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