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Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more(...)
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Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more(...)
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Brave New Home: Our future in smarter, simpler, happier housing
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Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In ''Brave new home,'' Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, ''Brave new home'' offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.
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Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In ''Brave new home,'' Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, ''Brave new home'' offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.
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La terre est le matériau de construction le plus naturel, immédiatement à disposition et recyclable, ne nécessitant souvent que peu de transformations et donc énergétiquement avantageux. Les Anciens ne s'y trompèrent pas, comme en témoignent les ziggourats mésopotamiennes ou la pyramide de Sésostris Il en Égypte, dont seul subsiste le coeur de briques en terre crue.(...)
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La terre est le matériau de construction le plus naturel, immédiatement à disposition et recyclable, ne nécessitant souvent que peu de transformations et donc énergétiquement avantageux. Les Anciens ne s'y trompèrent pas, comme en témoignent les ziggourats mésopotamiennes ou la pyramide de Sésostris Il en Égypte, dont seul subsiste le coeur de briques en terre crue.(...)
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Bâtir en terre : du grain de sable à l'architecture
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La terre est le matériau de construction le plus naturel, immédiatement à disposition et recyclable, ne nécessitant souvent que peu de transformations et donc énergétiquement avantageux. Les Anciens ne s'y trompèrent pas, comme en témoignent les ziggourats mésopotamiennes ou la pyramide de Sésostris Il en Égypte, dont seul subsiste le coeur de briques en terre crue. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Ma terre première" , d'abord présentée à la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, ce livre part à la découverte de l'exceptionnel patrimoine en terre, de le mythique Shibam au Yémen, la "Manhattan" du désert, jusqu' aux étranges habitations collectives des Hakkas en Chine, en passant par les cases des obus du Cameroun. Il n'oublie pas pour autant l'habitat rural européen, ni les prouesses des architectes contemporains, fascinés par les qualités du matériau. De fait, les propretés physico-chimiques de la terre, véritable "béton naturel", sont inestimables pour la construction : l'ouvrage propose de comprendre pourquoi grâce à des expériences simples et ludiques. D'autant que de cette compréhension pourraient surgir des pistes pour développer des alternatives aux matériaux industriels qui, comme le ciment, posent aujourd'hui de graves problèmes environnementaux.
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La terre est le matériau de construction le plus naturel, immédiatement à disposition et recyclable, ne nécessitant souvent que peu de transformations et donc énergétiquement avantageux. Les Anciens ne s'y trompèrent pas, comme en témoignent les ziggourats mésopotamiennes ou la pyramide de Sésostris Il en Égypte, dont seul subsiste le coeur de briques en terre crue. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition "Ma terre première" , d'abord présentée à la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, ce livre part à la découverte de l'exceptionnel patrimoine en terre, de le mythique Shibam au Yémen, la "Manhattan" du désert, jusqu' aux étranges habitations collectives des Hakkas en Chine, en passant par les cases des obus du Cameroun. Il n'oublie pas pour autant l'habitat rural européen, ni les prouesses des architectes contemporains, fascinés par les qualités du matériau. De fait, les propretés physico-chimiques de la terre, véritable "béton naturel", sont inestimables pour la construction : l'ouvrage propose de comprendre pourquoi grâce à des expériences simples et ludiques. D'autant que de cette compréhension pourraient surgir des pistes pour développer des alternatives aux matériaux industriels qui, comme le ciment, posent aujourd'hui de graves problèmes environnementaux.
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January 2009
January 2009
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Green Architecture
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Over the past two decades, many books and articles have explored the larger meaning of public acts of remembrance. Although these studies have brought the links between public memory, imperialism, and nation building into focus, they overlook local expressions of memory that lie at the heart of our everyday experiences and identities. This publication maps a terrain in(...)
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Over the past two decades, many books and articles have explored the larger meaning of public acts of remembrance. Although these studies have brought the links between public memory, imperialism, and nation building into focus, they overlook local expressions of memory that lie at the heart of our everyday experiences and identities. This publication maps a terrain in(...)
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July 2011
July 2011
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Placing memory and remembering place in Canada
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Over the past two decades, many books and articles have explored the larger meaning of public acts of remembrance. Although these studies have brought the links between public memory, imperialism, and nation building into focus, they overlook local expressions of memory that lie at the heart of our everyday experiences and identities. This publication maps a terrain in memory studies by shifting the focus to local places that sit at the intersection of memory making and identity formation - the main street, the city square, the village museum, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the rural landscape. Offering a perspective on the politics of place and memory across differing chronologies and geographies, the first part of the book traces how local expressions of memory such as celebrations, museums, statues, postcards, and plaques have contributed to a sense of place and belonging in twentieth-century Canada. The second part in turn explores how ordinary Canadians have embedded their memories of place in oral stories, photographs, and the landscape itself. With its focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, these essays argue for an understanding of place as imagined, made, claimed, fought for, and defended - always in a state of becoming.
Placing memory and remembering place in Canada
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Over the past two decades, many books and articles have explored the larger meaning of public acts of remembrance. Although these studies have brought the links between public memory, imperialism, and nation building into focus, they overlook local expressions of memory that lie at the heart of our everyday experiences and identities. This publication maps a terrain in memory studies by shifting the focus to local places that sit at the intersection of memory making and identity formation - the main street, the city square, the village museum, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the rural landscape. Offering a perspective on the politics of place and memory across differing chronologies and geographies, the first part of the book traces how local expressions of memory such as celebrations, museums, statues, postcards, and plaques have contributed to a sense of place and belonging in twentieth-century Canada. The second part in turn explores how ordinary Canadians have embedded their memories of place in oral stories, photographs, and the landscape itself. With its focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, these essays argue for an understanding of place as imagined, made, claimed, fought for, and defended - always in a state of becoming.
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335 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, chart, maps, plans, portraits ; 31 cm
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Arles : Honoré Clair, [2024], ©2024
Arles : Honoré Clair, [2024], ©2024
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Alfred, Henry et Louis Dauvergne (1824-1937) : expansion et réussite d'un cabinet d'architectes / Olivier Prisset ; préface, Jean-Baptiste Minnaert ; photographie, Xavier Spertini.
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Alfred, Henry et Louis Dauvergne (1824-1937) : expansion et réussite d'un cabinet d'architectes / Olivier Prisset ; préface, Jean-Baptiste Minnaert ; photographie, Xavier Spertini.
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Arles : Honoré Clair, [2024], ©2024
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Walker Evans
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes(...)
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes(...)
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Walker Evans
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes and other buildings in Boston, Cape Cod, Saratoga Springs, and small towns in upstate New York; a series of spontaneous and surreptitious portraits taken on the Manhattan subway; scenes from Cuba in the 1930s; and his commercial assignments as a staff photographer and writer for Fortune magazine. The familiar work from his Farm Security Administration project is also here-views of the rural South immortalized in his collaborative book with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, along with urban images from New Orleans and Savannah. Essays by Christian A. Peterson, associate curator of photography at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, describe Evans's photographic vision and include information about the acquisition history of many of the photographs in this book. Illustrated with almost one hundred high-quality black-and-white photographs, Walker Evans presents the full breadth of Evans's expansive and varied photographic art.
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Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for documenting the people and living conditions of the American South during the Great Depression. But his photographic accomplishments were much broader than these famous images: modernist views of New York City, such as his Flatiron Building, New York (1928-29) and Brooklyn Bridge (1929); architectural studies of Victorian homes and other buildings in Boston, Cape Cod, Saratoga Springs, and small towns in upstate New York; a series of spontaneous and surreptitious portraits taken on the Manhattan subway; scenes from Cuba in the 1930s; and his commercial assignments as a staff photographer and writer for Fortune magazine. The familiar work from his Farm Security Administration project is also here-views of the rural South immortalized in his collaborative book with James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, along with urban images from New Orleans and Savannah. Essays by Christian A. Peterson, associate curator of photography at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, describe Evans's photographic vision and include information about the acquisition history of many of the photographs in this book. Illustrated with almost one hundred high-quality black-and-white photographs, Walker Evans presents the full breadth of Evans's expansive and varied photographic art.
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July 2003, Minneapolis
July 2003, Minneapolis
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New York : Mayflower Books, ©1980.
New York : Mayflower Books, ©1980.
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The Golden age of the country house / [compiled by] Christopher Simon Sykes ; foreword by Nigel Nicolson.
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The Golden age of the country house / [compiled by] Christopher Simon Sykes ; foreword by Nigel Nicolson.
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New York : Mayflower Books, ©1980.
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in(...)
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in(...)
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Beyond the binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in which architecture and spatial planning reflect the ideology of apartheid, and how the land continues to bear its legacy in post-apartheid South Africa. His investigations explore both actual structures and how mental constructs reveal how ideology has shaped our landscape. Mofokeng’s photo essays shed light on everyday life in South Africa, beyond the stereotypical news pictures of Soweto depicting violence or poverty. Deeply personal, they record communities in townships and rural areas, religious rituals and landscapes imbued not only with historical significance but spiritual meaning, memory and trauma. The approach of Tamar Garb in Beyond the Binary is both daring and inquisitive—she “scrambles” and reassembles Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s photographs, blurring the boundaries between them and creates juxtapositions and insights that challenge prevailing views of these established images. By delineating 15 viewpoints around the themes of “Earthscapes,” “Edifices,” and “Sociality,” Garb decontextualizes the work and creates a platform for comparing and rethinking the artists’ practices.
Beyond the binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt
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This is the second publication in ''The Walther Collection Books series'' at Steidl, focusing on a dialogue between two of the most important South African photographers of the twentieth century—David Goldblatt (1930–2018) and Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020). There are both profound similarities and differences between the two artists’ work. Goldblatt documented the ways in which architecture and spatial planning reflect the ideology of apartheid, and how the land continues to bear its legacy in post-apartheid South Africa. His investigations explore both actual structures and how mental constructs reveal how ideology has shaped our landscape. Mofokeng’s photo essays shed light on everyday life in South Africa, beyond the stereotypical news pictures of Soweto depicting violence or poverty. Deeply personal, they record communities in townships and rural areas, religious rituals and landscapes imbued not only with historical significance but spiritual meaning, memory and trauma. The approach of Tamar Garb in Beyond the Binary is both daring and inquisitive—she “scrambles” and reassembles Mofokeng’s and Goldblatt’s photographs, blurring the boundaries between them and creates juxtapositions and insights that challenge prevailing views of these established images. By delineating 15 viewpoints around the themes of “Earthscapes,” “Edifices,” and “Sociality,” Garb decontextualizes the work and creates a platform for comparing and rethinking the artists’ practices.
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September 2024
September 2024
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Territoire frugal
Territoire frugal
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Une vision alternative des territoires : le modèle dominant de la ville compacte, dense et diversifiée, présenté comme le parangon d’aménagement urbain durable, pose en retour la question des formes d’urbanisation qui sont spatialement différentes et qui se sont en particulier développées au sein des espaces hérités du monde rural. Des territoires durables : en réponse à(...)
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Une vision alternative des territoires : le modèle dominant de la ville compacte, dense et diversifiée, présenté comme le parangon d’aménagement urbain durable, pose en retour la question des formes d’urbanisation qui sont spatialement différentes et qui se sont en particulier développées au sein des espaces hérités du monde rural. Des territoires durables : en réponse à(...)
