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De tout temps, les populations se sont développées le long des berges. Ce faisant, elles les ont transformées tout en exposant leurs habitations et institutions aux risques d’inondations, une menace qui s’est accrue avec les changements climatiques. Dans ce dossier, Continuité souhaite comprendre comment l’activité humaine, combinée aux intempéries, affecte le patrimoine(...)
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De tout temps, les populations se sont développées le long des berges. Ce faisant, elles les ont transformées tout en exposant leurs habitations et institutions aux risques d’inondations, une menace qui s’est accrue avec les changements climatiques. Dans ce dossier, Continuité souhaite comprendre comment l’activité humaine, combinée aux intempéries, affecte le patrimoine(...)
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Continuité, no. 188 : patrimoine et inondations
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De tout temps, les populations se sont développées le long des berges. Ce faisant, elles les ont transformées tout en exposant leurs habitations et institutions aux risques d’inondations, une menace qui s’est accrue avec les changements climatiques. Dans ce dossier, Continuité souhaite comprendre comment l’activité humaine, combinée aux intempéries, affecte le patrimoine naturel et bâti du Québec tout en déterminant des pistes de solutions pour rendre ce dernier plus résilient. Et parce qu’en dépit de sa force parfois dévastatrice, l’eau conserve malgré tout son attrait, des initiatives originales mettant en valeur fleuve et rivières voient le jour, pour le plus grand plaisir de tous ! Dans ce dossier thématique : histoire et enjeux des communautés riveraines; technologie numérique au service de la protection riveraine; solutions pour protéger le patrimoine des inondations; portraits de municipalités résilientes; initiatives originales pour valoriser l’accès aux rives auprès du grand public.
Continuité, no. 188 : patrimoine et inondations
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De tout temps, les populations se sont développées le long des berges. Ce faisant, elles les ont transformées tout en exposant leurs habitations et institutions aux risques d’inondations, une menace qui s’est accrue avec les changements climatiques. Dans ce dossier, Continuité souhaite comprendre comment l’activité humaine, combinée aux intempéries, affecte le patrimoine naturel et bâti du Québec tout en déterminant des pistes de solutions pour rendre ce dernier plus résilient. Et parce qu’en dépit de sa force parfois dévastatrice, l’eau conserve malgré tout son attrait, des initiatives originales mettant en valeur fleuve et rivières voient le jour, pour le plus grand plaisir de tous ! Dans ce dossier thématique : histoire et enjeux des communautés riveraines; technologie numérique au service de la protection riveraine; solutions pour protéger le patrimoine des inondations; portraits de municipalités résilientes; initiatives originales pour valoriser l’accès aux rives auprès du grand public.
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Pas de messe ce dimanche
Pas de messe ce dimanche
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Alors que depuis plusieurs décennies la pratique religieuse ne cesse de perdre de la vigueur, l’avenir des lieux de culte devient incertain. C’est pour capter cette réalité que Drowster a sillonné Montréal d’est en ouest en photographiant les églises qu’il croisait sur son chemin. Ce livre photo dresse non seulement l’inventaire d’un patrimoine en mutation, mais trace(...)
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Alors que depuis plusieurs décennies la pratique religieuse ne cesse de perdre de la vigueur, l’avenir des lieux de culte devient incertain. C’est pour capter cette réalité que Drowster a sillonné Montréal d’est en ouest en photographiant les églises qu’il croisait sur son chemin. Ce livre photo dresse non seulement l’inventaire d’un patrimoine en mutation, mais trace(...)
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Pas de messe ce dimanche
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Alors que depuis plusieurs décennies la pratique religieuse ne cesse de perdre de la vigueur, l’avenir des lieux de culte devient incertain. C’est pour capter cette réalité que Drowster a sillonné Montréal d’est en ouest en photographiant les églises qu’il croisait sur son chemin. Ce livre photo dresse non seulement l’inventaire d’un patrimoine en mutation, mais trace aussi le portrait de la ville, avec les particularités de ses quartiers, ses communautés, son histoire et son architecture.
