Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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archives
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Fonds
Chuck Hoberman fonds
AP165
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The Chuck Hoberman fonds documents Hoberman’s work in transformable design throughout the first part of his career, from 1980 to 2006, as well as the operations of his company Hoberman Associates Inc. Materials relate to the research and development of design concepts, the patenting of inventions, detailed drawings for certain unfolding structures, the workings and movements of mechanisms, public presentations at fairs and exhibitions, and media coverage.
circa 1980-2006
Chuck Hoberman fonds
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The Chuck Hoberman fonds documents Hoberman’s work in transformable design throughout the first part of his career, from 1980 to 2006, as well as the operations of his company Hoberman Associates Inc. Materials relate to the research and development of design concepts, the patenting of inventions, detailed drawings for certain unfolding structures, the workings and movements of mechanisms, public presentations at fairs and exhibitions, and media coverage.
archives
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Fonds
circa 1980-2006
drawings
AP178.S1.1995.PR07.022
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Original file title: Structure STK
ca. 2002
Structural drawings, Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk, Amsterdam
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AP178.S1.1995.PR07.022
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Original file title: Structure STK
drawings
ca. 2002
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
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19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
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photographs
Chicago
ARCH215091
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snapshots, constructions photos and industrial structure
ca. 1949
Chicago
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ARCH215091
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snapshots, constructions photos and industrial structure
photographs
ca. 1949
drawings
AP178.S1.1995.PR07.031.1
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Original file title: Stedelijk structure 25.05.2002
2002
Structural drawings, Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk, Amsterdam (folder 1 of 3)
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AP178.S1.1995.PR07.031.1
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Original file title: Stedelijk structure 25.05.2002
drawings
2002
drawings
AP178.S1.1995.PR07.031.2
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Original file title: Stedelijk structure 25.05.2002
2002
Structural drawings, Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk, Amsterdam (folder 2 of 3)
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AP178.S1.1995.PR07.031.2
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Original file title: Stedelijk structure 25.05.2002
drawings
2002
drawings
AP178.S1.1995.PR07.031.3
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Original file title: Stedelijk structure 25.05.2002
2002
Structural drawings, Renovação e extensão do Museu Stedelijk, Amsterdam (folder 3 of 3)
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AP178.S1.1995.PR07.031.3
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Original file title: Stedelijk structure 25.05.2002
drawings
2002
models
ARCH268051
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Model of the atrium window metal structure.
Model for the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Québec
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ARCH268051
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Model of the atrium window metal structure.
models
models
ARCH268052
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Model of the atrium window metal structure.
Model for the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Québec
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ARCH268052
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Model of the atrium window metal structure.
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