30 May 2003
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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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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Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
5 January 2003 to 31 August 2003
Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
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Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
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5 January 2003 to
31 August 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(...)
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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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246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Basel : Birkhäuser, 2013.
Mobility of the line : art, architecture, design / Ivana Wingham (ed.).
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246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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Basel : Birkhäuser, 2013.
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319 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm
Paris : Phaidon, 2017.
Mobitecture : architecture mobile / Rebecca Roke ; traduit de l'anglais: Jean-Bernard Gouillier et Marie-Line Hillairet.
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319 pages : colour illustrations ; 19 cm
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Paris : Phaidon, 2017.
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x, 201 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Airport urbanism : infrastructure and mobility in Asia / Max Hirsh.
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x, 201 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
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Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
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207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Basel : Birkhauser Architecture, [2012]
Ecological urban architecture : qualitative approaches to sustainability / Thomas Schröpfer ; with contributions by Limin Hee, John Hong, Mitchell Joachim, Sheila Kennedy, Nico Kienzi, Benjamin Shepherd, Shanta Tucker (Atelier ten), Achim Menges, Federico Parolotto, Eduardo Rico, Matthias Sauerbruch, Sven Stremke, Adravko Trivic, Christian Werthmann.
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207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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Basel : Birkhauser Architecture, [2012]
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viii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019], ©2019
The moving eye : film, television, architecture, visual art, and the modern / edited by Edward Dimendberg.
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viii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019], ©2019
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Many norths : spatial practice in a polar territory / Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, & Mason White.
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xii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm
New York : Actar Publishers, [2017], ©2017
Many norths : spatial practice in a polar territory / Lateral Office, Lola Sheppard, & Mason White.
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xii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 25 cm
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New York : Actar Publishers, [2017], ©2017