The ongoing moment
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Seeking to identify their signature styles, Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others, have photographed the same things (barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs, for example). In doing so, he constructs a(...)
The ongoing moment
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Seeking to identify their signature styles, Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others, have photographed the same things (barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs, for example). In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographers—many of whom never met—constantly encounter one another.
Theory of Photography
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Walkups is a novella that takes urban architecture—particularly Montreal row-house architecture—as its primary subject. All chapters, titled only by an address, take place with the walls of different apartments, while the one recurring address, referred to only as the Apts d'amours returns us to the central narrative of the unnamed narrator and his love interest, Jane, a(...)
Walkups
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Walkups is a novella that takes urban architecture—particularly Montreal row-house architecture—as its primary subject. All chapters, titled only by an address, take place with the walls of different apartments, while the one recurring address, referred to only as the Apts d'amours returns us to the central narrative of the unnamed narrator and his love interest, Jane, a biology student who lives upstairs from him in the same building.
Architecture de Montréal
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Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
December 2025
That bowling alley on the Tiber
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Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioni’s mind and cinematic point of view.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Une analyse des conséquences de l'acte de filmer dans la rue sur le cinéma. La Nouvelle Vague pose un regard inédit sur la ville dans laquelle la rue devient un acteur, une trame narrative ou un contexte politique. A travers l'étude de courts-métrages de J. Eustache, F. Truffaut ou encore de J.-L. Godard, l'auteur propose des définitions, des références et des anecdotes(...)
Désirs de rues : l'urbain, une matrice pour un nouveau cinéma
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Une analyse des conséquences de l'acte de filmer dans la rue sur le cinéma. La Nouvelle Vague pose un regard inédit sur la ville dans laquelle la rue devient un acteur, une trame narrative ou un contexte politique. A travers l'étude de courts-métrages de J. Eustache, F. Truffaut ou encore de J.-L. Godard, l'auteur propose des définitions, des références et des anecdotes mêlant théorie et pratique.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
Building America
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This book offers a vast survey of 400 years of architecture, from the structures of 17th-century settlers to current trends in postmodernism. In chronological order, the 22 two-page chapters each consist of a brief introductory narrative supported by numerous fully captioned illustrations. An eclectic assortment of topics is presented, including periods ("The Jazz Age"),(...)
Building America
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This book offers a vast survey of 400 years of architecture, from the structures of 17th-century settlers to current trends in postmodernism. In chronological order, the 22 two-page chapters each consist of a brief introductory narrative supported by numerous fully captioned illustrations. An eclectic assortment of topics is presented, including periods ("The Jazz Age"), places ("The White City"), styles ("The International Style"), and building types ("Houses of Worship").
Children's Books
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South African–born A.J. Diamond gives a rare glimpse into the sights that informed his life and career on three continents. From childhood and youth in South Africa to education in England and the United States and finally to life in Toronto, Diamond has kept a sketchbook, paints and a pen at hand. This book gives visual and narrative illustrations of how he has viewed(...)
Sketches: From here and there
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South African–born A.J. Diamond gives a rare glimpse into the sights that informed his life and career on three continents. From childhood and youth in South Africa to education in England and the United States and finally to life in Toronto, Diamond has kept a sketchbook, paints and a pen at hand. This book gives visual and narrative illustrations of how he has viewed the world he has travelled.
Architecture Monographs
In the dark
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Written and drawn by Nigel Peake, this is a simple and evocative story about a boy who builds model boats. The boy’s life is content except for one thing: he is afraid of the night’s darkness. More than 20 new black-and-white illustrations by Peake form a perfect bedtime narrative that tells how the boy wanders into the forest and is subsequently able to overcome his fear.
In the dark
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Written and drawn by Nigel Peake, this is a simple and evocative story about a boy who builds model boats. The boy’s life is content except for one thing: he is afraid of the night’s darkness. More than 20 new black-and-white illustrations by Peake form a perfect bedtime narrative that tells how the boy wanders into the forest and is subsequently able to overcome his fear.
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Living the city : of cities, people and stories / Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider, TheGreenEyl.
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340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
Leipzig : Spector Books, 2020.
Living the city : of cities, people and stories / Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider, TheGreenEyl.
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251 pages : illustrations en couleur ; 29 cm
Alma, Québec : Centre Sagamie, [2025]
Couturier Lafargue / codirection artistique, Nicolas Pitre, Émili Dufour & Mathilde Marcel-Coutu ; textes, Paul Ardenne, Couturier Lafargue.
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Alma, Québec : Centre Sagamie, [2025]
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“Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec” explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual(...)
Architecture in Canada
February 2019
Contested spaces, counter-narratives, and culture from below in Canada and Quebec
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“Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec” explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual subject in reproducing space, particularly in times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? And in what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? Focusing on discord rather than harmony and consensus, this collection disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen – including flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, and inner-city urban parks as they are experienced by minorities and other marginalized groups. These essays are the products of sustained, high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, uncover geographies of exclusion, and generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering works by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other prominent theorists of space.
Architecture in Canada