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Placekeeping
sustainability, indigenous, colonialism, indigeneity, reindigenize, sisterhood, sorority, ecology, food, reciprocity, land-based practices
30 March 2025
Placekeeping
Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers reflect on acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings
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L’OEUF (Daniel Pearl, Bernard Olivier, and Sudhir Suri) is a Montreal-based architectural practice founded in 1992. Toronto architect Joe Lobko and Florence Portes, chef des services aux femmes at the Mission Old Brewery in Montreal, will join L’OEUF in a conversation on their book Community Inspired Housing in Canada. Co-edited with Daniel Wentz and published by the(...)
29 January 2015 , 6pm
L’OEUF, Joe Lobko, and Florence Portes want to speak with you
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L’OEUF (Daniel Pearl, Bernard Olivier, and Sudhir Suri) is a Montreal-based architectural practice founded in 1992. Toronto architect Joe Lobko and Florence Portes, chef des services aux femmes at the Mission Old Brewery in Montreal, will join L’OEUF in a conversation on their book Community Inspired Housing in Canada. Co-edited with Daniel Wentz and published by the(...)
Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
Learning from... Copenhagen
Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
21 May 2015 , 6pm
Learning from... Copenhagen
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Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
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268 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Paris : CILF, 1983.
Durabilité des bétons et des pierres.
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268 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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Paris : CILF, 1983.
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79 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Genève-Carouge : Université de Genève, Institut d'architecture, 2005.
Actes du Colloque "Urbicide - urgences - durabilité" : reconstruction et mémoire / organisation du Colloque: Institut d'architecture de l'Université de Genève, 9 et 10 novmebre 2000 ; sous la dir. de Rémi Baudouï et Anna Grichting ; avec la participation de CICR, Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Genève ... [et al.].
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Genève-Carouge : Université de Genève, Institut d'architecture, 2005.
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Paris : Eyrolles, 1969, c1966.
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Paris : Eyrolles, 1969, c1966.
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125 pages : color illustrations ; 16 x 22 cm
Paris : Editions du Pavillon de l'Arsenal, [2000]
Matières du plaisir : rugosité, raideur, assemblage, lumière, durabilité, densité = Materials of pleasure : roughness, stiffnes[s], assemblage, light, durability, density.
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125 pages : color illustrations ; 16 x 22 cm
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Paris : Editions du Pavillon de l'Arsenal, [2000]
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371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Paris : Economica : Anthropos, ©2010.
Ecologies urbaines / sous la direction de Olivier Coutard, Jean-Pierre Lévy.
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371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Paris : Economica : Anthropos, ©2010.