1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
Environmental Histories
To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 December 2016, 6pm
Environmental Histories
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To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Livre d'architecture.
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13 pages
Farnborough [Hants.] Gregg Press 1966.
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Farnborough [Hants.] Gregg Press 1966.
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Second livre d'architectvre.
[Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [15--?]
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[Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [15--?]
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390 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Paris : Cahiers dessinés, ©2010.
Le livre libre : essai sur le livre d'artiste : 1883-2010, du livre illustré au livre d'artiste en Suisse romande / textes de Rainer Michael Mason [and others].
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390 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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Paris : Cahiers dessinés, ©2010.
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xxxi, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Turnhout : Brepols ; Genève : Bibliothèque de Genève, 2013.
Le livre à la Renaissance : introduction à la bibliographie historique et matérielle / Jean-Paul Pittion ; préface de Frédéric Barbier.
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xxxi, 429 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Turnhout : Brepols ; Genève : Bibliothèque de Genève, 2013.
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Nouvelles du livre ancien.
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volumes : illustrations ; 30-32 cm
Paris : Service du livre ancien, Bibliothèque nationale
Nouvelles du livre ancien.
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volumes : illustrations ; 30-32 cm
journals and magazines
Paris : Service du livre ancien, Bibliothèque nationale
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26 leaves, 53 unnumbered leaves of plates : plans ; 41 cm
Paris : J. Androuet du Cerceau, 1615.
Livre d'architecture / de Jacques Androuet, du Cerceau, auquel sont contenues diverses ordonnances de plants et éleuations de bastiment pour seigneurs, gentilshommes, & autres qui voudront bastir aux champs ; mesmes en aucuns d'iceux sont desseignez les basses courts ... aussi les jardinages et vergiers.
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26 leaves, 53 unnumbered leaves of plates : plans ; 41 cm
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Paris : J. Androuet du Cerceau, 1615.
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xiii pages, 1 leaf, 280 pages illustrations
Paris, G. Crès et cie, 1924.
Le livre, son architecture, sa technique. Préface d'Henri Focillon.
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xiii pages, 1 leaf, 280 pages illustrations
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Paris, G. Crès et cie, 1924.