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AP174.S1.2001.D1.001
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Contains minutes of meetings between the Emergent Design Group and the engineering firm Arup NY held in July 2002 on the Carbon Tower, as well as related 3D CAD structure diagrams, sketches and CAD drawings related to climate control, and some reference material on composite materials. Original directory name: "_ref_ARUP". Most common file formats: AutoCAD Drawing, Microsoft Word Document, 3D Studio, DS_store file (MAC), Tagged Image File Format
2002
Emergent Design Group consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York
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AP174.S1.2001.D1.001
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Contains minutes of meetings between the Emergent Design Group and the engineering firm Arup NY held in July 2002 on the Carbon Tower, as well as related 3D CAD structure diagrams, sketches and CAD drawings related to climate control, and some reference material on composite materials. Original directory name: "_ref_ARUP". Most common file formats: AutoCAD Drawing, Microsoft Word Document, 3D Studio, DS_store file (MAC), Tagged Image File Format
born digital
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29 digital file(s)
2002
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
Toolkit for Today: Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
photographs
AP178.S1.1979.PR02.005
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Original file title: Piscina de "Gõrlitzer Bad" Kreuzberg, Berlim Oeste. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file PGB 002-006. Photograph PGB 002 was taken by Reinhard Friedrich. The office noted that one of the photographs was published in Lotus International Quarterly Architecture Review, number 32.
circa 1979
Photographs, contact sheets, and negatives, Görlitzer Bad swimming pool, Berlin
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AP178.S1.1979.PR02.005
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Original file title: Piscina de "Gõrlitzer Bad" Kreuzberg, Berlim Oeste. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file PGB 002-006. Photograph PGB 002 was taken by Reinhard Friedrich. The office noted that one of the photographs was published in Lotus International Quarterly Architecture Review, number 32.
photographs
circa 1979
textual records
AP197.S1.SS9.015
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The box contains drafts, final copies, correspondence and notes for various articles, book projects, interviews, keynote addresses, and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from I-K. The largest portion of this box consists of: drafts and transcripts of interviews with Kenneth Frampton; drafts, articles, correspondence and research materials for an unpublished book project on Japanese Building Practices/Japanese Contemporary Architecture; correspondence and drafts for the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; and correspondence and notes for a Panos Koulermos book project. Other subjects and architects explored in these texts include Arata Isozaki, Kritsin Jaramund, Michael Kagan, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Kengo Kuma, and Kisho Kurakawa.
1985-2016
Kenneth Frampton writings (I-K)
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AP197.S1.SS9.015
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The box contains drafts, final copies, correspondence and notes for various articles, book projects, interviews, keynote addresses, and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from I-K. The largest portion of this box consists of: drafts and transcripts of interviews with Kenneth Frampton; drafts, articles, correspondence and research materials for an unpublished book project on Japanese Building Practices/Japanese Contemporary Architecture; correspondence and drafts for the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; and correspondence and notes for a Panos Koulermos book project. Other subjects and architects explored in these texts include Arata Isozaki, Kritsin Jaramund, Michael Kagan, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Kengo Kuma, and Kisho Kurakawa.
textual records
1985-2016
archives
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Fonds
AP051
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
1975-1997
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds
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AP051
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
archives
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Fonds
1975-1997
drawings, textual records
AP018.S1.1978.PR05.011
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This is a box containing correspondence, meeting minutes, interoffice memos, project proposals, feasibility reports, press clippings on the project and on other convention centres, research documentation on other convention centres, documentation on a proposed hotel to be built on the centre, promotional materials, and drawings including master plans and site plans.
1976-1981
Project documentation, Ontario Congress and Trade Centre, Toronto
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AP018.S1.1978.PR05.011
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This is a box containing correspondence, meeting minutes, interoffice memos, project proposals, feasibility reports, press clippings on the project and on other convention centres, research documentation on other convention centres, documentation on a proposed hotel to be built on the centre, promotional materials, and drawings including master plans and site plans.
drawings, textual records
1976-1981
Twenty-two colour photographs reveal Ernest Cormier’s central pavilion of the Université de Montréal as an integral part of the Montréal urban landscape and as a complex, varied spatial experience. The exhibition originated in a commission to Gabor Szilasi by the CCA when research into the Fonds Cormier revealed a major gap in the photographic documentation of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 1990 to 28 October 1990
Sighting the Université de Montréal: Photographs by Gabor Szilasi
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Twenty-two colour photographs reveal Ernest Cormier’s central pavilion of the Université de Montréal as an integral part of the Montréal urban landscape and as a complex, varied spatial experience. The exhibition originated in a commission to Gabor Szilasi by the CCA when research into the Fonds Cormier revealed a major gap in the photographic documentation of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
archives
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Fonds
Alessandro Poli fonds
AP148
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The Alessandro Poli fonds documents the work of Italian architect, designer and artist Alessandro Poli. Born in Fiesole in 1941, Poli studied architecture at the University of Florence, and was a member of Superstudio from 1970 to 1972. Poli’s involvement with Superstudio and engaged research on material culture constitute two strong components of his archive.
1963-1996
Alessandro Poli fonds
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AP148
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The Alessandro Poli fonds documents the work of Italian architect, designer and artist Alessandro Poli. Born in Fiesole in 1941, Poli studied architecture at the University of Florence, and was a member of Superstudio from 1970 to 1972. Poli’s involvement with Superstudio and engaged research on material culture constitute two strong components of his archive.
archives
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Fonds
1963-1996
photographs
AP178.S1.1961.PR02.001
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Original file title: Piscina - Leça. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file PM 058-PM 104, and R PM 083. Several of the photographs include the photographer mark "Foto A. Vieira de Carvalho, Neves & Freitas". The photograph on the card was take by Laurent Gouyou-Beauchamps, Citadines, 1986.
circa 1961-1986
Photographs of site and built project, Piscina de Marés, Leça da Palmeira
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AP178.S1.1961.PR02.001
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Original file title: Piscina - Leça. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file PM 058-PM 104, and R PM 083. Several of the photographs include the photographer mark "Foto A. Vieira de Carvalho, Neves & Freitas". The photograph on the card was take by Laurent Gouyou-Beauchamps, Citadines, 1986.
photographs
circa 1961-1986