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The Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection primarily consists of presentation materials, publications and born digital materials, like videos and photographs, by Aldo Cibic produced between 2003 and 2008 for the project “Microrealities”.
2003-2008
Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection
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CD033
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The Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection primarily consists of presentation materials, publications and born digital materials, like videos and photographs, by Aldo Cibic produced between 2003 and 2008 for the project “Microrealities”.
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 May 2006 to 30 July 2006
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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Film intitulé "E.C. Camp" E.C. représente les initiales de Ernest Cormier. Contexte des séquences indéterminé.
ca. 1930
Négatifs originaux 16mm pour le film intitulé "E.C. Camp"
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Film intitulé "E.C. Camp" E.C. représente les initiales de Ernest Cormier. Contexte des séquences indéterminé.
ca. 1930
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ARCH267991
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Documents concern the following buildings in Chandigarh: the animal house and workshop at the Institute for Medical Research, the Institute for Medical Research (Sector 12), Saroop Krishan's house (Sector 8), various schools (nursery, primary and secondary), the Chandigarh Club, low-cost homes, and small office buildings. Texts also consider Pierre Jeanneret's furniture designs. Also includes: - "Social Sciences Research Journal," volume 4, number 2 (July 1979) concerning Chandigarh, India. - "An architect's plea to resolve the problems / of human settlement in South Asia / A design of composite organisation to prepare typical plans of hierarchy of human settlements in India and other parts of Suth [sic] Asia" by Jeet Malhotra, prepared for a symposium on human settlements with special reference to rural settlements in South Asia (March 18-21, 1976). - "A brief note on the conceptual man-made / environmental grid plan for Punjab / to avoid pollution of air, land, water / etc. - a preventative strategy" by Jeet Malhotra (n.d.). - "Architecture 2000 A.D. - Indian Context" by Jeet Malhotra, possibly prepared for the national convention of the Council of Architecture, New Delhi, which took place February 22-23, 1985.
Writings by Jeet Malhotra, predominantly pertaining to Chandigarh, with some concerning Talwara and Punjab, India
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ARCH267991
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Documents concern the following buildings in Chandigarh: the animal house and workshop at the Institute for Medical Research, the Institute for Medical Research (Sector 12), Saroop Krishan's house (Sector 8), various schools (nursery, primary and secondary), the Chandigarh Club, low-cost homes, and small office buildings. Texts also consider Pierre Jeanneret's furniture designs. Also includes: - "Social Sciences Research Journal," volume 4, number 2 (July 1979) concerning Chandigarh, India. - "An architect's plea to resolve the problems / of human settlement in South Asia / A design of composite organisation to prepare typical plans of hierarchy of human settlements in India and other parts of Suth [sic] Asia" by Jeet Malhotra, prepared for a symposium on human settlements with special reference to rural settlements in South Asia (March 18-21, 1976). - "A brief note on the conceptual man-made / environmental grid plan for Punjab / to avoid pollution of air, land, water / etc. - a preventative strategy" by Jeet Malhotra (n.d.). - "Architecture 2000 A.D. - Indian Context" by Jeet Malhotra, possibly prepared for the national convention of the Council of Architecture, New Delhi, which took place February 22-23, 1985.
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In the face of global warming, Philippe Rahm Architectes propose to reset the discipline of architecture on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities.
29 November 2023, 6pm
Philippe Rahm: Climatic Architecture
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In the face of global warming, Philippe Rahm Architectes propose to reset the discipline of architecture on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities.
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Pierre Jeanneret fonds
AP156
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Le Fonds Pierre Jeanneret documente la pratique professionnelle et la vie personnelle de l'architect Pierre Jeanneret de ses études et ses projets professionels en Europe à ses projets architecturaux à Chandigarh, en Inde. Les documents du Fonds consistent en des photographies, des dessins et des documents textuels relatifs à plus de 100 projets, principalement son travail pour le projet de la nouvelle ville de Chandigarh, en Inde, en 1951 à 1965. *** The Pierre Jeanneret fonds documents the professional practice and the personal life of architect Pierre Jeanneret from student and professional work in Europe to architectural projects in Chandigarh, India. The documents in the fonds consist of photographs, drawings and textual records relating to over 100 projects, predominantly his work for the project of the new city of Chandigarh, in India, in 1951 to 1965.
1870s-2011
Pierre Jeanneret fonds
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Le Fonds Pierre Jeanneret documente la pratique professionnelle et la vie personnelle de l'architect Pierre Jeanneret de ses études et ses projets professionels en Europe à ses projets architecturaux à Chandigarh, en Inde. Les documents du Fonds consistent en des photographies, des dessins et des documents textuels relatifs à plus de 100 projets, principalement son travail pour le projet de la nouvelle ville de Chandigarh, en Inde, en 1951 à 1965. *** The Pierre Jeanneret fonds documents the professional practice and the personal life of architect Pierre Jeanneret from student and professional work in Europe to architectural projects in Chandigarh, India. The documents in the fonds consist of photographs, drawings and textual records relating to over 100 projects, predominantly his work for the project of the new city of Chandigarh, in India, in 1951 to 1965.
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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
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
A conversation between Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama and CCA visiting curator Hubertus von Amelunxen on the exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales. Commissioned by the CCA, Naoya Hatakeyama created three photographic series of architectural models that challenge notions of scale and the perception of reality. He speaks about the series in the context of his work,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
27 September 2007
Naoya Hatakeyama and Hubertus von Amelunxen in Conversation
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A conversation between Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama and CCA visiting curator Hubertus von Amelunxen on the exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales. Commissioned by the CCA, Naoya Hatakeyama created three photographic series of architectural models that challenge notions of scale and the perception of reality. He speaks about the series in the context of his work,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Other Space Odysseys presents three approaches to the idea of an adventurous journey that started forty years ago after the 1969 moon landing. Featuring the work of architects Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli, Other Space Odysseys comes at a time when space exploration is the subject of renewed enthusiasm, but also of debate which questions its(...)
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8 April 2010 to 19 September 2010
Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli
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Other Space Odysseys presents three approaches to the idea of an adventurous journey that started forty years ago after the 1969 moon landing. Featuring the work of architects Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli, Other Space Odysseys comes at a time when space exploration is the subject of renewed enthusiasm, but also of debate which questions its(...)
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