Maurice Amiel, M. Arch. (U.C. Berkeley) is retired professor of Environmental Design at the School of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal, where he was involved mainly in environment-behaviour teaching and applied research projects.
In order to promote environmental awareness, he has turned after retiring to documenting and writing about various physical and human agents contributing to a sense of self, place and sociability.
What do signs do in the city? Signs in the city are graphic elements, verbal and non-verbal, usually applied to buildings, whose function is to... Read more →
The end of an era? The feature image shows a sunset lit sky marking the end of a day. I could not find a better metaphor for this moment of... Read more →
Foreword My practical experience with photography, my familiarity with its canon and basic reading on its specificity as a visual art form, bring me... Read more →
The feature image … … taken by R. Doisneau, shows clearly the mutual interaction of people and place in defining a particular situation, in... Read more →
In the company of Wright Morris Wright Morris came to photography through writing about the rural environment of the American Mid-West, at a given... Read more →
Between two depressions Let us call a cat a cat … we are all these days in a state of relative depression, cheated, by public safety necessity, of... Read more →
As seen by famous street photographers Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and Robert Frank, a car window is not just an opening through which to... Read more →
… as seen by Robert Frank, Willy Ronis, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Louis Faurer These days of limited movement seem to favor a bit of nostalgia for... Read more →
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