American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
24 April 2014 , 6pm
Artist’s Talk: Amie Siegel, Provenance
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American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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xiii, 193 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1978], ©1978
Promoters and politicians : the North-Shore railways in the history of Quebec, 1854-85 / Brian J. Young.
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xiii, 193 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1978], ©1978
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1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
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1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
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1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
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[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
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32 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm
[Stockholm, Sweden] : Stockholm Information Board, 1976.
Kista, Husby, Akalla : a digest for planners, politicians and critics.
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32 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 30 cm
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[Stockholm, Sweden] : Stockholm Information Board, 1976.
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20 pages ; 24 cm.
Bundoora, Vic. : Seminar on the Sociology of Culture, La Trobe University, 1984.
Paying for the arts : patrons, politicians and the public / by Sir Claus Moser.
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20 pages ; 24 cm.
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Bundoora, Vic. : Seminar on the Sociology of Culture, La Trobe University, 1984.
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xxiv, 532 leaves : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
1992.
The politician and the city : urban form and city beautiful rhetoric in progressive era Denver / by Carol McMichael Reese.
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xxiv, 532 leaves : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
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1992.
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9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
Comment les architectes, les experts, les politiciens, les agences internationales et les citoyens négocient l'urbanisme moderne : Casablanca Chandigarh = How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh : exhibition products, 2013-2014.
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9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
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xiv, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981.
George-Etienne Cartier : Montreal bourgeois / Brian Young.
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Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981.