Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
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David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
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
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(...)
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Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
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
archives
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7 items : illustrations (some color) ; 43 cm or smaller
L'enseignement de... = Learning from... (colloquia) : products, 2007-2011.
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7 items : illustrations (some color) ; 43 cm or smaller
archives
audio
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2 audiocassettes : analog., 1 audiocassette (DAT) : digital ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape.
[1994]
L'enseignement de l'architecture.
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2 audiocassettes : analog., 1 audiocassette (DAT) : digital ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape.
audio
[1994]
books
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32 pages ; 24 cm
Ixelles-Bruxelles : Imprimerie G. Bothy, 1941.
L'enseignement de l'urbanisme / par Eugène Dhuicque.
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32 pages ; 24 cm
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Ixelles-Bruxelles : Imprimerie G. Bothy, 1941.
video
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1 videocassette (Mini-DV) (approximately 62 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master
[2007]
L'enseignement de-- China = Learning from-- China.
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1 videocassette (Mini-DV) (approximately 62 min.) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master
video
[2007]
books
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152 pages ; 21 cm
Notre-Dame des Neiges, Que. : [publisher not identified], 1904.
La Ligue de l'Enseignement : histoire d'une conspiration maçonnique à Montréal.
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152 pages ; 21 cm
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Notre-Dame des Neiges, Que. : [publisher not identified], 1904.