Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2005
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 May 1993 to 29 August 1993
An Architectural Odyssey: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Drawing Connections
Drawing Connections
Nokubekezela Mchunu on architectural archives as social exchange
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2001
James S. Ackerman: On the Origins of Architectural Photography
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Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Sub-series
Architectural Drawings
AP032.S1.SS2.D3
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Architectural and engineering drawings for buildings and projects by Mies van der Rohe and other architects. Includes drawings for the S.S. Borovay House by Goldsmith and Earl Bluestein, architects, and Mies projects Goldsmith worked on (Farnsworth House, Cantor Restaurant, I.I.T. Boiler Plant and others).
1945-1963
Architectural Drawings
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AP032.S1.SS2.D3
Description:
Architectural and engineering drawings for buildings and projects by Mies van der Rohe and other architects. Includes drawings for the S.S. Borovay House by Goldsmith and Earl Bluestein, architects, and Mies projects Goldsmith worked on (Farnsworth House, Cantor Restaurant, I.I.T. Boiler Plant and others).
File 3
1945-1963
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Architectural Drawings
AP032.S2.SS2.D2
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Prints and original drawings from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, and a number of other architectural and engineering offices. If Goldsmith was associated with a project, his name and the nature of his involvement is included in the title block after the office name. Includes a model of the Ruck-a-Chucky Bridge project, and some papers and photographs.
1959-1986
Architectural Drawings
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AP032.S2.SS2.D2
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Prints and original drawings from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago, and a number of other architectural and engineering offices. If Goldsmith was associated with a project, his name and the nature of his involvement is included in the title block after the office name. Includes a model of the Ruck-a-Chucky Bridge project, and some papers and photographs.
File 2
1959-1986
drawings
ARCH260629
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Shop drawings, architectural drawings - alterations to the women's residence for the faculty of law by architect James Tettamanti (1972).
1974
Shop drawings, architectural drawings
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ARCH260629
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Shop drawings, architectural drawings - alterations to the women's residence for the faculty of law by architect James Tettamanti (1972).
drawings
1974
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Architectural Drawings
CD046.S3
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Two working drawings out of a set of three for a proposed residence by a developer in West Vancouver. Material in the series was produced in 1958.
1958
Architectural Drawings
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CD046.S3
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Two working drawings out of a set of three for a proposed residence by a developer in West Vancouver. Material in the series was produced in 1958.
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1958