Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
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18 October 2006 to 10 June 2007
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow
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Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
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The planet is the client
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The planet is the client
Gilles Clément
French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 October 2006
Gilles Clément
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French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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DR2006:0167
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Le lustre est composé de 105 éléments en forme de larme. Chaque larme est en acrylique et contient soit un spécimen organique soit un objet trouvé cueilli par Gilles Clément d'un "Tiers paysage" près du Jardin du CCA. Attaché au bout de chaque élément est un fil en plastique. Lors de l'exposition "Environ(ne)ment", les éléments furent supendus du plafond pour former le lustre. -- The chandelier is composed of 105 teardrop-shaped elements, each of which is attached to a plastic cord. Each "teardrop" is made of acrylic, and in each one is encased either an organic specimen or a found object collected by Gilles Clément from a "Third Landscape" near the CCA Garden. For the "Environ(ne)ment" exhibition, each teardrop was suspended from the ceiling to form the chandelier.
2006
Lustre installé au Centre canadien d'architecture dans le cadre de l'exposition "Environnement - manières d'agir pour demain"
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Le lustre est composé de 105 éléments en forme de larme. Chaque larme est en acrylique et contient soit un spécimen organique soit un objet trouvé cueilli par Gilles Clément d'un "Tiers paysage" près du Jardin du CCA. Attaché au bout de chaque élément est un fil en plastique. Lors de l'exposition "Environ(ne)ment", les éléments furent supendus du plafond pour former le lustre. -- The chandelier is composed of 105 teardrop-shaped elements, each of which is attached to a plastic cord. Each "teardrop" is made of acrylic, and in each one is encased either an organic specimen or a found object collected by Gilles Clément from a "Third Landscape" near the CCA Garden. For the "Environ(ne)ment" exhibition, each teardrop was suspended from the ceiling to form the chandelier.
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2006
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L’installation Météorologie d’intérieur fut présentée au Centre Canadien d’Architecture (CCA) lors de l’exposition Environ(ne)ment (18 octobre 2006-10 juin 2007) et à Rovereto en Italie lors de l’exposition Manifesta 7 (19 juillet-2 novembre 2008). Les documents d’archives de l’installation comprennent le logiciel développé pour l’installation et une sélection des objets installés dans les deux espaces d’exposition. *** The installation Interior Weather was presented at the Candian Centre for Architecture (CCA) as part of the exhibition Environ(ne)ment (October 18, 2006-June 10, 2007) and in Rovereto, Italy as part of Manifesta 7 (July 19-November 2, 2008). The records of the installation Interior Weather include the software developed for the installation and a selection of objects installed in the exhibition spaces.
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Philippe Rahm "Interior Weather" installation records
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L’installation Météorologie d’intérieur fut présentée au Centre Canadien d’Architecture (CCA) lors de l’exposition Environ(ne)ment (18 octobre 2006-10 juin 2007) et à Rovereto en Italie lors de l’exposition Manifesta 7 (19 juillet-2 novembre 2008). Les documents d’archives de l’installation comprennent le logiciel développé pour l’installation et une sélection des objets installés dans les deux espaces d’exposition. *** The installation Interior Weather was presented at the Candian Centre for Architecture (CCA) as part of the exhibition Environ(ne)ment (October 18, 2006-June 10, 2007) and in Rovereto, Italy as part of Manifesta 7 (July 19-November 2, 2008). The records of the installation Interior Weather include the software developed for the installation and a selection of objects installed in the exhibition spaces.
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17 items : ill. ; 97 cm. or smaller.
Gilles Clément et Philippe Rahm : environnement : manières d'agir pour demain = Gilles Clément and Philippe Rahm : environment : approaches for tomorrow : exhibition products, 2006-2007.
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17 items : ill. ; 97 cm. or smaller.
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1 streaming video file (19 min., 34 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2016]
Environ(ne)ment : Philippe Rahm.
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1 streaming video file (19 min., 34 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2016]
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1 streaming video file (18 min., 53 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : [Centre canadien d'architecture], [2016]
Environ(ne)ment : Gilles Clément.
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1 streaming video file (18 min., 53 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : [Centre canadien d'architecture], [2016]
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videorecording (master): 1 videocassette (Mini-DV) : sound, color ; 1/4 in.
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2006.
Philippe Rahm in conversation with Giovanna Borasi.
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Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2006.