Join 2022 CCA-WRI Fellows Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, and Jessica Vaughn as they share their research on contemporary light conditions across scales, geographies, arts practices, and legal regimes.
Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, Jessica Vaughn, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Gökçe Günel, WRI, light, planet
24 August 2022, 9am to noon
Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet
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Join 2022 CCA-WRI Fellows Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, and Jessica Vaughn as they share their research on contemporary light conditions across scales, geographies, arts practices, and legal regimes.
Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, Jessica Vaughn, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Gökçe Günel, WRI, light, planet
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Photocopies of newspaper clippings and of other documents from the Cedric Price fonds (2 boxes)
DR2016:0001
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Photocopies produced by the CCA from material in the Cedric Price fonds, predominantly from material in Series 2. (2 boîtes)
1999
Photocopies of newspaper clippings and of other documents from the Cedric Price fonds (2 boxes)
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DR2016:0001
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Photocopies produced by the CCA from material in the Cedric Price fonds, predominantly from material in Series 2. (2 boîtes)
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1999
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McCormick Place
ARCH264374
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ACCESS COPY ONLY. Copy of a manuscript written by Gene Summers in June, 1985. Original was not donated to the CCA.
2012
McCormick Place
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ARCH264374
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ACCESS COPY ONLY. Copy of a manuscript written by Gene Summers in June, 1985. Original was not donated to the CCA.
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2012
textual records
DR2012:0012:087:009
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File containing two printed excerpts from Urban design since 1945, by David Grahame Shane; includes references to the CCA garden.
2011
Excerpts from publications related to Melvin Charney and his projects
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DR2012:0012:087:009
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File containing two printed excerpts from Urban design since 1945, by David Grahame Shane; includes references to the CCA garden.
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2011
What It Takes to Make a Home
The CCA film What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who address the question of homelessness through various projects.
October 2019
What It Takes to Make a Home
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The CCA film What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who address the question of homelessness through various projects.
articles
A Matter of Terms
Critical Cataloguing, Pierre Jeanneret, CCA archive, United Africa Company, terminology, archival descriptions, changing terms, peon, Chandigarh, India
23 May 2023
A Matter of Terms
Jennifer Préfontaine, Michele Tenzon, Ewan Harrison, Iain Jackson, Claire Tunstall, and Rixt Woudstra discuss changing terms in archival descriptions
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Reading between the books of anyone’s library can reveal process, influences, ways of thinking, and surprises in their work. While historians disentangle archives, CCA invites contemporary architects to select ten books that reflect themselves today.
27 March 2019, 1:30pm
The talking bookshelf: with Konstantinos Pantazis
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Reading between the books of anyone’s library can reveal process, influences, ways of thinking, and surprises in their work. While historians disentangle archives, CCA invites contemporary architects to select ten books that reflect themselves today.
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AP133.S4
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This series documents some of Pierre du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian and author. It contains documents related to his involvement in congresses and conferences, such as correspondence, draft texts and ephemeras for his lecture at the Centre Jacques Cartier in Lyon, in 1994, and event planning documents, correspondence, reports and proceedings related to his attendance at the international congress of the PEN Club, a worldwide association of writers, in Abidjan, in 1967. The series also contains sound recordings of a panel at the "The Citizen, Architecture and the Urban Environment" seminar in 1991. The series is also comprised of general correspondence, du Prey’s agendas from 1981 to 1984, and correspondence, press clippings and invitations from or about the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
1967-2001
Correspondence, lectures, conferences, and agendas
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AP133.S4
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This series documents some of Pierre du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian and author. It contains documents related to his involvement in congresses and conferences, such as correspondence, draft texts and ephemeras for his lecture at the Centre Jacques Cartier in Lyon, in 1994, and event planning documents, correspondence, reports and proceedings related to his attendance at the international congress of the PEN Club, a worldwide association of writers, in Abidjan, in 1967. The series also contains sound recordings of a panel at the "The Citizen, Architecture and the Urban Environment" seminar in 1991. The series is also comprised of general correspondence, du Prey’s agendas from 1981 to 1984, and correspondence, press clippings and invitations from or about the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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1967-2001
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Project files
DR1999:0637
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documents includes project files: Max Reinhardt Haus, Whitney Museum Installation, Atocha 123 Hotel, Cities of Artificial Excavations - CCA, 19th Milan Triennale.
Project files
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DR1999:0637
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documents includes project files: Max Reinhardt Haus, Whitney Museum Installation, Atocha 123 Hotel, Cities of Artificial Excavations - CCA, 19th Milan Triennale.
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archives
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Umberto Riva fonds
AP180
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The Umberto Riva fonds documents Riva’s work as an architect and designer, predominantly in Italy, between the 1960s to the early 2010s. Included are drawings related to over 80 architectural projects, furniture designs, and exhibition designs.
1959-2012
Umberto Riva fonds
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AP180
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The Umberto Riva fonds documents Riva’s work as an architect and designer, predominantly in Italy, between the 1960s to the early 2010s. Included are drawings related to over 80 architectural projects, furniture designs, and exhibition designs.
archives
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1959-2012