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The essays in this volume were written on the occasion of the symposium on 'Landscape Architecture in Mutation' held at the ETH Zurich in October 2004. The contributors consider the changed aesthetic, functional and natural characteristics of urban landscapes, and present suitable approaches and procedures for their design and development. This book provides the(...)
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janvier 2005,
Landscape architecture in mutation - essays on urban landscape
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The essays in this volume were written on the occasion of the symposium on 'Landscape Architecture in Mutation' held at the ETH Zurich in October 2004. The contributors consider the changed aesthetic, functional and natural characteristics of urban landscapes, and present suitable approaches and procedures for their design and development. This book provides the theoretical background for the "mutation" of landscape architecture, illustrating theory with exemplary planning projects - ranging from individual to geographical scales - in Switzerland, Europe and the USA. The contributors represent various disciplines : landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, engineering, art history and cultural studies. In English with summaries in German.
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Isabelle Pauwels is a young Vancouver artist with an abiding concern about the effect of architecture on social relation. "Unfinished Apartment for Rent" details, in seven screenplays, the interaction between a series of fictitious apartment dwellers. Forced through financial constraints to assemble furniture from the walls of their individual accommodations, these(...)
Isabelle Pauwels : unfurnished apartment for rent
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Isabelle Pauwels is a young Vancouver artist with an abiding concern about the effect of architecture on social relation. "Unfinished Apartment for Rent" details, in seven screenplays, the interaction between a series of fictitious apartment dwellers. Forced through financial constraints to assemble furniture from the walls of their individual accommodations, these renters sacrifice more and more privacy as they cannibalize their dwellings for creature comforts.
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This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the work of Christopher Williams at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. For this project Christopher Williams drew from three disparate sources: the development of colour photography for commercial applications in the United States, the European reception of Pop Art - specifically in relation to Marcel Broodthaer’s first(...)
janvier 2005, Vancouver
Christopher Williams : archäologie beaux-arts / ethnography théâtre-vérité
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This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the work of Christopher Williams at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. For this project Christopher Williams drew from three disparate sources: the development of colour photography for commercial applications in the United States, the European reception of Pop Art - specifically in relation to Marcel Broodthaer’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Saint-Laurent, Brussels in 1964, and the work of Raoul Hausmann, made during his stay in Ibiza, Spain between 1933 and 1936.
Arni Haraldsson : Firminy
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Firminy is a small French mining town, and is the site of the largest collection of Le Corbusier’s architecture outside of Chandigarh, India. Monumental in scale and civic ambition at its inception, the development at Firminy followed Le Corbusier’s concept of La Ville Radieuse (the Radiant City). The buildings at Firminy were never completed due to local industrial(...)
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Arni Haraldsson : Firminy
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Firminy is a small French mining town, and is the site of the largest collection of Le Corbusier’s architecture outside of Chandigarh, India. Monumental in scale and civic ambition at its inception, the development at Firminy followed Le Corbusier’s concept of La Ville Radieuse (the Radiant City). The buildings at Firminy were never completed due to local industrial decline, and in recent years have suffered from political manipulation and physical neglect. The current state of the site is documented in Arni Haraldsson’s photographic series from 1999. Using a historically minded and architecturally oriented curiosity, Haraldsson sets these buildings and their modernist utopianism within the frame of the local inhabitants’ conviction of the social and historical value of Corbusier’s life and work.
Some detached houses
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The catalogue from an exhibition curated by Bill Jeffries. With texts by Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Robert Linsley, Jennifer Oille Sinclair, Robert Smithson, Greg Snider, Calvert Vaux. Artists include : Warren Murfitt, Dan Graham, Margaret Naylor, Amy Jones, Robin Collyer, Todd A. Davis, Bill Jones, Robert Linsley, Warren Murfitt, Margaret Naylor, Ed Ruscha, Nancy Shaw,(...)
