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Photographs dating from 1950
ARCH273132
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Includes photographs of Gordon Webber, Arthur's early mentor and professor at McGill School of Architecture. Also includes 2 photographs of Arthur Erickson.
1950
Photographs dating from 1950
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ARCH273132
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Includes photographs of Gordon Webber, Arthur's early mentor and professor at McGill School of Architecture. Also includes 2 photographs of Arthur Erickson.
photographs
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4 File
1950
photographs
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95 photograph(s)
ARCH274367
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Group consists of predominantly photographs (81 photographs) and some negatives (14 negatives) of Chandigarh, India, before the construction, including photographs of inhabitants, rustic houses, landscape and architecture.
1950-1952
Photographs of Chandigarh, India, before the construction
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Group consists of predominantly photographs (81 photographs) and some negatives (14 negatives) of Chandigarh, India, before the construction, including photographs of inhabitants, rustic houses, landscape and architecture.
photographs
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95 photograph(s)
1950-1952
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CD034
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The SAAL Process exhibition collection consists of reproductions of several objects used in the exhibition “The SAAL Process, Housing in Portugal 1974–76.” It was created by the Museu Serralves and travelled to the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in 2015. The collection contains reproductions of drawings, presentation panels and photographs dating from 1974 to 1979. Born out of the Portuguese Revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities.
1974-1979
The SAAL Process exhibition collection
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CD034
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The SAAL Process exhibition collection consists of reproductions of several objects used in the exhibition “The SAAL Process, Housing in Portugal 1974–76.” It was created by the Museu Serralves and travelled to the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in 2015. The collection contains reproductions of drawings, presentation panels and photographs dating from 1974 to 1979. Born out of the Portuguese Revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities.
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1974-1979
Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
9 October 2008
Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
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Aditya Prakash fonds
AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
1947-2008
Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
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1947-2008
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AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
1995-2013
ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records
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AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
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1995-2013
textual records
ARCH257667
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Séparateurs et dossiers classés par sujet, incluant de la documentation, des photographies, des rendus, des tables, relatifs au béton armé, à l'architecture, aux réservoirs, au hyperstatique, aux notes techniques.
1928
Dossiers d'Ernest Cormier avec des notes techniques
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ARCH257667
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Séparateurs et dossiers classés par sujet, incluant de la documentation, des photographies, des rendus, des tables, relatifs au béton armé, à l'architecture, aux réservoirs, au hyperstatique, aux notes techniques.
textual records
1928
Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Main galleries
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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B.C. Binning fonds
AP069
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The B.C. Binning fonds documents the activities of artist B.C. Binning and the links between his art and architecture. The fonds contains drawings, reprographic copies, photographs and coloured test panels related to five projects, among others, the design of Binning's residence in West Vancouver, British Columbia and the mural for the B.C. Electric Head Office in Vancouver. Material in the fonds was produced between 1941 and 1963.
1941-1963
B.C. Binning fonds
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AP069
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The B.C. Binning fonds documents the activities of artist B.C. Binning and the links between his art and architecture. The fonds contains drawings, reprographic copies, photographs and coloured test panels related to five projects, among others, the design of Binning's residence in West Vancouver, British Columbia and the mural for the B.C. Electric Head Office in Vancouver. Material in the fonds was produced between 1941 and 1963.
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1941-1963
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ARCH158396
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Cette chemise contient de la correspondance diverse de la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, adressée à M. et Mme Roger D'Astous, soit à titre d'amis de la Fondation ou à titre d'ancien apprenti du Fellowship, selon le cas, et en particulier de la correspondance relative aux célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire de Taliesin, en 1987 ; de même que des exemplaires du bulletin Taliesin Fellowship News (Vol. 1, no 2 et vol. 2, no 1) et 1 exemplaire du Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, et 1 exemplaire de la brochure The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - An Overview 1993-1994. De plus, on retrouve parmi la correspondance : 1 lettre de William Wesley Peters 1 lettre de Mme Frank Lloyd Wright 2 cartes de souhaits signées par Frank Lloyd Wright 11,5 x 16,5cm et 13 x 18cm 1 lettre de Kamal Amin à Roger D'Astous, 1er février 1977 1 lettre de Anna Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, 4 septembre 1989 1 feuillet 19,5 x 14,5 cm 1 lettre de Morton Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, ca. septembre 1989. 1 feuillet accompagné de photocopie et coupure de presse 9,5 x 25,5 cm 1 photographie: prise à l'occasion des célébrations du 50ième de Taliesin, noir et blanc 22,5 x 25,5 cm 1 projet de lettre de Roger D'Astous à William Wesley Peters, ca. 1991
Correspondance diverse de la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright
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ARCH158396
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Cette chemise contient de la correspondance diverse de la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, adressée à M. et Mme Roger D'Astous, soit à titre d'amis de la Fondation ou à titre d'ancien apprenti du Fellowship, selon le cas, et en particulier de la correspondance relative aux célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire de Taliesin, en 1987 ; de même que des exemplaires du bulletin Taliesin Fellowship News (Vol. 1, no 2 et vol. 2, no 1) et 1 exemplaire du Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, et 1 exemplaire de la brochure The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - An Overview 1993-1994. De plus, on retrouve parmi la correspondance : 1 lettre de William Wesley Peters 1 lettre de Mme Frank Lloyd Wright 2 cartes de souhaits signées par Frank Lloyd Wright 11,5 x 16,5cm et 13 x 18cm 1 lettre de Kamal Amin à Roger D'Astous, 1er février 1977 1 lettre de Anna Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, 4 septembre 1989 1 feuillet 19,5 x 14,5 cm 1 lettre de Morton Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, ca. septembre 1989. 1 feuillet accompagné de photocopie et coupure de presse 9,5 x 25,5 cm 1 photographie: prise à l'occasion des célébrations du 50ième de Taliesin, noir et blanc 22,5 x 25,5 cm 1 projet de lettre de Roger D'Astous à William Wesley Peters, ca. 1991
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