The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
How Modern
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How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
Visiting Scholar Seminar: David Karmon
Cultivating Antiquity in the Early Modern Mediterranean
David Karmon investigates how people throughout the early modern world chose to preserve ancient remains.
3 June 2010
Visiting Scholar Seminar: David Karmon
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David Karmon investigates how people throughout the early modern world chose to preserve ancient remains.
This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
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On the Edge
Keep Safe
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Keep Safe
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The Modernizing Beat
The Modernizing Beat
Dele Adeyemo rereads the production of space of a modernizing Ghana through highlife
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« Sketches Abroad » par Millard Sheets; « Heards from life », «How to draw the head », « Figures From Life » par Walter F. Foster; « How to Draw Horses » par Don Louis Perceval; « Modern Architecture » par Allen M. Weary.
publié 1930
Livres sur le dessin
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ARCH257818
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« Sketches Abroad » par Millard Sheets; « Heards from life », «How to draw the head », « Figures From Life » par Walter F. Foster; « How to Draw Horses » par Don Louis Perceval; « Modern Architecture » par Allen M. Weary.
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publié 1930
Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Lionel March fonds
AP208
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
circa 1957-2017
Lionel March fonds
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
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circa 1957-2017