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Charles Rohault de Fleury
CI001.S2
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Series documents works by Charles Rohault de Fleury, including objects related to his architectural education as well as private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning. Material in this series was produced between 1717 and 1868. Series is arranged into six files: Education; Domestic Commissions; Opera Houses; Public and Urban Architecture; Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle; and Miscellanea.
1717-[1884]
Charles Rohault de Fleury
CI001.S2
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Series documents works by Charles Rohault de Fleury, including objects related to his architectural education as well as private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning. Material in this series was produced between 1717 and 1868. Series is arranged into six files: Education; Domestic Commissions; Opera Houses; Public and Urban Architecture; Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle; and Miscellanea.
Series 2
1717-[1884]
articles
The Surface of Things
22 January 2024
The Surface of Things
Annette Kelm on photographic copies and uncovering histories below the surface of images
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textual records
ARCH258535
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Un dossier des notes manuscrites à l'encre et à la mine de plomb (en français, anglais ou italien) de divers auteurs relatifs à l'architecture, à la Villa Madama, aux jardins, à l’histoire de l'art et à la mythologie grecque. Cormier a souvent écrit la date de publication, l'édition et le numéro de page.
circa 1915
Notes sur Villa Madama à Rome
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Un dossier des notes manuscrites à l'encre et à la mine de plomb (en français, anglais ou italien) de divers auteurs relatifs à l'architecture, à la Villa Madama, aux jardins, à l’histoire de l'art et à la mythologie grecque. Cormier a souvent écrit la date de publication, l'édition et le numéro de page.
textual records
circa 1915
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
27 April 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Peguis First Nation and the Netley-Libau Marsh: Documenting Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy at the Mouth of Lake Winnipeg
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The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
Parables and Other Allegories: The Work of Melvin Charney 1975–1990 comprises approximately 100 drawings, including many large-scale, sketches, photographs, and three large constructions. By assembling works from various public and private collections, including the CCA, the exhibition permits a comprehensive analysis of Charney’s artistic process to reveal the dialogue(...)
Main galleries
9 October 1991 to 12 January 1992
Parables and Other Allegories: The Work of Melvin Charney, 1975-1990
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Parables and Other Allegories: The Work of Melvin Charney 1975–1990 comprises approximately 100 drawings, including many large-scale, sketches, photographs, and three large constructions. By assembling works from various public and private collections, including the CCA, the exhibition permits a comprehensive analysis of Charney’s artistic process to reveal the dialogue(...)
Main galleries
articles
15 July 2024
Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
25 March 2017, 3pm
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
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Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
13 November 2019 to 26 July 2020
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Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 June 2016, 6pm
Amy Kulper: Architecture’s Digital Turn and the Advent of Photoshop
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In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre