Learning from... Cairo
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(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
15 September 2011 , 7pm
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(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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AP181
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The COOP HIMMELB(L)AU BMW Welt project records, 1994-2007, document the design of the firm’s BMW Welt project, also known as BMW World, in Munich, Germany. The archive consists of approximately 52, 400 born-digital files representing the greater part of the digital archive of the project, as well as 52 of the study models made in the earlier stages of the project.
1994-2015
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU BMW Welt project records
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AP181
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The COOP HIMMELB(L)AU BMW Welt project records, 1994-2007, document the design of the firm’s BMW Welt project, also known as BMW World, in Munich, Germany. The archive consists of approximately 52, 400 born-digital files representing the greater part of the digital archive of the project, as well as 52 of the study models made in the earlier stages of the project.
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1994-2015
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
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AP174
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The Testa & Weiser project records, 2001-2014, document the firm’s involvement in several projects as well as the development and use of the software script Weaver. The bulk of the records in the archive are digital files, the majority of which relate to the unbuilt research projects Carbon Tower (2001) and Strand Tower (2006). The archive also contains eight 3D printed physical models and 56 drawings.
2001-2014
Testa & Weiser project records
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The Testa & Weiser project records, 2001-2014, document the firm’s involvement in several projects as well as the development and use of the software script Weaver. The bulk of the records in the archive are digital files, the majority of which relate to the unbuilt research projects Carbon Tower (2001) and Strand Tower (2006). The archive also contains eight 3D printed physical models and 56 drawings.
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2001-2014
journals and magazines
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volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Mulgrave, Vic. : Images Pub. Group, 2003-
Contemporary architecture : CA.
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volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
journals and magazines
Mulgrave, Vic. : Images Pub. Group, 2003-
books
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v. <1> : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
[Jakarta, Indonesia : Imaji Media Pustaka, 2010-]
Contemporary/Surabaya/architecture.
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v. <1> : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
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[Jakarta, Indonesia : Imaji Media Pustaka, 2010-]
books
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140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 1986.
Contemporary Spanish architecture : an eclectic panorama / essays by Antón Capitel and Ignacio Solà-Morales.
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140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
books
New York : Rizzoli, 1986.
books
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158 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, [2000]
London's contemporary architecture : a visitor's guide / Ken Allinson and Victoria Thornton.
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158 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Oxford ; Boston : Architectural Press, [2000]
books
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127 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Dhaka : Institute of Architects, Bangladesh : Distributor, University Press, 1990.
Contemporary architecture, Bangladesh / edited by Shah Alam Zahiruddin, Abu H. Imamuddin, M. Mohiuddin Khan.
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127 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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Dhaka : Institute of Architects, Bangladesh : Distributor, University Press, 1990.