As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Joar Nango, Nicole Luke, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Rafico Ruiz, circumpolar North, Inuit, Inuit Nunangat, Sami, Sapmi, Towards Home
11 June 2022 to 26 March 2023
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Joar Nango, Nicole Luke, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Rafico Ruiz, circumpolar North, Inuit, Inuit Nunangat, Sami, Sapmi, Towards Home
The expanded role: SITU
Bradley Samuels presents recent SITU Research work and the role that research plays within the larger practice of SITU as a whole. A series of case studies will be presented which explore an expanded role for architectural and spatial practice across a range of fields—from human rights and public policy to earth science and workspace design. SITU Research’s past work(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 January 2016
The expanded role: SITU
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Bradley Samuels presents recent SITU Research work and the role that research plays within the larger practice of SITU as a whole. A series of case studies will be presented which explore an expanded role for architectural and spatial practice across a range of fields—from human rights and public policy to earth science and workspace design. SITU Research’s past work(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Starting From... Travel
Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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3 December 2008 to 1 May 2009
Starting From... Travel
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Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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Learning from... Bahrain
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Liège : P. Madarga, [1979-1982]
La terre cuite / Giovanni Peirs ; photos, Peter Labarque.
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2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
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Liège : P. Madarga, [1979-1982]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Paris : Manuella, ©2010.
Demain, la terre-- / [Claude Parent].
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 33 cm
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Paris : Manuella, ©2010.
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160 pages ; 19 cm.
[Paris] : Fayard, ©2011.
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[Paris] : Fayard, ©2011.
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170 pages, 80 leaves of plates : color illustrations
Paris : Morel, 1881.
La brique et la terre cuite / par Pierre Chabat.
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170 pages, 80 leaves of plates : color illustrations
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Paris : Morel, 1881.
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61 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.
[Paris] : Éditions B2, [2018]
Recosmiser la Terre : quelques leçons péruviennes / Augustin Berque.
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61 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.
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[Paris] : Éditions B2, [2018]