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.
Context At the threshold of old age, albeit a relative notion, my memory seems to bring back images and experiences of places of particular... Read more →
From outdoors to indoors and in-between Winter climatic characteristic of cold and snow establish a particular set of relationships between the... Read more →
Selection from a photographic exploration of my left hand in various contexts When in search of photographic subject, we seem to forget our own... Read more →
Dawn streetscape … … involves an experience of the world the directness of which allows it to address certain perceptual registers, such as... Read more →
Setting, scene and situation Setting, scene, situation and light at a coffee shop If most Cartier-Bresson’s photographs bear the unmistakable... Read more →
Not your usual eatery To say it all we refer to Yani’s café as the Greek’s. A blend of student and neighborhood hang-out, a blend of family... Read more →
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