drawings, textual records, photographs
AP178.S1.1998.PR03.SS3.001
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This file includes correspondence with the client, construction firm, architects, and engineers. It also includes structural drawings, plumbing drawings, mechanical drawings, technical drawings, as well as working details, carpentry drawings, and details of the stairs. It also contains photographs of construction work and built project, documentation about furniture and accessories designed by Siza for the building, documentation about the audiovisual equipment and doors, as well as contract details.
2003
Box of project documentation, technical drawings, mechanical drawings, construction details, photographs and correspondence, Edifício Zaida, Casa Pátio, Granada
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AP178.S1.1998.PR03.SS3.001
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This file includes correspondence with the client, construction firm, architects, and engineers. It also includes structural drawings, plumbing drawings, mechanical drawings, technical drawings, as well as working details, carpentry drawings, and details of the stairs. It also contains photographs of construction work and built project, documentation about furniture and accessories designed by Siza for the building, documentation about the audiovisual equipment and doors, as well as contract details.
drawings, textual records, photographs
2003
textual records
ARCH260072
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Proposals: Guaranty Trust Computer Centre, Toronto; New Massey Hall study; Arts and Sciences Technology Centre (with D. Jensen Associates); SANCST Science Halls; Maryland Science Centre; Museum of Toronto study; New National Gallery of Canada competition with David, Boulva, Cleve Associated Architects; Rideau Hall. Including textual documents concerning proposals for Detroit Institute of Arts; York University Building and Campus Common proposal (1987); project file of descriptions from Los Angeles office
1986-1988
Proposals for various projects
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ARCH260072
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Proposals: Guaranty Trust Computer Centre, Toronto; New Massey Hall study; Arts and Sciences Technology Centre (with D. Jensen Associates); SANCST Science Halls; Maryland Science Centre; Museum of Toronto study; New National Gallery of Canada competition with David, Boulva, Cleve Associated Architects; Rideau Hall. Including textual documents concerning proposals for Detroit Institute of Arts; York University Building and Campus Common proposal (1987); project file of descriptions from Los Angeles office
textual records
1986-1988
textual records
ARCH276679
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8 files and spiral bound documents (oversize) - primarily contains presentation and working materials (plans, notes, sketches) for projects that Arthur Erickson collaborated on as a design consultant while at Nick Milkovich Architects. Includes Robson Square Revitalization (1999), Canadian Canoe Museum (2002), 1133 West Georgia Street (ca. 2006), Denali Point, International Glass Museum (1998), Laxton Residence Renovations (ca. 2003), Trump Hotel and Tower (ca. 2005), Evrensel Residence (2006), Museum of Anthropology Renewal (2004).
1998-2006
Presentation material and working material from Erickson's office
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ARCH276679
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8 files and spiral bound documents (oversize) - primarily contains presentation and working materials (plans, notes, sketches) for projects that Arthur Erickson collaborated on as a design consultant while at Nick Milkovich Architects. Includes Robson Square Revitalization (1999), Canadian Canoe Museum (2002), 1133 West Georgia Street (ca. 2006), Denali Point, International Glass Museum (1998), Laxton Residence Renovations (ca. 2003), Trump Hotel and Tower (ca. 2005), Evrensel Residence (2006), Museum of Anthropology Renewal (2004).
textual records
1998-2006
textual records
DR2004:1430
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binders and files including Delft Conference (1970) notes by JS, talk by CP; 'IVA Conference/Austria / 1970'; 'Architecture Workshop / Periphery / At the 'Haus der Architektur' 2 classes : Domenig, Zumthor (1989), Austria, inc. transparencies of exh, Graz, slides, photos; envelope 'CP writings' some postcards, offprints, exh cats; reprographic copies of photographs of CP and other individuals 'Duckland /Hamburg 3/4 day charette'; 'Photos by Cossack/city architect of Hamburg';
1970-1989
Binders and files including Delft Conference (1970) notes by JS
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DR2004:1430
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binders and files including Delft Conference (1970) notes by JS, talk by CP; 'IVA Conference/Austria / 1970'; 'Architecture Workshop / Periphery / At the 'Haus der Architektur' 2 classes : Domenig, Zumthor (1989), Austria, inc. transparencies of exh, Graz, slides, photos; envelope 'CP writings' some postcards, offprints, exh cats; reprographic copies of photographs of CP and other individuals 'Duckland /Hamburg 3/4 day charette'; 'Photos by Cossack/city architect of Hamburg';
textual records
1970-1989
textual records
ARCH167079
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3 feuillets: Correspondance relative au "1993 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence ", 4 octobre 1993 7 feuillets: 2 lettres de Jacques Rousseau à Johanne Couture (SHDU) expliquant le concept architectural, 17 août et 12 octobre 1993 6 feuillets: textes ayant servi à l'élaboration des légendes de plans 14 feuillets: Notes de réunion avec les membres de la SHDU (inclue 3 plans) 11 feuillets: Étude du quartier Hochelaga-Maisonnneuve incluant 9 photocopies de photographies du quartier, 21,5 x 28 cm 3 feuillets: Plans du quartier, 28 x 44 cm photocopies
17 août 1993-12 octobre 1993
Correspondance relative au "1993 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence ", textes
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ARCH167079
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3 feuillets: Correspondance relative au "1993 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence ", 4 octobre 1993 7 feuillets: 2 lettres de Jacques Rousseau à Johanne Couture (SHDU) expliquant le concept architectural, 17 août et 12 octobre 1993 6 feuillets: textes ayant servi à l'élaboration des légendes de plans 14 feuillets: Notes de réunion avec les membres de la SHDU (inclue 3 plans) 11 feuillets: Étude du quartier Hochelaga-Maisonnneuve incluant 9 photocopies de photographies du quartier, 21,5 x 28 cm 3 feuillets: Plans du quartier, 28 x 44 cm photocopies
textual records
17 août 1993-12 octobre 1993
Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
7 December 2017
Come and Forget the Internet, with Evgeny Morozov
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Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
Johannes Grenzfurthner
12 April 2018
Come and Forget the Counterculture, with Johannes Grenzfurthner
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Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Main galleries
27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Main galleries
According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
archives
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A.D. Thacker fonds
AP004
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The A.D. Thacker fonds is comprised of project proposals and documentation dating from around 1913-1938, depicting structures designed by Thacker. Much of Thacker's work was completed in Quebec, but he also completed projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thacker designed many churches for religious institutions that were directly involved in the oppressive, colonial assimilation policies and systems of the Canadian government towards indigenous people. The fonds contains 33 drawings, 16 reprographic copies, 12 photographs and 8 textual documents.
1913-1944
A.D. Thacker fonds
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AP004
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The A.D. Thacker fonds is comprised of project proposals and documentation dating from around 1913-1938, depicting structures designed by Thacker. Much of Thacker's work was completed in Quebec, but he also completed projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thacker designed many churches for religious institutions that were directly involved in the oppressive, colonial assimilation policies and systems of the Canadian government towards indigenous people. The fonds contains 33 drawings, 16 reprographic copies, 12 photographs and 8 textual documents.
archives
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1913-1944