Saint-Pierre-des-Corps : Cité des temps industriels : architecture et urbanisme, XIXe-XXI siècle
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps apparaît comme une ville de passage, tapie entre la Loire et le Cher, irriguée par le chemin de fer, démarquée de Tours par une autoroute. Née avec l’industrie, la cité ne compte qu’un monument historique: une locomotive à vapeur, la Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. La ville des ouvriers et des cheminots recèle pourtant bien d’autres trésors industriels,(...)
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps : Cité des temps industriels : architecture et urbanisme, XIXe-XXI siècle
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Saint-Pierre-des-Corps apparaît comme une ville de passage, tapie entre la Loire et le Cher, irriguée par le chemin de fer, démarquée de Tours par une autoroute. Née avec l’industrie, la cité ne compte qu’un monument historique: une locomotive à vapeur, la Pacific Chapelon 231 E 41. La ville des ouvriers et des cheminots recèle pourtant bien d’autres trésors industriels, comme l’usine Doubinski ou l’immense nef de béton armé de l’ancien Magasin général de la SNCF. C’est aussi une ville de mémoire. Détruite lors des deux guerres, elle a été reconstruite par des architectes sensibles et cultivés comme Jean-Marie Hardion, Emile Labadie, puis Jean Dorian qui ont recréé un habitat peu dense, semé de squares et de jardins. Derrière la ville moderne perdurent les puits, les maraîchages de jadis et les rottes, ces chemins furtifs mènent à des jardins cachés. Saint-Pierre-des-Corps est aussi un espace de création.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism , Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial(...)
Concrete colonialism: Architecture, urbanism, and the US imperial project in the Philippines
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During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism , Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a project that sought durable change through the reformation of environments, colonial society, and racialized biologies. Martinez locates the origins of this material revolution in the development of Chicago, highlighting how building this urban center atop exceptionally challenging geology made it possible to transform diverse global ecologies. She details how the material's stability, plasticity, strength, and other qualities served the shifting imperatives of the US colonial regime, playing a central role in defending territory, controlling disease, and constructing monuments to nation and empire. By describing a world irreversibly remade, Martinez urges readers to consider how colonialism persists--in concrete forms--despite claims of its conclusion.
Théorie de l’architecture
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''Medium Hot'' is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture, exploring the limits of art and technology. Hito Steyerl argues that these practices cannot be divorced from economic and political conditions. In an era of supercharged change, she examines the way machine learning infiltrates every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.
Medium hot: Images in the Age of Heat
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''Medium Hot'' is the essential handbook for our present conjuncture, exploring the limits of art and technology. Hito Steyerl argues that these practices cannot be divorced from economic and political conditions. In an era of supercharged change, she examines the way machine learning infiltrates every aspect of our lives and what that means for the future.
Théorie de l’art
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Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. ''Architecture Against Architecture'' demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and(...)
Architecture against architecture: A manifesto
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Architecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. ''Architecture Against Architecture'' demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and insight, De Graaf lays out the future of the profession, challenging readers to question the fundamental assumptions of the discipline. How do we end the feudal veneration of starchitects? When will architects finally recognize that it is in their own best interest to unionize? Why aren’t more practices collectively owned? Why do so many architects over sixty-seven refuse to retire? How do we stop buildings from being copy-righted? What will remain of architecture after AI? What can prevent iconic structures from being embroiled in money laundering? And the vital question: What projects should architects refuse on moral grounds?
Théorie de l’architecture
The fragility of plaster
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France(...)
The fragility of plaster
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The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have continued to exert a powerful influence on our collective imagination. Viewed from this perspective, France in the period from 1815 to 1855 could be seen as the half-century of plaster. After the French Revolution, plaster was used for a great variety of things: building, moulding, sculpting, decorating. Cheap and easy to use, plaster was everywhere, from Napoleon’s death mask to household ornaments, from walls to elaborate mouldings. Plaster was king – but a fragile king that easily crumbled and fell apart. The age of plaster was also the reign of the ephemeral and the transient, the vulgar and the eclectic, and the men and women of the time struggled to maintain stability and continuity with the past.
Théorie de l’art
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent(...)
