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. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
12 May 2015 to 4 October 2015
The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
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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. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP140.S2.SS3.D15
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File documents the participation of the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates to the Six British Architects exhibition at the Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, in Arc-et-Senans, France. This was the second showing of the British Architecture Today exhibition, first held in 1991 at the British Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced between 1992 and 1993. File contains textual records, including correspondence and photographs. File also contains correspondence relating to door handles designed by James Stirling.
1992-1993
Six British Architects, Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
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AP140.S2.SS3.D15
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File documents the participation of the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates to the Six British Architects exhibition at the Fondation Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, in Arc-et-Senans, France. This was the second showing of the British Architecture Today exhibition, first held in 1991 at the British Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced between 1992 and 1993. File contains textual records, including correspondence and photographs. File also contains correspondence relating to door handles designed by James Stirling.
File 15
1992-1993
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Magdeburg Damaschkeplatz II
AP143.S4.D103
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File documents the unexecuted project for the Magdeburg Damaschkeplatz II, Magdeburg, Germany. Material in this file was produced between 1988 and 1993. File contains design development drawings, photographic material presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, and textual records. Presentation drawings include originals and multiple copies of pages for 2 different booklets, one for May, 1993, and the other July 1993. Reference drawings include plans by Steven Holl Architects. Textual records include guidelines, proposal, historical maps/pictures, meeting minutes, correspondence, site plans, and 7 photographs.
1988-1993
Magdeburg Damaschkeplatz II
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AP143.S4.D103
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File documents the unexecuted project for the Magdeburg Damaschkeplatz II, Magdeburg, Germany. Material in this file was produced between 1988 and 1993. File contains design development drawings, photographic material presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, and textual records. Presentation drawings include originals and multiple copies of pages for 2 different booklets, one for May, 1993, and the other July 1993. Reference drawings include plans by Steven Holl Architects. Textual records include guidelines, proposal, historical maps/pictures, meeting minutes, correspondence, site plans, and 7 photographs.
File 103
1988-1993
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Kolonihaven 1995
AP142.S2.D7
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File documents an exhibition that was held in 1995 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish and international architects were each asked to design a kolonihavehus, or "gardencolonyhouse", a Danish house type. At least six of the house designs, including Aldo Rossi's, were built and exhibited. Material in this file was produced in 1995. File contains textual records, including correspondence, a proposal, specifications, calendars, labels for drawings, notes, explanatory texts, colour photocopies of views of the site, of houses, and of a vitrine, and views of houses.
1995
Kolonihaven 1995
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AP142.S2.D7
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File documents an exhibition that was held in 1995 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish and international architects were each asked to design a kolonihavehus, or "gardencolonyhouse", a Danish house type. At least six of the house designs, including Aldo Rossi's, were built and exhibited. Material in this file was produced in 1995. File contains textual records, including correspondence, a proposal, specifications, calendars, labels for drawings, notes, explanatory texts, colour photocopies of views of the site, of houses, and of a vitrine, and views of houses.
File 7
1995
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Projets et réalisations
AP001.S6
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Cette série plus de 100 de ses projets architecturaux au Canada et aux États-Unis, soit de façon autonome ou en collaboration, entre 1914 et 1965. Quand il revint s'établir à Montréal, Cormier commença sa pratique privée comme architecte qui prit fin à l'occasion de sa retraite en 1973. Il fut au début un concessionnaire pour le Système Monnoyer, constructeurs industriels et il était co-directeur du Vapour Processes Limited avec Robert A. Rankin. Les projets sont présentés en ordre chronologique accompagnés des dates des documents (voir l'instrument de recherche). La série comprend des croquis, des dessins de développement, de conception, d'exécution, de présentation, d'atelier et d'arpentage et des aquarelles et des tableaux. La série comprend aussi des documents textuels (correspondance, passation des marchés, administration des marchés, documents de construction, certificats de paiement, notes d'honoraires, de la documentation) des dessins et des photographies.