Some detached houses
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The catalogue from an exhibition curated by Bill Jeffries. With texts by Rodney Graham, Robert Kleyn, Robert Linsley, Jennifer Oille Sinclair, Robert Smithson, Greg Snider, Calvert Vaux. Artists include : Warren Murfitt, Dan Graham, Margaret Naylor, Amy Jones, Robin Collyer, Todd A. Davis, Bill Jones, Robert Linsley, Warren Murfitt, Margaret Naylor, Ed Ruscha, Nancy Shaw, Greg Snider.
Geoffrey Farmer
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This book accompanies Geoffrey Farmer’s installation "The Blacking Factory" which comprised two interrelated works: a sculptural installation in the form of a large truck trailer, and a film work depicting a window of the Contemporary Art Gallery shattering from an explosive concussion. With these works, Farmer utilizes the technological expertise of the film industry to(...)
janvier 1900, Vancouver
Geoffrey Farmer
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This book accompanies Geoffrey Farmer’s installation "The Blacking Factory" which comprised two interrelated works: a sculptural installation in the form of a large truck trailer, and a film work depicting a window of the Contemporary Art Gallery shattering from an explosive concussion. With these works, Farmer utilizes the technological expertise of the film industry to create analogies between increasingly sophisticated mechanics of display and the artifice behind the social production of meaning and value. The truck trailer is fabricated in mimicry of those used by movie production companies — an increasingly common sight on the streets of Vancouver — and alludes to the transportation of such necessities as props, lighting systems and costumes necessary to the creation of illusions. The catalogue includes texts by Nanaimo-based poet and critic Peter Culley and exhibition curator Reid Shier.
James Carl : plot
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James Carl likes to mix things up - to confound references and test limits and then step back and watch things get funny. He combines a precise examination of the lexicon of sculpture with an abiding interest in the artifacts of public social life, filtered through the ubiquitous technologies and materials of contemporary industrialism. Each work complicates and expands(...)
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James Carl : plot
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James Carl likes to mix things up - to confound references and test limits and then step back and watch things get funny. He combines a precise examination of the lexicon of sculpture with an abiding interest in the artifacts of public social life, filtered through the ubiquitous technologies and materials of contemporary industrialism. Each work complicates and expands our recognition and understanding of simple objects and space.
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This book accompanies and exhibition of the work of Vancouver artist, Scott McFarland, whose photographs are highlighted by meticulous staging that document a discrete range of subjects in serial format. The exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery concentrated on one of his ongoing projects : a large body of photographs detailing the interior and exterior of a(...)
mai 2003, Vancouver
Scott McFarland : cabin photographs
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This book accompanies and exhibition of the work of Vancouver artist, Scott McFarland, whose photographs are highlighted by meticulous staging that document a discrete range of subjects in serial format. The exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery concentrated on one of his ongoing projects : a large body of photographs detailing the interior and exterior of a rural cabin on BC’s Sunshine Coast. McFarland’s naturalistic staging and close cropping emphasized and valorized objects and personal artefacts accumulating within the cabin, and stress an ongoing relationship between the site and its depiction.
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The central question in this book is whether the urban planning of traditional cities is the result of responsible citizens who deal in a constructive way with their surroundings, or the result of a conflict between the citizens and the city.
Espaces Public
octobre 2004, Bussum
Between the edges : street-building transition as urbanity interface
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The central question in this book is whether the urban planning of traditional cities is the result of responsible citizens who deal in a constructive way with their surroundings, or the result of a conflict between the citizens and the city.
Espaces Public
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"Giving the Story a Treatment" is the first comprehensive publication on Canadian artist Alex Morrison. In his documentations of youth lifestyles, particularly the culture of skaters, Alex Morrison questions to what extent sub-cultural expressions can be considered authentic, especially in the face of strategies of staging and their commercialization by the media.
Théorie de l’art
mai 2005, New York / Vancouver
Alex Morrison : giving the story a treatment
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"Giving the Story a Treatment" is the first comprehensive publication on Canadian artist Alex Morrison. In his documentations of youth lifestyles, particularly the culture of skaters, Alex Morrison questions to what extent sub-cultural expressions can be considered authentic, especially in the face of strategies of staging and their commercialization by the media.
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