born digital
AP193.S4.005
Description:
Original directory name: "91 movies". Most common file formats: Graphics Interchange Format, Macromedia FLV, Audio/Video Interleaved Format, Quicktime, MPEG-4 Media File
2005-2015
Videos and animated renderings and exhibition presentation, Une Architecture des Humeurs
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AP193.S4.005
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Original directory name: "91 movies". Most common file formats: Graphics Interchange Format, Macromedia FLV, Audio/Video Interleaved Format, Quicktime, MPEG-4 Media File
born digital
2005-2015
Series
Projects
AP041.S1
Description:
This series documents Melvin Charney's artistic, architecture and design projects from 1950 to 2012. It includes material related to his installations, architectural projects, his artworks and photographic projects. This series contains over 70 projects, including Charney's proposal for the Canadian government pavilion for the Japan world exposition, in Osaka, in 1967, his design for the Canadian tribute to human rights, in Ottawa, in 1986-1987, his installation Les maison de la rue Sherbrooke presented during the Corridart in 1976 for the Montréal Summer Olympics and Un dictionnaire presented, amongts others, at the 7th Venice Biennale in 2000. The series drawings and sketches, such as conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings as well as some his mixed media artworks. It also contains some photographs including photographs of the installations design by Charney, reference photographs, textual documents, such as notes, rapports and proposals, correspondence and reference materials.
1955-2012
Projects
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AP041.S1
Description:
This series documents Melvin Charney's artistic, architecture and design projects from 1950 to 2012. It includes material related to his installations, architectural projects, his artworks and photographic projects. This series contains over 70 projects, including Charney's proposal for the Canadian government pavilion for the Japan world exposition, in Osaka, in 1967, his design for the Canadian tribute to human rights, in Ottawa, in 1986-1987, his installation Les maison de la rue Sherbrooke presented during the Corridart in 1976 for the Montréal Summer Olympics and Un dictionnaire presented, amongts others, at the 7th Venice Biennale in 2000. The series drawings and sketches, such as conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings as well as some his mixed media artworks. It also contains some photographs including photographs of the installations design by Charney, reference photographs, textual documents, such as notes, rapports and proposals, correspondence and reference materials.
Series
1955-2012
research
Visiting Scholars 2012
Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
2 April 2012 to 31 August 2012
Visiting Scholars 2012
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Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
research
2 April 2012 to
31 August 2012
born digital, photographs
Photographs of the installation at various venues and project descriptions, Paper/Midwestern Ocean
AP207.S1.1970.PR02.002
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Most common file formats: Raw JPEG Stream, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), JPEG File Interchange Format, MPEG-4 Media File, Audio/Video Interleaved Format
2010 - 2015
Photographs of the installation at various venues and project descriptions, Paper/Midwestern Ocean
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AP207.S1.1970.PR02.002
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Most common file formats: Raw JPEG Stream, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), JPEG File Interchange Format, MPEG-4 Media File, Audio/Video Interleaved Format
born digital, photographs
2010 - 2015
born digital
AP207.S2.SS17.010
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), JPEG File Interchange Format, Raw JPEG Stream, MPEG-4 Media File, Audio/Video Interleaved Format
2002 - 2015
Installation views for exhibitions on Pettena, 2010-2014
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AP207.S2.SS17.010
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), JPEG File Interchange Format, Raw JPEG Stream, MPEG-4 Media File, Audio/Video Interleaved Format
born digital
2002 - 2015
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
Revolution on a Human Scale: Photography and Vkhutemas
Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
29 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
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Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
drawings
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32 File
ARCH78989
Description:
Block 61 - stair plans and sections, shear beam expansion joint plan and section, media centre plans and structural grid, "stramp" plans, axonometric projection of structural grid
circa 1947-2002
Block 61 - stair plans and sections, shear beam expansion joint plan and section
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ARCH78989
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Block 61 - stair plans and sections, shear beam expansion joint plan and section, media centre plans and structural grid, "stramp" plans, axonometric projection of structural grid
drawings
Quantity:
32 File
circa 1947-2002
born digital, photographs
ARCH279954
Description:
Labelled: "ANY 27; The Nelsons; Wes Jones". Annotations on the physical digital media: "Nelsons 'Nothing'". File formats: Tagged Image File Format, unidentified file format, Macromedia FreeHand.
2000
Digital image files, The Nelsons by Wes Jones, Any magazine, issue 27
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ARCH279954
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Labelled: "ANY 27; The Nelsons; Wes Jones". Annotations on the physical digital media: "Nelsons 'Nothing'". File formats: Tagged Image File Format, unidentified file format, Macromedia FreeHand.
born digital, photographs
2000
born digital, photographs
ARCH279769
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Labelled: "ANY 23, 2". Annotations on the original physical media: "SOM Colombus Centre". Most common file formats: unidentified file format, Adobe Illustrator, Tagged Image File Format.
1998-2001
Digital image files, Any magazine, issue 23
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ARCH279769
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Labelled: "ANY 23, 2". Annotations on the original physical media: "SOM Colombus Centre". Most common file formats: unidentified file format, Adobe Illustrator, Tagged Image File Format.
born digital, photographs
1998-2001
archives
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Fonds
Melvin Charney fonds
AP041
Synopsis:
The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
1947-2012
Melvin Charney fonds
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AP041
Synopsis:
The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
1947-2012