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Alors que depuis plusieurs décennies la pratique religieuse ne cesse de perdre de la vigueur, l’avenir des lieux de culte devient incertain. C’est pour capter cette réalité que Drowster a sillonné Montréal d’est en ouest en photographiant les églises qu’il croisait sur son chemin. Ce livre photo dresse non seulement l’inventaire d’un patrimoine en mutation, mais trace aussi le portrait de la ville, avec les particularités de ses quartiers, ses communautés, son histoire et son architecture.
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April 2026
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Les forêts anciennes représentent aujourd’hui moins de 1 % des forêts du Québec, mais leur importance est capitale. En plus de leur valeur scientifique et biologique, elles sont l’un des rares endroits ayant été peu affectés par les activités humaines pour obéir aux impératifs du marché. Imaginez : les arbres qui s’y trouvent ont pris racine avant même que la voiture à(...)
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Les forêts anciennes représentent aujourd’hui moins de 1 % des forêts du Québec, mais leur importance est capitale. En plus de leur valeur scientifique et biologique, elles sont l’un des rares endroits ayant été peu affectés par les activités humaines pour obéir aux impératifs du marché. Imaginez : les arbres qui s’y trouvent ont pris racine avant même que la voiture à(...)
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Forêts anciennes : l'expérience du fond des bois
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Les forêts anciennes représentent aujourd’hui moins de 1 % des forêts du Québec, mais leur importance est capitale. En plus de leur valeur scientifique et biologique, elles sont l’un des rares endroits ayant été peu affectés par les activités humaines pour obéir aux impératifs du marché. Imaginez : les arbres qui s’y trouvent ont pris racine avant même que la voiture à combustion, les antibiotiques et le télégraphe ne soient inventés ! Plonger dans une forêt ancienne, c’est donc entrer en quelque sorte dans un lieu hors du temps. Les arbres couverts de mousses et de lichens portent la marque des saisons dans leur tronc, leurs branches, leur cime. Le chant des oiseaux, les floraisons printanières, les traces d’animaux : tout y est légèrement différent que dans les forêts plus jeunes. Mais quels sont les attributs d’une forêt ancienne ? À quoi reconnaît-on un vieil arbre ? Comment protéger ce précieux patrimoine collectif ? Amoureux des arbres et partisan de la restauration écologique, Gabriel Grenier propose ici de nombreuses pistes pour que les forêts anciennes regagnent du terrain. Ce livre, agrémenté de photos, de cartes et d’itinéraires de randonnée dans le nord-est de l’Amérique, s’adresse à tous ceux et celles qui entendent les sirènes du fond des bois et qui ont envie de renouer avec une nature sauvage et indomptée. En nous faisant vibrer avec la profonde mémoire de l’univers, ces cathédrales de biodiversité ont le pouvoir de transformer le regard que nous portons sur nous-même et sur le monde naturel.
Forêts anciennes : l'expérience du fond des bois
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Les forêts anciennes représentent aujourd’hui moins de 1 % des forêts du Québec, mais leur importance est capitale. En plus de leur valeur scientifique et biologique, elles sont l’un des rares endroits ayant été peu affectés par les activités humaines pour obéir aux impératifs du marché. Imaginez : les arbres qui s’y trouvent ont pris racine avant même que la voiture à combustion, les antibiotiques et le télégraphe ne soient inventés ! Plonger dans une forêt ancienne, c’est donc entrer en quelque sorte dans un lieu hors du temps. Les arbres couverts de mousses et de lichens portent la marque des saisons dans leur tronc, leurs branches, leur cime. Le chant des oiseaux, les floraisons printanières, les traces d’animaux : tout y est légèrement différent que dans les forêts plus jeunes. Mais quels sont les attributs d’une forêt ancienne ? À quoi reconnaît-on un vieil arbre ? Comment protéger ce précieux patrimoine collectif ? Amoureux des arbres et partisan de la restauration écologique, Gabriel Grenier propose ici de nombreuses pistes pour que les forêts anciennes regagnent du terrain. Ce livre, agrémenté de photos, de cartes et d’itinéraires de randonnée dans le nord-est de l’Amérique, s’adresse à tous ceux et celles qui entendent les sirènes du fond des bois et qui ont envie de renouer avec une nature sauvage et indomptée. En nous faisant vibrer avec la profonde mémoire de l’univers, ces cathédrales de biodiversité ont le pouvoir de transformer le regard que nous portons sur nous-même et sur le monde naturel.
