Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Desirée Valadares, infrastructure, railway, highway, colonial history
10 November 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Desirée Valadares, infrastructure, railway, highway, colonial history
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
Learning from... Cairo
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
15 September 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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AP051
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
1975-1997
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
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1975-1997
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French colonial history.
East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©2002-
journals and magazines
East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, ©2002-
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126 pages illustrations, folded color map 20 cm
Williamsburg, Va., 1955.
Colonial Williamsburg official guidebook; containing a brief history of the city and descriptions of more than one hundred dwelling-houses, shops & publick buildings, fully illustrated. Also a large guide-map.
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126 pages illustrations, folded color map 20 cm
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Williamsburg, Va., 1955.
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xviii, 110 p. : ill., ; 20 cm. + 1 col. map.
Williamsburg : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1976, c1972.
Colonial Williamsburg official guidebook : containing a brief history of the old city, and of its renewing, with remarks on the six chief appeals thereof ; and descriptions of near one hundred & fifty dwelling-houses, shops & publick buildings.
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xviii, 110 p. : ill., ; 20 cm. + 1 col. map.
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Williamsburg : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1976, c1972.
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xvi, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits, map, plans ; 26 cm.
Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg, [1958]
The public buildings of Williamsburg, colonial capital of Virginia : an architectural history / by Marcus Whiffen.
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xvi, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits, map, plans ; 26 cm.
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Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg, [1958]
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217 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 30 cm
Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2022], ©2022
Helvécia : a Swiss colonial history in Brazil / Dom Smaz.
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217 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 30 cm
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Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, [2022], ©2022
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xi, 219 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007
India by design : colonial history and cultural display / Saloni Mathur.
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xi, 219 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©2007