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Trilogy Jean-Louis Cohen : Building a New World / Architecture in Uniform / Scenes of the World to Come
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November 2020
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Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications(...)
A section of Now: Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention
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Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications and seeks to catalyze urban and architectural interventions that accommodate, influence, and, in some cases, pre-empt our new lived realities. Authors address topics ranging from the safety of digital spaces to how normative life trajectories affect the elderly and the many selves each of us puts forward, while architects present frameworks for spaces for blended families, thirty-year-old retirees, and contested monuments, among many others. Bringing together analytical essays about the contemporary moment and the direction in which society is moving, projective texts that outline new architectural types to address societal needs, alongside television series, photography, and architecture and design projects, A Section of Now outlines a new relationship between the spaces in which we live and the ways we live within them.
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Une portion du présent : les normes et rituels sociaux comme sites d'intervention architecturale
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Conçu dans le cadre du projet annuel Ressaisir la vie, le livre Une portion du présent vise à rétablir un dialogue entre l’architecture et la société, lequel permettrait à la première de commencer à composer et à traiter avec nos normes sociales modifiées et fluctuantes. Cette publication est une réflexion sur de nouveaux comportements, rituels, valeurs et sur leurs(...)
Une portion du présent : les normes et rituels sociaux comme sites d'intervention architecturale
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Conçu dans le cadre du projet annuel Ressaisir la vie, le livre Une portion du présent vise à rétablir un dialogue entre l’architecture et la société, lequel permettrait à la première de commencer à composer et à traiter avec nos normes sociales modifiées et fluctuantes. Cette publication est une réflexion sur de nouveaux comportements, rituels, valeurs et sur leurs implications spatiales. Elle cherche à catalyser des interventions urbaines et architecturales qui concilient, influencent et, dans certains cas, anticipent nos réalités vécues d’aujourd’hui. Les auteurs abordent des sujets qui vont de la sécurité des espaces numériques à la façon dont les trajectoires de vie normatives touchent les personnes âgées et les nombreuses expressions du soi mises de l’avant par chacun d’entre nous, ainsi que la manière dont les architectes créent des contextes pour des espaces destinés à des familles recomposées, des retraités de trente ans et des monuments contestés, entre autres. Rassemblant des essais analytiques portant sur le moment contemporain et la direction que prend actuellement la société, des textes projectifs qui présentent des types architecturaux inédits pour traiter des besoins sociétaux, de même que des séries télévisées, photographies et projets d’architecture et de design, Une portion du présent trace le contour d’une relation nouvelle entre les espaces dans lesquels nous vivons et les manières dont nous le faisons.
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As a follow-up of a first volume published in 2019 that built on years of thematic investigations, the book focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking its tools and how it relates to others. ''The Museum Is Not Enough'' (no. 10–14) gathers conversations among curators, artists, academics, and architects on how institutions engage(...)
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January 2022
The Museum Is Not Enough, Num.10-14
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As a follow-up of a first volume published in 2019 that built on years of thematic investigations, the book focuses on how the institution works out and on these questions by rethinking its tools and how it relates to others. ''The Museum Is Not Enough'' (no. 10–14) gathers conversations among curators, artists, academics, and architects on how institutions engage multiple contexts, objects, and perspectives: reflecting on strategies to unlearn and decentre established ways of seeing and doing; looking closely at how to describe and document archival sources while interrogating the stakes, and often the harm, in separating cultural objects from their context; questioning the relationship between institutions and “the public”; and discussing curatorial tools—and particularly film—that collapse research and display, observation and action, here and there. Underlying these reflections is the realization that the museum’s activity can’t be constructed from a fixed position. Unless the questions it deals with are observed from another angle, it is hard not to perpetuate the thinking that created them. The book responds to an urgent need to equip the institution to understand how things around it are rapidly changing, and the importance of conveying and discussing this instability. Here, the museum gets outside its physical walls to explore on-site, to talk with people, to connect and activate collaborators, to design conditions for different forms of dialogue to happen on the ground.
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January 2022
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Examinar os cruzamentos entre as culturas do livro e da arquitectura expõe eixos ao longo dos quais o conhecimento circula entre páginas e edifícios e, de novo, regressa aos livros. Seja na celebração de construções específicas ou na produção de livros singulares, as páginas e a impressão são manipuladas para transmitir ideias arquitectónicas. Ao dissecar uma(...)
Uma anatomia do livro de arquitectura
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Examinar os cruzamentos entre as culturas do livro e da arquitectura expõe eixos ao longo dos quais o conhecimento circula entre páginas e edifícios e, de novo, regressa aos livros. Seja na celebração de construções específicas ou na produção de livros singulares, as páginas e a impressão são manipuladas para transmitir ideias arquitectónicas. Ao dissecar uma quantidade substancial de livros através de cinco ferramentas conceptuais – textura, superfície, ritmo, estrutura e escala –, André Tavares analisa as qualidades materiais dos livros para avaliar a forma como se entrelaçam com o conhecimento da arquitectura. A história detalhada de Befreites Wohnen, de Sigfried Giedion, e as duas encarnações do Crystal Palace, em Hyde Park e Sydenham, oferecem um pano de fundo que nos confronta não apenas com o desenvolvimento do livro industrializado, mas também com a sua configuração enquanto poderoso instrumento de comunicação e conhecimento.
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March 2016
CCA Publications
The museum is not enough
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'The Museum Is Not Enough' is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the CCA in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigations and of a continued questioning of the role of cultural institutions and the issues they face today, the book puts forward the CCA’s own positions(...)
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October 2019
The museum is not enough
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'The Museum Is Not Enough' is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the CCA in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigations and of a continued questioning of the role of cultural institutions and the issues they face today, the book puts forward the CCA’s own positions and opens them up to a dialogue with designers, curators, photographers, publishers, and other institutions who ask themselves similar questions.
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Le musée ne suffit pas
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« Le musée ne suffit pas » est le fruit de réflexions collectives sur l’architecture, les préoccupations sociales contemporaines, les institutions et le public, effectuées au CCA ces dernières années. Alimenté par le questionnement continu que mène le CCA sur le rôle des institutions culturelles et leurs problèmes actuels, « Le musée ne suffit pas » permet d’amorcer des(...)
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October 2019
Le musée ne suffit pas
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« Le musée ne suffit pas » est le fruit de réflexions collectives sur l’architecture, les préoccupations sociales contemporaines, les institutions et le public, effectuées au CCA ces dernières années. Alimenté par le questionnement continu que mène le CCA sur le rôle des institutions culturelles et leurs problèmes actuels, « Le musée ne suffit pas » permet d’amorcer des discussions avec des partenaires qui se posent des questions semblables.
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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
CCA Publications
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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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