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Fonds
archives
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Fonds
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AP103
Synopsis:
The IFCCA Prize Competition for the Design of Cities fonds primarily documents the activities involved in the organization and realization of the Prize Competition, as well as the most active years of the IFCCA. The fonds is made up of primarily of textual documents dating from 1992 to 2001. The Prize Competition challenged architects from around the world to rethink and redesign a site on the western edge of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Five finalists were chosen by a jury of well known figures in the architecture field, and given four months to complete their proposals. Peter Eisenman, Peter Eisenman Architects, New York City, was declared the winner on 28 June 1999. Two exhibitions of the work of the finalists, in New York City (1999, with an accompanying colloquium) and at the CCA in Montreal (2000-2001) followed the Prize Competition.
AP103
Synopsis:
The IFCCA Prize Competition for the Design of Cities fonds primarily documents the activities involved in the organization and realization of the Prize Competition, as well as the most active years of the IFCCA. The fonds is made up of primarily of textual documents dating from 1992 to 2001. The Prize Competition challenged architects from around the world to rethink and redesign a site on the western edge of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Five finalists were chosen by a jury of well known figures in the architecture field, and given four months to complete their proposals. Peter Eisenman, Peter Eisenman Architects, New York City, was declared the winner on 28 June 1999. Two exhibitions of the work of the finalists, in New York City (1999, with an accompanying colloquium) and at the CCA in Montreal (2000-2001) followed the Prize Competition.
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Date:
1992-2001, predominant 1996-2001
1992-2001, predominant 1996-2001
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IFCCA Prize Competition for the Design of Cities fonds
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AP103
Synopsis:
The IFCCA Prize Competition for the Design of Cities fonds primarily documents the activities involved in the organization and realization of the Prize Competition, as well as the most active years of the IFCCA. The fonds is made up of primarily of textual documents dating from 1992 to 2001. The Prize Competition challenged architects from around the world to rethink and redesign a site on the western edge of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Five finalists were chosen by a jury of well known figures in the architecture field, and given four months to complete their proposals. Peter Eisenman, Peter Eisenman Architects, New York City, was declared the winner on 28 June 1999. Two exhibitions of the work of the finalists, in New York City (1999, with an accompanying colloquium) and at the CCA in Montreal (2000-2001) followed the Prize Competition.
IFCCA Prize Competition for the Design of Cities fonds
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AP103
Synopsis:
The IFCCA Prize Competition for the Design of Cities fonds primarily documents the activities involved in the organization and realization of the Prize Competition, as well as the most active years of the IFCCA. The fonds is made up of primarily of textual documents dating from 1992 to 2001. The Prize Competition challenged architects from around the world to rethink and redesign a site on the western edge of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Five finalists were chosen by a jury of well known figures in the architecture field, and given four months to complete their proposals. Peter Eisenman, Peter Eisenman Architects, New York City, was declared the winner on 28 June 1999. Two exhibitions of the work of the finalists, in New York City (1999, with an accompanying colloquium) and at the CCA in Montreal (2000-2001) followed the Prize Competition.
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archives
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Fonds
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
Date:
1992-2001, predominant 1996-2001
1992-2001, predominant 1996-2001
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articles
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Near Documentary
Near Documentary
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Jeff Wall in conversation with Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen
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The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Jeff Wall, conversation, oral history
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Jeff Wall, conversation, oral history
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5 June 2023
5 June 2023
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articles
articles
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Far from Nostalgia
Far from Nostalgia
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Claudia Shmidt on the letters of Amancio Williams
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9 October 2023
9 October 2023
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events
events
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Making Seed Bombs
Making Seed Bombs
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Description:
Montréal-based artist Gina Badger shows workshop participants how to make seed-bombs – balls of dirt, clay, water, and seeds that can be used to start gardens in the city. The workshop is presented in collaboration with DARE-DARE (Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal). In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008),(...)
Montréal-based artist Gina Badger shows workshop participants how to make seed-bombs – balls of dirt, clay, water, and seeds that can be used to start gardens in the city. The workshop is presented in collaboration with DARE-DARE (Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal). In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008),(...)
Date:
14 March 2009
14 March 2009
Title:
Making Seed Bombs
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Description:
Montréal-based artist Gina Badger shows workshop participants how to make seed-bombs – balls of dirt, clay, water, and seeds that can be used to start gardens in the city. The workshop is presented in collaboration with DARE-DARE (Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal). In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008),(...)
Making Seed Bombs
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Description:
Montréal-based artist Gina Badger shows workshop participants how to make seed-bombs – balls of dirt, clay, water, and seeds that can be used to start gardens in the city. The workshop is presented in collaboration with DARE-DARE (Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal). In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008),(...)
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events
events
Date:
14 March 2009
14 March 2009
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events
events
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The Unschool
The Unschool
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Description:
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
Date:
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
Title:
The Unschool
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Description:
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
The Unschool
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Description:
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
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events
events
Date:
30 July 2012 to
3 August 2012
30 July 2012 to
3 August 2012
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Description:
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Title:
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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Description:
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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Description:
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
26 May 1999 to
31 October 1999
26 May 1999 to
31 October 1999
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Description:
The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
Title:
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
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Description:
The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
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Description:
The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
13 April 2011 to
18 September 2011
13 April 2011 to
18 September 2011
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Description:
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
Date:
13 October 2017 to 4 March 2018
13 October 2017 to 4 March 2018
Title:
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City
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Description:
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City
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Description:
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
13 October 2017 to
4 March 2018
13 October 2017 to
4 March 2018
Location:
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Description:
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
22 September 1993 to 28 November 1993
22 September 1993 to 28 November 1993
Title:
"Letters from the People": Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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Description:
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
"Letters from the People": Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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Description:
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
22 September 1993 to
28 November 1993
22 September 1993 to
28 November 1993
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Toy Town
Toy Town
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Description:
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Title:
Toy Town
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Description:
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Toy Town
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Description:
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
22 October 1997 to
31 May 1998
22 October 1997 to
31 May 1998
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
