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IRHA Annual Activities Report 2005
1. Forums
On 27 April 2005, the IRHA Spring Forum took place in the CCA Study Centre. As keynote speaker, Greg Castillo, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami, delivered Canon, Text and Survey: Revisiting the Spiro Kostof Legacy.
Three graduate students presented their work-in-progress:
- Pierre-Édouard Latouche, Ph.D. Candidate, Département d'histoire, Université de Laval and Centre Canadien d'Architecture
L'ouest du continent et l'architecture domestique montréalaise entre 1700 et 1750: l'impact du déplacement de la " frontière du castor " sur le nombre d'entrepôts construits à Montréal.
- Jennifer Carter, Ph.D. Candidate, History and Theory of Architecture, McGill University
Recreating the Poetic Imaginary: Alexandre Lenoir and the Musée des monuments français, 17951816.
- Sergio Clavijo, Master in Architectural History & Theory Program, McGill University
The 'grand ballon captif à vapeur' of the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition: An Architectural Paradox.
2. Public Activities
IRHA co-sponsored with the Centre de Design de l'Université de Québec à Montréal a three-day international colloquium on Wittgenstein, Art and Architecture on 12, 13 and 14 October 2005 at the CCA Paul Desmarais Theatre. Publication of the colloquium proceedings is planned.
3. Research
In the Spring and Fall of 2005, the Institute issued a Call for Research Proposals to support research projects carried out by IRHA members. The Liaison Committee approved funding for one project:
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Pierre-Edouard Latouche, CCA, Artisans du bâtiment à Montréal aux XVIIe et XVIIIe s.
IRHA-funded project by Louise Pelletier and Alberto Pérez-Gómez has yielded an annotated bibliography entitled Architects on Love and a soon to be released book entitled Built on Love; Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics to be published by The MIT Press.
Martin Bressani has completed his IRHA-funded research on the influence of geography and ethnology upon architecture as it relates to national identity for his upcoming monograph on Viollet-le-Duc. A portion of that research will be published in an essay co-authored with Robert Jan Van Pelt entitled "Crystals, Cells and Networks: On Confining Reality" in the catalogue accompanying the Gen[h]ome Project exhibition scheduled in the Fall of 2006 at the MAK Center in Los Angeles.
4. Publications
Peter Collins et l'histoire de l'architecture moderne / Peter Collins and the Critical History of Modern Architecture, edited by Irena Latek, has been successfully distributed under the agreement between IRHA and ABC Art Books Canada. It is now sold out.
Contributions presented at 2002 IRHA international colloquium Limits of Place in Architectural Discourse will be published in the 2006 issue of CHORA, by the McGill-Queen's University Press.
Proceedings of the 2004 IRHA international colloquium Architectural Periodicals in the 1960s and 1970s will be published by IRHA in 2006.
5. Membership
In June 2005, Dirk De Meyer, IRHA Director, announced that he would be leaving the CCA to return to his professorship at Ghent University, and was replaced as IRHA Director by Alexis Sornin, Associate Head, CCA Study Centre. Mr. Sornin will complete the third year of the CCA tenure of the Directorship. Mirko Zardini, recently-appointed CCA Director, will replace Phyllis Lambert as the CCA Liaison Committee representative. With the retirement of John Gruzleski, Dean of Engineering, the position of McGill University Liaison Committee representative will be held by David Covo.
6. IRHA on the Internet (www.irhanet.org)
A chronology of programs and activities undertaken during IRHA's fifteen-year existence has been compiled and is being made available on the IRHA website.
Renata Guttman, Head of Reader Services, CCA Library, continues to update the IRHA web site at the request of the IRHA Director and Coordinator on a volunteer basis.
Alexis Sornin
Director, IRHA
23 March 2006
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