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Le paysage des origines : le voyage en Sicile de Richard Payne Knight

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GOD & CO François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble

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Dallegret’s own life and work denies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work, beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montréal, absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the ‘A Home Is Not a House’ collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montréal; proposals for a new Montréal Palais Metro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montréal 67 Expo; engraved bars of soap; subversive credit cards; ‘ironique’ villas and light installations. The book will illustrate a great many of these works and contains essays on Dallegret’s life and legacy by the historians Alessandra Ponte and Laurent Stalder. GOD & CO is published to accompany an exhibition at the Architectural Association, London.

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AA words 11 : the house of light and entropy

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Written by landscape historian Alessandra Ponte, this collection of essays begins with an investigation of the American obsession with lawns and then continues to collectively map the aesthetic, scientific and technological production of past and present North American landscapes. These include the American desert as a privileged site of scientific and artistic testing; the faraway projects of electrification of the Canadian North; the transformation of the notion and perception of waste and wasteland during the twentieth century; the photographic medium and its encounters with Native Americans; as well as an introductory essay, 'The Map and the Territory', written specifically for this volume.

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Pierre Thibault: l'architecture comme paysage

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Troisième monographie par la MAQ avec l’Atelier Pierre Thibault, agence reconnue au Québec mais aussi ailleurs dans le monde. Détentrice de nombreux prix dont le Prix de Rome en architecture du Canada, l’agence la plus connue du grand public québécois célèbre ses 25 ans et se voit ici analysée et placée dans un contexte plus large par les théoriciens en histoire et architecture Georges Teyssot et Alessandra Ponte. L’œuvre est également vue et présentée à travers l’œil du cinéaste oscarisé Denys Arcand et du photographe attitré de l’architecte depuis un quart de siècle, Alain Laforest (plus de 100 photos couleurs dans une section bonus spéciale).