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"The Empty Room", in the absence of any visual materials, was a written manifesto composed of RZLBD’s poems and collection of quotes intended to portray the room and the emptiness as the essence of architecture. Now, "100 Rooms" complements our own blurry images of the empty room with a visual guide. Each spread consists of a plan and a physical model of a room, which is(...)
100 rooms: Many untold parables of the empty room
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"The Empty Room", in the absence of any visual materials, was a written manifesto composed of RZLBD’s poems and collection of quotes intended to portray the room and the emptiness as the essence of architecture. Now, "100 Rooms" complements our own blurry images of the empty room with a visual guide. Each spread consists of a plan and a physical model of a room, which is an excavation of the geometry and order inherent within the square. It holds no design intention — no scale or function — but simply one of infinite possibilities that emerge from a square. This framework suggests that the formal expression of a room comes from within. With these visual references, one can begin to imagine many approximations to the empty room. A line on paper is always less, as Kahn says, but through these measurable means, the immeasurable idea of the empty room will be formed in one’s mind.
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The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic research project into the history of this "radical campus" and its built environment by Vancouver and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber. The collaborative research(...)
Unsettling educational modernism: Simon Fraser University
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The iconic architecture of the brutalist modernist megastructure of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada built by architect Arthur Erickson in the 1960s is the site of the artistic research project into the history of this "radical campus" and its built environment by Vancouver and Vienna based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber. The collaborative research group, "Guests and Hosts", formed by Bitter & Weber and Métis scholar June Scudeler including Métis scholar and student Treena Chambers, Kanien’kehá:ka Mohawk student Toni-Leah Yake, as well as Rachel Warwick and Hannah Campbell, has challenged the narrative of the radical campus, so called because it was informed by experimental concepts of learning and teaching. Using the spaces of a settler colonial institution, the project shifts perspectives by unsettling and challenging western- based concepts of pedagogy and knowledge. Combining archival photographic material, architectural photographs by the artists, and interventions into the institutional spaces by Guests and Hosts, the project performs the claim for places rather than spaces for Indigenous ways of knowing and learning.
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Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art. "Prairie Interlace" brings together some of the most important scholars of art and craft in Canada to(...)
Prairie interlace: Weaving, modernisms, and the expanded frame, 1960-2000
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Innovative textile-based artwork exploded across the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century. Melding craft traditions with modern and modernist movements in art and theory, a diverse body of creators opened a beautiful new chapter in textile art. "Prairie Interlace" brings together some of the most important scholars of art and craft in Canada to examine the work of forty-eight artists working with textiles from the 1960s to 2000. Recapturing and recording lost histories, this book explores both artists working with textiles and centres of textile study and production, paying special attention to the contexts in which artworks were produced. Indigenous scholars, experts in textile techniques, and experts in Prairie textile history provide fascinating insight into an artistic movement which, until now, has been largely overlooked.
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"Encounter educational modernism" productively revisits the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, an iconic campus from the late 1960s by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. The university is recognized for its architectural vision, its linear relationship with the spectacular landscape, and its dynamic spatial imagination of education as an expansive encounter. Designing(...)
Encounter educational modernism: Arthur Erickson
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"Encounter educational modernism" productively revisits the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, an iconic campus from the late 1960s by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson. The university is recognized for its architectural vision, its linear relationship with the spectacular landscape, and its dynamic spatial imagination of education as an expansive encounter. Designing the interdisciplinary university as a city within one building, including student housing, the campus stages public spaces of encounter to activate the concept of the student as a global citizen in a new world order. This sixties humanist imagination of the student shapes the spatial program of the architecture, a program which clashes with the current neoliberal view of the student as entrepreneur. The third book in Bitter and Weber's series on architecture and the educational complex, Encounter Educational Modernism is an artistic research project on the architecture of the University of Lethbridge and on modernist imaginations of education. It includes photographs and an introduction from the artists and contributions from University of Lethbridge professor Victoria Baster and poet and educator Jeff Derksen. The series Educational Modernism is published in cooperation with Camera Austria and will be continued with a focus on The Workers University Zagreb by Yugoslavian architects Radovan Niksic and Ninoslav Kucan.
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Couturier Lafargue
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Cette publication bilingue présente le travail du duo Couturier Lafargue depuis ses débuts en 1990 jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Leur pratique repose sur les référents suivants : l’identité, le portrait, l’individu, le collectif, le territoire, la géographie, le paysage, l’architecture, l’écologie, l’abstraction. Les œuvres du collectif sont multidisciplinaires : photographie,(...)
Couturier Lafargue
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Cette publication bilingue présente le travail du duo Couturier Lafargue depuis ses débuts en 1990 jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Leur pratique repose sur les référents suivants : l’identité, le portrait, l’individu, le collectif, le territoire, la géographie, le paysage, l’architecture, l’écologie, l’abstraction. Les œuvres du collectif sont multidisciplinaires : photographie, vidéo, peinture, dessin, installation, sculptures, performances. Elles développent des contenus visuels et narratifs de nature à déplacer angles de vue et paradigmes de lecture. Leur travail se veut évolutif, libre et ouvert.
