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Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis Cohen traces the concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in(...)
Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
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Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. In Building a new New World, Jean-Louis Cohen traces the concept of “Amerikanizm” and its impact on Russia’s built environment from early czarist interest in Revolutionary America, through the spectacular World’s Fairs of the nineteenth century, to department stores, skyscrapers, and factories built in Russia using American methods during the twentieth century. Visions of America also captivated the Russian avant-garde, from El Lissitzky to Moisei Ginzburg, and Cohen explores the ongoing artistic dialogue maintained between the two countries at the mid-century and in the late Soviet era, when the Cold War induced a strategic competition. Tracing the many journeys of Russian writers, politicians, and planners through the American territory, foregrounding the constant streams of cultural and technological transfer from the U.S.A. to Russia, and revealing the parallel fascination among Russian and American intellectuals with the ongoing pursuit of land occupation and development within their respective borders, this study of Amerikanizm in the architecture and urban design of Russia makes a timely contribution to our understanding of modern architecture and its broader geopolitics.
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December 2019
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Les représentations idéales de l’Amérique, à la fois comme horizon prometteur et comme menace, ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la formation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme russes de la Révolution américaine à la dissolution de l’Union soviétique. Jean-Louis Cohen retrace l’origine du concept d’"amerikanizm" et son impact sur l’environnement bâti de la Russie de(...)
Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe
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Les représentations idéales de l’Amérique, à la fois comme horizon prometteur et comme menace, ont joué un rôle déterminant dans la formation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme russes de la Révolution américaine à la dissolution de l’Union soviétique. Jean-Louis Cohen retrace l’origine du concept d’"amerikanizm" et son impact sur l’environnement bâti de la Russie de l’intérêt précoce de l’intelligentsia pour l’Amérique révolutionnaire et la découverte des expositions universelles du XIXe siècle jusqu’aux grands magasins, aux gratte-ciel et aux usines construits en Russie selon les méthodes américaines au cours du XXe siècle. Les images de l’Amérique ont également captivé l’avant-garde russe, d’El Lissitzky à Moïsseï Guinzbourg, et Cohen explore la relation spéculaire entretenue entre les deux pays au milieu du siècle dernier et à la fin de l’ère soviétique, dans une concurrence stratégique aiguisée par la Guerre Froide. Dans cette première grande étude de l’américanisme dans l’architecture russe, la trame tissée par Jean-Louis Cohen entrecroise les trajectoires d’écrivains, d’hommes politiques et d’urbanistes russes à travers le sol américain, met en avant le flux constant de transferts culturels et technologiques des États-Unis vers la Russie, et révèle la fascination parallèle des intellectuels russes et américains face à la poursuite inexorable de l’occupation et l’exploitation du territoire au sein de leurs frontières respectives. Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde : L’amerikanizm dans l’architecture russe apporte une contribution opportune à notre compréhension de la géopolitique des édifices et des formes urbaines.
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December 2019
CCA Publications
Houses for sale
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There are all kinds of houses—big houses, little houses, strange houses, old houses… But how do you decide which one is just right for you… In 'Houses for Sale' a family travels through architectural history searching for their perfect home. When nothing fits, they decide to build one together. But there is always more, to add, to change, until finally, they realize(...)
Houses for sale
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There are all kinds of houses—big houses, little houses, strange houses, old houses… But how do you decide which one is just right for you… In 'Houses for Sale' a family travels through architectural history searching for their perfect home. When nothing fits, they decide to build one together. But there is always more, to add, to change, until finally, they realize there is no such thing as the perfect home — it is the search that they truly enjoy. They end where they began, imagining what’s next. 'Houses for Sale' was written and illustrated by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of MOS. The book is both a children’s glossary of architectural form and the true story of lifelong curiosity.
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Maisons à vendre
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Il existe toutes sortes de maisons : des grandes, des petites, des bizarres, des vieilles… Mais comment décider laquelle est idéale pour vous? Dans « Maisons à vendre », une famille voyage à travers l’histoire de l’architecture en quête de la maison parfaite. Ne trouvant pas la perle rare, ses membres décident d’en construire une ensemble. Mais il y a toujours plus, à(...)
Maisons à vendre
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Il existe toutes sortes de maisons : des grandes, des petites, des bizarres, des vieilles… Mais comment décider laquelle est idéale pour vous? Dans « Maisons à vendre », une famille voyage à travers l’histoire de l’architecture en quête de la maison parfaite. Ne trouvant pas la perle rare, ses membres décident d’en construire une ensemble. Mais il y a toujours plus, à ajouter, à modifier, jusqu’à ce que finalement, ils se rendent compte que la maison idéale n’existe pas; c’est la recherche qu’ils ont en fait aimé. Ils terminent où ils ont commencé, imaginant la suite. « Maison à vendre » a été écrit et illustré par Michael Meredith et Hilary Sample, de MOS. Le livre est à la fois un glossaire de la forme architecturale pour enfants et la véritable histoire d’une curiosité perpétuelle.
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Takashi Homma first encountered the work of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh in 2013, while producing photographs commissioned by the CCA, some of which are included in this book. Following that experience, he decided to research and photograph the spatial and perceptual richness of windows in other works by Le Corbusier across the world. His research is(...)
Looking Through Le Corbusier Windows by Takashi Homma
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Takashi Homma first encountered the work of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh in 2013, while producing photographs commissioned by the CCA, some of which are included in this book. Following that experience, he decided to research and photograph the spatial and perceptual richness of windows in other works by Le Corbusier across the world. His research is part of the Windowology program initiated by the Window Research Institute, which aims to define the position of windows in the history of architecture across cultures—in this particular case, their role as spaces, rather than surfaces, that connect the interior of a building and the surrounding landscape, or the private and the public. An essay by Tim Benton complements Homma’s photographs by tracing the evolution of the concept of windows in Le Corbusier’s work.
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This book recounts Stefano Graziani’s experience of finding Gordon Matta-Clark’s personal library while exploring the CCA Collection. The library consists of seventy publications that cover a wide range of subjects from architecture and art history to alchemy, communications, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and psychology. In the first volume of(...)
Documents from Gordon Matta-Clark's personal library
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This book recounts Stefano Graziani’s experience of finding Gordon Matta-Clark’s personal library while exploring the CCA Collection. The library consists of seventy publications that cover a wide range of subjects from architecture and art history to alchemy, communications, cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and psychology. In the first volume of the CCA Singles series, Graziani selects thirty titles that convey Matta-Clark’s universe. CCA Singles are short printed one-offs that present one voice, one object, or one event. Ranging from raw source material to edited topical reflections, they propose intimate contact with ideas generated or collected at the CCA.
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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(...)
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.
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« CCA sur papier » présente l’ensemble des publications imprimées et électroniques du Centre Canadien d’Architecture. À travers divers documents, reproductions d’objets et éléments visuels, CCA sur papier reflète la diversité des sujets et concepts graphiques développés dans les publications du CCA, tout en attestant de leur contribution au discours international en(...)
CCA sur papier, 3e édition
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« CCA sur papier » présente l’ensemble des publications imprimées et électroniques du Centre Canadien d’Architecture. À travers divers documents, reproductions d’objets et éléments visuels, CCA sur papier reflète la diversité des sujets et concepts graphiques développés dans les publications du CCA, tout en attestant de leur contribution au discours international en architecture. Le guide comprend également une conversation entre Phyllis Lambert et Mirko Zardini, au sujet de l’histoire et de la philosophie de l’édition au CCA.
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CCA on paper, 4th edition
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''CCA on Paper'' presents all the print and electronic publications of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Through illustrations, documents, and visual elements, CCA on Paper reflects the diversity in subject matter and graphic design of CCA publications, while attesting to their contribution to international discourse on architecture. A conversation between Phyllis(...)
CCA on paper, 4th edition
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''CCA on Paper'' presents all the print and electronic publications of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Through illustrations, documents, and visual elements, CCA on Paper reflects the diversity in subject matter and graphic design of CCA publications, while attesting to their contribution to international discourse on architecture. A conversation between Phyllis Lambert and Mirko Zardini on the history and philosophy of publishing at the CCA also runs through the guide.
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The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture. Eight episodes by Joaquim Moreno
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"The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture" examines a key experiment by The Open University to mobilize new media environments for distance and adult education. Eight episodes written by Joaquim Moreno, conversations with Tim Benton, Nick Levinson, Adrian Forty, Joseph Rykwert, and Stephen Bayley, and contributions by Nick Beech, Laura Carter, Ben(...)
The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture. Eight episodes by Joaquim Moreno
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"The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture" examines a key experiment by The Open University to mobilize new media environments for distance and adult education. Eight episodes written by Joaquim Moreno, conversations with Tim Benton, Nick Levinson, Adrian Forty, Joseph Rykwert, and Stephen Bayley, and contributions by Nick Beech, Laura Carter, Ben Highmore, and Joseph Bedford, offer a close reading of the course A305, History of Architecture ad Design 1890-1939, which was taught through television and radio broadcasts, aired on the BBC between 1975 and 1982. As current models for producing and transmitting knowledge are being brought into question, "The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture" traces a radical attempt at rethinking the mandate of higher education through mass media.
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