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Maurice Amiel

Maurice Amiel

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.

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The living connector
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Liberated images of lit space … suite for Next Echo

By Maurice Amiel on August 16, 2018

The late Philip Thiel, my architecture school mentor, would have us modulate a light source inside a cardboard box modulator to show us the... Read more →
Brick wall
Photography

Liberated images suite for Next Echo

By Maurice Amiel on August 8, 2018

Suite Suite as a musical genre, suite as in “donner suite” i.e. follow up, suite as open-ended enterprise, on CW or elsewhere. Suite as in... Read more →
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Four more liberated images for Next Echo

By Maurice Amiel on August 1, 2018

The liberated image These four images were taken by a roving eye and a liberated image attitude in complete and relative transgression of... Read more →
Smoking man
Art

Missing Them … Already

By Maurice Amiel on May 30, 2018

I would call it the first real spring day. After a night shower, the sun came out and dried the balcony enough for me to join my neighbor, I with... Read more →
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MOVING

By Maurice Amiel on May 2, 2018

The chair is in daylight while the other stuff is in boxes ... I am moving, as we all are bound to do, from one place and state to another. The... Read more →
car wash glazed door
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Four Windows for Next Echo … a brief political and aesthetic credo

By Maurice Amiel on April 4, 2018

Life at the transgressive edge of society The late Henri Laborit theorized, based on sound medical research, that physical and mental health were... Read more →
omnibus characters
Architecture

INTERIORS … the underground experience

By Maurice Amiel on February 14, 2018

Context There is no venue for a “concentrated” experience of urban fellowship as the one provided by the system of public transportation that... Read more →
The Asian Company buildings
Architecture

INTERIORS: On Strandgade, Copenhagen

By Maurice Amiel on January 24, 2018

Context: Toward the end of his life, the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi resided in the harbor area of... Read more →
Architecture

INTERIOR: Chez Nick

By Maurice Amiel on January 3, 2018

The expression “Chez someone” refers, in French, to someone's place, usually that someone's home … and usually its interior. "Chez Nick"... Read more →
inner peace
Poetry

INNER PEACE: An image and a poem

By Maurice Amiel on December 6, 2017

Twelve years ago, having come, at retirement age, to a multiple parting of the ways with academic career and marital experiments, I felt the need to... Read more →
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