In this conversation, Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University) will discuss approaches to architectural history today with Esra Akcan (Cornell University) and Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). What does it mean to write a global history of architecture now? What is the relationship between such a history and urgent contemporary concerns? During a(...)
6 April 2017
A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton: Can There Be a Global Architectural History Today?
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In this conversation, Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University) will discuss approaches to architectural history today with Esra Akcan (Cornell University) and Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). What does it mean to write a global history of architecture now? What is the relationship between such a history and urgent contemporary concerns? During a(...)
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
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26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
4 July 2007 to 30 September 2007
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
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The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Susanne Kriemann, conversation, oral history, radioactive landscapes
11 March 2024
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Détails divers
ARCH8586
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Détails divers : cloison vitrées. Ailes E, B', D' et E' : portes extérieures, seuils aux entrées D'3 et E'4. Ailes K et L : détails de la salle des promotions, incluant le fini des murs et des fenêtres sous le balcon, l'ouverture au plafond pour la store " Athey " et l'auge à lumières électriques du mur postérieure; appareil d'éclairage en bronze du hall d'honneur, seuils aux entrées L4 (dessins 551 à 554, 556 à 560).
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Détails divers
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Détails divers : cloison vitrées. Ailes E, B', D' et E' : portes extérieures, seuils aux entrées D'3 et E'4. Ailes K et L : détails de la salle des promotions, incluant le fini des murs et des fenêtres sous le balcon, l'ouverture au plafond pour la store " Athey " et l'auge à lumières électriques du mur postérieure; appareil d'éclairage en bronze du hall d'honneur, seuils aux entrées L4 (dessins 551 à 554, 556 à 560).
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1942
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102 pages ; 30 cm
Paris : Editions du Palmier en zinc, ©1989.
La Lumière : journal de la photographie. Index.
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102 pages ; 30 cm
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Paris : Editions du Palmier en zinc, ©1989.
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2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 36 cm
[Paris] : J. Laffitte, 1995.
Collection du journal La lumière.
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2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 36 cm
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[Paris] : J. Laffitte, 1995.
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383 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Paris : Éd. Place des Victoires, 2010.
Lumière & architecture / [coordination éditoriale, Simone K. Schleifer ; édité par Montse Borràs]. monograph.
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383 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Paris : Éd. Place des Victoires, 2010.
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130 pages illustrations, portraits 29 cm
Paris, Éditions Prisma, 1948.
Louis Lumière, inventeur [par] Maurice Bessy et Lo Duca.
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130 pages illustrations, portraits 29 cm
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Paris, Éditions Prisma, 1948.