Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
drawings, textual records
DR1995:0257:001-001
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- This project for an open space urban program (OSUP) was apparently for a temporary structure for the storage of information modules ('CCA Consignment List'). The full scope of the project cannot be determined from this elevation oblique which includes a two-dimensional grid.
1972
Open space urban program (OSUP): Project documents
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DR1995:0257:001-001
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- This project for an open space urban program (OSUP) was apparently for a temporary structure for the storage of information modules ('CCA Consignment List'). The full scope of the project cannot be determined from this elevation oblique which includes a two-dimensional grid.
drawings, textual records
1972
textual records
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2 File
ARCH273843
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1 printed document- "Photographs of Pavilions for Expo '70," Takenaka Komuten Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan (30 April 1968) and 1 publication- Structure, Space and Mankind Expo '70, A Photographic Interpreter, Committee of the Second Architectural Convention of Japan (1 May 1970).
circa 1947-2002
Photographs and a publication on Expo 70.
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ARCH273843
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1 printed document- "Photographs of Pavilions for Expo '70," Takenaka Komuten Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan (30 April 1968) and 1 publication- Structure, Space and Mankind Expo '70, A Photographic Interpreter, Committee of the Second Architectural Convention of Japan (1 May 1970).
textual records
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2 File
circa 1947-2002
drawings
AP140.S2.SS1.D70.P48
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Site plans for proposed construction sequence, alternative schematic plans and a few sketch plans for first Abando Passenger Interchange project, including for arcade, Renfe railway station passenger control, structure, fire escape, a few alternative sections for footbridge and arcade, drawing schedules
circa 1974-1999
Site plans for proposed construction sequence, alternative schematic plans and a few sketch plans, Abando Passenger Interchange, Bilbao, Spain
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AP140.S2.SS1.D70.P48
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Site plans for proposed construction sequence, alternative schematic plans and a few sketch plans for first Abando Passenger Interchange project, including for arcade, Renfe railway station passenger control, structure, fire escape, a few alternative sections for footbridge and arcade, drawing schedules
drawings
circa 1974-1999
drawings
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3 File
Contract drawings
ARCH259633
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3 bound sets of contract drawings - Spadina Expressway, Wembley Road to Viewmount Avenue, excavation, bridges, local roads (contract R-15 68); William R. Allen Expressway, Eglinton Avenue West, bridge-station structure (contracts R-9-69 and R-19-71)
circa 1947-2002
Contract drawings
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ARCH259633
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3 bound sets of contract drawings - Spadina Expressway, Wembley Road to Viewmount Avenue, excavation, bridges, local roads (contract R-15 68); William R. Allen Expressway, Eglinton Avenue West, bridge-station structure (contracts R-9-69 and R-19-71)
drawings
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3 File
circa 1947-2002
drawings
Quantity:
25 design development drawing(s)
DR2004:0619
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site plans, plans, possibly presentation drawings, elevations, conceptual drawings, reference drawings, notes, diagrams, perspectives, sketches, details, axonometrics, sections, schematic, text, aerial view of site with montage showing proposed structure, and drawing from the Fun Palace Project used for this project
Site plans, plans, possibly presentation drawings, elevations, conceptual drawings
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DR2004:0619
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site plans, plans, possibly presentation drawings, elevations, conceptual drawings, reference drawings, notes, diagrams, perspectives, sketches, details, axonometrics, sections, schematic, text, aerial view of site with montage showing proposed structure, and drawing from the Fun Palace Project used for this project
drawings
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25 design development drawing(s)
DR1988:0040
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- Design for the front elevation of a one story building with a pitched roof. The surface of the structure is covered with patterns, making it difficult to distinguish the architectural forms, but there appears to be a two-column portico with a triangular pediment above the doorway.
architecture
circa 1920-1921
Visionary design for the front elevation of a chapel
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DR1988:0040
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- Design for the front elevation of a one story building with a pitched roof. The surface of the structure is covered with patterns, making it difficult to distinguish the architectural forms, but there appears to be a two-column portico with a triangular pediment above the doorway.
architecture
Project
AP207.S1.2017.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Levitazione" designed by Pettena and presented at the Fattoria Montellori in Fucecchio near Florence, in 2017. The installation used the existing wooden roof structure of the exhibition space to hang wood beams from it giving the impression of tree trunks with roots. For Pettena, the installation is "a story telling about the wish for a synthesis in the relationship between nature and artifice as well as between emotion and reason, between project strategies and laws of nature." [1] The project series contains sketches, drawings and two photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-levitation-2017/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
circa 2017
Levitazione [Levitation] (2017)
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AP207.S1.2017.PR01
Description:
The project series documents the installation "Levitazione" designed by Pettena and presented at the Fattoria Montellori in Fucecchio near Florence, in 2017. The installation used the existing wooden roof structure of the exhibition space to hang wood beams from it giving the impression of tree trunks with roots. For Pettena, the installation is "a story telling about the wish for a synthesis in the relationship between nature and artifice as well as between emotion and reason, between project strategies and laws of nature." [1] The project series contains sketches, drawings and two photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-levitation-2017/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
Project
circa 2017
Project
AP142.S1.D144
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File documents an executed (?) project for the construction of low cost housing in Garbagnate Milanese, Italy. The proposal called for the renovation of existing structures as well as new construction. Material in this file was produced between 1989 and 1991. File contains presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including an architect's report, a quantity survey, a contract document, specifications, a proposal, sketches and drawings.
1989-1991
Ristrutturazione della "Corte del Chiodo"
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AP142.S1.D144
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File documents an executed (?) project for the construction of low cost housing in Garbagnate Milanese, Italy. The proposal called for the renovation of existing structures as well as new construction. Material in this file was produced between 1989 and 1991. File contains presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including an architect's report, a quantity survey, a contract document, specifications, a proposal, sketches and drawings.
File 144
1989-1991
Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2003
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre