Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
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17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
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Jean-Louis Cohen fonds
AP210
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The Jean-Louis Cohen fonds, 1968 – 2023, documents the projects and activities of historian, curator, professor, and architect Jean-Louis Cohen (1949 – 2023). Cohen’s research focus was largely modern architecture and transnational architectural exchange, particularly between and among the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union in the 20th century. Through physical and digital records, this fonds documents his academic, publishing, and curatorial work along with his professional activities within architectural research and heritage organizations, as well as his architectural practice.
1968 - 2023
Jean-Louis Cohen fonds
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The Jean-Louis Cohen fonds, 1968 – 2023, documents the projects and activities of historian, curator, professor, and architect Jean-Louis Cohen (1949 – 2023). Cohen’s research focus was largely modern architecture and transnational architectural exchange, particularly between and among the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union in the 20th century. Through physical and digital records, this fonds documents his academic, publishing, and curatorial work along with his professional activities within architectural research and heritage organizations, as well as his architectural practice.
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1968 - 2023
Visiting Scholar, Jonathan Massey, Modernism, Ornament, Reform, Crystal and Arabesque, U.S. Modern Architecture, Progressive Era (1893-1918)
15 June 2006
Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
31 May 2017 to 24 September 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton
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Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
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7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
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319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bruxelles : P. Mardaga, [1980?]
Architecture américaine d'aujourd'hui / Barbaralee Diamonstein avec I.M. Pei [and others] ; introduction de Paul Goldberger ; traduction, K. et L. Merveille.
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319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Bruxelles : P. Mardaga, [1980?]
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1950 : le Québec de la photojournaliste américaine Lida Moser / commissaire, Anne-Marie Bouchard.
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159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Québec (Québec) : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, [2015]
1950 : le Québec de la photojournaliste américaine Lida Moser / commissaire, Anne-Marie Bouchard.
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159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Québec (Québec) : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, [2015]
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Séville : l'exposition ibéro-américaine, 1929-1930 / Sylvie Assassin ; préface de Maurice Culot.
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191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Paris : Institut français d'architecture : NORMA, ©1992.
Séville : l'exposition ibéro-américaine, 1929-1930 / Sylvie Assassin ; préface de Maurice Culot.
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191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
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Paris : Institut français d'architecture : NORMA, ©1992.
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527 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
Paris : Phaidon, 2012.
L'architecture au futur depuis 1889 / Jean-Louis Cohen.
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527 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 28 cm
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Paris : Phaidon, 2012.
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39 unnumbered pages (including cover) illustrations, plans 21 cm
[New York], [1965]
Modern architecture U.S.A. Presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Graham Foundation for advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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39 unnumbered pages (including cover) illustrations, plans 21 cm
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[New York], [1965]