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Actions: what you can do with the city

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Catalogue for the CCA exhibition on view from 26 November, 2008, until April 19, 2009. The catalogue presents original research and writing that further examines the exhibition's exploration of how the design and experience of contemporary cities can be

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Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo / Stephen Taylor & Ryue Nishizawa

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Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo se consacre aux projets architecturaux récents de Stephen Taylor à Londres et de Ryue Nishizawa à Tokyo, qui suggèrent de nouvelles façons d’appréhender la vie en milieu urbain. Les projets résidentiels de Taylor et Nishizawa respectent les environnements culturels particuliers de Londres et Tokyo, y réagissent, et font la preuve de l’importance d’une bonne compréhension du lieu pour concevoir des solutions propres à leur contexte. Leurs créations mettent en question les normes traditionnelles et proposent des approches qui façonnent simultanément la vie de l’occupant et le visage de la ville. Le catalogue accompagne l’exposition éponyme de 2008 et présente des images évocatrices des installations respectives des architectes dans les salles du CCA.

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Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo/ Stephen Taylor & Ryue Nishizawa

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Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo presents architectural projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa that reflect new thinking on living in contemporary cities. Taylor and Nishizawa’s residential projects both respect and respond to the particular cultural environments of London and Tokyo, and demonstrate the importance of a clear understanding of place in order to develop solutions that are specific to their context. Their designs challenge conventional norms and offer approaches that simultaneously shape the life of the resident and the face of the city.The book accompanies the 2008 exhibition of the same name and features evocative images of the architects’ respective installations in the CCA galleries.

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Besides, history (Japanese edition) Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen.

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Autres odyssées de l'espace : Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli

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Ce livre présente trois projets autour de l’idée d’un voyage d’aventure commencé il y a 30 ans et interroge, au travers de différentes odyssées dans l’espace, l’idée d’un futur fondé sur la technologie. Depuis le voyage sur la lune en 1969, Alessandro Poli et Superstudio considèrent qu’il n’est plus possible d’imaginer notre environnement coupé de cet espace extérieur, devenu une nouvelle réalité. Leurs recherches approfondies ont abouti à un projet désormais légendaire : «Architettura interplanetaria», une autoroute reliant la terre à la lune. Michael Maltzan, architecte basé à Los Angeles, travaille quant à lui sur la conception d’un Voyage vers la lune nouveau laboratoire pour la NASA (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), qui remet en question les modèles actuels de bâtiments abritant la recherche scientifique; il propose un nouveau type d’environnement physique pour faciliter la collaboration dans les processus de recherche. Enfin, Greg Lynn, architecte lui aussi de Los Angeles, a initié, en collaboration avec des étudiants de l’université de Vienne et l’UCLA, un projet de recherche et de design pour de nouveaux terminaux sur la terre et sur la lune, destinés aux voyageurs entre ces deux destinations.

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Other space odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli

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Today we are witnessing a renewed enthusiasm for space exploration, with scientific expeditions, satellite launches, and the emergence of space tourism pushing us to reconsider our relationship with our planet. Other Space Odysseys has nothing to do with Space Architecture or architecture in outer space. It is not a celebration of high-tech architecture and imagery or extreme physical and mental conditions. Instead, this book proposes a letting go of architecture understood as the production of -material goods in favour of architecture as the production of ideas. How can thinking about space lead to fresh perspectives on earth? Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan and Alessandro Poli present different avenues for approaching this question. Their odysseys, real and virtual, ultimately promise a rediscovery of our own world.

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CCA on paper

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CCA on Paper is a guide to all the publications of the Canadian Centre for Architecture since it opened to the public twenty years ago. Consisting of synopses, illustrations, documents and visual elements drawn from the wide-ranging body of CCA publications, CCA on Paper reflects the diversity and avant-garde character of their content and graphic design. A lively conversation between Phyllis Lambert and Mirko Zardini on the history and philosophy of publishing at the CCA runs through the guide.

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CCA sur papier

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À l'occasion du 20e anniversaire de l'ouverture de ses portes au public, le Centre Canadien d'Architecture édite le recueil CCA sur papier, qui présente l'ensemble de ses publications. Constitué d'articles et de reproductions d'objets, et enrichi d'autres documents et éléments visuels tirés du corpus éditorial éclectique du CCA, il reflète la diversité et le caractère d'avant-garde tant de la pensée que des concepts graphiques qui y sont développés. Une conversation animée entre Phyllis Lambert et Mirko Zardini sur l'histoire et la philosophie de la publication au CCA se déroule à travers le guide.

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2G #95: Baukunst

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Brussels-based architectural firm Baukunst, founded in 2012, has both art and technology built into its name ("bau" for building and "kunst" for art). Maintaining a high level of abstraction, its fluid practice positions all projects as theoretical propositions, to be returned to repeatedly over time. The selection of works featured in this issue of 2G is not an archive of its work, but rather a research atlas in which the montage of architectural drawings, site photographs, models and digital images speaks of the latent ideas germinated and tested across its projects.

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Besides, history: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen

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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? ''Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen'' invites three architects to reread, redraw, translate, and appropriate from the past and from each other in order to construct relationships between and meanings out of a constellation of references. In their conversations, history becomes a tool that can be used in production, rather than just an object of study. The book features newly produced plans, sections, models, and perspectives for projects by Go Hasegawa and OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, juxtaposed with reference material chosen from the CCA Collection. Introduced and annotated by the architects, these images form a visual manifesto for a unique relationship to history.