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April 2026
April 2026
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Fauna and flora
Fauna and flora
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Brutalist interiors
Brutalist interiors
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"Brutalist interiors" reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectural writers and academics on subjects ranging from childhood inside Montreal’s Habitat 67 to the interiors of Denys Lasdun in Ghana, Tadao Ando in Japan, and the use of(...)
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"Brutalist interiors" reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectural writers and academics on subjects ranging from childhood inside Montreal’s Habitat 67 to the interiors of Denys Lasdun in Ghana, Tadao Ando in Japan, and the use of(...)
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Brutalist interiors
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"Brutalist interiors" reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectural writers and academics on subjects ranging from childhood inside Montreal’s Habitat 67 to the interiors of Denys Lasdun in Ghana, Tadao Ando in Japan, and the use of Brutalist techniques in contemporary design. Photographs by leading architectural photographers such as Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego, Simon Phipps and Iwan Baan and essays written by Blake Gopnik, Ewan Harrison, Deane Madsen, Gili Merin, Naomi Pollock, Felix Torkar, Ljubica Slavkovic and Rixt Woudstra take readers inside the interiors of some of the world's most remarkable Brutalist and contemporary concrete buildings.
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"Brutalist interiors" reveals the hitherto overlooked interiors of Brutalist and concrete buildings around the world. The book combines photography of select interiors with essays by leading architectural writers and academics on subjects ranging from childhood inside Montreal’s Habitat 67 to the interiors of Denys Lasdun in Ghana, Tadao Ando in Japan, and the use of Brutalist techniques in contemporary design. Photographs by leading architectural photographers such as Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego, Simon Phipps and Iwan Baan and essays written by Blake Gopnik, Ewan Harrison, Deane Madsen, Gili Merin, Naomi Pollock, Felix Torkar, Ljubica Slavkovic and Rixt Woudstra take readers inside the interiors of some of the world's most remarkable Brutalist and contemporary concrete buildings.
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November 2025
November 2025
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"You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray", declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black and white: we use the same word to describe moods, November skies, the hair of the elderly, the withered(...)
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"You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray", declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black and white: we use the same word to describe moods, November skies, the hair of the elderly, the withered(...)
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If you have never thought gray: A theory of color
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"You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray", declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black and white: we use the same word to describe moods, November skies, the hair of the elderly, the withered features of faces, dusty shelves, faceless bureaucracies, dreary politicians and hundreds of other things. This plain, unassuming word conceals a multitude of thoughts that we seldom pause to consider. In this exceptionally original book, Peter Sloterdijk follows the grey thread through the history of philosophy, art, literature and politics, enabling us to see familiar things in new ways and highlighting features of our lives that would otherwise remain unseen.
If you have never thought gray: A theory of color
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"You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray", declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black and white: we use the same word to describe moods, November skies, the hair of the elderly, the withered features of faces, dusty shelves, faceless bureaucracies, dreary politicians and hundreds of other things. This plain, unassuming word conceals a multitude of thoughts that we seldom pause to consider. In this exceptionally original book, Peter Sloterdijk follows the grey thread through the history of philosophy, art, literature and politics, enabling us to see familiar things in new ways and highlighting features of our lives that would otherwise remain unseen.
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September 2025
September 2025
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Art Theory
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The fragility of plaster
The fragility of plaster
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France(...)
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France(...)
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The fragility of plaster
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France in the period from 1815 to 1855 could be seen as the half-century of plaster. After the French Revolution, plaster was used for a great variety of things: building, moulding, sculpting, decorating. Cheap and easy to use, plaster was everywhere, from Napoleon’s death mask to household ornaments, from walls to elaborate mouldings. Plaster was king – but a fragile king that easily crumbled and fell apart. The age of plaster was also the reign of the ephemeral and the transient, the vulgar and the eclectic, and the men and women of the time struggled to maintain stability and continuity with the past.
