Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
textual records
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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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
textual records
1962-1979
In this talk, titled Design the place for people to meet, Manabu Chiba will explain his approach to design with an emphasis on realizing architecture as a facilitator for new place-to-place, person-to-person and people-to-place interactions. His work attempts to reveal the context of a site and create formal simplicity, in order to nurture relationships among(...)
11 February 2016
Manabu Chiba wants to speak with you
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In this talk, titled Design the place for people to meet, Manabu Chiba will explain his approach to design with an emphasis on realizing architecture as a facilitator for new place-to-place, person-to-person and people-to-place interactions. His work attempts to reveal the context of a site and create formal simplicity, in order to nurture relationships among(...)
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AP129.S1.D1
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La série de projet est constituée d'une publication relative au concours d'architecture scolaire de 1964. La publication intitulée "14 projets primés au concours Architecture Scolaire 64" est publié par le ministère de l'Éducation du Québec. La projet de Ouellet, Reeves, Guité, Alain est présenté à la page 61.
1964
Projet pour le Concours d'architecture scolaire
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AP129.S1.D1
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La série de projet est constituée d'une publication relative au concours d'architecture scolaire de 1964. La publication intitulée "14 projets primés au concours Architecture Scolaire 64" est publié par le ministère de l'Éducation du Québec. La projet de Ouellet, Reeves, Guité, Alain est présenté à la page 61.
Dossier 1
1964
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Small house
AP012.S1.SS1.D5
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Le dossier est constitué de dessins de présentation reliés au projet d'une petite maison pour le compte de l'école d'architecture de l'Université McGill.
Small house
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AP012.S1.SS1.D5
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Le dossier est constitué de dessins de présentation reliés au projet d'une petite maison pour le compte de l'école d'architecture de l'Université McGill.
Dossier 5
The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
27 June 2016 to 30 June 2016
Toolkit for Today: Keywords for the Environment
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The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Octagonal gallery
8 October 2014 to 15 February 2015
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Octagonal gallery
That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
20 October 2016, 6pm
Sound Advice and Clear Drawings: Design and Computation in the Second Machine Age
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
13 June 2008
Urgency 2008: Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang
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Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)