This year, in association with The Architectural Review and the Architects’ Journal, we are hosting the W Awards, which help to raise the profile of women and non-binary people in architecture worldwide, by recognising the significant contributions to architecture and the built environment by individuals from the field and adjacent fields.
7 March 2024, 6pm-8.30pm
In conversation with Iwona Buczkowska and Angela Davis
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This year, in association with The Architectural Review and the Architects’ Journal, we are hosting the W Awards, which help to raise the profile of women and non-binary people in architecture worldwide, by recognising the significant contributions to architecture and the built environment by individuals from the field and adjacent fields.
Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
9 October 2008
Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
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Peter Eisenman fonds
AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Peter Eisenman fonds
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
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1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
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Van Ginkel Associates fonds
AP027
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The Van Ginkel Associates fonds is comprised of documents concerning van Ginkel Associates, van Ginkel Associates Ltd., Ecos Ltd., van Ginkel Partners, Ginkelvan Ltd, van Ginkel Associates Ltd. (1977), the styles under which H.P. van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel practiced as a multidisciplinary planning, management and architecture firm. Much of the van Ginkels' work was done in the Montréal area and nation-wide. The fonds contains approximately 1 985 drawings (1 420 originals plus 565 reproductions), 41 boards, 3 photographs, 2 collages, 2 typescripts, 1 model, 1 sketchbook and approximately 12.23 meters of textual documents. The documents were primarily produced between 1955 and 1980.
1944-1992
Van Ginkel Associates fonds
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The Van Ginkel Associates fonds is comprised of documents concerning van Ginkel Associates, van Ginkel Associates Ltd., Ecos Ltd., van Ginkel Partners, Ginkelvan Ltd, van Ginkel Associates Ltd. (1977), the styles under which H.P. van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel practiced as a multidisciplinary planning, management and architecture firm. Much of the van Ginkels' work was done in the Montréal area and nation-wide. The fonds contains approximately 1 985 drawings (1 420 originals plus 565 reproductions), 41 boards, 3 photographs, 2 collages, 2 typescripts, 1 model, 1 sketchbook and approximately 12.23 meters of textual documents. The documents were primarily produced between 1955 and 1980.
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1944-1992
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CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
1914-2008
Gordon Matta-Clark collection
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CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
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1914-2008
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120 p. : ill. (some col.), map, plans, port. ; 20 x 22 cm.
Ottawa : Royal Architectural Institute of Canada : Downsview, Ont. : Douglas and McIntyre, c1986.
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada : 1986 awards program : Governor General's Medals for Architecture / professional advisor, W. Randle Iredale.
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120 p. : ill. (some col.), map, plans, port. ; 20 x 22 cm.
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Ottawa : Royal Architectural Institute of Canada : Downsview, Ont. : Douglas and McIntyre, c1986.
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335 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
New York, N.Y. : Metropolis Books, [2014]
What if ...? : the architecture and design of David Rockwell / edited by Chee Pearlman ; With contributions by Justin Davidson, Elizabeth Diller, John Guare, Jack O'Brien.
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335 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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New York, N.Y. : Metropolis Books, [2014]
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303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 1982.
Michael Graves : Buildings and Projects, 1966-1981 / essay by Vincent Scully ; edited by Karen Vogel Wheeler, Peter Arnell, Ted Bickford.
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303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York : Rizzoli, 1982.
ARCH285480
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Parkin recieving Massey Foundation Award in Architecture from Paul Martin Sr.
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