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System Settings
6 November 2023
System Settings
Thuto Durkac-Somo considers the frictions inherent to networked architecture
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Topic: Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after World War II Presentation: Design for Society, Design from Society: The socio-political significance of minimum-size housing and prefabrication in Japan in the mid-twentieth century
13 August 2015
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Izumi Kuroishi
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Topic: Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after World War II Presentation: Design for Society, Design from Society: The socio-political significance of minimum-size housing and prefabrication in Japan in the mid-twentieth century
photographs
AP140.S2.SS7.D2.P8
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views of projects by the successive firms of James Stirling, James Stirling and Partner and James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates, including the History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, and Dorman Long Headquarters, and one view of the State Gallery Addition and New Chamber Theatre, and of the Biennale Bookshop, also views of Liverpool, probably photographed in the early 1960s, of the Maison de verre in Paris by architect Pierre Charreau, of the Villa Lante, in Bagnaia, Italy, of Villa Caprola, of churches by architect Balthasar Neumann, of buildings by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, also views of Gloucester, Oxford, Salisbury, Longleat, Blenheim, Bath and Stourhead, and of travels in the United States, probably photographed in the 1950s or early 1960s, in Berlin, in Italy, dated 1975, Spain, dated 1976, India, dated 1975 and 1986, Iran, dated 1976, Lambay Island, dated 1981, and Venice, dated 1984
Views of projects by the successive firms of James Stirling
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AP140.S2.SS7.D2.P8
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views of projects by the successive firms of James Stirling, James Stirling and Partner and James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates, including the History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, and Dorman Long Headquarters, and one view of the State Gallery Addition and New Chamber Theatre, and of the Biennale Bookshop, also views of Liverpool, probably photographed in the early 1960s, of the Maison de verre in Paris by architect Pierre Charreau, of the Villa Lante, in Bagnaia, Italy, of Villa Caprola, of churches by architect Balthasar Neumann, of buildings by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, also views of Gloucester, Oxford, Salisbury, Longleat, Blenheim, Bath and Stourhead, and of travels in the United States, probably photographed in the 1950s or early 1960s, in Berlin, in Italy, dated 1975, Spain, dated 1976, India, dated 1975 and 1986, Iran, dated 1976, Lambay Island, dated 1981, and Venice, dated 1984
photographs
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
textual records
Press clippings and reference materials related to Melvin Charney, his projects and exhibitions
DR2012:0012:087:007
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File containing assorted documents in English and French, including newspaper clippings and reference materials related to the following projects: - Corridart; - Venice biennale; - Visions of the temple; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Parables and other allegories; - Power Plant Gallery, Toronto; - Sable-Castelli Gallery, New York; - Cities on the move; - Chicago construction.
between 1969 and 2010
Press clippings and reference materials related to Melvin Charney, his projects and exhibitions
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DR2012:0012:087:007
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File containing assorted documents in English and French, including newspaper clippings and reference materials related to the following projects: - Corridart; - Venice biennale; - Visions of the temple; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Parables and other allegories; - Power Plant Gallery, Toronto; - Sable-Castelli Gallery, New York; - Cities on the move; - Chicago construction.
textual records
between 1969 and 2010
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
drawings, textual records
DR2012:0012:131:005
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File containing documents in English, including an artist's statement, correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, notes, and a sketch related to the exhibition "Invitational IV" at the John Weber Gallery, which included the following artworks by Melvin Charney: - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Streetwork; - Room 202. Original folder inscribed in graphite: John Weber Gallery
1979-1983
Artist's statement, correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, notes, and a sketch related to the exhibition "Invitational IV"
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DR2012:0012:131:005
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File containing documents in English, including an artist's statement, correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, notes, and a sketch related to the exhibition "Invitational IV" at the John Weber Gallery, which included the following artworks by Melvin Charney: - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Streetwork; - Room 202. Original folder inscribed in graphite: John Weber Gallery
drawings, textual records
1979-1983
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(...)
Octagonal gallery
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(...)
Octagonal gallery
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries
22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries