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Implying always a beginning, teaching is about initiating excitement. It entails the deployment of pleasure, the built-up of passion, and obsession vis-à-vis a particular field of endeavour, the grounds on which a discipline operates, and its intellectual as well as physical practices. Notwithstanding the optimistic implications of such a claim, teaching inevitably(...)
Inchoate : an experiment in architectural education
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Implying always a beginning, teaching is about initiating excitement. It entails the deployment of pleasure, the built-up of passion, and obsession vis-à-vis a particular field of endeavour, the grounds on which a discipline operates, and its intellectual as well as physical practices. Notwithstanding the optimistic implications of such a claim, teaching inevitably involves a contradictory bias both in favour as well as against the discipline at issue, promoting an understanding of its regulating principles while at the same time questioning the seemingly secure bases on which it is presumed to stand. Whereas teaching is affirmative, it simultaneously introduces a distancing from the very subject matter that it promotes.
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Catalogue de l'exposition "Futur antérieur" qui eut lieu au Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy.
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January 1900, Gollion
Futur antérieur : trésors archéologiques du 21e siècle après J.-C.
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Catalogue de l'exposition "Futur antérieur" qui eut lieu au Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy.
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"Old Europe" is beginning to show strong signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union prize for contemporary architecture - Mies van der Rohe award 2003. And not only because 269 works were selected, or because the number of competing countries (particularly those of Eastern Europe) is steadily increasing, bit also by(...)
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January 1900, Barcelona
Mies van der Rohe Award 2003 : European Union prize for contemporary architecture
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"Old Europe" is beginning to show strong signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union prize for contemporary architecture - Mies van der Rohe award 2003. And not only because 269 works were selected, or because the number of competing countries (particularly those of Eastern Europe) is steadily increasing, bit also by virtue of the high average standard of the entries, particularly of the winning projects and 40 runner-up featured in this catalogue. In the end, the winning project encompasses all this : Zaha Hadid's tram station in Strasbourg is at the same time a strategy, open-ended, imperfect, intelligent and playful. But it also resolved and unafraid to identify with conventional architectural qualities.
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The 2nd Valencia Biennial explores, together with leading international artists and creators, a central problem facing the world today: the destiny of diversity. Specially commissioned projects question the power and potential of the city, of "The Ideal City", understood as a prismatic place capable of symbolically ordering and accommodating difference and differences(...)
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September 2003, Valencia
The ideal city: the 2nd Valencia biennal
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The 2nd Valencia Biennial explores, together with leading international artists and creators, a central problem facing the world today: the destiny of diversity. Specially commissioned projects question the power and potential of the city, of "The Ideal City", understood as a prismatic place capable of symbolically ordering and accommodating difference and differences without smothering them. The participating artists include Alicia Alonso, Will Alsop, Peter Brook, Gavin Bryars, Pino Cacucci, Mike Figgis, Andrea Gambetta, Vicente Guallart, Lorand Hegyi, James Hulme, Francisco Jarauta, Pablo Ley, Jean Louis Maubant, José Monleón, Bruce McLean, Vicente Muñoz Puelles, Irene Papas, Tomás Ruiz, Carles Santos, Luigi Settembrini, Rafael Sierra, Lucas Soler, Francesca Sorace.
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, was his first completed, though temporary, structure in the UK. Sited on the Gallery's lawn from June 20th to September 14th, it offered visitors an opportunity to experience a space designed by one of the founding figures of modern architecture.
Oscar Niemeyer : Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2003
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003, by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, was his first completed, though temporary, structure in the UK. Sited on the Gallery's lawn from June 20th to September 14th, it offered visitors an opportunity to experience a space designed by one of the founding figures of modern architecture.
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Les bâtisseurs du Louvre
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Ce guide se propose, en suivant l'évolution du monument, de retracer une certain histoire de l'architecture française, depuis les premières murailles de Philippe Auguste jusque'aux structures de verre et d'acier de la pyramide de Pei.
June 2003, Paris
Les bâtisseurs du Louvre
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Ce guide se propose, en suivant l'évolution du monument, de retracer une certain histoire de l'architecture française, depuis les premières murailles de Philippe Auguste jusque'aux structures de verre et d'acier de la pyramide de Pei.
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The Architecture Annual offers a selection of articles on the school's progress in research and education. Embracing a broad range of topical issues, it includes a cross-section of research performed by Faculty members and coverage of the graduation projects carried out by students in the academic year 2001-2002. This year, design research has been the main focus of(...)
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January 1900, Rotterdam
The architecture annual 2001-2002 : Delft University of Technology.
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The Architecture Annual offers a selection of articles on the school's progress in research and education. Embracing a broad range of topical issues, it includes a cross-section of research performed by Faculty members and coverage of the graduation projects carried out by students in the academic year 2001-2002. This year, design research has been the main focus of activity. In addition, extensive attention has been devoted to new developments in the field of building technology, computer use, and management. The current discourse on planning issues, the network society, problems of integration, increasing individualisation, and the rise of ICT does much to define the research themes treated within its pages.
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Hot questions - Cold storage: Architecture from Austria. The permanent exhibition at the Az W
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The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W) collection is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. ''Hot questions—cold storage'' is published alongside this comprehensive exhibition on Austrian architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic(...)
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May 2023
Hot questions - Cold storage: Architecture from Austria. The permanent exhibition at the Az W
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The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W) collection is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. ''Hot questions—cold storage'' is published alongside this comprehensive exhibition on Austrian architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays. This book reexamines the country’s architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, and political contexts. Each chapter is prefaced by a question, asking, for example, about the impact of capitalism on our cities and villages or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival on the planet. These ''Hot questions'' bring to life the ''Cold storage''—the silent repository of the collection’s holdings. This book offers a multi-perspective narrative that presents Austria’s building history with all the developments, ideologies, and institutions it comprises. The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed through questioning and visualization, in connecting research and the museum’s mission to collect.
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The 1931 international colonial exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials,(...)
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April 2003, Cambridge / London
Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 colonial exposition, Paris
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The 1931 international colonial exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials, manufactured goods, and arts of the global colonial empires. Yet the event gave a contradictory message of the colonies as the "Orient"--the site of rampant sensuality, decadence, and irrationality--and as the laboratory of Western rationality. In "Hybrid modernities", Patricia Morton shows how the exposition failed to keep colonialism's two spheres separate, instead creating hybrids of French and native culture. At the exposition, French pavilions demonstrated Europe's sophistication in art deco style, while the colonial pavilions were "authentic" native environments for displaying indigenous peoples and artifacts from the colonies. The authenticity of these pavilions' exteriors was contradicted by vaguely exotic interiors filled with didactic exhibition stands and dioramas. Intended to maintain a segregation of colonized and colonizer, the colonial pavilions instead were mixtures of European and native architecture. Anticolonial resistance erupted around the Exposition in the form of protests, anticolonial tracts, and a countercolonial exposition produced by the Surrealists. Thus the Exposition occupied a "middle region" of experience where the norms, rules, and systems of French colonialism both emerged and broke down, unsustainable because of their internal contradictions. As Morton shows, the effort to segregate France and her colonies failed, both at the colonial exposition and in greater France, because it was constantly undermined by the hybrids that modern colonialism itself produced.
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Les cabinets de curiosités
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Du nord au sud de l'Europe, à la fin de la Renaissance, surgirent d'étranges endroits : secrets ou visibles, dans des demeures royales comme chez des notables ou des apothicaires, tenant à la fois de l'antre du magicien et de l'officine, les cabinets de curiosité rassemblaient un incroyable capharnaüm couvrant murs et plafonds, débordants des tiroirs et des cassettes. S'y(...)
Les cabinets de curiosités
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Du nord au sud de l'Europe, à la fin de la Renaissance, surgirent d'étranges endroits : secrets ou visibles, dans des demeures royales comme chez des notables ou des apothicaires, tenant à la fois de l'antre du magicien et de l'officine, les cabinets de curiosité rassemblaient un incroyable capharnaüm couvrant murs et plafonds, débordants des tiroirs et des cassettes. S'y côtoyaient mappemondes et objets d'ivoire, monnaies antiques et crânes de singe, dents de géant et cornes de licornes, pierres magiques et queues de sirène, sans oublier de fascinants oiseaux de paradis qui passaient leur vie à voler, supposait-on, puisqu'ils n'avaient pas de pattes… C'est à l'étrange destin de ces théâtres du bizarre qu'est consacré le présent ouvrage. On y retrace brièvement l'histoire du phénomène, on en montre les survivances et les transformations au cours des siècles suivants, on y évoque des figures peu connues de collectionneurs et d'amateurs attachés au culte de la curiosité ; on en souligne aussi l'influence sur certains des grands mouvements artistiques du XXe siècle, on en suit quelques-uns des développements dans l'art contemporain ; on considère enfin les motifs et les formes de réinvention du cabinet de curiosités dans des décors et des cadres de vie actuels.
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