Materiality of Parkour
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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 February 2009
Materiality of Parkour
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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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
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
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24 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
New York : Ransome Engineering Co., [approximately 1912]
Ransome Engineering Company, reinforced concrete experts ...
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24 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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New York : Ransome Engineering Co., [approximately 1912]
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volumes ; 22 cm
Ottawa : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Experts in residence program : guidelines and application for ... = Programme d'experts en résidence : directives et demandes de participation pour ...
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volumes ; 22 cm
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Ottawa : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
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19 p. ; 24 cm.
Philadelphia : Dunlap & Clarke, 1884.
Report of the Board of Experts on Street Paving : to Hon. William B. Smith, Mayor of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, July 8, 1884.
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19 p. ; 24 cm.
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Philadelphia : Dunlap & Clarke, 1884.
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1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
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[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
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1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
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[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
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110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Rome, Italy : ICCROM ; Villefontaine, France : CRATerre, ©1988.
5th International Meeting of Experts on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture : Rome, 22-23, X, 1987 / [document preparation, Cynthia Rockwell and others] = 5e réunion internationale d'experts sur la conservation de l'architecture de terre : Rome, 22-23, X, 1987 / [preparation du document, Cynthia Rockwell and others].
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110 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Rome, Italy : ICCROM ; Villefontaine, France : CRATerre, ©1988.
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vii, 76 pages.
New York : United Nations, 1962.
Report of the ad hoc group of experts on housing and urban development.
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vii, 76 pages.
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New York : United Nations, 1962.