textual records
DR2012:0015:022:007
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File containing documents in English and French, including press clippings related to the following projects and/or events: - 42nd Venice biennale; - Conseil des arts & lettres du Québec; - A Toronto construction; - The villas of Pliny and classical architecture; - Canadian tribute to human rights; - City work: les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Corridart; - Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979; - A Kingston construction.
1967, 1974-1986, 1993
Press clippings related to Melvin Charney's projects and events
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DR2012:0015:022:007
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File containing documents in English and French, including press clippings related to the following projects and/or events: - 42nd Venice biennale; - Conseil des arts & lettres du Québec; - A Toronto construction; - The villas of Pliny and classical architecture; - Canadian tribute to human rights; - City work: les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Corridart; - Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979; - A Kingston construction.
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1967, 1974-1986, 1993
Carte Illustrée
PH1981:1025:001
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- This plate is a photograph of a railroad map (route depicted in the album is painted orange on the map, mount bears a decorative title with gold initials (top center), surrounded by 24 small views, half stereos identified with the following imprinted titles (clockwise from the upper left): 1. Porte Guillaume à St Valéry 2. Embarcadère du Chemin de Fer à Abbeville 3. Embarcadère du Chemin de Fer à Boulogne 4. Palais de Justice à Boulogne 5. Pont du Chemin de Fer à Étaples 6. Port de Boulogne 7. Embarcadère du Chemin de Fer à Amiens 8. Creil 9. St Leu d'Esserent 10. Viaduc de Chantilly 11. Château de la Reine Blanche 12. Tranchée du Chemin de Fer près d'Orry 13. Station de Louvres 14. Église de Goussainville 15. Station de Pierrefitte 16. Maison Imp.le [Impériale] de la Leg.on [Légion] d'Hon.ur [d'Honneur] à St Denis 17. Cathédrale de St-Denis 18. Église Notre-Dame à Pontoise 19. Station d'Auvers 20. Station de l'Ile Adam 21. Beaumont 22. Cathédrale d'Amiens 23. Statue de Parmentier à Montdidier 24. Pont de la Portelette à Abbeville
architecture, engineering, topographic
1859-1860
Carte Illustrée
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PH1981:1025:001
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- This plate is a photograph of a railroad map (route depicted in the album is painted orange on the map, mount bears a decorative title with gold initials (top center), surrounded by 24 small views, half stereos identified with the following imprinted titles (clockwise from the upper left): 1. Porte Guillaume à St Valéry 2. Embarcadère du Chemin de Fer à Abbeville 3. Embarcadère du Chemin de Fer à Boulogne 4. Palais de Justice à Boulogne 5. Pont du Chemin de Fer à Étaples 6. Port de Boulogne 7. Embarcadère du Chemin de Fer à Amiens 8. Creil 9. St Leu d'Esserent 10. Viaduc de Chantilly 11. Château de la Reine Blanche 12. Tranchée du Chemin de Fer près d'Orry 13. Station de Louvres 14. Église de Goussainville 15. Station de Pierrefitte 16. Maison Imp.le [Impériale] de la Leg.on [Légion] d'Hon.ur [d'Honneur] à St Denis 17. Cathédrale de St-Denis 18. Église Notre-Dame à Pontoise 19. Station d'Auvers 20. Station de l'Ile Adam 21. Beaumont 22. Cathédrale d'Amiens 23. Statue de Parmentier à Montdidier 24. Pont de la Portelette à Abbeville
architecture, engineering, topographic
textual records
DR2012:0012:098:014
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File containing two complete copies, clippings, and photocopies of Parachute magazine, issue 13 (winter 1978), in which a French-language interview with Melvin Charney appears. Includes references to the following projects: - Memo series; - Un dictionnaire...; - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières [part of Une histoire]; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Fragments; - Streetwork. Original folder inscribed in graphite: PARACHUTE, no. 13, Hiver 1978.
1978
Press clippings related to Melvin Charney and his projects
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DR2012:0012:098:014
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File containing two complete copies, clippings, and photocopies of Parachute magazine, issue 13 (winter 1978), in which a French-language interview with Melvin Charney appears. Includes references to the following projects: - Memo series; - Un dictionnaire...; - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières [part of Une histoire]; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Fragments; - Streetwork. Original folder inscribed in graphite: PARACHUTE, no. 13, Hiver 1978.
textual records
1978
Malicious Houses, Animation, Animosity, German Architecture and Film, From Mies to Murnau, Visiting Scholar, Spyros Papapetros, Oswald Herzog
11 July 2003
The City Decoded
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
The City Decoded
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What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
photographs
DR2012:0012:090:003
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Box containing photographs, and a printout of an architectural drawing mounted on a panel, of the following projects: - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (2 photographs); - Edifice (2 photographs); - Chicago construction (1 photograph); - Kingston construction (2 photographs); - Toronto construction (2 photograph); - Room 202 (2 photographs); - Streetwork (2 photographs) - HEC Montréal (1 photograph, 1 panel); - CCA garden (2 photographs); - Unidentified (2 photographs). Further investigation is required regarding the projects represented.
