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Nature reorganized
The North Shore and the adjacent area of the Labrador Trough were chosen to test research tools and the agency of architecture in a research studio for graduate students in the School of Architecture at the University of Montreal. Led by Alessandra Ponte and titled Testing Ground: The Labrador Trough, the studio focused on a geological formation – a large iron ore belt –(...)
2 October 2014
Learning from… Labrador Trough
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The North Shore and the adjacent area of the Labrador Trough were chosen to test research tools and the agency of architecture in a research studio for graduate students in the School of Architecture at the University of Montreal. Led by Alessandra Ponte and titled Testing Ground: The Labrador Trough, the studio focused on a geological formation – a large iron ore belt –(...)
In Response
In Response is a series of public seminars that mark the final weeks of the exhibition The Other Architect. If the exhibition presents alternative approaches and models that have challenged traditional design practices, the seminars offer alternative curatorial views on the exhibition and accompanying publication. Respondents include: Felicity Scott (Thursday 10 March),(...)
Main galleries
10 March 2016 to 1 April 2016
In Response
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In Response is a series of public seminars that mark the final weeks of the exhibition The Other Architect. If the exhibition presents alternative approaches and models that have challenged traditional design practices, the seminars offer alternative curatorial views on the exhibition and accompanying publication. Respondents include: Felicity Scott (Thursday 10 March),(...)
Main galleries
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
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
Learning from... Chisasibi
A conversation between artist Thomas Kneubühler and filmmaker Ernest Webb, who explore housing and human migration in a small town on the eastern shore of James Bay. The conversation will be moderated by Alessandra Ponte. Taking the hydroelectric installations in Northern Quebec as his cue, Kneubühler documents how the generation of power touches the land and by extension(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
25 October 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Chisasibi
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A conversation between artist Thomas Kneubühler and filmmaker Ernest Webb, who explore housing and human migration in a small town on the eastern shore of James Bay. The conversation will be moderated by Alessandra Ponte. Taking the hydroelectric installations in Northern Quebec as his cue, Kneubühler documents how the generation of power touches the land and by extension(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
research
Visiting Scholars 2000–2001
Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Oliver Botar, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Topic: On Biocentrism and Modernism in Weimar German Architecture and Art Fabrizio Nevola, School of Architecture, Syracuse University Florence, Italy Topic: Siena, 1450-1520: From ‘Medieval’ to ‘Renaissance’ City Alessandra(...)
September 2000 to August 2001
Visiting Scholars 2000–2001
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Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Oliver Botar, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Topic: On Biocentrism and Modernism in Weimar German Architecture and Art Fabrizio Nevola, School of Architecture, Syracuse University Florence, Italy Topic: Siena, 1450-1520: From ‘Medieval’ to ‘Renaissance’ City Alessandra(...)
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September 2000 to
August 2001
archives
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Audio recording (master): 1 audiocassette : analog 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. tape, Audio recording (master): 1 audiocassette (DAT) : digital ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape,...
Alessandra Ponte in conversation with Louis Martin 2001 January 11.
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Audio recording (master): 1 audiocassette : analog 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. tape, Audio recording (master): 1 audiocassette (DAT) : digital ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape,...
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books
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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portrait ; 33 cm.
[Montréal] : Maison de l'architecture du Québec, 2014.
Pierre Thibault vu par Georges Teyssot et Alessandra Ponte : l'architecture comme paysage / [direction de la publication, Sophie Gironnay] = Pierre Thibault by Georges Teyssot and Alessandra Ponte : architecture as landscape / [editor Sophie Gironnay].
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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portrait ; 33 cm.
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[Montréal] : Maison de l'architecture du Québec, 2014.
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2 streaming video files (43 min., 25 sec. ; sound, colour 20 min., 25 sec.) :
Alessandra Ponte, Thomas Weaver, and François Dallegret present the book GOD & CO : François Dallegret beyond the bubble, 2012 February 9.
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