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The Sixties in Canada
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The sixties were a decade of questioning and experimentation, of testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of artistic forms. This frenzy of activity resulted in diverse artistic manifestations, including innovations in photography, a medium that was redefined during this period from a simple practical tool to a recognized art form. This comprehensive catalogue(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2005, Ottawa
The Sixties in Canada
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The sixties were a decade of questioning and experimentation, of testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of artistic forms. This frenzy of activity resulted in diverse artistic manifestations, including innovations in photography, a medium that was redefined during this period from a simple practical tool to a recognized art form. This comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition, “The Sixties: Photography in Question” held at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
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Architecture in Canada
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House museums act as both sources and suppliers of history. Functioning first as private residences, they are then preserved as commemorative monuments and become living history museums offering theme-based tours led by period-costumed interpreters so that visitors might experience "what it felt like to live back then.In Family Ties, Andrea Terry considers the appeal and(...)
Family ties: living history in canadian house museums
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House museums act as both sources and suppliers of history. Functioning first as private residences, they are then preserved as commemorative monuments and become living history museums offering theme-based tours led by period-costumed interpreters so that visitors might experience "what it felt like to live back then.In Family Ties, Andrea Terry considers the appeal and relevance of domesticated representations of Victorian material culture in a contemporary multicultural context.
Architecture in Canada
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A contemporary reminder of the importance of the carpenter and wood in Japanese architecture. When Japanese architecture is mentioned today, images of temples or pagodas generally come to mind. Others may think of more contemporary works: massive modular walls of rough concrete poured in place and bearing imprints of their formwork in the manner of Ando Tadao, the(...)
Architectural Theory
April 2022
The carpenter and the architect
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A contemporary reminder of the importance of the carpenter and wood in Japanese architecture. When Japanese architecture is mentioned today, images of temples or pagodas generally come to mind. Others may think of more contemporary works: massive modular walls of rough concrete poured in place and bearing imprints of their formwork in the manner of Ando Tadao, the lighter structures of Ito Toyo and Sejima Kazuyo, or the finely wrought facades of Kuma Kengo. A generational chasm and, rather surprisingly, even a historical one seems to have opened up between the emblematic images of traditional Japanese architecture, in which wood is the material of choice, and more current and innovative work, in which its use has been reduced. Even though the carpenter has long been the lead builder, contemporary architectural culture appears to have forgotten this reservoir of construction experience accumulated over centuries.
Architectural Theory
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À travers une sélection de dessins originaux, d’œuvres et de photographies, Le Mémorial, projet d’architecture met en lumière la relation intense entretenue par Yves Klein et Claude Parent. Leur rencontre, rendue possible par le projet de l’« Architecture de l’air » de Klein, donne l’impulsion à une relation pleine de créativité : l’artiste conceptualise, l’architecte(...)
Yves Klein, Claude Parent : le Mémorial, projet d'architecture
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À travers une sélection de dessins originaux, d’œuvres et de photographies, Le Mémorial, projet d’architecture met en lumière la relation intense entretenue par Yves Klein et Claude Parent. Leur rencontre, rendue possible par le projet de l’« Architecture de l’air » de Klein, donne l’impulsion à une relation pleine de créativité : l’artiste conceptualise, l’architecte dessine et peint. C’est ainsi autour de la rencontre d’Yves Klein et Claude Parent et de leur fructueuse collaboration – autour du Rocket pneumatique, de l’Architecture de l’air et du projet des Fontaines de Varsovie – que ce livre se construit. Il présente, enfin, le projet de Mémorial conçu par Claude Parent pour Yves Klein, peu de temps après sa disparition, à la demande de sa mère, Marie Raymond, et de son épouse, l’artiste Rotraut.
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Midcentury houses today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy. A(...)
Residential Architecture
April 2024
Midcentury houses today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy. A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, "The greenest building is the one that is already built."
Residential Architecture
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"HEC Campus: Evolution of a Model" documents the transformation in close detail and with one hundred illustrations, including twenty newly commissioned photographs by award-winning French photographer Cyrille Weiner. After a brief history of HEC Paris since its foundation in 1881, the book takes readers through the planning and construction of its modern buildings(...)
