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Learning from... Caracas
Learning from... Caracas
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Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
8 May 2014 , 6pm
8 May 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Caracas
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Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
Learning from... Caracas
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Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
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events
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Date:
8 May 2014
6pm
8 May 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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events
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Learning from… Lagos
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
29 March 2007 , 6pm
29 March 2007 , 6pm
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Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
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29 March 2007
6pm
29 March 2007
6pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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events
events
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Learning from... Hong Kong
Learning from... Hong Kong
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Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. Rooftop structures range from basic shelters for the disadvantaged to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with the amenities of modern life. Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham use the tools of an architect and a photographer to document(...)
Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. Rooftop structures range from basic shelters for the disadvantaged to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with the amenities of modern life. Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham use the tools of an architect and a photographer to document(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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3 May 2012 , 7pm
3 May 2012 , 7pm
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Learning from... Hong Kong
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Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. Rooftop structures range from basic shelters for the disadvantaged to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with the amenities of modern life. Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham use the tools of an architect and a photographer to document(...)
Learning from... Hong Kong
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Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. Rooftop structures range from basic shelters for the disadvantaged to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with the amenities of modern life. Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham use the tools of an architect and a photographer to document(...)
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events
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3 May 2012
7pm
3 May 2012
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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events
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Learning from... Cairo
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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15 September 2011 , 7pm
15 September 2011 , 7pm
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Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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events
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Date:
15 September 2011
7pm
15 September 2011
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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events
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Learning from... Beirut
Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
11 March 2010 , 7pm
11 March 2010 , 7pm
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Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
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events
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Date:
11 March 2010
7pm
11 March 2010
7pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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events
events
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Learning from... Saadiyat
Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
21 August 2014 , 6pm
21 August 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
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21 August 2014
6pm
21 August 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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textual records
textual records
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AP207.S5.040
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Contains posters for the following exhibitions: Venturi, Rauch and Scott-Brown, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Firenze (1981) Architettura corretta londinese, Palazzo Te, Mantova (1981) Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers, Piazza SS. Annunziata, Florence (1988) Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trent (1991) Casa Malaparte, Centro d'Arte Spazio Tempo, Florence (1992) Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid, Jenny Lowe, Peter Wilson: quattro aspetti dell'architettura contemporanea londinese, Azienda Autonoma Turismo, Fiesole (1982) Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (1996) Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello (1997) Archipelago. Architettura sperimentale 1959-1999, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia (1999) Radical Design. Ricerca e progetto dagli anni ’60 a oggi, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2004)
AP207.S5.040
Description:
Contains posters for the following exhibitions: Venturi, Rauch and Scott-Brown, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Firenze (1981) Architettura corretta londinese, Palazzo Te, Mantova (1981) Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers, Piazza SS. Annunziata, Florence (1988) Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trent (1991) Casa Malaparte, Centro d'Arte Spazio Tempo, Florence (1992) Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid, Jenny Lowe, Peter Wilson: quattro aspetti dell'architettura contemporanea londinese, Azienda Autonoma Turismo, Fiesole (1982) Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (1996) Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello (1997) Archipelago. Architettura sperimentale 1959-1999, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia (1999) Radical Design. Ricerca e progetto dagli anni ’60 a oggi, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2004)
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1981-2004
1981-2004
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Posters of exhibitions curated by Gianni Pettena
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AP207.S5.040
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Contains posters for the following exhibitions: Venturi, Rauch and Scott-Brown, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Firenze (1981) Architettura corretta londinese, Palazzo Te, Mantova (1981) Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers, Piazza SS. Annunziata, Florence (1988) Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trent (1991) Casa Malaparte, Centro d'Arte Spazio Tempo, Florence (1992) Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid, Jenny Lowe, Peter Wilson: quattro aspetti dell'architettura contemporanea londinese, Azienda Autonoma Turismo, Fiesole (1982) Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (1996) Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello (1997) Archipelago. Architettura sperimentale 1959-1999, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia (1999) Radical Design. Ricerca e progetto dagli anni ’60 a oggi, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2004)
Posters of exhibitions curated by Gianni Pettena
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AP207.S5.040
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Contains posters for the following exhibitions: Venturi, Rauch and Scott-Brown, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Firenze (1981) Architettura corretta londinese, Palazzo Te, Mantova (1981) Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers, Piazza SS. Annunziata, Florence (1988) Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trent (1991) Casa Malaparte, Centro d'Arte Spazio Tempo, Florence (1992) Nigel Coates, Zaha Hadid, Jenny Lowe, Peter Wilson: quattro aspetti dell'architettura contemporanea londinese, Azienda Autonoma Turismo, Fiesole (1982) Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (1996) Niki de Saint Phalle. Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello (1997) Archipelago. Architettura sperimentale 1959-1999, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia (1999) Radical Design. Ricerca e progetto dagli anni ’60 a oggi, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2004)
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1981-2004
1981-2004
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Learning from... Mumbai
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
9 April 2009
9 April 2009
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Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
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Date:
9 April 2009
9 April 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Rome
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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5 March 2009
5 March 2009
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Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
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5 March 2009
5 March 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Tongzhou
Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
10 April 2014 , 6pm
10 April 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
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Date:
10 April 2014
6pm
10 April 2014
6pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
