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MAP 004: Floods
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MAP (Manual of Architectural Possibilities) is a publication of research and visions; research into territories, which can be concrete or abstract, but always put into question. Map is not a magazine (it only has two pages) and is not a book (it is issued twice a year). Map presents itself as a folded poster (A1) where information is immediate, dense and objective in one(...)
MAP 004: Floods
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MAP (Manual of Architectural Possibilities) is a publication of research and visions; research into territories, which can be concrete or abstract, but always put into question. Map is not a magazine (it only has two pages) and is not a book (it is issued twice a year). Map presents itself as a folded poster (A1) where information is immediate, dense and objective in one side, and architectural and subjective on the other. Map is a guide to potential actions in the built environment, a folded encyclopedia of the possible, a topography of ideas, or a poster on the wall.
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September 2011
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L'attrait de la ruine
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D'où vient-il que la ruine au cinéma exerce un attrait, au point de vouloir lui consacrer du temps, un livre, et penser qu'un quelconque lecteur puisse vouloir y accorder son attention ? Peut-être est-ce parce que la ruine, telle qu'elle s'incarne au cinéma, que ce soit comme décombres de guerre ou vestiges antiques, chantier désaffecté ou lambeau de pellicule rescapé,(...)
October 2011
L'attrait de la ruine
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D'où vient-il que la ruine au cinéma exerce un attrait, au point de vouloir lui consacrer du temps, un livre, et penser qu'un quelconque lecteur puisse vouloir y accorder son attention ? Peut-être est-ce parce que la ruine, telle qu'elle s'incarne au cinéma, que ce soit comme décombres de guerre ou vestiges antiques, chantier désaffecté ou lambeau de pellicule rescapé, exacerbe ce lien mélancolique, quasi ontologique, qui nous attache au temps et à la mémoire du cinéma (c'est-à-dire, comme le dirait Daney, à " la promesse d'un monde "): présence d'une absence, insaisissable trop tard, toujours-déjà passé, en train de disparaître. Ce brillant essai s'intéresse ainsi à décrire ces moments de cinéma où le temps, sous diverses modalités, apparaît de manière sensible, en tant qu'expérience. Ces pages décrivent moins une histoire en bonne et due forme de la ruine au cinéma, qu'un parcours subjectif de fragments disparates qui constitue un programme possible et très partiel de cet attrait.
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Le Merle est un cahier semi annuel basé à Montréal qui inclut des textes d’artistes et d’auteurs dont l’approche caractérise un souci de l’art et de ses nuances politiques. Le numéro zéro commence à écologiser cette perspective en rassemblant des textes de Hans Haacke, Jacob Wren, Marc G. Couroux, Oriol Vilanova, mark et Érik Bordeleau. Le Merle is a semiannual journal(...)
Le Merle : cahiers sur les mots et les actes Vol. 0, n. 0, Automne 2011
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Le Merle est un cahier semi annuel basé à Montréal qui inclut des textes d’artistes et d’auteurs dont l’approche caractérise un souci de l’art et de ses nuances politiques. Le numéro zéro commence à écologiser cette perspective en rassemblant des textes de Hans Haacke, Jacob Wren, Marc G. Couroux, Oriol Vilanova, mark et Érik Bordeleau. Le Merle is a semiannual journal based out of Montréal including texts by artists and writers whose approches caracterize a care for art and its political nuances. The zero issue attempts at ecologizing this perspective by assembling texts by Hans Haacke, Jacob Wren, Oriol Villanova, Marc G. Couroux, Érik Bordeleau and mark. Édition de 200 copies
journals and magazines
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Conditions is a new Scandinavian magazine focusing on the conditions of architecture and Urbanism. Presenting new perspectives, in the way of conceiving and analyzing designs, works and theory for architecture. In pre-modern epochs, renewal of practice was always initiated by looking backwards, as a return to the fundamentals. The cult of the new/young first came(...)
Conditions 9: New knowledge, new practices?
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Conditions is a new Scandinavian magazine focusing on the conditions of architecture and Urbanism. Presenting new perspectives, in the way of conceiving and analyzing designs, works and theory for architecture. In pre-modern epochs, renewal of practice was always initiated by looking backwards, as a return to the fundamentals. The cult of the new/young first came with modernity. Are young offices still obsessed with the ideas of idols, former employers and teachers? Or are young practices in architecture today considered to be especially innovative? Are they generating new knowledge or just recycling winning formulas? If truly innovative new practices still exist, from what fields of knowledge do they get their input?
journals and magazines
January 2012
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Current issue in store! Dernier numéro en magasin!
