textual records
AP206.S2.072
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.073 and AP206.S2.074. This file includes the following papers: "Working with Le Corbusier," 1998 "How Chandigarh got Built" "Jane B. Drew," 1996 "Art as I see it," 1993 "Civilization, Art, Religion" Letters to newspaper editors, 1995 Newspaper articles and Aditya Prakash's response to them Newspaper articles by Aditya Prakash, 1993-1994 Urdu poetry "Modernity in Modern Homes," 1994 "The 'Neem' Soap" "Daydreaming" "A New Capital for Haryana" "Trishanku," 1993 "Oh! To be Equal" "Solar Passive/Active Architecture" "Human Habitat: Environmental Issues and Strategies" "The Maximum and the Minimum"
1986-1998
Published and unpublished papers (folder 1 of 3)
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AP206.S2.072
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.073 and AP206.S2.074. This file includes the following papers: "Working with Le Corbusier," 1998 "How Chandigarh got Built" "Jane B. Drew," 1996 "Art as I see it," 1993 "Civilization, Art, Religion" Letters to newspaper editors, 1995 Newspaper articles and Aditya Prakash's response to them Newspaper articles by Aditya Prakash, 1993-1994 Urdu poetry "Modernity in Modern Homes," 1994 "The 'Neem' Soap" "Daydreaming" "A New Capital for Haryana" "Trishanku," 1993 "Oh! To be Equal" "Solar Passive/Active Architecture" "Human Habitat: Environmental Issues and Strategies" "The Maximum and the Minimum"
textual records
1986-1998
research
Visiting Scholars 2006
Jean Attali, École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France Topic: Figures d’énonciation de la pensée architecturale et spatiale: manifestes et oppositions dans les oeuvres d’Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman et Rem Koolhaas Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States Topic: Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and(...)
10 January 2006 to 15 September 2006
Visiting Scholars 2006
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Jean Attali, École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France Topic: Figures d’énonciation de la pensée architecturale et spatiale: manifestes et oppositions dans les oeuvres d’Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman et Rem Koolhaas Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States Topic: Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and(...)
research
10 January 2006 to
15 September 2006
John Soane 1753-1837
Described by Henry James as “one of the most curious things in London,” Sir John Soane’s Museum was built as the picturesque and enigmatic home, office, collector’s trove, and personal showplace of one of history’s most innovative architects. This exhibition is a major re-evaluation of Soane’s career, as well as a reconsideration of his importance to the history of modern(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2001 to 3 September 2001
John Soane 1753-1837
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Described by Henry James as “one of the most curious things in London,” Sir John Soane’s Museum was built as the picturesque and enigmatic home, office, collector’s trove, and personal showplace of one of history’s most innovative architects. This exhibition is a major re-evaluation of Soane’s career, as well as a reconsideration of his importance to the history of modern(...)
Main galleries
archives
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
1936-2021
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
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1936-2021
events
Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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AP018.S1.1963.PR01
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This project series documents the Place du Canada office building in Montreal from 1963-1967. The office identified the project number as 63M4. This project was commissioned by Canadian Pacific Investments and consisted of a 27-storey skyscraper with a penthouse and 5 levels of parking, located at the corners of St. Antoine and Windsor (modern day Peel) Streets. The building totaled 581,500 square feet and was built onto the historic Château Champlain hotel at its base where the two buildings shared a podium. It also included a plaza level with landscaped outdoor areas. The project is recorded through drawings, textual records and a presentation photo board dating from around 1966-1967. The drawings are all sets of reprographic copies of architectural, structural, electrical and mechanical drawings, while the textual records consist of specifications.
1966
Place du Canada Office Building, Montreal (1963-1967)
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AP018.S1.1963.PR01
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This project series documents the Place du Canada office building in Montreal from 1963-1967. The office identified the project number as 63M4. This project was commissioned by Canadian Pacific Investments and consisted of a 27-storey skyscraper with a penthouse and 5 levels of parking, located at the corners of St. Antoine and Windsor (modern day Peel) Streets. The building totaled 581,500 square feet and was built onto the historic Château Champlain hotel at its base where the two buildings shared a podium. It also included a plaza level with landscaped outdoor areas. The project is recorded through drawings, textual records and a presentation photo board dating from around 1966-1967. The drawings are all sets of reprographic copies of architectural, structural, electrical and mechanical drawings, while the textual records consist of specifications.
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1966
When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 September 2016, 6pm
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 September 2011 to 8 January 2012
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View
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After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP075.S1.1960.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the McLean Park Rental Housing Project, a low-income housing development spread across four city blocks in the Strathcona neighbourhood, Vancouver. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 1960s. The architectural firm in charge of the project was Underwood McKinley Cameron. The housing development "was comprised of a nine-storey apartment building with one-bedroom apartments and studios, and a series of three- and four-storey maisonettes." [1] As landscape architect, Oberlander worked on the site planning, grading and drainage, as well as the planting plan. She also designed recreational spaces for adults and children. The project series contains five photographs of the project, specifications, a plant list and a reprographic copy of a working drawing. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 62.
1960-1963
McLean Park Rental Housing Project, Vancouver, British Columbia (1960-1963)
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AP075.S1.1960.PR02
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This project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the McLean Park Rental Housing Project, a low-income housing development spread across four city blocks in the Strathcona neighbourhood, Vancouver. Oberlander worked on this project in the early 1960s. The architectural firm in charge of the project was Underwood McKinley Cameron. The housing development "was comprised of a nine-storey apartment building with one-bedroom apartments and studios, and a series of three- and four-storey maisonettes." [1] As landscape architect, Oberlander worked on the site planning, grading and drainage, as well as the planting plan. She also designed recreational spaces for adults and children. The project series contains five photographs of the project, specifications, a plant list and a reprographic copy of a working drawing. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 62.
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1960-1963