Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
31 March 2016
Fucking with Interoperability: Culture Lab 1991–94
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Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
textual records
AP197.S2.019
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The box includes writings about Kundera and Tschumi, the poetics of performance, realism and nationalism, medieval Japanese thought, Francesco Rosi, Gustav Mahler, and theatre/cinema. Also included are copies of various publications such as the ARUP Journal (1981), the Granda catalogue (1990), History and Truth by Paul Ricoeur (1965), the Pecularities of English by E.P. Thompson, and German art and German politics by Richard Wagner.
circa 1961- 1990
Various research files about theory, history, art, and the avant-garde
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AP197.S2.019
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The box includes writings about Kundera and Tschumi, the poetics of performance, realism and nationalism, medieval Japanese thought, Francesco Rosi, Gustav Mahler, and theatre/cinema. Also included are copies of various publications such as the ARUP Journal (1981), the Granda catalogue (1990), History and Truth by Paul Ricoeur (1965), the Pecularities of English by E.P. Thompson, and German art and German politics by Richard Wagner.
textual records
circa 1961- 1990
photographs
ARCH280841
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Group consists of various buildings, installations and sculptures in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of the Museum and Art Gallery (including interior views) in sector 10, the Architects Office in sector 19, the Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research (Hospital P.G.I.) in sector 12, the Cinema in sector 22 and sculpture and memorial including the Tower of Shadows in sector 1. The group also includes photographs of buildings details and buildings in constructions.
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Photographs of various buildings and installations in Chandigarh, India
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ARCH280841
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Group consists of various buildings, installations and sculptures in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of the Museum and Art Gallery (including interior views) in sector 10, the Architects Office in sector 19, the Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research (Hospital P.G.I.) in sector 12, the Cinema in sector 22 and sculpture and memorial including the Tower of Shadows in sector 1. The group also includes photographs of buildings details and buildings in constructions.
photographs
s.d.
photographs
ARCH280811
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Group consists of photographs of various public buildings and installations in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of bus terminus, including the central bus terminus and industrial buildings. The group also includes photographs of the Cinema in sector 22, the Central State Library in sector 17, office buildings and shopping centres. There are also photographs of the open-air theatre, on the Panjab University campus in sector 14, and photographs of a concrete sculpture in sector 10.
1956-c.1970
Photographs of miscellaneous public buildings and installations in Chandigarh, India
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Group consists of photographs of various public buildings and installations in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of bus terminus, including the central bus terminus and industrial buildings. The group also includes photographs of the Cinema in sector 22, the Central State Library in sector 17, office buildings and shopping centres. There are also photographs of the open-air theatre, on the Panjab University campus in sector 14, and photographs of a concrete sculpture in sector 10.
photographs
1956-c.1970
photographs
ARCH280828
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Group consists of photographs of various buildings and sculptures in Chandigarh, India. There is a photograph of an unidentified commercial building, a photograph of the cinema in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret), a photograph of the Central State Library in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret) and a photograph of the new Architects' Office in sector 9 (designed by Jeet Malhotra). There are also two photographs of the Modulor Man sculpture and photographs of an unidentified concrete sculpture in sector 10.
1960s
Photographs of buildings and sculptures in Chandigarh, India
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Group consists of photographs of various buildings and sculptures in Chandigarh, India. There is a photograph of an unidentified commercial building, a photograph of the cinema in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret), a photograph of the Central State Library in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret) and a photograph of the new Architects' Office in sector 9 (designed by Jeet Malhotra). There are also two photographs of the Modulor Man sculpture and photographs of an unidentified concrete sculpture in sector 10.
photographs
1960s
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ARCH269121
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Group consists of photographs of everyday life in Chandigarh, India, predominantly of streets markets. There is a photograph of the shopping area Shop-Cum-Flats II and a photograph of a street market in sector 23. There is also a photograph of inhabitants in front on the Cinema in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret) and a photograph of another street market in sector 22. The group also includes a photograph of children playing on a playground with Houses Type 13-J in background.
ca. 1967-1979
Photographs of street markets in Chandigarh, India
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Group consists of photographs of everyday life in Chandigarh, India, predominantly of streets markets. There is a photograph of the shopping area Shop-Cum-Flats II and a photograph of a street market in sector 23. There is also a photograph of inhabitants in front on the Cinema in sector 17 (designed by Pierre Jeanneret) and a photograph of another street market in sector 22. The group also includes a photograph of children playing on a playground with Houses Type 13-J in background.
photographs
ca. 1967-1979
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
Revolution on a Human Scale: Photography and Vkhutemas
Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
29 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
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Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
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
Environmental Histories
To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 December 2016, 6pm
Environmental Histories
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To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre