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17th century, 18th century, BLDGBLOG, feral city, fortifications, Geoff@CCA, Geoff Manaugh, Giacomo Fusto Castriotto, Girolamo Maggi, traités, treatises, ville sauvage, XVIe siècle, XVIIe siècle
22 June 2010
How can construction be an instrument of peace? Post-conflict cities share many problems such as spontaneous construction and a lack of strong civil governance, thus even well-intended projects under these conditions risk fixing inequalities permanently or introducing new ones in the built environment. Can architecture, beyond solving a direct need or problem, add to(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 June 2011 to 4 September 2011
The Good Cause: Architecture of Peace
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How can construction be an instrument of peace? Post-conflict cities share many problems such as spontaneous construction and a lack of strong civil governance, thus even well-intended projects under these conditions risk fixing inequalities permanently or introducing new ones in the built environment. Can architecture, beyond solving a direct need or problem, add to(...)
Octagonal gallery
Foraging in Montréal
Chicago-based artist and forager Nance Klehm leads a foraging and tea-making expedition. Foraging is the practice of collecting plants that grow wild in urban and rural areas. Participants identify and collect edible plants growing in Montreal and then make tea from the foraged ingredients. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA(...)
18 April 2009
Foraging in Montréal
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Chicago-based artist and forager Nance Klehm leads a foraging and tea-making expedition. Foraging is the practice of collecting plants that grow wild in urban and rural areas. Participants identify and collect edible plants growing in Montreal and then make tea from the foraged ingredients. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA(...)
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
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Rohault de Fleury collection
CI001
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The Rohault de Fleury collection documents the work of three generations of French architects, Hubert, his son Charles, and his grandson Georges, spanning from the early 18th to late 19th century. The collection is extremely varied encompassing both private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning, and student work from both the École des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique, and archaeological studies. Stylistically, the projects incorporate the two dominant contemporary directions in French architecture - functionalism as advocated by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and the classicism of the École des beaux-arts.
1717-[1884]
Rohault de Fleury collection
CI001
Synopsis:
The Rohault de Fleury collection documents the work of three generations of French architects, Hubert, his son Charles, and his grandson Georges, spanning from the early 18th to late 19th century. The collection is extremely varied encompassing both private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning, and student work from both the École des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique, and archaeological studies. Stylistically, the projects incorporate the two dominant contemporary directions in French architecture - functionalism as advocated by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and the classicism of the École des beaux-arts.
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1717-[1884]
books
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202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 19 cm
Arles : Actes sud, ©2012.
Ville sauvage : Marseille, essai d'écologie urbaine / Baptiste Lanaspeze ; photographies de Geoffroy Mathieu.
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202 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 19 cm
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Arles : Actes sud, ©2012.
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24 p. 15 cm
Lausanne Ecole polytechnique fédérale Département d'architecture 1997
Entre sauvage et artifice, la nature dans la ville Augustin Berque.
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24 p. 15 cm
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Lausanne Ecole polytechnique fédérale Département d'architecture 1997
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2 volumes ; 21 cm.
Dieppe : A. Marais, 1874.
Les antiquitez et chroniques de la ville de Dieppe / par David Asseline ; publiées pour la première fois avec une introduction et des notes historiques par MM. Michel Hardy, Guérillon et l'abbé Sauvage.
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2 volumes ; 21 cm.
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Dieppe : A. Marais, 1874.
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411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
Paris : Norma, ©2002.
Henri Sauvage, ou, l'exercice du renouvellement / Jean-Baptiste Minnaert ; photographies contemporaines de Dominique Delaunay.
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411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.
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Paris : Norma, ©2002.
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[100] pages : en majeure ptie illustrations ; 20 cm
[Saint-Laurent, Québec] : Musée d'art de Saint-Laurent, [1988?]
Arte architettura : une ville utopique / Aurelio Sandonato.
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[100] pages : en majeure ptie illustrations ; 20 cm
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[Saint-Laurent, Québec] : Musée d'art de Saint-Laurent, [1988?]