This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010
Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
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This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Visiting Scholars 2011
Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Topic: The Soviet I-464 Building System in Cuba and Chile, 1963-1973 Gaia Caramellino, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Architecture for Public Housing in the United States, 1930s-1940s Penelope Dean, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Choice by Design,(...)
April 2011 to October 2011
Visiting Scholars 2011
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Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Topic: The Soviet I-464 Building System in Cuba and Chile, 1963-1973 Gaia Caramellino, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Architecture for Public Housing in the United States, 1930s-1940s Penelope Dean, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Choice by Design,(...)
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April 2011 to
October 2011
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Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
5 January 2003 to 31 August 2003
Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
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Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
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5 January 2003 to
31 August 2003
Luigi Ghirri / Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves presents a visual dialogue between two leading figures in contemporary Italian art and culture. Their discussion is based on a sympathy between photographer and architect that is grounded in a shared fascination for a region—the Padana of northern Italy—and a common belief both in the autonomous eye of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 August 1996 to 24 November 1996
Luigi Ghirri/Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves
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Luigi Ghirri / Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves presents a visual dialogue between two leading figures in contemporary Italian art and culture. Their discussion is based on a sympathy between photographer and architect that is grounded in a shared fascination for a region—the Padana of northern Italy—and a common belief both in the autonomous eye of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Rome
Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
5 March 2009
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Building Knowledge
This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 April 2015 , 6pm
Building Knowledge
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This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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ARCH258648
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Correspondance avec Edgar Brandt, Armand Blanchet (fonderie de cloches), Gusmano Vignali d'Italie, Robert Mahias, et Frank Dupuis, incluant des offres de services, des certificats de paiement, des bleus pliés, des photos d'ornements d'église, des devis, des factures.
1925-1929
Correspondance avec des fournisseurs
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Correspondance avec Edgar Brandt, Armand Blanchet (fonderie de cloches), Gusmano Vignali d'Italie, Robert Mahias, et Frank Dupuis, incluant des offres de services, des certificats de paiement, des bleus pliés, des photos d'ornements d'église, des devis, des factures.
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1925-1929
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ARCH259763
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de France, d'Italie, d'oeuvre d'arts, d'architecture et de travaux d'ingénierie. Contient les planches contact des originaux sur nitrates numéro 1 à numéro 149.
1910s-1950s
Planches contacts de diverses photographies personnelles et professionnelles
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de France, d'Italie, d'oeuvre d'arts, d'architecture et de travaux d'ingénierie. Contient les planches contact des originaux sur nitrates numéro 1 à numéro 149.
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1910s-1950s
Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
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Visiting Scholars 1998–1999
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Annalisa Avon, Independent researcher, Fiume Veneto, Italy Topic: Baroque in France Before Bernini’s Arrival Dirk De Meyer, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Topic: Johann Santini Aichel (1677-1723) Rochelle Ziskin, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States Topic: Lexicons of Feminity and(...)
September 1998 to August 1999
Visiting Scholars 1998–1999
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Annalisa Avon, Independent researcher, Fiume Veneto, Italy Topic: Baroque in France Before Bernini’s Arrival Dirk De Meyer, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Topic: Johann Santini Aichel (1677-1723) Rochelle Ziskin, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States Topic: Lexicons of Feminity and(...)
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September 1998 to
August 1999