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Skyscrapers by the Roots Reflections on Late Modernism
Mar
10
to Aug 10
Group Exhibitions

Skyscrapers by the Roots Reflections on Late Modernism

  • Mon, Mar 10, 2025 10:00 AM 10:00 Sun, Aug 10, 2025 11:00 AM 11:00
  • Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (map)
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This exhibition explores the long life of late modernism in the field of architecture by bringing together a series of works created over the last decade by Shannon Bool, Kapwani Kiwanga, Rachel Rose, and Jonathan Schouela, a new film installation by David Hartt, as well as works by Lynne Cohenand François Dallegret produced in the 1960s and 1970s.

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GARAGE DALLEGRET
May
18
to Nov 26
Solo Exhibitions

GARAGE DALLEGRET

  • Thu, May 18, 2023 7:00 AM 07:00 Sun, Nov 26, 2023 8:00 AM 08:00
  • Spazio Punch (map)
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Garage Dallegret hosts François Dallegret's visionary imagination between design, plastic arts, architecture and technology. The drawings, the objects and the ephemera exposed describe an imaginative practice of the futurity that brings down the disciplinary limits between human body and object, subjectivity and urban context, reality and imagination.

www.spaziopunch.com

The radical character – from radix – of his projects shape a habitus that rethinks the relationship between space and object through a playful tone outside the logics of exploitation and production. Through his body, Dallegret performs with objects and environments, among pages and sketches of the projects. A metropolitan posture, in bars and clubs, and a technological euphoria, that looks to the future, act as counterpoints to this corporeality. The highly-technological automobiles, a space city sent on Mars and the mechanical objects are extensions of the body to reach whatever is beyond itself and beyond the present time. The drawings and works shown in Spazio Punch’s former brewery express this sensory expansion through the machine. A different perceptual space is achieved with a retro futuristic taste. The exhibition’s setting, conceived by Supervoid (Benjamin Gallegos Gabilondo and Marco Provinciali), fluidly opens the space to enable the heterogeneity of François Dallegret’s experimentations and inventions.

Drawings and multiples made for New York Moma and some dysfunctional objects like La chaise enceinte (1965) inhabit the exhibition, appearing here and there, at random with no hierarchy. The materials, supports and the different scales follow a narrative held by the spirit of the compositions and it runs the whole length of the two sides of the building. Atomix (1968), an educational model of atomic structures – 6000 freely moving precision steel spheres – has a dialogue with the six architectural drawings for A Home Is Not a House (1965). The former ones were sketched for the homonymous article by Reyner Banham in Art in America where the critic and the artist figure out architecture at the crossroads of proto-ecology and ultra- technology. In the same article, Un-house-Transportable standard-of- living package. The Environment-Bubble’s project depicts an inflatable bubble that adapts to the environment: Dallagret and Banham naked are sitting around a “totem robot”. The image serves as a counterpoint to Anatomy of a Dwelling, a standardized American house reduced to a net of pipes and cables between sky and earth. KIIK, a metal object shaped like a pill, intends to ease body distresses and mind obsessions, further, it helps to give up “bad or good” habits such as to quit smoking or to start drinking. Among the human amplification devices, the IntroConversoMatic, a device designed for Bizarre magazine – also known as NNMA (Network Neutrality Measurement Agent) – is a wearable machine made of an audio system, a monitor, a microphone, a keyboard and a transmitter/receiver/transducer. It protects the user’s mental integrity and aims to write, to listen, to see and even to have an introspective conversation with oneself. Well in advance of artificial intelligence, Littératuromatic (1963), on its side, produces literature. Le Drug is a pharmacy-discothèque in Montréal and includes a restaurant in a basement, a fashion boutique, a gallery, but you also can find anything from matchsticks to posters. Among other leisure places conceived by Dallegret we find: New Penelope, a club built in Montreal (1966-1967); Palais Metro (Montreal 1967), and West Village (Kansas City 1972). Eat & Drink, a fast-food, bar and club designed in 1972 for the World Trade Center of New York, remodels the type of space previously formalized in New Penelope and remains a particular ambitious project. This genealogy is reintroduced in Garage Dallegret exhibition with New New Penelope, a space conceived by Supervoid in order to gather together the audience, take a rest and share a convivial alternative perception of the show. Standing above the constellation of inventions, Wheely, a new futuristic device, is placed on a higher position since it articulates the exhibit architectural trajectories. It is an echo of the automobile immobile Tubula (1968) and it’s been specially created for our Venetian venue.

