DR1974:0002:029:001-044
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- This published portfolio contains 42 prints of Charles Rohault de Fleury's architectural works - mostly plans, elevations, sections and detail drawings, but also some perspective views, and a biographical note on the architect. Prints for domestic architecture in Paris include: Hôtel Soltykoff, Hôtel Sauvage, Hôtels Fontenilliat, and an hôtel on avenue Montaigne. There are two photogravures by P. Dujardin of the interior of Hôtel Sauvage. Prints for public buildings in Paris include: the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, the Théâtre-Italien, the Hippodrome national, the façade of Pavillon de Rohan, a plan for the opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, and the Chambre des Notaires. The album contains a print of two tombs and a mausoleum, a print for the Hôtel de Prefecture, Poitiers, a plan for Saint-Augustin, Paris, and a photogravure of Charles Rohault de Fleury in profile.
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
published 1884
OEUVRE / DE / C. ROHAULT DE FLEURY / ARCHITECTE
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DR1974:0002:029:001-044
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- This published portfolio contains 42 prints of Charles Rohault de Fleury's architectural works - mostly plans, elevations, sections and detail drawings, but also some perspective views, and a biographical note on the architect. Prints for domestic architecture in Paris include: Hôtel Soltykoff, Hôtel Sauvage, Hôtels Fontenilliat, and an hôtel on avenue Montaigne. There are two photogravures by P. Dujardin of the interior of Hôtel Sauvage. Prints for public buildings in Paris include: the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, the Théâtre-Italien, the Hippodrome national, the façade of Pavillon de Rohan, a plan for the opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, and the Chambre des Notaires. The album contains a print of two tombs and a mausoleum, a print for the Hôtel de Prefecture, Poitiers, a plan for Saint-Augustin, Paris, and a photogravure of Charles Rohault de Fleury in profile.
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
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David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 September 2010, 6pm
Robert Burley: The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
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Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Charles Rohault de Fleury
CI001.S2
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Series documents works by Charles Rohault de Fleury, including objects related to his architectural education as well as private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning. Material in this series was produced between 1717 and 1868. Series is arranged into six files: Education; Domestic Commissions; Opera Houses; Public and Urban Architecture; Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle; and Miscellanea.
1717-[1884]
Charles Rohault de Fleury
CI001.S2
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Series documents works by Charles Rohault de Fleury, including objects related to his architectural education as well as private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning. Material in this series was produced between 1717 and 1868. Series is arranged into six files: Education; Domestic Commissions; Opera Houses; Public and Urban Architecture; Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle; and Miscellanea.
Series 2
1717-[1884]
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
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ARCH172917
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Deuxième biennale des arts visuels de l'est du Québec, 1987 : brochure, photocopies sur l'histoire de Matane Invitation de Jacques Rousseau à l'exposition "L'architecture en boîte", 1988 : documents préparatoires (annulation de l'événement).
1987-1988
Deuxième biennale des arts visuels de l'est du Québec, 1987
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ARCH172917
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Deuxième biennale des arts visuels de l'est du Québec, 1987 : brochure, photocopies sur l'histoire de Matane Invitation de Jacques Rousseau à l'exposition "L'architecture en boîte", 1988 : documents préparatoires (annulation de l'événement).
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1987-1988
This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
27 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
UFA, Université des Futurs Africains 2. It Matters What Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories of the Future
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
articles
Bay Area Landscape
Bay Area Landscape
Toyo Ito reflects on the antagonism of nature, history, and the modern age through two projects
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machine learning, machine learning tool, architectural drawings, trees, AI, artificial intelligence, architectural history, protocols, toolkit, research methods
10 July 2023
Learning from Machine Learning
Sylvia Lavin on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
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