The fragility of plaster
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France in the period from 1815 to 1855 could be seen as the half-century of plaster. After the French Revolution, plaster was used for a great variety of things: building, moulding, sculpting, decorating. Cheap and easy to use, plaster was everywhere, from Napoleon’s death mask to household ornaments, from walls to elaborate mouldings. Plaster was king – but a fragile king that easily crumbled and fell apart. The age of plaster was also the reign of the ephemeral and the transient, the vulgar and the eclectic, and the men and women of the time struggled to maintain stability and continuity with the past.
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July 2025
July 2025
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Art Theory
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent(...)
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent(...)
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In praise of the earth: a journey into the garden
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.
In praise of the earth: a journey into the garden
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.
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November 2025
November 2025
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and(...)
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For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and(...)
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Women writing architecture 1700-1900
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For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and in-depth re-readings of canonical histories. Women from all walks of life, writing as clients, users, or critics, are relevant voices for understanding the built environment’s past. Examining specific spaces such as churches, homes, gardens, or boulevards, it proposes a novel take on feminist historiographies.
Women writing architecture 1700-1900
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For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and in-depth re-readings of canonical histories. Women from all walks of life, writing as clients, users, or critics, are relevant voices for understanding the built environment’s past. Examining specific spaces such as churches, homes, gardens, or boulevards, it proposes a novel take on feminist historiographies.
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December 2025
December 2025
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials,(...)
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Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials,(...)
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Caruso St John, Collected Works: Volume 3, 2010-2020
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Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials, and colour. Transforming buildings for reuse – from beloved public institutions to longabandoned industrial sites – became a focal point for the practice as it sought to emphasise its work with the existing rather than contribute to the escalating production of new construction. Their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed this engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.
Caruso St John, Collected Works: Volume 3, 2010-2020
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Between 2010 and 2020, Caruso St John expanded its reputation for sensitive and characterful architecture through a remarkable range of projects. Major buildings in the heart of Swiss, German, and Belgian cities explored the role urban landmarks can play in the present day, while smaller domestic projects provided the opportunity for experiments in restoration, materials, and colour. Transforming buildings for reuse – from beloved public institutions to longabandoned industrial sites – became a focal point for the practice as it sought to emphasise its work with the existing rather than contribute to the escalating production of new construction. Their designs for memorials, exhibitions, and museums further developed this engagement with memory and an aliveness to the past.
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January 2026
January 2026
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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''The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth'' is a provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during his twenty-five-year tenure as Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art(...)
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''The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth'' is a provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during his twenty-five-year tenure as Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art(...)
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The devouring eye: Photography and the mouth
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''The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth'' is a provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during his twenty-five-year tenure as Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art (1997–2022) – a period during which the course shaped an entire generation of photographers – the book presents a meditation on the camera as both eye and mouth: an apparatus that ingests the world in order to produce images. Framed through a psychoanalytic lens, Richon proposes that photography is less a neutral act of observation than a form of visual incorporation. If looking maintains distance, the mouth abolishes it. The camera becomes a devouring organ, where the object is dissolved, digested, and made into an image. The desire to see becomes entangled with the desire to consume. Through this reading, photography is revealed as an insatiable medium – one that satisfies and frustrates our appetite for representation in equal measure. ''The Devouring Eye'' invites us to reconsider how we relate to images, and how deeply they live in us.
The devouring eye: Photography and the mouth
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''The Devouring Eye: Photography and the Mouth'' is a provocative essay by Swiss photographer and academic Olivier Richon which rethinks the act of looking through the language of appetite, taste, and consumption. Drawn from a series of influential lectures delivered during his twenty-five-year tenure as Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art (1997–2022) – a period during which the course shaped an entire generation of photographers – the book presents a meditation on the camera as both eye and mouth: an apparatus that ingests the world in order to produce images. Framed through a psychoanalytic lens, Richon proposes that photography is less a neutral act of observation than a form of visual incorporation. If looking maintains distance, the mouth abolishes it. The camera becomes a devouring organ, where the object is dissolved, digested, and made into an image. The desire to see becomes entangled with the desire to consume. Through this reading, photography is revealed as an insatiable medium – one that satisfies and frustrates our appetite for representation in equal measure. ''The Devouring Eye'' invites us to reconsider how we relate to images, and how deeply they live in us.
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March 2026
March 2026
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Theory of Photography
Theory of Photography
