Main entry:

Ramírez, Juan Antonio, 1948-2009.

Title & Author:

La chute de Babel : pour une histoire de la destruction architecturale : recordings, 2002.

Description:

1 videocassette (VHS) (87 min., 30 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. consultation copy

Notes:
CCA event no.: C-109749.
Recorded and produced by the Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Speaker: Juan Antonio Ramírez.
Lecture is also available as text (PDF) and as a streaming audio file on the CCA website.
Presentation in French; introductory remarks in both French and English.

Summary:

Recordings of the CCA Mellon Lecture presented by Juan Antonio Ramírez at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Mar. 19, 2002. Includes introductions by Nicholas Olsberg and Mario Carpo and closing comments by Phyllis Lambert.

Subject:

Babel, Tower of.
Lost architecture.
Tour de Babel.
Monuments disparus.
Destroyed Architecture (object genre)
Ruins.
Symbolism (artistic concept)

Form/genre:

NTSC standard.
Lectures.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Videocassettes.
Videotapes.
VHS (TM)
Mini-DV.
Audiocassettes.
Sound recordings.
Digital audio tapes.

Added entries:

Olsberg, R. Nicholas.
Carpo, Mario.
Lambert, Phyllis.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Centre canadien d'architecture. Enregistrements des événements.
Conférences Mellon (3rd : 2002 : Centre canadien d'architecture)

Pour une histoire de la destruction architecturale

Holdings:

Location: Library main av cca productions 264895
Call No.: Box 29 (BIB 196322)
Notes: DAT
Status: Available

Location: Library main av cca productions 264892
Call No.: Box 29 (BIB 196322)
Notes: VHS consultation copy
Status: Available

Location: Library main av cca productions 264893
Call No.: Box 29 (BIB 196322)
Copy: tape 1
Notes: Mini-DV
Status: Available

Location: Library main av cca productions 264894
Call No.: Box 29 (BIB 196322)
Copy: tape 2
Notes: Mini-DV
Status: Available