Learning from… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
2003-2011
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
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2003-2011
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
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172 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 36 cm
New York, Time-Life Books, [1968]
America's arts and skills / by the editors of Life.
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172 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 36 cm
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New York, Time-Life Books, [1968]
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1 volume (various foliations) : forms ; 28 cm
Washington, D.C. : National Park Service, 1986.
Skills development plan for historical architects in the National Park Service / prepared by Hugh C. Miller, Lee H. Nelson, Emogene A. Bevitt in consultation with the Training Division.
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1 volume (various foliations) : forms ; 28 cm
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Washington, D.C. : National Park Service, 1986.
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153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans ; 26 cm
Kyōto-shi : Seigensha, 2021
日本のたてもの : 自然素材を活かす伝統の技と知恵 = Japanese architecture : traditional skills and natural materials / 執筆豊城浩行 (文化庁文化財監查官) [and 7 others]. Nihon no tatemono : shizen sozai o ikasu dentō no waza to chie = Japanese architecture : traditional skills and natural materials / shippitsu Toyoki Hiroyuki (Bunkachō Bunkazai Kansakan) [and 7 others]
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153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans ; 26 cm
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Kyōto-shi : Seigensha, 2021
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ix, 150 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm
Edinburgh : Conservation Bureau, Scottish Development Agency and Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, 1985.
Scottish architects in conservation : a directory of architects' skills and experience, listing projects with their consultants, contractors and craftsmen.
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ix, 150 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm
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Edinburgh : Conservation Bureau, Scottish Development Agency and Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, 1985.
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 36 cm
London ; New York : Merrell, 2005.
Joinedupdesignforschools / John and Frances Sorrell.
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 36 cm
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London ; New York : Merrell, 2005.
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318 pages : illustrations
Stanford, Calif. : Appropriate Technology Project of Volunteers in Asia, 1978.
Appropriate technology sourcebook : for tools and techniques that use local skills, local resources, and renewable sources of energy. Volume 1 / Ken Darrow and Rick Pam.
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318 pages : illustrations
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Stanford, Calif. : Appropriate Technology Project of Volunteers in Asia, 1978.
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291 p.
1986.
Skill and deskilling in the English building trades in the nineteenth century.
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291 p.
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1986.