As the first Italian monographic exhibition of the artist and architect, Garage Dallegret means to dialogue with the reflections displayed
in The Laboratory of the Future by Lesley Looks, curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. At the crossroads between imagination as a planning device and architectural design as a perception of how to be in the world, François Dallegret’s experimentation is the answer that Spazio Punch offers to the need for a narrative concerning visions and practices of the futurity. The exhibition will be also a platform to develop projects through open calls for local designers, artists and architects.

Based upon an idea by Augusto Maurandi with Alessandra Ponte
Exhibition design Supervoid
Graphic design Alessandro Gori
Editorial Advisor Alessia Prati
Scientific Advisory Board Liliana Albertazzi and Mario Lupano
Logistics & Production Marta Girardin and Hstudio
Digital Fabrication Fablab Venezia
With the support of Extreme Printing

The WHEELY (by Tony Edgeworth)

The WHEELY, a new object by François Dallegret (GARAGE DALLEGRET) is a two-wheeled non-bicycle, an autonomous gyroscopic conveyance. Its ancestor is an earlier work known as the Tubula that was built from cylindrical ductwork and tractor-sized inner tubes. The WHEELY generates its own motion, and has no obvious directionality. The body, mounted on parallel wheels, suggests movement without specific purpose, for traveling in vicious cycles.The WHEELY radically pares back Dallegret’s conceptual automobiles of the early 1960s, dispensing with astro-baroque styling, or any styling at all, to achieve the bare minimum of wheeled vehicle design. There is no allowance for a driver, passenger, or cargo. Its image implies the swiftness and danger of a knife in motion, and a radical aerodynamism. The wheels themselves are bare, sleek, smooth, and possibly buoyant neoprene air sacs, which are rimless and self-supporting when pneumatically activated. The WHEELY is a pure example of Virtual Object Manufacture, in other words, hypothetical. Dallegret's process of object making involves not only problem-solving, but problem creation. It is a rigorous and disciplined quest for an objective, whether that objective is functional or dysfunctional. The objective of the WHEELY is conjecture: What if an object embodied a 'race-ability' untethered to human (or animal) will, subject only to its own auto-mechanical caprice?

April 2023

Tony Edgeworth creates work in varied media including books, prints, and sound recordings, with an emphasis on collaboration.

  

Refuge is not a shelter 50 years later A home is not a house

A house as much as a shelter is welcome to fulfill minimum human needs. We are proud, if not we feel lucky to have one over our heads, but yet, are they enough to feel at home, to identify them as refuge from external harm?

The question about the meaning of home arose in 1965. In those days, it was still a sneaky question floating in a no man’s land between shining hope in technology and shady experience of mankind. Today this alternative tipped into general distrust. Even the planet doesn’t seem to be able to forever host us, therefore, tracking the idea of a home appears more than a bit too ambitious. François Dallegret took note and restricted henceforth his query. Urgency catches up with wondering. So the different titles he envisioned to a today’s counterpart give an account of the new pondering: “Dead end”, “In/out”, “Oui/non”. Finally to the pessimistic first one and to the basic dialectics inferred in the other two, he preferred to emphasize the continuity of his request. Home modestly becomes shelter polarising house and refuge.

And to grasp the opportunity given by the 2023 Venice Biennale’s main topic, “The laboratory of the future”, the show hold in Spazio Punch at Giudecca appeared to be the perfect place to set the new Environment- structure. Since times went by, the former perfect transparent demi sphere, also known as the Bubble, became a very wild garage, solely signified by the automatic opening of its up-and-over garage door. controlled by a photoelectric cell. Obviously, the installation crosses reference with Tati’s screw ball comedy, Mon oncle, but no need to say his hare-brained ideas long-time reflected on the French born Dallegret.

