Cabanes de pêches
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Catalogue qui accompagne l’exposition présentée en été 2016. Une publication de la MAQ qui réunit une préface de Sophie Gironnay, où le personnage de Philou reprend du service dans « Philou à la pêche blanche », un texte de Bertrand Rougier, « Cabanes : une perspective architecturale », et les 24 œuvres de Claude Guérin présentées en galerie.
October 2016
Cabanes de pêches
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Catalogue qui accompagne l’exposition présentée en été 2016. Une publication de la MAQ qui réunit une préface de Sophie Gironnay, où le personnage de Philou reprend du service dans « Philou à la pêche blanche », un texte de Bertrand Rougier, « Cabanes : une perspective architecturale », et les 24 œuvres de Claude Guérin présentées en galerie.
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«Pour Aldo Rossi l’architecture se déploie comme un rite: les signes architecturaux qui se répètent, les différents types qui sont repris d’un projet à l’autre, reproduisent la corporalité qui est à leur origine. Dans ce rituel, le monde des sensations et des impulsions obscures que la rationalité moderne avait rejeté refont surface de manière inattendue. À travers(...)
Aldo Rossi architecte du suspens
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«Pour Aldo Rossi l’architecture se déploie comme un rite: les signes architecturaux qui se répètent, les différents types qui sont repris d’un projet à l’autre, reproduisent la corporalité qui est à leur origine. Dans ce rituel, le monde des sensations et des impulsions obscures que la rationalité moderne avait rejeté refont surface de manière inattendue. À travers l’identification de l’architecture au corps animal ou humain, le désir qui était mis à l’écart de toute création est réintroduit dans l’architecture. Il s’agit d’un désir latent, inquiet de sa propre mort, un désir qui ne saurait s’exprimer autrement qu’à travers la répétition d’une typologie architecturale invariable. Parler de suspens en architecture revient ainsi, dans un premier temps, à évoquer un état de figement dont la finalité serait d’accéder à une temporalité anhistorique où la fixité domine. Toutefois, parler de suspens c’est aussi suggérer qu’il existe une attente et une latence au sein de cette fixité. C’est dire que le temps du suspens est corporel et inquiet.» Nous entraînant dans une enquête subtile qui traverse les écrits, projets et dessins réalisés entre 1959 et 1982 par l’architecte italien, l’ouvrage de Can Onaner permet de dévoiler sous un jour nouveau les notions et thèmes fondamentaux de l’œuvre d’Aldo Rossi: le type, la répétition, la permanence. Mais aussi de fonder le concept de suspens comme une nouvelle approche théorique de l’architecture, emblème de tout projet architectural inquiet de sa pérennité et mythe nécessaire, sinon fondateur, de toute urbanité.
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Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. New(...)
The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
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Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes.
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In the densely populated urban areas of Japan, small houses with unusual spatial concepts and surprising layout solutions are emerging on narrow strips of land that would normally be considered unsuitable for home construction. Yet it’s not only this sense of space, but also the sensory use of materials and a feel for aesthetics skilfully combined with traditional(...)
November 2016
Housing in Japan: typologies for small spaces
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In the densely populated urban areas of Japan, small houses with unusual spatial concepts and surprising layout solutions are emerging on narrow strips of land that would normally be considered unsuitable for home construction. Yet it’s not only this sense of space, but also the sensory use of materials and a feel for aesthetics skilfully combined with traditional elements that have fascinated architects outside of Japan. The fact that most of the constructive solutions do not correspond to Central European standards is irrelevant: It’s the innovative approaches that serve as a source of inspiration. This volume presents the latest developments in residential projects from recent years. In addition to lavish photospreads and layout depictions, a selection of detailed solutions are presented that can be adapted to western standards.
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Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006–2014) in unconventional oil production has reshaped rural lives and landscapes. While many small towns were suffering from depopulation and decline, others reoriented(...)
Fault lines : life and landscape in Saskatchewan's oil economy
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Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006–2014) in unconventional oil production has reshaped rural lives and landscapes. While many small towns were suffering from depopulation and decline, others reoriented themselves around a booming oil industry.In the summer of 2014, at the height of the boom, geographer Emily Eaton and photographer Valerie Zink travelled to oil towns across the province, from the sea-can motel built from shipping containers on the outskirts of Estevan to seismic testing sites on Thunderchild First Nation’s Sundance grounds. In text and photographs, ''Fault Lines'' captures the complexities of engagement, ambivalence, and resistance in communities living amid oil.
