Learning from... Luanda
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(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
1 November 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Luanda
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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(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
The formaldehyde-based resins that bind pressed woods are an overlooked, yet foundational, agent in the homemaking and technological dreamworlds of mid-twentieth century North America. Formaldehyde, an irritant, allergen, neurotoxin, and carcinogen, undergirds much of the comfort, security, and affordability of the modern home. In this talk Nicholas Shapiro tracks(...)
9 March 2017
When Shelter Becomes Exposure
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The formaldehyde-based resins that bind pressed woods are an overlooked, yet foundational, agent in the homemaking and technological dreamworlds of mid-twentieth century North America. Formaldehyde, an irritant, allergen, neurotoxin, and carcinogen, undergirds much of the comfort, security, and affordability of the modern home. In this talk Nicholas Shapiro tracks(...)
articles
Shifting Shores
Shifting Shores
Kirsten Keller and Feifei Zhou on the dynamic materialities of property-making in Jakarta
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Kiran Mukerji Collection
CD038
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The Kiran Mukerji collection contains Kiran Mukerji’s research material on building and design technologies for affordable housing, which consists mostly of publications, and a few textual records the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building).
1972-2013
Kiran Mukerji Collection
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CD038
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The Kiran Mukerji collection contains Kiran Mukerji’s research material on building and design technologies for affordable housing, which consists mostly of publications, and a few textual records the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building).
archives
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1972-2013
textual records
DR2004:1095
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correspondence, text, memorandum, proposal document, material from Brunswick (AP144.S2.D117), material from Trafalgar (AP144.S2.D114), material from Kew (AP144.S2.D115), material from the Green Theatre project (Cedric Price project #150), and material from the China project (Cedric Price project #149)
Correspondence, text, memorandum, proposal document
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DR2004:1095
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correspondence, text, memorandum, proposal document, material from Brunswick (AP144.S2.D117), material from Trafalgar (AP144.S2.D114), material from Kew (AP144.S2.D115), material from the Green Theatre project (Cedric Price project #150), and material from the China project (Cedric Price project #149)
textual records
textual records
Entre Deux Rues
ARCH253956
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promotional material
1971
textual records
1971
drawings, textual records, photographs
ARCH277481
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File's title: Planos salas materiales. Contains as well notes, references materials and slides.
ca. 1995
Conceptual and design development drawings, III Bienal Arquitectura Española, Comillas and Madrid, Spain
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ARCH277481
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File's title: Planos salas materiales. Contains as well notes, references materials and slides.
drawings, textual records, photographs
ca. 1995
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.040
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publications, reports, promotional and commercial material, such as brochures, leaflets on construction material. Also includes a file of reference material on slums improvement in Africa.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on construction material
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AP149.S2.SS3.040
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publications, reports, promotional and commercial material, such as brochures, leaflets on construction material. Also includes a file of reference material on slums improvement in Africa.
textual records
1970s-1990s