Indeed, a part from front and back doors in frenzy activity, the realm of calm, peace an beauty of the previous Bubble switched to an urgency room where the resting area is typified by a conveyor belt, stretching and extending,ready to be rooted out in a hurry. As for the former hypothetical home fireplace and the leisure devices, they’ve been replaced by a single neon tube, conspicuously standing in the middle of the room. Admittedly, all these items remain standard industrial objects from a catalog, yet, the refuge installation neither is a shelter nor a “transportable standard-of-living package”. The outside atmosphere, ignored before, summons the living matter into the Nature’s ,fact: through the presence of a powerful ventilator, we shall rather confide that the stampede is approaching.

Perhaps not necessary is either to call out the differences between the American context in the 60’ and the very variegated history of the Giudecca Island. Varying from being an aristocratic refuge to becoming first an industrial site, secondly a rough neighbourhood and returning today to bear a prosperous residential zone reputation, Giudecca plurality imposes its own dialectics. In this context, the irony of the first drawings conveying a message turns into cumulation of illusion distress.

What is a home? What is a shelter? Social Sciences should keep deepen this questions. What about the other way around? What is a house? What is a shelter? The questioning was relevant for the architecture critic Reyner Banham as much as for the young future architect, François Dallegret, wondering if there would be a place for architecture in the technological world. Now a days is doubtless true the house or the shelter constructions subject more to the detriment of the environment and to the political solutions to the immigration conflict than to architectural theory.

“The form follows function” as architectural lynchpin or The modulor as universal rule for the “Unité d’habitation” seem highly overrated.
Though, architects, users, follow Dallegret’s lead : Take it easy or run!

Liliana Albertazzi 2023

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Francois Dallegret Beyond the bubble 2023
Jan
30
to May 26
Solo Exhibitions

Francois Dallegret Beyond the bubble 2023

  • Mon, Jan 30, 2023 7:00 AM 07:00 Fri, May 26, 2023 8:00 AM 08:00
  • Yale school of Architecture (map)
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François Dallegret: Beyond the Bubble 2023 draws from sixty years of drawings, objects, films, and ephemera, including the original prototype for Dallegret’s Tubula, an “automobile immobile” made from aluminum air duct tubing and exhibited for the first time as it originally appeared at the Saidye Bronfman Center in Montreal in 1968.

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"The Environment-Bubble" dance workshop with Dimitri Chamblas at Central Parc NY
Nov
9
12:00 PM12:00

"The Environment-Bubble" dance workshop with Dimitri Chamblas at Central Parc NY

  • Thursday, November 9, 2017
  • 12:00 PM 6:00 PM 12:00 18:00
  • sheep meadow (map)
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A widely influential blueprint designed in 1965 by Canadian architect François Dallegret, “The Environment-Bubble” is brought to life for the first time. Initially envisioned as a flexible, temporary dome that would transform our modes of living, the “Bubble” became a reference point for generations of architects questioning their discipline and seeking a radical dissolution of public and private spaces. For Performa 17, Dallegret collaborates with architect François Perrin and choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, to turn the inflatable structure into an active site of intellectual and physical engagement with free daily dance workshops, open to the public. 

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"The Environment-Bubble" dance workshop with Dimitri Chamblas at Brooklyn Bridge Park (DUMBO)
Nov
8
12:00 PM12:00

"The Environment-Bubble" dance workshop with Dimitri Chamblas at Brooklyn Bridge Park (DUMBO)

  • Wednesday, November 8, 2017
  • 12:00 PM 4:00 PM 12:00 16:00
  • 334 Furman Street Brooklyn, NY, 11201 United States (map)
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A widely influential blueprint designed in 1965 by Canadian architect François Dallegret, “The Environment-Bubble” is brought to life for the first time. Initially envisioned as a flexible, temporary dome that would transform our modes of living, the “Bubble” became a reference point for generations of architects questioning their discipline and seeking a radical dissolution of public and private spaces. For Performa 17, Dallegret collaborates with architect François Perrin and choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, to turn the inflatable structure into an active site of intellectual and physical engagement with free daily dance workshops, open to the public. 

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ARE WE HUMAN? The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years
Nov
6
to Jan 5

ARE WE HUMAN? The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years

  • Mon, Nov 6, 2017 11:30 AM 11:30 Fri, Jan 5, 2018 12:30 PM 12:30
  • Princeton University School of Architecture (map)
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The exhibition ARE WE HUMAN? : The Design of the Species : 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years will be on view at the Princeton University School of Architecture from November 6, 2017 through January 5, 2018. Curators Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley will give a presentation and gallery talk at 5:00pm on November 6th in the School of Architecture building. 

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Modus Operandi
Apr
15
to Jul 15
Group Exhibitions

Modus Operandi

  • Sat, Apr 15, 2017 9:00 PM 21:00 Sat, Jul 15, 2017 10:00 PM 22:00
  • Société (map)
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The exhibition Modus Operandi activates a well-known strategy from conceptual art using instructions and explores art by delegation. The artwork imagined by the artist is presented in form of a written or verbal statement to be executed by others.

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10e Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne
Mar
9
to Apr 9
Group Exhibitions

10e Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne

  • Thu, Mar 9, 2017 7:30 PM 19:30 Sun, Apr 9, 2017 8:30 PM 20:30
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La Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2017 présentera un état des lieux et une grande expérimentation, un laboratoire géant, intitulé Working Promesse autour des mutations du travail.

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La Boîte de Nuit et les avants-gardes.
Feb
19
11:00 AM11:00
Conference

La Boîte de Nuit et les avants-gardes.

  • Sunday, February 19, 2017
  • 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 11:00 12:00
  • Villa Noailles (map)
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La Boîte de Nuit et les avants-gardes. Table ronde avec Catharine Rossi (professeur et chercheuse), Pietro Derossi, Carlotta Darò (chercheuse), François Dallegret (artiste et architecte)

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La Boîte de Nuit
Feb
14
to Mar 19
Group Exhibitions

La Boîte de Nuit

  • Tue, Feb 14, 2017 10:30 AM 10:30 Sun, Mar 19, 2017 8:59 PM 20:59
  • Villa Noailles (map)
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"La Boite de nuit" est la Nouvelle exposition de la Villa Noailles à Hyères ou comment découvrir les architectures les plus simples ou plus extravagantes des lieux de nuit pour faire la fête. Tous les détails avec Jean Pierre Blanc, le directeur de la Villa.

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3rd ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL
Oct
22
to Nov 20
Group Exhibitions

3rd ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

  • Sat, Oct 22, 2016 9:00 AM 09:00 Sun, Nov 20, 2016 10:00 AM 10:00
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The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and co-sponsored by ENKA Foundation, Petkim and VitrA, ended on Sunday, 20 November 2016 and hosted over 120.000 visitors. The biennial exhibitions at Art Alt Space and Istanbul Archaeological Museums are open until 4 December 2016. 

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Le Monde à l’Envers / The World Upside-Down
May
19
to Jun 20
Solo Exhibitions

Le Monde à l’Envers / The World Upside-Down

  • Thu, May 19, 2016 6:00 PM 18:00 Mon, Jun 20, 2016 7:00 PM 19:00
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WUHO (Woodbury University Hollywood Outpost), is pleased to present the work of Francois Dallegret in an exhibition titled “Le Monde à l’Envers / The World Upside-Down.” The exhibition will run from 19 May -26 June, 2016.

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Sublime. Les tremblements du monde
Feb
11
to Sep 5
Group Exhibitions

Sublime. Les tremblements du monde

  • Thu, Feb 11, 2016 11:00 PM 23:00 Mon, Sep 5, 2016 6:00 PM 18:00
  • Centre Pompidou-Metz (map)
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Frisson, sidération, « délicieuse horreur », autant de mots pour qualifier l’expérience du sublime – cette singulière sensation d’attraction mêlée d’effroi que nous éprouvons face aux déchaînements et à la puissance des éléments. Née au cœur du XVIIIe siècle, cette notion esthétique et philosophique offre le fil conducteur d’une relecture de l’histoire passionnelle et passionnée que l’humanité entretient avec la nature.
Rassemblant une centaine d’artistes, architectes et cinéastes internationaux, « Les tremblements du monde » propose un dialogue entre des œuvres anciennes et contemporaines explorant cet attrait ambivalent, persistant pour la « Nature trop loin » et les catastrophes

