Virtual Machines: Culture, telematics, and the architecture of information at Centre Beaubourg, 1968-1977
This doctoral dissertation examines the way in which the architecture of the library and museum in the late 1960s was conceived as a technology for the organization and dissemination of cultural information. It considers the overall history of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, from its origins in the mid-1960s to its opening in 1977. In particular, it looks at ways in which the verbal, graphic, and built statements of the project’s creators, apologists, and critics engaged the discourses of the post-industrial information society. [More...]
Engineering Beaubourg’s information spaces
From the outset, the Centre Pompidou was to be a live center of information. This paper situated the challenges posed by that vision in the context of emerging models of technical expertise in architecture.
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.
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...]
Musée Regional de Rimouski
With Saucier + Perrotte architectes. Proposal for the conversion of Eastern Québec’s oldest stone church into the Musée Regional de Rimouski. [More...]