In praise of the earth: a journey into the garden
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The earth is not a dead, mute landscape but an eloquent, living being. Sometimes it just takes a spade, a packet of seeds, and a pair of sturdy boots to realize it. The philosopher Byung-Chul Han spent three springs, summers, autumns, and winters in his secret garden in Berlin, devoting himself to daily gardening in all weathers. For Han, gardening is a form of silent meditation, a lingering in stillness. It gives you a different sense of time. Every plant has its own time that is specific to it, and the garden is a space in which these multiple temporalities overlap and cut across one another. The longer he worked in the garden, the more respect he developed for the earth and for its enchanting beauty.
Théorie du paysage
A dream of stone
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Best known for her seminal novel "Memoirs of Hadrian" (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation to her lyric prose on art and artists in this newest title in the ekphrasis series. In these five jewel-like essays, Yourcenar meditates on the decay of time, the desire both satiated and refused(...)
A dream of stone
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Best known for her seminal novel "Memoirs of Hadrian" (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Roman emperor, Yourcenar brings the same depth of inquiry and inventive speculation to her lyric prose on art and artists in this newest title in the ekphrasis series. In these five jewel-like essays, Yourcenar meditates on the decay of time, the desire both satiated and refused by art, and the imagery animating the lives, works, and dreams of Michelangelo, Dürer, and Piranesi. And in an intimate mediation on the historical novel, Yourcenar describes her own encounters with how language and sound reveal the past. Together these exquisite essays explore that fundamental awe—perhaps even the terror—at the heart of an encounter with beauty.
Théorie de l’art
Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian experiences and practices in film, new media
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"Diffracting the North" is the first book to collect and share the experiences and material realities of Latinx Canadian creators of film, media, and visual arts. Bringing together scholars, filmmakers, curators, and artists from a range of Latin American backgrounds, this publication is a forthright and practitioner-driven reflection on the circumstances of producing and(...)
Théorie de l’art
février 2026
Diffracting the North: Contemporary Latinx Canadian experiences and practices in film, new media
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"Diffracting the North" is the first book to collect and share the experiences and material realities of Latinx Canadian creators of film, media, and visual arts. Bringing together scholars, filmmakers, curators, and artists from a range of Latin American backgrounds, this publication is a forthright and practitioner-driven reflection on the circumstances of producing and disseminating work in a country of predominantly anglophone and francophone environments. Contributors to the volume explore topics including how Latinx Canadian identity is constructed, negotiated, and expressed, as well as the networks and solidarities that shape Latinx Canadian experiences. These connections include intergenerational mentorships, cross-cultural alliances, and collaborations with Indigenous and other marginalized communities within racialized and gendered frameworks.
Théorie de l’art
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For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and(...)
Women writing architecture 1700-1900
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For centuries, women have influenced architecture worldwide by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring a wide variety of sources, from diaries and travelogues to inventories and political pamphlets, this book expands architectural histories to include these women. Female spatial agencies are revealed using rare written sources, new methodologies, and in-depth re-readings of canonical histories. Women from all walks of life, writing as clients, users, or critics, are relevant voices for understanding the built environment’s past. Examining specific spaces such as churches, homes, gardens, or boulevards, it proposes a novel take on feminist historiographies.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Georges Teyssot, parmi les plus prolifiques théoriciens contemporains de l’architecture, s’est distingué par ses réflexions sur les rapports entre architecture, corps et technologie. Ses activités d’enseignement l’ont mené de Venise (IUAV) à Princeton (Princeton University), puis à Québec (Université Laval). Ses écrits, nourris par la philosophie, les sciences et(...)
Théorie de l’architecture
décembre 2025
Le dispositif Teyssot : Un relevé intellectuel
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Georges Teyssot, parmi les plus prolifiques théoriciens contemporains de l’architecture, s’est distingué par ses réflexions sur les rapports entre architecture, corps et technologie. Ses activités d’enseignement l’ont mené de Venise (IUAV) à Princeton (Princeton University), puis à Québec (Université Laval). Ses écrits, nourris par la philosophie, les sciences et l'histoire de l'art, ont profondément transformé la compréhension de l’architecture à travers des concepts novateurs sur la domesticité, les paysages et la techno-esthétique. "Le dispositif Teyssot: un relevé intellectuel" prend comme point de départ la bibliothèque personnelle du théoricien, composée de 7191 ouvrages, laquelle se révèle être bien plus qu’une simple collection : elle constitue un véritable dispositif intellectuel. Ce vaste réseau de savoirs, soigneusement répertorié, éclaire les multiples influences l’ayant nourri et inspire ici d’anciens collaborateurs et collègues qui proposent des regards critiques sur les concepts clés de son œuvre tout en suggérant de nouvelles perspectives.
Théorie de l’architecture