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Diamond Schmitt Architects: Set pieces. Architecture for the performing arts in sixteen fragments

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Why does live performance continue to engage us? In a world saturated with recorded entertainment, we seek out the intimacy and immediacy of live music and theater. What is the relationship between design and the experiences, perceptions, and memories it engenders? At its best, architecture, a collection of elements - some apparent, some hidden - shapes and intensifies the process and experience of performance. Set Pieces pairs the words of leading artists and critics with details showcasing the design and inner workings from projects by Diamond Schmitt Architects for some of the world’s most remarkable performing-arts buildings. The book provides an immersive study of sixteen design elements that enhance and transform the perception of performance - and evoke experiences that surpass visual understanding.

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100 rooms: Many untold parables of the empty room

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"The Empty Room", in the absence of any visual materials, was a written manifesto composed of RZLBD’s poems and collection of quotes intended to portray the room and the emptiness as the essence of architecture. Now, "100 Rooms" complements our own blurry images of the empty room with a visual guide. Each spread consists of a plan and a physical model of a room, which is an excavation of the geometry and order inherent within the square. It holds no design intention — no scale or function — but simply one of infinite possibilities that emerge from a square. This framework suggests that the formal expression of a room comes from within. With these visual references, one can begin to imagine many approximations to the empty room. A line on paper is always less, as Kahn says, but through these measurable means, the immeasurable idea of the empty room will be formed in one’s mind.

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Roger d'Astous, architecte

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Formé par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright, Roger D'Astous fut un des créateurs les plus féconds de la génération des pionniers québécois du modernisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Comme son maître, l'architecte montréalais fut avant tout un bâtisseur de maisons. Toujours fidèle aux principes de l'architecture organique, notamment l'intégration de l'œuvre au milieu naturel et le respect de la propriété des matériaux, il sut, grâce à une recherche persistante, concevoir des formes nouvelles qui lui permirent de créer un style personnel. Roger d'Astous apporta aussi une contribution exceptionnelle à l'architecture religieuse qui franchissait une étape de renouveau au moment où il entamait sa carrière. Sa production d'autres types d'édifices fut moins soutenue, mais presque chaque fois son intervention dans ces domaines a donné lieu à des œuvres qui se démarquent par leur originalité, comme en témoigne l'élégant Château Champlain à Montréal.

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Carscadden Thrift: selected works

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Carscadden Thrift is structured in the spirit of the translation from drawing (speculation) to material (actual). Photographs document the messy realities of construction and are referenced to select drawings. The analogy to a set of contract documents is obvious but not superficial. It requires readers to examine both in order to understand the nature of a project -- projects that taken collectively describe the culture of the studio and the firm's attempts to understand questions posited by the constraints of scale, site and schedule.

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Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices

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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

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Jean-Marie Roy, architecte

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Cet ouvrage relate la vie et la carrière de l'architecte Jean-Marie Roy (1925-2011) qui a marqué l'architecture moderne au Québec par sa riche production s'étendant sur 40 ans (1953-1993. On lui doit plusieurs œuvres connues, dont l'église Saint-Denys à Sainte-Foy, les campus intercommunautaires de Saint-Augustin, le PEPS de l'Université Laval, le Centre médical Berger à Québec, les tours de bureaux du complexe Desjardins à Montréal et la mise en valeur du Haut-Fourneau des Forges du Saint-Maurice à Trois-Rivières. Le livre retrace, dans un premier temps, son parcours professionnel, ses influences et l'évolution de sa pratique à travers les époques et différents thèmes représentatifs de sa production architecturale. Ensuite, une trentaine de réalisations marquantes sont présentées et illustrées de centaines de photographies anciennes et contemporaines ainsi que de dessins faits de la main de l'architecte. Ce panorama d'œuvres marquantes, mises en contexte d'un point de vue historique et artistique, permet de découvrir un bâtisseur du Québec moderne et une architecture inspirée et inspirante.

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Full spectrum : the architecture of Jeremy Sturgess

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Governor-General award winning architect Jeremy Sturgess recently celebrated thirty years in practice in Calgary, where he has been based his whole career. During that time, Sturgess has made a major contribution to transforming the architectural face of the city, from individual houses to large-scale public projects such as the Calgary Water Centre, the Grand Theatre, and Calgarys most recent downtown LRT stations. This publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of Sturgesss architecture and urban design, and assesses his contribution to Canadian architecture generally and Calgary architecture in particular. Editor Geoffrey Simmins has gathered perspectives from a number of individuals with whom Sturgess has enjoyed long-term professional relationships - an artist, an urban designer, an architect colleague, an architectural critic, and a journalist. Along with reflections on Sturgesss personality, philosophy, and creative growth, these contributors provide in-depth discussions of a number of Sturgesss most celebrated projects. Simmins himself has drawn on Sturgesss papers and several personal interviews to craft an insightful introduction to the volume. Illustrated with architectural line drawings and with photos by photographer Robert Lemermeyer.

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Occasional work and seven walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

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This book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.

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Peter Dickinson

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Every aspect of Dickinson's life was large, from his height to his wife - a former model - from his ambition to his social and professional standing. England could not contain him. He needed a larger stage and that is what he found here. The architecture he set into motion was like him: big, fresh, and bold. It was not only modern, it had an audacious individualistic style that twisted and turned in new and magnificent ways. This is the first major book on the Canadian architect Peter Dickinson.

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Studioeast 2009

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A student journal of work from the architecture program at Dalhousie University.