non daté, 1902, 1914-1980
Projets et réalisations
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AP001.S6
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Cette série plus de 100 de ses projets architecturaux au Canada et aux États-Unis, soit de façon autonome ou en collaboration, entre 1914 et 1965. Quand il revint s'établir à Montréal, Cormier commença sa pratique privée comme architecte qui prit fin à l'occasion de sa retraite en 1973. Il fut au début un concessionnaire pour le Système Monnoyer, constructeurs industriels et il était co-directeur du Vapour Processes Limited avec Robert A. Rankin. Les projets sont présentés en ordre chronologique accompagnés des dates des documents (voir l'instrument de recherche). La série comprend des croquis, des dessins de développement, de conception, d'exécution, de présentation, d'atelier et d'arpentage et des aquarelles et des tableaux. La série comprend aussi des documents textuels (correspondance, passation des marchés, administration des marchés, documents de construction, certificats de paiement, notes d'honoraires, de la documentation) des dessins et des photographies.
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non daté, 1902, 1914-1980
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CI005.S1.1914.PR3
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In 1914, the Society for the Advancement of Architecture, with architect H.P. Berlage acting as jury member, held a competition for the design of its public baths. Although Oud did not submit his designs, he created plans for a bathhouse with three round-arch portals. The design was for a fairly simple and functional symmetrical building. He considered his design as indebted to Hendrik Petrus Berlage’s Stock Exchange (Taverne et al. 2001, 109). The project series includes a photograph of Oud's plan for Public Baths.
1914-1915
Competition Design for Public Baths, Blaricum, Netherlands (1914-1915)
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CI005.S1.1914.PR3
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In 1914, the Society for the Advancement of Architecture, with architect H.P. Berlage acting as jury member, held a competition for the design of its public baths. Although Oud did not submit his designs, he created plans for a bathhouse with three round-arch portals. The design was for a fairly simple and functional symmetrical building. He considered his design as indebted to Hendrik Petrus Berlage’s Stock Exchange (Taverne et al. 2001, 109). The project series includes a photograph of Oud's plan for Public Baths.
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1914-1915
Sub-series
Richard Meier (1981)
AP207.S2.SS03
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The sub-series documents the exhibition "Richard Meier", curated by Pettena and presented at the Accademia delle Arte del Disegno, in Florence, in 1981. The exhibition presented the work of American contemporary architect and artist Richard Meier. The sub-series contains research material on Richard Meier, such as articles and photocopies of publications. It also contains materials related to the production of the exhibition catalogue, including descriptions of architectural projects by Richard Meier selected for the catalogue, photographs of Meier projects and reproductions of the plans for selection.
circa 1981
Richard Meier (1981)
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AP207.S2.SS03
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The sub-series documents the exhibition "Richard Meier", curated by Pettena and presented at the Accademia delle Arte del Disegno, in Florence, in 1981. The exhibition presented the work of American contemporary architect and artist Richard Meier. The sub-series contains research material on Richard Meier, such as articles and photocopies of publications. It also contains materials related to the production of the exhibition catalogue, including descriptions of architectural projects by Richard Meier selected for the catalogue, photographs of Meier projects and reproductions of the plans for selection.
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circa 1981
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AP018.S1.1973.PR07
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This project series documents additions to the Apricot Tavern in Newmarket, Ontario in 1973. The office identified the project number as 7307. The project consisted of additions to the restaurant in order to expand the dining room area. Located at 99 Davis Drive, the project was commissioned by Warrick Consultants Limited of Toronto. The project is recorded through drawings of floor plans, drawings of the existing building which were produced by Donaldson Sankey Architects, site surveys and photographs of the kitchen dating from around 1970-1973.
1970 - circa 1973
The Apricot Tavern, Additions, Newmarket, Ontario (1973)
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AP018.S1.1973.PR07
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This project series documents additions to the Apricot Tavern in Newmarket, Ontario in 1973. The office identified the project number as 7307. The project consisted of additions to the restaurant in order to expand the dining room area. Located at 99 Davis Drive, the project was commissioned by Warrick Consultants Limited of Toronto. The project is recorded through drawings of floor plans, drawings of the existing building which were produced by Donaldson Sankey Architects, site surveys and photographs of the kitchen dating from around 1970-1973.
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1970 - circa 1973