Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2003
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2001
James S. Ackerman: On the Origins of Architectural Photography
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Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
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255 pages : portraits ; 28 cm.
Washington : National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Studyin the Visual Arts, ©2002.
The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts : fifty years.
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Washington : National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Studyin the Visual Arts, ©2002.
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London : Rupert Hart-Davis, ©1961.
Horace Walpole : the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1960 / Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis.
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London : Rupert Hart-Davis, ©1961.
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Of divers arts.
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Of divers arts.
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xxxi, 466 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
New York : Pantheon Books, 1961.
Art and illusion : a study in the psychology of pictorial representation / E.H. Gombrich.
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New York : Pantheon Books, 1961.
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Horace Walpole / W.S. Lewis.
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xxvii, 215 pages illustrations, portraits, facsimiles 26 cm
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Horace Walpole / W.S. Lewis.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980], ©1968
Christian iconography : a study of its origins / André Grabar.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980], ©1968
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
The roots of Romanticism / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.