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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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Journeys: how travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment

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Journeys explores architectural issues raised by increased global mobility. Stories by different authors, presented in a fictional framework, highlight key concepts critical to understanding the impact of the movement of people, animals, objects and ideas. The vagabondage of seeds. The transfer of knowledge and experience as people move from one place to another. The physical reconfiguration of communities. These are among the wide range of topics Journeys explores as it seeks to analyze and visually depict how these flows, encounters and migrations unexpectedly change society and our built environment.

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Trajets : comment la mobilité des fruits, des idées et des architectures recompose notre environnement

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Trajets explore les problématiques architecturales liées au phénomène mondial d’une mobilité grandissante. Sous forme de récits de fiction, différents auteurs nous présentent ici des concepts essentiels permettant d’appréhender les effets des déplacements de personnes, d’animaux, de biens et d’idées. Le vagabondage des noix, le transfert de compétences et de pratiques ou encore, la réorganisation physique de communautés, ne sont que quelques-uns parmi les divers sujets abordés. Trajets analyse et rend visible comment ces flux, ces rencontres et ces migrations transforment de manière surprenante nos sociétés et notre environnement bâti.

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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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The other architect: another way of building architecture

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The Other Architect presents 23 case studies that emphasize the potential for architecture to identify the urgent issues of our time. These international and often multidisciplinary groups, with examples from the 1960s to today, invented and adopted new methods outside of traditional design practices in order to create architecture without building. The alternative approaches shown in the exhibition challenge the concept of individual authorship in favor of establishing collaborative networks or partnerships with permeable roles. Their work took on non-traditional forms such as bibliographies, surveys, databases, conferences, posters, questionnaires and manifestos. By avoiding the built form, these unexpected ways of practicing allow architecture to actively shape a cultural agenda. 416 pages and over 300 colour facsimiles of traces left in letters, books, drawings, photographs, budgets, videos, mission statements, meeting minutes, T-shirts, boats, and buses