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Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
Oct
24
to Feb 28
Group Exhibitions

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

  • Sat, Oct 24, 2015 10:30 PM 22:30 Sun, Feb 28, 2016 11:30 PM 23:30
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The Walker Art Center is pleased to present Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, a traveling exhibition that examines the intersections of art, architecture, and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Artists and Architecture - Dimensions Variables
Oct
16
to Jan 17
Group Exhibitions

Artists and Architecture - Dimensions Variables

  • Fri, Oct 16, 2015 11:00 AM 11:00 Sun, Jan 17, 2016 12:00 PM 12:00
  • Pavillon de l’Arsenal (map)
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Pour la première fois, le Pavillon de l’Arsenal consacre l’ensemble de ses espaces d’exposition à l’art contemporain. 56 artistes français et internationaux, reconnus ou émergeants, questionnent et interpellent, au travers d’une de leurs œuvres, l’Architecture, ses problématiques et ses enjeux.

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GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (Hamilton)
Jan
9
to Mar 29
Solo Exhibitions

GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (Hamilton)

  • Thu, Jan 9, 2014 6:00 PM 18:00 Sat, Mar 29, 2014 7:00 PM 19:00
  • McMaster Museum of Art (map)
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This exhibition is a retrospective of French-born (1937) Canadian artist, designer and architectural designer François Dallegret. Trained as an architect at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, François Dallegret's work since the late 1950s has been a critical yet indulgent commentary on architecture and its increasing appropriation by machines and apparatuses. In Dallegret's world, imaginary machines encompass every area and form of life: alongside cars and rockets there are interactive dictating machines, art, cooking and literature-generating machines, and machines for living, exhibiting or dancing.

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The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things
Apr
27
to Jun 30
Group Exhibitions

The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things

  • Sat, Apr 27, 2013 11:00 PM 23:00 Sun, Jun 30, 2013 12:00 AM 00:00
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Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey has curated an exhibition that explores the magical world of new technology, as well as tracing its connections to the beliefs of our distant past.

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GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (Paris)
Sep
19
to Oct 30
Solo Exhibitions

GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (Paris)

  • Wed, Sep 19, 2012 9:30 AM 09:30 Tue, Oct 30, 2012 10:30 AM 10:30
  • ENSA Paris-Malaquais (map)
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L’École nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais présente l’exposition « GOD & CO: François Dallegret Beyond the Bubble » de l’artiste et architecte François Dallegret, aujourd’hui installé à Montréal.
Cette production s’est amorcée à Paris à la fin des années 1950 et au début des années 1960, et elle s’est poursuivie à New York et à Montréal, englobant tout, depuis les complexes dessins au trait destinés à une série de véhicules astrologiques et les concepts de nombreuses machines (de celles qui aident à préparer les repas à celles qui génèrent de la littérature) jusqu’à la collaboration avec Reyner Banham pour « A Home Is Not a House ». 

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GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (Zurich)
May
4
to May 24
Solo Exhibitions

GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (Zurich)

  • Fri, May 4, 2012 6:15 PM 18:15 Thu, May 24, 2012 9:15 PM 21:15
  • Architekturfoyer, HIL, (map)
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An exhibition by the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, London in collaboration with the Institute gta

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GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (London)
Nov
5
to Dec 14
Solo Exhibitions

GOD & CO: Beyond The Bubble (London)

  • Sat, Nov 5, 2011 10:00 AM 10:00 Wed, Dec 14, 2011 11:00 AM 11:00
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The AA School of Architecture presents an exhibition of the work of the French Montreal-based artist and architect François Dallegret (1937-). Dallegret's own life and work defies anything so predictable as a neat synopsis, but in essence his work - beginning in Paris in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later taking in New York and Montreal - absorbs everything from intricate line drawings for a series of astrological vehicles and designs for a number of machines (from those that assist in cooking a meal to others that generate literature) to the 'A Home Is Not a House' collaboration with the critic Reyner Banham; a drugstore/gallery in Montreal; proposals for a new Montreal Palais Métro; designs for chairs, more cars and yet more machines; a film collaborative set up to shoot a western; contributions to the Montreal 67 Expo; bars of soap; subversive credit cards; 'ironique' villas and light installations. 

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