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The photographer Édouard Baldus (1813-1889), a central figure in the early development of French photography and acknowledged in his day as a pioneer in the still-experimental field, was widely acclaimed both for his aesthetic sensitivity and for his technical prowess. Establishing a new mode of representing architecture and describing the emerging modern landscape with(...)
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octobre 1994, Montréal / New York
The photographs of Edouard Baldus
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The photographer Édouard Baldus (1813-1889), a central figure in the early development of French photography and acknowledged in his day as a pioneer in the still-experimental field, was widely acclaimed both for his aesthetic sensitivity and for his technical prowess. Establishing a new mode of representing architecture and describing the emerging modern landscape with magnificent authority, he enjoyed high patronage in the 1850s and 1860s. Yet, despite the artist's renown during his lifetime, his name is all but unknown today, his work savored only by connoisseurs. This book, the first to chronicle the life and career of this important artist, brings his work once more before the public. The superb quality of the reproductions captures the subtle tones and soft matte surfaces of the original prints, many of which are published here for the first time. Baldus made his reputation with views of the monuments of Paris and the south of France, with dramatic landscape of the Auvergne, with photographs of the New Louvre, and with a poignant record of the devastating floods of 1856. But it is his two railroad albums -- the first commissioned in 1855 by Baron James de Rothschild for presentation to Queen Victoria, the second in 1861 by the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railroad company -- that are his greatest achievement. Here he brought together his earlier architectural and scenic images with bold geometric views of the modern landscape -- railroad tracks, stations, bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- to address the influence of technology (of which both the railroad and the camera are prime examples). In so doing, Baldus anticipated the concerns of Impressionnist painters a decade later and those of many artists of our own day, meeting his task with a clarity and directness not since surpassed.
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Cette courte monographie et l'exposition itinérante qu'elle accompagne ont pour but de faire mieux connaître l'une des principales figures de l'architecture canadienne à l'heure actuelle. Ce livre contient les essais d'Alberto Pérez-Gomez et d'Howard Shubert ainsi que des photographies de Geoffrey James. / This short monograph and the travelling(...)
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janvier 1994, Montréal
Richard Henriquez et le Théâtre de la mémoire / Richard Henriquez : Memory Theatre
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Cette courte monographie et l'exposition itinérante qu'elle accompagne ont pour but de faire mieux connaître l'une des principales figures de l'architecture canadienne à l'heure actuelle. Ce livre contient les essais d'Alberto Pérez-Gomez et d'Howard Shubert ainsi que des photographies de Geoffrey James. / This short monograph and the travelling exhibition to which it is a guide introduce a major figure in Canadian architecture today. With essays by Alberto Pérez-Gomez and Howard Shubert, and photographs by Geoffrey James.
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Avec des oeuvres tirées des collections du CCA. / With selected objects from the CCA collections.
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Une arcadie anglaise, 1600-1900 : jardins et bâtiments sous la garde du National Trust / An English Arcadia 1600-1900 : designs for gardens and garden buildings in the care of the National Trust
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Avec des oeuvres tirées des collections du CCA. / With selected objects from the CCA collections.
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Ce deuxième livret consacré à la collection de jeux et jouets d'architecture du CCA présente des jouets qui sensibilisent l'enfant aux rapports entre la structure inventée et ses éléments. / Second in a series of booklets on the CCA's toy collection.
Architecture potentielle : jeux de construction de la collection du CCA / Potential architecture : construction toys from the CCA collection
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Ce deuxième livret consacré à la collection de jeux et jouets d'architecture du CCA présente des jouets qui sensibilisent l'enfant aux rapports entre la structure inventée et ses éléments. / Second in a series of booklets on the CCA's toy collection.
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Examines five unbuilt projects with which Wright proposed an unprecedented integration of building and site. With essays by David De Long, Anne Whiston Spirn, C. Ford Peatross, and Robert L. Sweeney.
Frank Lloyd Wright: designs for an American landscape 1922-1932
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Examines five unbuilt projects with which Wright proposed an unprecedented integration of building and site. With essays by David De Long, Anne Whiston Spirn, C. Ford Peatross, and Robert L. Sweeney.