Architecture Monographs
September 2019
HEC Campus: evolution of a model
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"HEC Campus: Evolution of a Model" documents the transformation in close detail and with one hundred illustrations, including twenty newly commissioned photographs by award-winning French photographer Cyrille Weiner. After a brief history of HEC Paris since its foundation in 1881, the book takes readers through the planning and construction of its modern buildings throughout the 1960s by René Coulons, and the careful restoration of many of these buildings by Duplantier and Chipperfield. The architects also conceived an entirely new building and a surrounding park, which has become a key element of campus social life. Through essays and an interview with Martin Duplantier, the book also explores the interplay of preservation and renovation and demonstrates how this exemplary contemporary redesign can be taken as a model for this sort of planning.
Architecture Monographs
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For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately stages ritual and routine, this most private of programs has become a medium of(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 2022
Thirteen ways of looking at a house. LEVENBETTS
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For reasons both obvious and mysterious, even as our cultural and social constructions of domesticity change, the house remains a fundamental site for advancing modern architectural theory and practice: because it accommodates a full diurnal and annual cycle of life, and because it intricately stages ritual and routine, this most private of programs has become a medium of publicity and polemic. This volume both participates in and critiques this contemporary tradition. The reader’s attention in this examination is directed not only to Levenbetts’ houses, but to all houses, and all parts of houses—pieces of home and rhetorics of domesticity that show up in our collective memory: from a stolen moment on a staircase in a John Cassavetes film, to the sturdy knife-edged contractor modernism of suburban late to mid-twentieth-century America.
Architecture Monographs
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This volume documents a series of events that took place in the summer of 2008 as part of the Summer on the Elbinsel festival in Wihelmsburg, Austria, which boasted a diverse group of international artists, including Critical Art Ensemble, Mike Davis, Lisa Heldke, Dan Peterman, Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Thomas Heyd. Comprising two volumes, this edition questions the(...)
Culture, nature: art and philosophy in the context of urban development
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This volume documents a series of events that took place in the summer of 2008 as part of the Summer on the Elbinsel festival in Wihelmsburg, Austria, which boasted a diverse group of international artists, including Critical Art Ensemble, Mike Davis, Lisa Heldke, Dan Peterman, Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Thomas Heyd. Comprising two volumes, this edition questions the contemporary grasp of the culture/nature dichotomy. Examining the functionality of the master plan in the quest for a socially and ecologically fair future, the book presents as alternatives cooperative planning processes, artistic interventions and philosophical reflections. Community gardening, gentrification processes and citizens' participation are among the themes that the participants in this timely project address, in their aim to use sustainable artistic methods to reflect an urban response to climate change.
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Planning Canadian Communities is the only book that provides a comprehensive view of the needs, origins, contemporary practices, and future challenges involved in planning Canadian communities. With this updated fifth edition, Planning Canadian Communities begins its 21st year of community planning analysis in the cities, towns, and regions of Canada. This books, the most(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2007, Toronto
Planning Canadian communities
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Planning Canadian Communities is the only book that provides a comprehensive view of the needs, origins, contemporary practices, and future challenges involved in planning Canadian communities. With this updated fifth edition, Planning Canadian Communities begins its 21st year of community planning analysis in the cities, towns, and regions of Canada. This books, the most widely used planning text in Canada since 1986, tells how community planning started in Canada, how it works today, and who participates in it.
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March 2007, Toronto
Architecture in Canada
Tadao Ando: Light and Space
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Following the acclaimed first volume in Tadao Ando’s monograph series with Phaidon, "Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light" (1996), this new volume showcases the continual collaboration between Ando and photographer Richard Pare. Beginning with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, and concluding with the Bourse de Commerce project, located in Paris, the book(...)
Tadao Ando: Light and Space
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Following the acclaimed first volume in Tadao Ando’s monograph series with Phaidon, "Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light" (1996), this new volume showcases the continual collaboration between Ando and photographer Richard Pare. Beginning with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, and concluding with the Bourse de Commerce project, located in Paris, the book features Pare’s stunning photographs of 28 contemporary projects in locations around the world, including Japan, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, Italy, and the United States. Pare’s images, most of which have never been published, expertly capture Ando’s quietly powerful approach to architectural design. Created in close collaboration with Ando and his studio, Light and Space opens with a foreword by the architect, an introduction by architect Dominique Perrault, and four original drawings Ando created specifically for this book, printed on thin tissue paper.
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