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New Canadian Diplomatic Complex, Lagos, Nigeria - Prequalification questionnaires, correspondence
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1984
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1984
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ARCH265618
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Document describing the proposed Aluminium Gate.
Proposed Aluminium Gate for the Nigeria Exhibition to be held in Lagos, in October, 1960, for the Aluminium Secretariat
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ARCH265618
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Document describing the proposed Aluminium Gate.
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AP218
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The Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds documents Hopwood and Godwin’s architectural projects from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, as well as their training to become architects, the administration of their architecture practice, and their career as architectural consultants, and their writing from the 1940s to 2023. The fonds mostly contains material related to their architectural projects, over 450 of them, mostly in Nigeria and some from their practice in the United Kingdom.
1940-2025
Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds
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AP218
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The Gillian Hopwood and John Godwin fonds documents Hopwood and Godwin’s architectural projects from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, as well as their training to become architects, the administration of their architecture practice, and their career as architectural consultants, and their writing from the 1940s to 2023. The fonds mostly contains material related to their architectural projects, over 450 of them, mostly in Nigeria and some from their practice in the United Kingdom.
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1940-2025
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Pictorial Storytelling
Pictorial Storytelling
Warebi Gabriel Brisibe and Ramota Obagah-Stephen propose “other” research methods on colonial housing
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Weaving Modernity and Tradition
Abigail Duke explores the architecture of Arc Frank Mbanefo
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10 June 2024
Michael Olutusen Onafowokan’s vision of Tropical Modernism
Asuru Lutherking Petercan examines the legacy and design philosophies of Nigeria’s first architect
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Where Was Not Modernism?
Where Was Not Modernism?
Ikem Stanley Okoye redefines the origins of African modernism
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AP149.S3.SS2.093
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Documents related to the conference in Lagos, Nigeria, in August and September 1980.
1980
Participation to the GIAM VI conference of 1980
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AP149.S3.SS2.093
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Documents related to the conference in Lagos, Nigeria, in August and September 1980.
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1980
2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
Learning from… Lagos
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
29 March 2007 , 6pm
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre