The Informational Built Environment
I taught this upper-division architectural history and theory seminar at UCLA in 2008. Focusing on case studies between the early 19th century and the postwar period, it examined ideas, models, and metaphors shared by the architectural culture of modernity and the information society. [More...]
The mediated spaces of the archaeological park
This paper considered the history of the archaeological park (the passeggiata archeologica) in Rome as a result not only of changes to the practices of curatorship, archaeology, and preservation, but also of the emergence of a modern information society.
Fieldworks: Art-Geography
I was a co-organizer of this symposium, which brought together practitioners from art, architecture, and geography to examine how emerging relations between geographical science and artistic production are transforming the meaning of information gathered in the “field”. The original symposium web site is here.
CLUI Land Use Database
I was a database consultant for the Center of Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, and implemented the first version of the CLUI Land Use Database.
Centre d’interprétation du Bourg de Pabos
This project proposed an archaeological park in the far eastern shore of Québec organized around paradigmatic themes that link the landscape and the fragments of an 18th century French settlement.
Some friends of mine won this competition with a nice project, which you can see here. [More...]
Three gardens on the Lachine Canal
Second prize, ARQ magazine competition, 1990. Three gardens in the form of excavations provide rest areas and drinking water for the users of the bicycle path in the present day public park on the Lachine Canal in Montréal. [More...]
A Tour of the Monuments of the Lachine Canal
Original statement: Faced with the task of developing a plan for the re-use of industrial sites, urban planners need not resort to behavioral, social or economic determinacy; instead, form itself can suggest program and architectural representation can be a planning tool. This project tested the capacity of highly abstract formal orders to suggest forms of inhabitation. [More...]