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This book presents twelve projects from the critically acclaimed work of the Montréal firm of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes alongside essays, an index of buildings and awards, and a bibliography of articles on the firm.
Saucier + Perotte architectes, 1995 - 2002
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This book presents twelve projects from the critically acclaimed work of the Montréal firm of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes alongside essays, an index of buildings and awards, and a bibliography of articles on the firm.
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Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, has risen to become one of the most prominent architectural offices in Canada, where they have realised numerous projects including the Kitchener City Hall (1990), Queen's University Library in Kingston, Canada (1992-1995) and the Hilton Hotel Toronto (2000). In addition, they have built up a(...)
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July 2004, Basel
The architecture of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg
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Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, founded in 1987 in Toronto, has risen to become one of the most prominent architectural offices in Canada, where they have realised numerous projects including the Kitchener City Hall (1990), Queen's University Library in Kingston, Canada (1992-1995) and the Hilton Hotel Toronto (2000). In addition, they have built up a reputation in the fields of interior and retail design, and the creation of upmarket single-family furnished housing. In Europe KPMB have made their mark with Zurich airport's Star Alliance Lounge and the new Canadian embassy in Berlin, scheduled for completion towards the end of 2004. This monograph presents 20 of their recent and current projects.
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Pivot is a new peer-reviewed graduate academic interdisciplinary journal involving the Departments of Art History, Studio Arts and Communication Studies. The Journal is produced out of Concordia University, which presents a unique site for the exploration of interdisciplinarity within the humanities, where the disciplines of Art History, Studio Arts and Communication(...)
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January 2008, Montréal
Pivot. An Interdisciplinary Graduate Journal of Visual Culture.
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Pivot is a new peer-reviewed graduate academic interdisciplinary journal involving the Departments of Art History, Studio Arts and Communication Studies. The Journal is produced out of Concordia University, which presents a unique site for the exploration of interdisciplinarity within the humanities, where the disciplines of Art History, Studio Arts and Communication Studies are continually negotiating shared and divided scholarly territories. Taking our cue from journals that combine art making and academic writing, such as Afterall and LTTR, Pivot recognizes art production as a site for scholarly exploration, and accepts content in the form of academic papers, artist project descriptions, short texts by artists, and image based proposals. Pivot’s unique print format reflects this dual engagement by combining book arts practice with academic journal production.
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This volume presents an overview of the Canadian collective oeuvre—an oeuvre still haunted by Miss General Idea, a fictive character who was at once muse and object, image and concept. Founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal—both disappeared in 1994—and AA Bronson, the trio adopted a generic identity that "freed it from the tyranny of individual genius."(...)
General Idea: a retrospective (1969-1994)
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This volume presents an overview of the Canadian collective oeuvre—an oeuvre still haunted by Miss General Idea, a fictive character who was at once muse and object, image and concept. Founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal—both disappeared in 1994—and AA Bronson, the trio adopted a generic identity that "freed it from the tyranny of individual genius." Their complex intermingling of reality and fiction took the form of a transgressive and often parodic take on art and society. Treating the image as a virus infiltrating every aspect of the real world, General Idea set out to colonize it, modify its content and so come up with an alternative version of reality.
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Alexandre David
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Les œuvres d’Alexandre David prennent le plus souvent la forme de sculptures, d’installations et d’interventions dans l’espace public. Installées à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur, ses constructions à grande échelle font référence à l’architecture. L’artiste aménage les espaces, construit des réceptacles ou des parcours dans lesquels déambule le spectateur. Se fondant sur(...)
Alexandre David
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Les œuvres d’Alexandre David prennent le plus souvent la forme de sculptures, d’installations et d’interventions dans l’espace public. Installées à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur, ses constructions à grande échelle font référence à l’architecture. L’artiste aménage les espaces, construit des réceptacles ou des parcours dans lesquels déambule le spectateur. Se fondant sur l’expérience vécue et les espaces qu’elles habitent, les œuvres deviennent ainsi des objets fortement relationnels. Elles suscitent généralement l’intérêt et l’engouement du public, ainsi qu’un large consensus auprès des critiques et du monde de l’art. L’auteure Katrie Chagnon parcourt les vingt-cinq années de pratique de l’artiste. en mettant à profit ses compétences de théoricienne de l’art, son expérience dans le monde de l’édition en art contemporain et sa connaissance intime du travail de Alexandre David – dont elle suit le travail depuis plusieurs années –, elle propose une analyse approfondie des oeuvres du sculpteur tout en dégageant les diverses problématiques théoriques soulevées par l’approche de la sculpture et de l’installation. Faisant appel aux notions théoriques les plus courantes, elle nous conduit ainsi dans une plus vaste exploration des enjeux de la sculpture actuelle et de l’art d’aujourd’hui.
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