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
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
archives
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Fonds
Gianni Pettena fonds
AP207
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The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
1960-2019
Gianni Pettena fonds
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AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
archives
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Fonds
1960-2019
Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
30 May 2013, 6pm
Friends and Enemies of Mies’s Mansion House Square
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Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
textual records
DR2012:0012:082:025
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File containing documents in English including drafts and notes, related to Melvin Charney's article, The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture. Annotations in graphite present throughout. Original folder inscribed in graphite: A.R. PIECE / NOTES FOR '80 → MONTREALNESS OF MONTREAL
1980
Drafts and notes related to "The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture"
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DR2012:0012:082:025
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File containing documents in English including drafts and notes, related to Melvin Charney's article, The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture. Annotations in graphite present throughout. Original folder inscribed in graphite: A.R. PIECE / NOTES FOR '80 → MONTREALNESS OF MONTREAL
textual records
1980
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(...)
Shaughnessy House
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(...)
Shaughnessy House
Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 May 1995 to 15 October 1995
Four Photographers Visit Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding, Kawamata
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Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Expositions
AP066.S5
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Cette série regroupe la documentation relative à six expositions de Jacques Rousseau qui réfèrent parfois à des projets d'architecture récents. Étant donné les dimensions des projets présentés dans ces expositions, les documents de cette série sont soit des photographies ou autres formes de documentation des expositions, ou encore des croquis préparatoires aux expositions elles-mêmes.
1986-1996
Expositions
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AP066.S5
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Cette série regroupe la documentation relative à six expositions de Jacques Rousseau qui réfèrent parfois à des projets d'architecture récents. Étant donné les dimensions des projets présentés dans ces expositions, les documents de cette série sont soit des photographies ou autres formes de documentation des expositions, ou encore des croquis préparatoires aux expositions elles-mêmes.
Série 5
1986-1996
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Lectures and interviews
DR1999:0367
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videocassettes include: - "The Unreel" - "What a Wonderful World" - "Construction Site/City Scape" - P. Eisenman " Weak Form: Architecture in a Mediated Environment" (X4: March 25th, 1991; March 28th, 1991; April 1st, 1991; April 4th, 1991) - "1993 AIA Awards" - "National Council of Teachers of Mathematics" May 1991 - 1992 6/12 "Fukuoka" - 1992 6/7 "Daitoku - ji, in kyoto" - "2nd Simposium Internacional De Arquitectura IV" - "The Eye" November 1993 Japan Architecture - "Conferencia De Architectura" February 20th, 1992 - "The Edgo fo Between" P. E. at Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid May 1988 - Progressive Architecture presentation excerpts - unknown - Japanese title, June 30th, 1992
Lectures and interviews
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DR1999:0367
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videocassettes include: - "The Unreel" - "What a Wonderful World" - "Construction Site/City Scape" - P. Eisenman " Weak Form: Architecture in a Mediated Environment" (X4: March 25th, 1991; March 28th, 1991; April 1st, 1991; April 4th, 1991) - "1993 AIA Awards" - "National Council of Teachers of Mathematics" May 1991 - 1992 6/12 "Fukuoka" - 1992 6/7 "Daitoku - ji, in kyoto" - "2nd Simposium Internacional De Arquitectura IV" - "The Eye" November 1993 Japan Architecture - "Conferencia De Architectura" February 20th, 1992 - "The Edgo fo Between" P. E. at Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid May 1988 - Progressive Architecture presentation excerpts - unknown - Japanese title, June 30th, 1992
17 FIle
The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
27 April 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Peguis First Nation and the Netley-Libau Marsh: Documenting Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy at the Mouth of Lake Winnipeg
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The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation