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(...)
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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
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 September 2016, 6pm
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
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25 March 2017, 3pm
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
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Recherche.
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volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
[Paris] : Centre international des instituts de recherche, art, archéologie, ethnologie, 1939-
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[Paris] : Centre international des instituts de recherche, art, archéologie, ethnologie, 1939-
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La recherche photographique.
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20 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Paris : Paris Audiovisuel : Presses universitaires de Vincennes, Université de Paris VIII, 1986-[1997]
La recherche photographique.
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20 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
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Paris : Paris Audiovisuel : Presses universitaires de Vincennes, Université de Paris VIII, 1986-[1997]
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volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
[Paris] : [Centre de recherche d'urbanisme], [1978]-
Les Annales de la recherche urbaine.
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volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
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[Paris] : [Centre de recherche d'urbanisme], [1978]-
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Processus de recherche : une approche systémique / André Ouellet ; préface de Maurice Goulet.
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xxi, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Sillery, Québec : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1981.
Processus de recherche : une approche systémique / André Ouellet ; préface de Maurice Goulet.
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xxi, 268 pages ; 23 cm
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Sillery, Québec : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1981.
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Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1986-, Grenoble, France : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, London : SAGE
journals and magazines
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1986-, Grenoble, France : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, London : SAGE
archives
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approximately 2,000 maps, approximately 40 linear meters of textual records, 1 model., This fonds has not yet been arranged.
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997.
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approximately 2,000 maps, approximately 40 linear meters of textual records, 1 model., This fonds has not yet been arranged.
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