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Cette publication retrace l'historique de la conception de cinq projets non réalisés, révélant dans une succession de dessins les idées que Wright a explorées. / This publication follows the design histories of five unrealized projects, tracing the ideas Wright explored in successive drawings.
Frank Lloyd Wright : inventer un paysage américain, 1922-1932 / designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932
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Cette publication retrace l'historique de la conception de cinq projets non réalisés, révélant dans une succession de dessins les idées que Wright a explorées. / This publication follows the design histories of five unrealized projects, tracing the ideas Wright explored in successive drawings.
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Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. / Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of architectural toys in the CCA collection.
Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets / Dream houses, toy homes
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Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. / Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of architectural toys in the CCA collection.
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Shaping the Great City looks at modern architecture and the city in a vast geographical area over nearly fifty years of tumultuous social and political change, bringing to light architectural developments that are only now emerging as subjects for international inquiry. How did modern architecture construct “meaning” in relation to the complex cultural traditions,(...)
Shaping the great city: modern architecture in central Europe, 1890-1937
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Shaping the Great City looks at modern architecture and the city in a vast geographical area over nearly fifty years of tumultuous social and political change, bringing to light architectural developments that are only now emerging as subjects for international inquiry. How did modern architecture construct “meaning” in relation to the complex cultural traditions, conflicting political agendas, and historical narratives of modernizing urban society in the cities of central Europe? What role did the cities themselves—as the principal arenas of public culture in the multinational, polyethnic, and pluricultural Hapsburg Empire, then in the successor republics—play in the evolution of modern architectural culture? These questions remain pertinent to the current relationship between cities and the increasingly diverse cultures within them, and to the role of the great city today in the age of globalization.
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This catalogue to the CCA's exhibition presents four of the most representative and best documented of the artificial excavation projects: an urban design scheme for Cannaregio West in Venice (1978); a housing project near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin (1980-1981, partially realized 1982-1986); a design for the University Art Museum at California State University, Long(...)
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Cities of artificial excavation: the work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988
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This catalogue to the CCA's exhibition presents four of the most representative and best documented of the artificial excavation projects: an urban design scheme for Cannaregio West in Venice (1978); a housing project near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin (1980-1981, partially realized 1982-1986); a design for the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach (1986); and Chora L Works (1985-1986), a garden for the Parc de La Villette in Paris designed in collaboration with Jacques Derrida. Each project is presented through the architect's drawings and models, over 200 images in all, more than 150 of them in colour, most from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Each project sequence begins with a theoretical text by Eisenman, then goes on to a project history describing the site and explaining Eisenman's design strategy. The unprecedented publication of complete series of conceptual drawings not only illustrates Eisenman's design process in detail, but also traces the transformation, through drawing and model making, of his architectural discourse. With essays by Alan Balfour, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-François Bédard, Jean-Louis Cohen, Kurt W. Forster, K. Michael Hays, Arata Isozaki, and Fredric Jameson.
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This catalogue to the CCA's exhibition presents four of the most representative and best documented of the artificial excavation projects: an urban design scheme for Cannaregio West in Venice (1978); a housing project near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin (1980-1981, partially realized 1982-1986); a design for the University Art Museum at California State University, Long(...)
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février 1994, Montréal / New York
Cities of artificial excavation: the work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988
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This catalogue to the CCA's exhibition presents four of the most representative and best documented of the artificial excavation projects: an urban design scheme for Cannaregio West in Venice (1978); a housing project near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin (1980-1981, partially realized 1982-1986); a design for the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach (1986); and Chora L Works (1985-1986), a garden for the Parc de La Villette in Paris designed in collaboration with Jacques Derrida. Each project is presented through the architect's drawings and models, over 200 images in all, more than 150 of them in colour, most from the collections of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Each project sequence begins with a theoretical text by Eisenman, then goes on to a project history describing the site and explaining Eisenman's design strategy. The unprecedented publication of complete series of conceptual drawings not only illustrates Eisenman's design process in detail, but also traces the transformation, through drawing and model making, of his architectural discourse. With essays by Alan Balfour, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-François Bédard, Jean-Louis Cohen, Kurt W. Forster, K. Michael Hays, Arata Isozaki, and Fredric Jameson.
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