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Paix, pouvoir et droiture
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"Paix, pouvoir et droiture : un manifeste autochtone", qui tire sa structure des chants du rituel de condoléances rotinohshonni, appelle toutes les Premières Nations à prêter une oreille attentive à la voix des ancêtres afin de développer une philosophie visant à contrer l’assimilation. L’essai d’Alfred est un véritable plaidoyer en faveur des droits et de(...)
Paix, pouvoir et droiture
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"Paix, pouvoir et droiture : un manifeste autochtone", qui tire sa structure des chants du rituel de condoléances rotinohshonni, appelle toutes les Premières Nations à prêter une oreille attentive à la voix des ancêtres afin de développer une philosophie visant à contrer l’assimilation. L’essai d’Alfred est un véritable plaidoyer en faveur des droits et de l’autodétermination des peuples autochtones. Ce manifeste se veut avant-gardiste, proposant des pistes de réflexion inédites ayant significativement participé à améliorer la compréhension des enjeux des Premières Nations de l’Amérique du Nord.
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Territoire immense (21 millions de km2) qui renvoie à un imaginaire mythique - les igloos, l'ours blanc, les esquimaux, sujet de toutes les envies, l'Arctique reste difficile à définir et à cerner. Quelle limite pour ce continent gelé ? Qui peut se revendiquer de manière légitime pour l'utilisation des nombreuses ressources du sous-sol marin ? Comment s'intègre cette(...)
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November 2016
Arctique : climat et enjeux strategiques
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Territoire immense (21 millions de km2) qui renvoie à un imaginaire mythique - les igloos, l'ours blanc, les esquimaux, sujet de toutes les envies, l'Arctique reste difficile à définir et à cerner. Quelle limite pour ce continent gelé ? Qui peut se revendiquer de manière légitime pour l'utilisation des nombreuses ressources du sous-sol marin ? Comment s'intègre cette partie du globe à la mondialisation ? Qui habite l'Arctique ? Ces questions sont de première importance pour les 8 pays riverains - Canada, Danemark (Groenland), Etats-Unis (Alaska), Finlande, Islande, Norvège, Russie et Suède.
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The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing(...)
September 2008, Barcelona
Global housing projects : 25 buildings since 1980
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The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection of housing projects reflects the most innovative and influential built housing projects to propose new important guidelines in housing. The ETH Zurich is a renowned European architecture institute.
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This anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art—artworks that use digital technologies as media and emphasize process over object. As an art form that is inherently time based, dynamic, interactive, collaborative, customizable, and variable, new-media art resists objectification. It boldly challenges the traditional art(...)
New media in the white cube and beyond
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This anthology addresses the challenges of curating, presenting, and preserving new-media art—artworks that use digital technologies as media and emphasize process over object. As an art form that is inherently time based, dynamic, interactive, collaborative, customizable, and variable, new-media art resists objectification. It boldly challenges the traditional art world's customary methods of presentation and documentation as well as its approach to collection and preservation. Edited and introduced by Christiane Paul and featuring contributions by prominent practitioners—institutional and independent curators, theorists, and conservators—this volume charts developments in an exciting field and addresses the conceptual, philosophical, and practical issues of both curating and presenting new-media art.
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October 2008
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Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas produce interactive projects exploring the conflicts and contradictions of former Soviet republics and their recent transition to capitalism. Born in Lithuania and now living in Vilnius, these artists use the city as a catalyst and a starting point for their analysis of the various impacts caused by a new economic, social and political model(...)
May 2008, Barcelone
Nomeda and Gediminas: devices for action
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Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas produce interactive projects exploring the conflicts and contradictions of former Soviet republics and their recent transition to capitalism. Born in Lithuania and now living in Vilnius, these artists use the city as a catalyst and a starting point for their analysis of the various impacts caused by a new economic, social and political model on different sectors and generations in society. Developping over different stages, their projects are characterised by the key role played by the idea of the archive, the engagement of experts in different fields (design, music, architecture), and the participation of diverse communities and collective actions. This catalogue of their recently held first retrospective documents all their projects up to date, includes two essays by Bartomeu Mari and Lars Bang Larsen, a biography, and a list of works in the exhibition.