1091 Results
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Israel
Learning from... Israel
Actions:
Description:
Yuval Yasky presents the kibbutz as a radical alternative to familiar types of human settlement. Ever since its early days, the kibbutz was conceived as a hybrid between rural and urban typologies in an attempt to eliminate the disadvantages of both types – the primitive conservatism of village life and the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat in the city – while(...)
Yuval Yasky presents the kibbutz as a radical alternative to familiar types of human settlement. Ever since its early days, the kibbutz was conceived as a hybrid between rural and urban typologies in an attempt to eliminate the disadvantages of both types – the primitive conservatism of village life and the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat in the city – while(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
31 March 2011 , 7pm
31 March 2011 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Israel
Actions:
Description:
Yuval Yasky presents the kibbutz as a radical alternative to familiar types of human settlement. Ever since its early days, the kibbutz was conceived as a hybrid between rural and urban typologies in an attempt to eliminate the disadvantages of both types – the primitive conservatism of village life and the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat in the city – while(...)
Learning from... Israel
Actions:
Description:
Yuval Yasky presents the kibbutz as a radical alternative to familiar types of human settlement. Ever since its early days, the kibbutz was conceived as a hybrid between rural and urban typologies in an attempt to eliminate the disadvantages of both types – the primitive conservatism of village life and the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat in the city – while(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
31 March 2011
7pm
31 March 2011
7pm
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Montréal
Learning from... Montréal
Actions:
Description:
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
2 May 2013 , 7pm
2 May 2013 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Montréal
Actions:
Description:
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Learning from... Montréal
Actions:
Description:
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
2 May 2013
7pm
2 May 2013
7pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Calgary
Learning from... Calgary
Actions:
Description:
Andrew Nikiforuk presents a talk entitled The political architecture of extreme oil, on the rapid development of bitumen in northern Alberta and its effects on the character of the region, and the country. Although the problems of oil exporting countries are well studied, Canada has yet to consider them or prepare for future oil price shocks. A journalist, Andrew(...)
Andrew Nikiforuk presents a talk entitled The political architecture of extreme oil, on the rapid development of bitumen in northern Alberta and its effects on the character of the region, and the country. Although the problems of oil exporting countries are well studied, Canada has yet to consider them or prepare for future oil price shocks. A journalist, Andrew(...)
Location:
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Date:
17 March 2011 , 7pm
17 March 2011 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Calgary
Actions:
Description:
Andrew Nikiforuk presents a talk entitled The political architecture of extreme oil, on the rapid development of bitumen in northern Alberta and its effects on the character of the region, and the country. Although the problems of oil exporting countries are well studied, Canada has yet to consider them or prepare for future oil price shocks. A journalist, Andrew(...)
Learning from... Calgary
Actions:
Description:
Andrew Nikiforuk presents a talk entitled The political architecture of extreme oil, on the rapid development of bitumen in northern Alberta and its effects on the character of the region, and the country. Although the problems of oil exporting countries are well studied, Canada has yet to consider them or prepare for future oil price shocks. A journalist, Andrew(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
17 March 2011
7pm
17 March 2011
7pm
Location:
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Astana
Learning from... Astana
Actions:
Description:
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
19 April 2007 , 7pm
19 April 2007 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Astana
Actions:
Description:
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Learning from... Astana
Actions:
Description:
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
19 April 2007
7pm
19 April 2007
7pm
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Form:
textual records
textual records
Actions:
Reference number:
ARCH210215
Description:
Documents relatifs au Bureau de Poste et à la Régie des alcools incluant : formulaires des honoraires d'experts-conseils et un document portant sur les clauses générales de contrat d'experts-conseils.
ARCH210215
Description:
Documents relatifs au Bureau de Poste et à la Régie des alcools incluant : formulaires des honoraires d'experts-conseils et un document portant sur les clauses générales de contrat d'experts-conseils.
People:
Date:
s.d.
s.d.
Title:
Documents relatifs au Bureau de Poste et à la Régie des alcools
Actions:
ARCH210215
Description:
Documents relatifs au Bureau de Poste et à la Régie des alcools incluant : formulaires des honoraires d'experts-conseils et un document portant sur les clauses générales de contrat d'experts-conseils.
Documents relatifs au Bureau de Poste et à la Régie des alcools
Actions:
ARCH210215
Description:
Documents relatifs au Bureau de Poste et à la Régie des alcools incluant : formulaires des honoraires d'experts-conseils et un document portant sur les clauses générales de contrat d'experts-conseils.
Form:
textual records
textual records
Date:
s.d.
s.d.
People:
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Shanghai
Learning from... Shanghai
Actions:
Description:
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
7 May 2009
7 May 2009
Title:
Learning from... Shanghai
Actions:
Description:
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Learning from... Shanghai
Actions:
Description:
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
7 May 2009
7 May 2009
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from… Tokyo
Learning from… Tokyo
Actions:
Description:
In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
26 April 2007 , 7pm
26 April 2007 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from… Tokyo
Actions:
Description:
In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
Learning from… Tokyo
Actions:
Description:
In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
26 April 2007
7pm
26 April 2007
7pm
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Caracas
Learning from... Caracas
Actions:
Description:
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(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
8 May 2014 , 6pm
8 May 2014 , 6pm
Title:
Learning from... Caracas
Actions:
Description:
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
Actions:
Description:
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(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
8 May 2014
6pm
8 May 2014
6pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Hong Kong
Learning from... Hong Kong
Actions:
Description:
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(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
3 May 2012 , 7pm
3 May 2012 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Hong Kong
Actions:
Description:
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
Actions:
Description:
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(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
3 May 2012
7pm
3 May 2012
7pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Cairo
Learning from... Cairo
Actions:
Description:
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(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
15 September 2011 , 7pm
15 September 2011 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Cairo
Actions:
Description:
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
Actions:
Description:
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(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
15 September 2011
7pm
15 September 2011
7pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