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Territoire frugal
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Une vision alternative des territoires : le modèle dominant de la ville compacte, dense et diversifiée, présenté comme le parangon d’aménagement urbain durable, pose en retour la question des formes d’urbanisation qui sont spatialement différentes et qui se sont en particulier développées au sein des espaces hérités du monde rural. Des territoires durables : en réponse à cette question, les auteurs postulent qu’une politique d’aménagement réellement durable se doit de promouvoir avant tout des territoires durables dans l’ensemble de leurs composantes urbanisées, qu’elles soient agglomérées ou dispersées. Dans cette perspective, ils ont mené une exploration détaillée des espaces périurbains et ruraux en jouant sur les échelles de l’architecture et du territoire. Une nouvelle perspective : s’affranchissant ainsi de l’opposition conventionnelle et stérile entre ville et campagne, les auteurs exposent des réalités extrêmement complexes et diversifiées et contribuent à une meilleure compréhension de ces espaces de la dispersion bâtie. Ils nous présentent toute la finesse de leurs contextes géographiques et de leurs déclinaisons architecturales, sociales et même écologiques; une représentation plus concrète et prospective, et, en termes politiques, préalable à une action publique plus juste. Un ouvrage multimédia : à l’ouvrage papier, s’ajoute un livre numérique enrichi d’un important matériel iconographique et hypermédia qui permet une appréhension exhaustive de l’ensemble des documents de recherche.
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Une vision alternative des territoires : le modèle dominant de la ville compacte, dense et diversifiée, présenté comme le parangon d’aménagement urbain durable, pose en retour la question des formes d’urbanisation qui sont spatialement différentes et qui se sont en particulier développées au sein des espaces hérités du monde rural. Des territoires durables : en réponse à cette question, les auteurs postulent qu’une politique d’aménagement réellement durable se doit de promouvoir avant tout des territoires durables dans l’ensemble de leurs composantes urbanisées, qu’elles soient agglomérées ou dispersées. Dans cette perspective, ils ont mené une exploration détaillée des espaces périurbains et ruraux en jouant sur les échelles de l’architecture et du territoire. Une nouvelle perspective : s’affranchissant ainsi de l’opposition conventionnelle et stérile entre ville et campagne, les auteurs exposent des réalités extrêmement complexes et diversifiées et contribuent à une meilleure compréhension de ces espaces de la dispersion bâtie. Ils nous présentent toute la finesse de leurs contextes géographiques et de leurs déclinaisons architecturales, sociales et même écologiques; une représentation plus concrète et prospective, et, en termes politiques, préalable à une action publique plus juste. Un ouvrage multimédia : à l’ouvrage papier, s’ajoute un livre numérique enrichi d’un important matériel iconographique et hypermédia qui permet une appréhension exhaustive de l’ensemble des documents de recherche.
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April 2017
April 2017
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Urban Theory
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Grande voie de communication traversant du nord au sud le cœur géographique de Montréal, le boulevard Saint-Laurent témoigne de plus de trois siècles d’histoire dans la ville. En une cascade de transformations et de renversements spectaculaires, l’artère a incarné successivement toutes les facettes de la montréalité, du rural à l’urbain, des formes primitives(...)
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Grande voie de communication traversant du nord au sud le cœur géographique de Montréal, le boulevard Saint-Laurent témoigne de plus de trois siècles d’histoire dans la ville. En une cascade de transformations et de renversements spectaculaires, l’artère a incarné successivement toutes les facettes de la montréalité, du rural à l’urbain, des formes primitives(...)
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Saint-Laurent : la Main de Montréal
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Grande voie de communication traversant du nord au sud le cœur géographique de Montréal, le boulevard Saint-Laurent témoigne de plus de trois siècles d’histoire dans la ville. En une cascade de transformations et de renversements spectaculaires, l’artère a incarné successivement toutes les facettes de la montréalité, du rural à l’urbain, des formes primitives d’industrialisation au multimédia. Porte d’entrée de l’immigration, fenêtre ouverte sur le monde, refuge de toutes les marginalités, la "Main" a aussi été le creuset où ont été incarnés pour la première fois au Québec la rencontre des cultures et le métissage des identités. À travers ce vaste et profond brassage d’idées, dont le boulevard Saint-Laurent a été porteur tout au long de son histoire, se profile le passage de Montréal et du Québec tout entier à la modernité. Dans le brouhaha de ses trottoirs et la cohue de ses intersections sont en effet apparus de grands courants de société dont nous sommes aujourd’hui les héritiers, comme la libération des femmes, la syndicalisation des ouvriers et la lutte pour la dignité humaine. La "Main" a aussi été un réservoir de talents artistiques et un terrain d’expérimentation pour de nouvelles formes d’expression comme le cinéma, le théâtre yiddish, la chanson francophone et le burlesque québécois.
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Grande voie de communication traversant du nord au sud le cœur géographique de Montréal, le boulevard Saint-Laurent témoigne de plus de trois siècles d’histoire dans la ville. En une cascade de transformations et de renversements spectaculaires, l’artère a incarné successivement toutes les facettes de la montréalité, du rural à l’urbain, des formes primitives d’industrialisation au multimédia. Porte d’entrée de l’immigration, fenêtre ouverte sur le monde, refuge de toutes les marginalités, la "Main" a aussi été le creuset où ont été incarnés pour la première fois au Québec la rencontre des cultures et le métissage des identités. À travers ce vaste et profond brassage d’idées, dont le boulevard Saint-Laurent a été porteur tout au long de son histoire, se profile le passage de Montréal et du Québec tout entier à la modernité. Dans le brouhaha de ses trottoirs et la cohue de ses intersections sont en effet apparus de grands courants de société dont nous sommes aujourd’hui les héritiers, comme la libération des femmes, la syndicalisation des ouvriers et la lutte pour la dignité humaine. La "Main" a aussi été un réservoir de talents artistiques et un terrain d’expérimentation pour de nouvelles formes d’expression comme le cinéma, le théâtre yiddish, la chanson francophone et le burlesque québécois.
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May 2002, Sillery
May 2002, Sillery
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A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In ''Dacha'', Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon. His photographs constitute a unique record(...)
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A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In ''Dacha'', Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon. His photographs constitute a unique record(...)
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Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
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September 2023
September 2023
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Dacha: the soviet country cottage
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A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In ''Dacha'', Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon. His photographs constitute a unique record of a rapidly vanishing fairy-tale wooden world. The word ''dacha'' has been used to describe constructions ranging from grand imperial villas to small sheds. Originally bestowed by the Tsar to reward courtiers, this custom continued following the revolution, with Soviet cooperatives building dachas for their members. Supposedly for the benefit of laborers, in reality they were destined for those favored by the State, including famous writers, architects and artists from Pasternak to Prokofiev. The fall of the Soviet Union accelerated their use, as economic uncertainty forced city dwellers toward self-sufficiency. The dacha tradition has survived revolution, war and the collapse of Communism, becoming an integral part of life in the process. Using contemporary photographs to showcase these uniquely individual buildings for the first time, alongside an introduction explaining their historical and cultural context, Dacha is the only publication of its kind.
Dacha: the soviet country cottage
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Summary:
A dacha is a country house, made of wood, used by Soviet citizens to escape the rigors of the city for a rural idyll. Widespread in the countries of the former USSR, this important cultural and architectural form has been largely ignored academically. In ''Dacha'', Fyodor Savintsev documents this particularly Russian phenomenon. His photographs constitute a unique record of a rapidly vanishing fairy-tale wooden world. The word ''dacha'' has been used to describe constructions ranging from grand imperial villas to small sheds. Originally bestowed by the Tsar to reward courtiers, this custom continued following the revolution, with Soviet cooperatives building dachas for their members. Supposedly for the benefit of laborers, in reality they were destined for those favored by the State, including famous writers, architects and artists from Pasternak to Prokofiev. The fall of the Soviet Union accelerated their use, as economic uncertainty forced city dwellers toward self-sufficiency. The dacha tradition has survived revolution, war and the collapse of Communism, becoming an integral part of life in the process. Using contemporary photographs to showcase these uniquely individual buildings for the first time, alongside an introduction explaining their historical and cultural context, Dacha is the only publication of its kind.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
September 2023
September 2023
Subject:
Commercial interiors, Building types
Commercial interiors, Building types