Pica magazine no. 3: processus
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Current issue in store! Dernier numéro en magasin!
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Materialism continues the commitment of our first two issues on Property and Service to examine foundational yet overlooked concepts in architecture and landscape architecture. In our estimation, these disciplines are haunted by materialism. We see its specular presence invoked in design research’s emphasis on large-scale flows and sites of material production, in the(...)
Scapegoat issue 2: materialism
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Materialism continues the commitment of our first two issues on Property and Service to examine foundational yet overlooked concepts in architecture and landscape architecture. In our estimation, these disciplines are haunted by materialism. We see its specular presence invoked in design research’s emphasis on large-scale flows and sites of material production, in the renewed focus on ‘performance’ and the rehabilitation of functionalism, in the centrality of ‘material’ as an expressive layer of tectonics, and through the import of non-human actors into discussions about spatial design. Each of the above invokes matter as its base.
FAT: a french american trip
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Poursuivant son étude pop et sérielle du paysage français, Eric Tabuchi interroge la validité de sa démarche photographique face à la puissance considérable de Google qui, via son entreprise de numérisation du territoire global, réalise finalement le projet d'une photographie véritablement objective et totalisante. Ainsi, contrairement à son habitude qui consiste à(...)
FAT: a french american trip
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Poursuivant son étude pop et sérielle du paysage français, Eric Tabuchi interroge la validité de sa démarche photographique face à la puissance considérable de Google qui, via son entreprise de numérisation du territoire global, réalise finalement le projet d'une photographie véritablement objective et totalisante. Ainsi, contrairement à son habitude qui consiste à sillonner le terrain, Eric Tabuchi s'est attaché à explorer des lieux qui lui sont familiers mais cette fois dans ce monde parallèle, sorte d'empreinte du réel, que constitue Street View. De fait, FAT met en tension les deux niveaux de perception que sont désormais, pour chacun de nous, le virtuel et le réel, l'espace de projection et le territoire concret. FAT, c'est l'Amérique projeté dans l'imaginaire français, numérisé par Google et finalement compilé par Eric Tabuchi comme une sorte de condensé vertigineux de ce que pourrait être la mondialisation à l'ère du web.
Taylor Holland: eurobus
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This series of 58 digital photographs was shot on bicycle commutes in Paris, France in Spring 2011. This book is dedicated to the anonymous designers of European tour bus graphics, who have embraced an underappreciated art space and made it their own.
Photography monographs, Graphic Design and Typography, Transportation, Tourism, Migration, Consignment
February 2012
Taylor Holland: eurobus
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This series of 58 digital photographs was shot on bicycle commutes in Paris, France in Spring 2011. This book is dedicated to the anonymous designers of European tour bus graphics, who have embraced an underappreciated art space and made it their own.
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Nova Cantabrigiensis is a utopian island in the middle of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia. It is the invention of visionary outsider artist John Devlin, and was designed to recreate the atmosphere and architecture of Cambridge, England, which John considers to be the perfect city. John came to study in Cambridge in 1979, and fell in love with its unique ambience.(...)
John Devlin: Nova Cantabrigiensis
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Nova Cantabrigiensis is a utopian island in the middle of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia. It is the invention of visionary outsider artist John Devlin, and was designed to recreate the atmosphere and architecture of Cambridge, England, which John considers to be the perfect city. John came to study in Cambridge in 1979, and fell in love with its unique ambience. When mental illness forced him to return home to Canada after just one year, he became obsessed with discovering the secret to 'the Cambridge essence'. Over ten years, John created over 360 beautiful and unique illustrations, dream-like sketches of re-imagined and reconfigured Cambridge buildings, drawn again and again in the pursuit of perfection. The book Nova Cantabrigiensis presents a selection of John's illustrations, as well as an essay describing his plans for the island and his mathematical theories about architecture. It is published by Island Editions.
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Les Monographies MAQ : un architecte, un commissaire, une exposition, une publication. Cette initiative monographique est la deuxième d'une série par laquelle la Maison de l'architecture du Québec veut analyser en profondeur le travail d'architectes québécois marquants des années 1995-2015, et mieux les situer et comprendre dans le contexte international.
Lapointe, Magne et associés vus par /by Marie-Paule MacDonald : dialogues avec la ville en transformation
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Les Monographies MAQ : un architecte, un commissaire, une exposition, une publication. Cette initiative monographique est la deuxième d'une série par laquelle la Maison de l'architecture du Québec veut analyser en profondeur le travail d'architectes québécois marquants des années 1995-2015, et mieux les situer et comprendre dans le contexte international.