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Publications et rapports, dont certains à singé et donné à Cormier : « Journal de l'Institut Royal d'Architecture » (1966), « Les Ordres d'Insectes » signé Ovila Fournier, « Initiation à la Géologie » signé Léo Morin, 2 « Revues Trimestrielle Canadienne », « Emploi des Échelles Infinies dans les Constructions Graphiques » signé Jules Poivert, « Images de la France d'hier » signé Olivier Maurault, et coupures de presse.
1926-1966
Publications diverses sur l'architecture et la géologie
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Publications et rapports, dont certains à singé et donné à Cormier : « Journal de l'Institut Royal d'Architecture » (1966), « Les Ordres d'Insectes » signé Ovila Fournier, « Initiation à la Géologie » signé Léo Morin, 2 « Revues Trimestrielle Canadienne », « Emploi des Échelles Infinies dans les Constructions Graphiques » signé Jules Poivert, « Images de la France d'hier » signé Olivier Maurault, et coupures de presse.
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1926-1966
Learning from... Shanghai
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
7 May 2009
Learning from... Shanghai
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In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
On Experimental Writing: Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, David Howes, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis
Join us for an open discussion about different approaches to contemporary writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism, featuring architectural writers and editors from publications such as Actar, Quaderns, Beyond, and the Architectural Theory Review. Presented in English, with invited guests David Howes, Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 February 2011 , 6pm
On Experimental Writing: Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, David Howes, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis
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Join us for an open discussion about different approaches to contemporary writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism, featuring architectural writers and editors from publications such as Actar, Quaderns, Beyond, and the Architectural Theory Review. Presented in English, with invited guests David Howes, Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Join us in Madrid for a conversation with Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros, with the participation of Ángel Borrego, Enrique Encabo, Albert Ferré (Associate Director, CCA Publications), María Auxiliadora Gálvez, and Moisés Puente. “Is there such a thing as an architecture of conversation?” ask Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros in their text “A Conversation,” published in CIRCO(...)
7 February 2017, 7pm
AP164: A Conversation with Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
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Join us in Madrid for a conversation with Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros, with the participation of Ángel Borrego, Enrique Encabo, Albert Ferré (Associate Director, CCA Publications), María Auxiliadora Gálvez, and Moisés Puente. “Is there such a thing as an architecture of conversation?” ask Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros in their text “A Conversation,” published in CIRCO(...)
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ARCH259088
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Documentation de projets divers pour Considère, Pelnard & Caquot dans un portefeuille d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des notes et calculs et tableaux, des dessins, des devis, des reprographies, des notes et calculs écrit en allemand. Comprend aussi un bloc-notes, 2 livres « Nouvelle méthode de calcul des grandes constructions continues » et « Calcul des enveloppes de révolution », 3 essais techniques en allemand, 2 revues polytechniques en allemand, et la publication « Drawing Office Instructions » de la Dominion Bridge Company (1902).
1902, 1914-1928
Documentation de projets divers à Paris pour Considère, Pelnard & Caquot
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Documentation de projets divers pour Considère, Pelnard & Caquot dans un portefeuille d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des notes et calculs et tableaux, des dessins, des devis, des reprographies, des notes et calculs écrit en allemand. Comprend aussi un bloc-notes, 2 livres « Nouvelle méthode de calcul des grandes constructions continues » et « Calcul des enveloppes de révolution », 3 essais techniques en allemand, 2 revues polytechniques en allemand, et la publication « Drawing Office Instructions » de la Dominion Bridge Company (1902).
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1902, 1914-1928
Following an intense period of work in the mid-1970s with Portugal’s post-revolutionary housing initiatives, in the early 1980s Álvaro Siza contributed projects to two of the most important urban renewal programs in Europe: Berlin’s IBA and The Hague’s Stadsvernieuwing als Kulturel Aktiviteit (Urban Renewal as a Cultural Activity). This lecture will examine the(...)
26 November 2015
Álvaro Siza’s Archaeology of the Ordinary
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Following an intense period of work in the mid-1970s with Portugal’s post-revolutionary housing initiatives, in the early 1980s Álvaro Siza contributed projects to two of the most important urban renewal programs in Europe: Berlin’s IBA and The Hague’s Stadsvernieuwing als Kulturel Aktiviteit (Urban Renewal as a Cultural Activity). This lecture will examine the(...)
Starting From... The Bubble
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
Hall cases
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…
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
Revolution on a Human Scale: Photography and Vkhutemas
Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
29 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
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Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House