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mixed reports: Transit Station and Large Public assembly Facilities, Office Buildings, Science, Technology and Computer Centres, Museum Packet, Mid East Projects, Hotel List, Law Courts, Office buildings and Data Centres, Project Descriptions R-Z, Projects list, Notes AEA Projects, miscellaneous Photographs: miscellaneous unidentified, Yordale Subway Station, The World Bank, Western Washington, Woodside Residence, Robson Sqaure, Witting Place, U.C Irvine, USCD, Vancouver Art Gallery, Wall Street, Westin Bayshore, Wilshire Art Complex, Village Lake Louise, Taos Resort Study Model, SunLife Building, U.B.C Facility Club, University of Victoria, Tokyo international Trade Fair Pavillon, Teck Mining, Sunkin House, Saudi Embassy, Sawaber Housing, Spadina Quay, Songhees Seniors Tower, Shangai Culture, Saskatoon Hospital
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ARCH257321
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mixed reports: Transit Station and Large Public assembly Facilities, Office Buildings, Science, Technology and Computer Centres, Museum Packet, Mid East Projects, Hotel List, Law Courts, Office buildings and Data Centres, Project Descriptions R-Z, Projects list, Notes AEA Projects, miscellaneous Photographs: miscellaneous unidentified, Yordale Subway Station, The World Bank, Western Washington, Woodside Residence, Robson Sqaure, Witting Place, U.C Irvine, USCD, Vancouver Art Gallery, Wall Street, Westin Bayshore, Wilshire Art Complex, Village Lake Louise, Taos Resort Study Model, SunLife Building, U.B.C Facility Club, University of Victoria, Tokyo international Trade Fair Pavillon, Teck Mining, Sunkin House, Saudi Embassy, Sawaber Housing, Spadina Quay, Songhees Seniors Tower, Shangai Culture, Saskatoon Hospital
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
Toys that Teach
The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 December 1992 to 25 April 1993
Toys that Teach
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The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Nuit Blanche 2025: 38%
It is time for a systemic change in the way we design and value the built environment. The way we build is not ecologically sustainable. The building industry is responsible for 38% of the worlds annual production of greenhouse gases. During the Nuit Blanche at the CCA, we invite you to come and discuss, reflect and be inspired by the actions of the German architecture(...)
Nuit Blanche 2025
1 March 2025 to 2 March 2025, 7pm to 1am
Nuit Blanche 2025: 38%
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It is time for a systemic change in the way we design and value the built environment. The way we build is not ecologically sustainable. The building industry is responsible for 38% of the worlds annual production of greenhouse gases. During the Nuit Blanche at the CCA, we invite you to come and discuss, reflect and be inspired by the actions of the German architecture(...)
Nuit Blanche 2025
Learning from… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Van Ginkel Associates fonds
AP027
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The Van Ginkel Associates fonds is comprised of documents concerning van Ginkel Associates, van Ginkel Associates Ltd., Ecos Ltd., van Ginkel Partners, Ginkelvan Ltd, van Ginkel Associates Ltd. (1977), the styles under which H.P. van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel practiced as a multidisciplinary planning, management and architecture firm. Much of the van Ginkels' work was done in the Montréal area and nation-wide. The fonds contains approximately 1 985 drawings (1 420 originals plus 565 reproductions), 41 boards, 3 photographs, 2 collages, 2 typescripts, 1 model, 1 sketchbook and approximately 12.23 meters of textual documents. The documents were primarily produced between 1955 and 1980.
1944-1992
Van Ginkel Associates fonds
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AP027
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The Van Ginkel Associates fonds is comprised of documents concerning van Ginkel Associates, van Ginkel Associates Ltd., Ecos Ltd., van Ginkel Partners, Ginkelvan Ltd, van Ginkel Associates Ltd. (1977), the styles under which H.P. van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel practiced as a multidisciplinary planning, management and architecture firm. Much of the van Ginkels' work was done in the Montréal area and nation-wide. The fonds contains approximately 1 985 drawings (1 420 originals plus 565 reproductions), 41 boards, 3 photographs, 2 collages, 2 typescripts, 1 model, 1 sketchbook and approximately 12.23 meters of textual documents. The documents were primarily produced between 1955 and 1980.
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1944-1992
journals and magazines
World's fair.
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volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
[Corte Madera, CA] : [World's Fair], [©1981]-
journals and magazines
[Corte Madera, CA] : [World's Fair], [©1981]-
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Halligan's illustrated world's fair : devoted to the world's fair art and scientific literature.
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5 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 40 cm
[Chicago] : Jewell N. Halligan, ©1890-1893.
Halligan's illustrated world's fair : devoted to the world's fair art and scientific literature.
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5 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 40 cm
books
[Chicago] : Jewell N. Halligan, ©1890-1893.
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New York World's Fair
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1 model : metal ; 10 x 5 cm (diam.)
[1939?]
artefacts
[1939?]