169 Results
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Luanda
Learning from... Luanda
Actions:
Description:
With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
1 November 2012 , 7pm
1 November 2012 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Luanda
Actions:
Description:
With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
Learning from... Luanda
Actions:
Description:
With a metropolitan population of over 5 million, Luanda is the third most populated Portuguese-speaking city in the world after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Architect and researcher Paulo Moreira proposes alternative approaches to urbanism based on ongoing research in Chicala, an informal settlement with direct connection with the commercial areas of the city, as well(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
1 November 2012
7pm
1 November 2012
7pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from… São Paulo
Learning from… São Paulo
Actions:
Description:
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
Date:
22 April 2010
22 April 2010
Title:
Learning from… São Paulo
Actions:
Description:
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
Learning from… São Paulo
Actions:
Description:
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
22 April 2010
22 April 2010
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from… Toronto
Learning from… Toronto
Actions:
Description:
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
4 March 2010 , 7pm
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from… Toronto
Actions:
Description:
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Learning from… Toronto
Actions:
Description:
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
4 March 2010
7pm
4 March 2010
7pm
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Actions:
Description:
Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
Location:
Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
13 November 1991 to 16 February 1992
13 November 1991 to 16 February 1992
Title:
Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano: The Architecture of the Domestic Sanitation Movement, 1870-1914
Actions:
Description:
Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano: The Architecture of the Domestic Sanitation Movement, 1870-1914
Actions:
Description:
Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
13 November 1991 to
16 February 1992
13 November 1991 to
16 February 1992
Location:
Hall cases
Hall cases
Form:
events
events
Title:
Learning from... Mexico City
Learning from... Mexico City
Actions:
Description:
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
10 May 2012 , 7pm
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Title:
Learning from... Mexico City
Actions:
Description:
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Learning from... Mexico City
Actions:
Description:
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
10 May 2012
7pm
10 May 2012
7pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Form:
events
events
Title:
Materiality of Parkour
Materiality of Parkour
Actions:
Description:
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
19 February 2009
19 February 2009
Title:
Materiality of Parkour
Actions:
Description:
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Materiality of Parkour
Actions:
Description:
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
19 February 2009
19 February 2009
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Form:
archives
archives
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
Description:
9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
Author:
Subject:
Title:
Comment les architectes, les experts, les politiciens, les agences internationales et les citoyens négocient l'urbanisme moderne : Casablanca Chandigarh = How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh : exhibition products, 2013-2014.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
Comment les architectes, les experts, les politiciens, les agences internationales et les citoyens négocient l'urbanisme moderne : Casablanca Chandigarh = How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh : exhibition products, 2013-2014.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
Form:
archives
archives
Author:
Subject:
Form:
video
video
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
Description:
1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
Author:
Subject:
Publication:
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
Title:
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
Form:
video
video
Publication:
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
Author:
Subject:
Form:
video
video
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
Description:
1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
Author:
Subject:
Publication:
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
Title:
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
Form:
video
video
Publication:
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
Author:
Subject:
Form:
books
books
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description:
156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Author:
Subject:
Publication:
Genève : Métis Presses, 2009.
Genève : Métis Presses, 2009.
Title:
Les experts de la reconstruction : figures et stratégies de l'élite technique dans l'Europe de l'après-guerre = Gli esperti della ricostruzione : figure e strategie dell'élite tecnica nell'Europa del dopoguerra / Elena Cogato-Lanza, Patrizia Bonifazio.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Les experts de la reconstruction : figures et stratégies de l'élite technique dans l'Europe de l'après-guerre = Gli esperti della ricostruzione : figure e strategie dell'élite tecnica nell'Europa del dopoguerra / Elena Cogato-Lanza, Patrizia Bonifazio.
Actions:
Holdings:
Description:
156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Form:
books
books
Publication:
Genève : Métis Presses, 2009.
Genève : Métis Presses, 2009.
Author:
Subject:
