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Title Journeys : how travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment / edited by Giovanna Borasi ; stories by Kozy Amemiya ... [and others] ; with illustrations by Erika Beyer
Edition First edition
Published Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture : Actar ; Barcelona ; New York : Distributed by ActarBirkhauserD, [2010]
©2010

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Description 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Mirko Zardini -- Scenes -- When a cucumber is not a cucumber : an E.U. tale of customs and classification / Lev Bratishenko -- Re-configurations : a town in Newfoundland grows when houses are floated in from far-flung outports / Maureen Power -- Returning to a new land : how the architecture of the Old South made its way to Arthington, Liberia / Bernard L. Herman -- Oh bungalow, born by the Bay of Bengal, you conquered an empire, and then the world, redefining success every step of the way! / David Howes -- On the move of Iroquois, Ontario : how choosing a site to the east offers an opportunity for futuristic living / Peter Sealy -- Deadly re-evaluation : when the ibis, once sacred in Egypt, became an alien menace in France / Anders Bell -- Expatriate expertise : when the arrival of skilled Italian workers transformed the Vermont granite industry / Ilaria Brancoli Busdraghi -- The back-and-forth cycle : how temporary Senegalese workers live on the edges of Italian society and rapidly transform the built environment back home / Ian Chodikoff -- Call shops : a new architectural typology for calling home / Riitta Oittinen -- Learning ideograms : a story of how Congo's Brazzaville is being built anew by Chinese companies / Serge Michel -- Feeling foreign : what happens when a hospital looks just like a shopping mall / David Theodore -- Interpreting modernism : how an Amsterdam housing development changes when Surinam gains independence / Wouter Oostendorp and Jouke Sieswerda -- Compromise in the Casbah : how residents of a Sicilian town navigate several languages and many different ideas about how to use space / Giovanna Borasi -- The prairie is vast and endless, until it isn't : a Michif story / Jean Teillet -- How rice, persimmons, soy and a whole host of other crops from Japan reshaped the Bolivian countryside / Kozy Amemiya -- Perplexing peregrinations : on the trail of drifting coconuts / Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer -- Biographies -- References -- Lenders and copyrights -- Note from the editor -- Acknowledgments
Summary "Journeys explores architectural issues raised by increased global mobility. Stories by different authors, presented in a fictional framework, highlight key concepts critical to understanding the impact of the movement of people, animals, objects and ideas. The vagabondage of seeds. The transfer of knowledge and experience as people move from one place to another. The physical reconfiguration of communities. These are among the wide range of topics Journeys explores as it seeks to analyze and visually depict how these flows, encounters and migrations unexpectedly change society and our built environment"--P. [4] of cover
Notes Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Oct. 19, 2010 to Mar. 13, 2011
Issued also in French under title: Trajets
Co-published by Actar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: pages 294-298
Subject Architecture and society -- Exhibitions.
Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Exhibitions.
Emigration and immigration -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-
Amemiya, Kozy, 1947-
Beyer, Erika.
Centre canadien d'architecture.
Actar.
ISBN 9788492861545 Actar
9780920785904
0920785905
8492861541 Actar