Common ground
Subtitle: contemporary craft, architecture and the decorative arts
By: edited by Gloria Hickey.
Contributors: Hickey, Gloria, 1956-; Canadian Museum of Civilization.; Institute for Contemporary Canadian Craft.
Series: Mercury series; Paper / Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies ;; 72; Paper (Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies) ;; no. 72.
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hull, Québec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Decorative arts -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Design -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Handicraft -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Architecture and society -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This collection of 16 essays reveals provocative common ground between contemporary craft, architecture and decorative arts. The chief feature of the common ground is the integration of designing and making. Long considered the birthright of craftspeople, it is now the focus of contemporary architectural analysis.

Scholars, architects and craftspeople - inspired by the historical precedent of the Bauhaus and architectural theorists such as Gottfried Semper - probe the contemporary relevance of the relationship between the design process, building or making methods and materials."--BOOK JACKET.

"This volume includes essays by museum and gallery professionals that trace the historical precedents of their craft collections, the patrons who shaped them, and the current direction of institutional policies regarding the collecting and exhibiting of craft. Also included is a photo essay documenting the integration of craft and architecture in a case study of the Fuji Pavilion in the Montreal Botanical Garden."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes some text and abstract in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Selection of essays presented in 1997 at the symposium "Common ground: contemporary craft, architecture and the decorative arts"--Cf. Pref.
Co-published by the Institute for Contemporary Canadian Craft.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to a Common ground -- Gloria Hickey; title: Through the spectacles of the 20th century:; title: Gerrit Reitveld's integrated visual language of craft, design and architecture -- Virginia Wright ;; title: La tradition du Bauhaus peut-elle nous instruire aujourd'hui? -- Alain Findeli; title: Craft in architecture/architectural craft:; title: The meaning of techniques and materials -- Myriam Blais ;; title: Tectonic poetry: the recovery of craft in wood frame construction -- John Brown ;; title: Inspired light, space inspired: thoughts about light in architecture -- Lutz Haufschild ;; title: Conception algorithmique: processus artisanaux de genèse formelle en contexte technologique -- Nicolas Reeves ;; title: The craft of architecture -- Gerald L. Pocius -- Photo essay:; title: Craft as ornament: a new pavilion in the Botanical Garden of Montréal -- Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy; title: Mediators of everyday meaning:; title: More than mere shelter: incorporating public art in housing for the homeless -- Rae (Anderson) Bridgman ;; title: Crafts: transient/transitional/transgressive bodies -- Penelope Kokkinos ;; title: Canonic interpretation of the object: the example of the restored historic house museum -- Michael McClelland ;; title: Réelles présences des artisanats du sens -- Jean-Pierre Chupin; title: Museums and the future of craft, decorative art, and design:; title: Museums and the future of craft, decorative art and design: introduction -- Stephen Inglis ;; title: Canadian Museum of Civilization -- Stephen Inglis ;; title: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: its history of collecting the decorative arts -- Mayo Graham ;; title: Arts décoratifs, métiers d'art et design au Musée du Québec: voies et perspectives -- Paul Bourassa ;; title: "Where have we been? What are we? Where are we going?": Art Gallery of Greater Victoria -- Patricia Bovey.