter Benjamin
22 January 2010
Nature reorganized
Visiting Scholar, Jonathan Massey, Modernism, Ornament, Reform, Crystal and Arabesque, U.S. Modern Architecture, Progressive Era (1893-1918)
15 June 2006
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In Suspicion of Theory
toolkit for today 2021, doctoral program, research, in suspicion of, theory, linguistics, semiotics, 1970s, Legalities for Living, doubt, user-generated design, ideal bodies, early modern ornament
12 June 2023
In Suspicion of Theory
Dijana O. Apostolski, Jana Berankova, Amir Taheri, Vitório Leite
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 December 1996 to 9 March 1997
Uncovering Geometry: Ben Nicholson at the Laurentian Library
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This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
Octagonal gallery
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Liège : P. Mardaga, [1983]
Ornement, architecture & industrie / Bernard Hamburger, Alain Thiebaut.
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109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Liège : P. Mardaga, [1983]
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1 portfolio : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 33 x 26 x 2 cm.
Lethbridge : Southern Alberta Art Gallery, c1992.
Sacrificial ornament = Ornement sacrificiel / Spring Hurlbut.
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1 portfolio : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 33 x 26 x 2 cm.
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Lethbridge : Southern Alberta Art Gallery, c1992.