The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
textual records
ARCH273844
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File includes paper abstracts for reference from the International Symposium on Islamic Architecture and Urbanism, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (5-10 January 1980), The Charter of Machu Picchu (1978) and various printed documents.
Abstracts for reference from the International Symposium on Islamic Architecture and Urbanism, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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ARCH273844
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File includes paper abstracts for reference from the International Symposium on Islamic Architecture and Urbanism, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (5-10 January 1980), The Charter of Machu Picchu (1978) and various printed documents.
textual records
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AP156.S2.SS7.D1
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Le dossier documente l'architecture et l'urbanisme dans la banlieue parisienne. La matériel dans ce dossier a été produit en 1946. Le dossier contient l'avant-projet d'un plan de développement de la banlieue parisienne. File documents the architecture et urbanism in the suburbs of Paris. The material in this file was produced in 1946. The file contains a preliminary draft of the developement plan for the Paris suburbs.
1946
Architecture et urbanisme dans la banlieue parisienne = Architecture and urbanism in the suburbs of Paris
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AP156.S2.SS7.D1
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Le dossier documente l'architecture et l'urbanisme dans la banlieue parisienne. La matériel dans ce dossier a été produit en 1946. Le dossier contient l'avant-projet d'un plan de développement de la banlieue parisienne. File documents the architecture et urbanism in the suburbs of Paris. The material in this file was produced in 1946. The file contains a preliminary draft of the developement plan for the Paris suburbs.
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1946
books
ARCH257714
publié 1958
books
publié 1958
Urban Diversity
Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2009
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
drawings, textual records, photographs
AP178.S1.2001.PR04.041
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Original file title: Casa Fluxà - Mallorca normativa urban. Fotos levantament.
ca. 2001
Urbanism regulations, photographs of project site, and topographic maps, Casa em Palma de Maiorca, Palma de Maiorca
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AP178.S1.2001.PR04.041
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Original file title: Casa Fluxà - Mallorca normativa urban. Fotos levantament.
drawings, textual records, photographs
ca. 2001
journals and magazines
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ARCH242156
1994
journals and magazines
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2 file
1994
journals and magazines
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2 file
ARCH242900
1993
journals and magazines
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2 file
1993
Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
9 June 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Elisabeth Essaïan
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Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
2 November 2001