New Movies!

Check out some of the titles recently added to the film club collection:

Roger & Me
Pride and prejudice
Global gardener: Permaculture with Bill Mollison
A scanner darkly
Cache
The proposition
The fountain
Like water for chocolate
Volver
The draughtsman's contract
The great pretender: Works of art by Theo Jansen
Style wars
MicroCosmos
Fast food nation
Play time
The squid and the whale
28 days later
The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil

...brought to you by your own rental fees/late fines, the WAC film club and the generous donations of some particularly fabulous individuals!

New books!

...on innovators

& Fork

Tom Dixon

TS 171.4 .A49x 2007

What do an inflatable bridge, a TV for-and controlled by-pigs, a chaise lounge featuring a beating heart and breathing lungs, and a light that can bring brightness to the most inaccessible spaces have in common? They’re among the many innovative product design ideas featured in & Fork. Ten renowned industrial designers were asked to select the 100 most interesting and creative designers working in the world today. The resulting book provides a comprehensive survey of their work over the past five years.

Check out & Fork’s companion volume, Spoon TS 171 .S64x 2002.

Mosaics

West 8

NA 9207 .W48x 2008

What firm is about to revitalize the Toronto Waterfront? Rotterdam’s urban design and landscape architecture firm, West 8, led by Adriaan Geuze. Known for combining ecology, people, and weather conditions with building programme “West 8 aims to incorporate awareness of these various aspects in a playful, optimistic manner that stimulates the desire to conquer and take possession of a space.” Take a peek at what the firm has done in other parts of the world to prepare yourself for Toronto’s waterfront transformation.

Riess Wood³: Modulare Holzbausysteme

Otto Kapfinger & Ulrich Wieler (Eds.)

NA 4110 .R54x 2007

Get your wood on! Hubert Riess is an Austrian architect whose work has explored the characteristics of wood as a construction material, particularly as a modular component, throughout his 30 year career. This book documents the potential of prefabricated wood modules in projects ranging from individual residential units to larger commercial buildings through to a complete building programme covering entire city blocks.

GIS Seminar

Ever wonder what GIS is? Or why you should care?

This session will cover what GIS is and what it can do. Live demonstrations will show you how easy it is to use, and what resources are available to you here at the library. Experts will be on-hand to answer all your questions.

Geospatial Information Systems can add some serious value to your coursework or thesis. Find out what it can do for you!

...in the Ward Room
Tuesday March 18th @ 11am.

Your modern architecture

Check out MIMOA, an interactive modern European architecture database.

You can browse categorized buildings, view pictures and building details, see a Google map of the area, create your own profile and publish projects.

A monumental presidency?

The Chronicle Review sent out a back-of-the-envelope challenge to their readers to send in their design ideas for George W. Bush's presidential library.

Some of the more amusing and impressive designs made it into their architecture issue where the public can vote on their favourites. Here are some of mine...