2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Bechtel-CCA Collection Research Grants Jasmine Benyamin (Princeton University); Jennifer Carter (McGill University); Diana Cheng (McGill University); Juliana Maxim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Joaquim Moreno (Princeton University); Michael Osman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Tijana Vujosevic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).;
January 2005 to August 2005
Doctoral Students Program 2005
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Bechtel-CCA Collection Research Grants Jasmine Benyamin (Princeton University); Jennifer Carter (McGill University); Diana Cheng (McGill University); Juliana Maxim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Joaquim Moreno (Princeton University); Michael Osman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Tijana Vujosevic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).;
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January 2005 to
August 2005
articles
Domestic Monument
Domestic Monument
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen reflect on the Amancio Williams archive
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drawings, textual records, born digital, photographs
AP181.S1.010
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Original directory name: "10_Materialsammlung". File chiefly contains visual reference materials that were either created or gathered by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, or provided to them by BMW. They are a few presentations compiling the drawings from COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and images from the reference material gathered in various sub-directories. These were part of the design process for BMW Welt. Some directories present the result of themed research ("020213_karosserien", "020326_landscape", etc.), and may include photographs, drawings or textual documentation. BMW seems to have provided the firm with a library of corporate images of their car models. The "Bibliothek" directory also contains various stock images under the “for_restaurant” directory. File also includes some 3D model studies of the building’s shape; photographs of the location before construction; visual examples of other buildings, restaurants, conference rooms, and structures. Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), Truevision TGA Bitmap, Tagged Image File Format, Adobe Illustrator
1995-2008
Visual reference material, BMW Welt, Munich
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AP181.S1.010
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Original directory name: "10_Materialsammlung". File chiefly contains visual reference materials that were either created or gathered by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, or provided to them by BMW. They are a few presentations compiling the drawings from COOP HIMMELB(L)AU and images from the reference material gathered in various sub-directories. These were part of the design process for BMW Welt. Some directories present the result of themed research ("020213_karosserien", "020326_landscape", etc.), and may include photographs, drawings or textual documentation. BMW seems to have provided the firm with a library of corporate images of their car models. The "Bibliothek" directory also contains various stock images under the “for_restaurant” directory. File also includes some 3D model studies of the building’s shape; photographs of the location before construction; visual examples of other buildings, restaurants, conference rooms, and structures. Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), Truevision TGA Bitmap, Tagged Image File Format, Adobe Illustrator
drawings, textual records, born digital, photographs
1995-2008
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients: Pep Avilés (Princeton University); Julia Morgan Charles (McGill University); Duks Koschitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Alessandra Mariani (UQàM - Université du Québec à Montréal); Andrea Merrett (Columbia University); Yetunde Olaiya (Princeton University); Daria Ricchi (Princeton University); Todd Satter(...)
June 2012 to August 2012
Doctoral Students Program 2012
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients: Pep Avilés (Princeton University); Julia Morgan Charles (McGill University); Duks Koschitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Alessandra Mariani (UQàM - Université du Québec à Montréal); Andrea Merrett (Columbia University); Yetunde Olaiya (Princeton University); Daria Ricchi (Princeton University); Todd Satter(...)
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June 2012 to
August 2012
Shaughnessy House
15 August 2018 to 21 August 2018
Shaughnessy House
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Origins of the digital
4 May 2026
Media Environments: Architecture and Communication Networks
Nathalie Bredella on architecture's first encounter with media theory
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Origins of the digital
The Mound of Vendôme
The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 June 2014 to 28 September 2014
The Mound of Vendôme
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The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
The North Shore and the adjacent area of the Labrador Trough were chosen to test research tools and the agency of architecture in a research studio for graduate students in the School of Architecture at the University of Montreal. Led by Alessandra Ponte and titled Testing Ground: The Labrador Trough, the studio focused on a geological formation – a large iron ore belt –(...)
2 October 2014
Learning from… Labrador Trough
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The North Shore and the adjacent area of the Labrador Trough were chosen to test research tools and the agency of architecture in a research studio for graduate students in the School of Architecture at the University of Montreal. Led by Alessandra Ponte and titled Testing Ground: The Labrador Trough, the studio focused on a geological formation – a large iron ore belt –(...)
Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2001
James S. Ackerman: On the Origins of Architectural Photography
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Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre