Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
20 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Katie Lloyd Thomas
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
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Awards and addresses
ARCH255595
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6 files of awards and addresses - French Academie d'Architecture grande medaille d'or; R.A.I.C gold medal and receiving speech; Cosmos Club - AIA talk; Chicago lecture on cities; Massey Hall public presentation speeches
1984
Awards and addresses
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6 files of awards and addresses - French Academie d'Architecture grande medaille d'or; R.A.I.C gold medal and receiving speech; Cosmos Club - AIA talk; Chicago lecture on cities; Massey Hall public presentation speeches
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1984
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ARCH267994
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This group consists of a presentation at the program of the Prix d'excellence en architecture 1992 of the Ordre des architectes du Québec about the project at 205, rue Viger in Montréal, Québec.
June 12, 1992
Présentation au programme du Prix d'excellence en architecture 1992 de l'Ordre des architectes du Québec
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This group consists of a presentation at the program of the Prix d'excellence en architecture 1992 of the Ordre des architectes du Québec about the project at 205, rue Viger in Montréal, Québec.
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June 12, 1992
Echosystems
This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
5 March 2016
Echosystems
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This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
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Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Documentation
AP146.S2
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La série présente les documents de référence consultés par la firme d’architecture De Paoli et Pellissier.
1954-2002
Documentation
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AP146.S2
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La série présente les documents de référence consultés par la firme d’architecture De Paoli et Pellissier.
Série 2
1954-2002
Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 April 2009
Michael Rakowitz and Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas
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Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
19 February 2015 , 6pm
Windows and Screens: Georges Teyssot
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Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
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ARCH255268
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correspondence file on the Ruck-A-Chucky Bridge, with press clippings, a Progressive Architecture Award (1979), drawings by T.Y. Lin International and a 7 page presentation document with an original sketch by Goldsmith
1962-1979
Correspondence file on the Ruck-A-Chucky Bridge, with press clippings
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correspondence file on the Ruck-A-Chucky Bridge, with press clippings, a Progressive Architecture Award (1979), drawings by T.Y. Lin International and a 7 page presentation document with an original sketch by Goldsmith
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1962-1979