1979, 1995-1996
Photographs of various projects by Melvin Charney
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DR2012:0012:090:003
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Box containing photographs, and a printout of an architectural drawing mounted on a panel, of the following projects: - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (2 photographs); - Edifice (2 photographs); - Chicago construction (1 photograph); - Kingston construction (2 photographs); - Toronto construction (2 photograph); - Room 202 (2 photographs); - Streetwork (2 photographs) - HEC Montréal (1 photograph, 1 panel); - CCA garden (2 photographs); - Unidentified (2 photographs). Further investigation is required regarding the projects represented.
photographs
1979, 1995-1996
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
textual records
DR2012:0012:086:007
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Assorted documents in German (predominant) and English translation, including reprographic copies of excerpts from, Experimentelle Architekten der Gegenwart (Experimental architects of the present) by Christian W. Thomsen, with includes references to the following projects: - Visions of the temple; - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Chicago construction; - Toronto construction; - Kingston construction; - Pliny on my mind; - Better they think they are going to a farm ...; - Fragments of the forgotten city; - The other city.
1991
Excerpts of publications related to Melvin Charney and his projects
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DR2012:0012:086:007
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Assorted documents in German (predominant) and English translation, including reprographic copies of excerpts from, Experimentelle Architekten der Gegenwart (Experimental architects of the present) by Christian W. Thomsen, with includes references to the following projects: - Visions of the temple; - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Chicago construction; - Toronto construction; - Kingston construction; - Pliny on my mind; - Better they think they are going to a farm ...; - Fragments of the forgotten city; - The other city.
textual records
1991
drawings
Dessin préliminaires
ARCH7773
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Dessin préliminaires : croquis de plans comparatifs d'hôpitaux et institutions d'enseignement montréalais. Dessins de développement du design : plan de creusage pour le grand perron de l'aile L; plan de l'entrée et élévation de la partie supérieure de l'aile D', 1929 et 1931; plan détaillé de l'étage E'4 et H'4; plans de finition d'un plancher; plan d'étage non-identifié comprenant un bureau de médecin; plan électrique non identifié. Dessins d'exécution préliminaires : détails de la couverture des gaines de ventilation ailes D et D'; modifications au plan des ailes K et L, 1928; détails de portes temporaires dans l'aile B' pour le compte de l'exposition de l'artisanat, 1941; plan et coupe de la salle de l'incinérateur et de la " sorting room ", détails de plinthes et marches pour des corridors et des escaliers, détails de portes intérieures en chêne. Détails des fenêtres à battants en acier, 11 mars 1931 / Cresswell Pomeroy Ltd., Montréal. Plan clef du pavillon principal (dessin 1) / Wallace Sandstone Quarries, Philipsburg, Québec. Lambrissage du mur postérieur de la salle des promotions, 20 avril 1934 /[M. Prévost?]. Nivellement de la terrasse no. 2 et des cours anglaises ailes A et A', plans du mur de soutènement et de la " maison de Monseigneur ", 1931 / M. Aubert.
1924 - 1947
Dessin préliminaires
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ARCH7773
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Dessin préliminaires : croquis de plans comparatifs d'hôpitaux et institutions d'enseignement montréalais. Dessins de développement du design : plan de creusage pour le grand perron de l'aile L; plan de l'entrée et élévation de la partie supérieure de l'aile D', 1929 et 1931; plan détaillé de l'étage E'4 et H'4; plans de finition d'un plancher; plan d'étage non-identifié comprenant un bureau de médecin; plan électrique non identifié. Dessins d'exécution préliminaires : détails de la couverture des gaines de ventilation ailes D et D'; modifications au plan des ailes K et L, 1928; détails de portes temporaires dans l'aile B' pour le compte de l'exposition de l'artisanat, 1941; plan et coupe de la salle de l'incinérateur et de la " sorting room ", détails de plinthes et marches pour des corridors et des escaliers, détails de portes intérieures en chêne. Détails des fenêtres à battants en acier, 11 mars 1931 / Cresswell Pomeroy Ltd., Montréal. Plan clef du pavillon principal (dessin 1) / Wallace Sandstone Quarries, Philipsburg, Québec. Lambrissage du mur postérieur de la salle des promotions, 20 avril 1934 /[M. Prévost?]. Nivellement de la terrasse no. 2 et des cours anglaises ailes A et A', plans du mur de soutènement et de la " maison de Monseigneur ", 1931 / M. Aubert.
drawings
1924 - 1947
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
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British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries