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AP172
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The Mies in America Research Collection documents an exhibition and publication project produced by Curator and Architectural Historian, Phyllis Lambert (1927-), and associated researchers between 1996-2002. The project explored German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's (1886-1969) contributions to the American architectural landscape following his immigration from Germany to Chicago in 1938. The resulting book, a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was published in 2001. The exhibition ran from 2001-2002 with stops at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, (Montreal), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). The Mies in America research collection consists of correspondence, research, and administrative, manuscript, and curatorial files created by Phyllis Lambert and the project team for the book and exhibition project Mies in America, originally housed in the Mies research office at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Throughout the process, the team of researchers consulted previously unstudied material on Mies van der Rhoe from major repositories across North America, including drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews , which are represented in photocopy throughout the collection to document the research activities as well as curatorial choices and manuscript development. Subsequent curatorial decisions based on this research are detailed through notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and object lists as the book and exhibition projects took shape. Original annotations, edits, and comments made by Phyllis Lambert and her research associates are present throughout. The administrative activities of the research team are also documented through correspondence, research assistant assignments, research trips, and photography requests. Files from the assistant curator (Cammie McAtee), and research assistants (primarily Elspeth Cowell, Nathalie Senecal, and Deborah Miller) are integrated throughout the collection.
1957-2002
Mies in America Research Collection
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AP172
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The Mies in America Research Collection documents an exhibition and publication project produced by Curator and Architectural Historian, Phyllis Lambert (1927-), and associated researchers between 1996-2002. The project explored German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's (1886-1969) contributions to the American architectural landscape following his immigration from Germany to Chicago in 1938. The resulting book, a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was published in 2001. The exhibition ran from 2001-2002 with stops at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, (Montreal), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). The Mies in America research collection consists of correspondence, research, and administrative, manuscript, and curatorial files created by Phyllis Lambert and the project team for the book and exhibition project Mies in America, originally housed in the Mies research office at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Throughout the process, the team of researchers consulted previously unstudied material on Mies van der Rhoe from major repositories across North America, including drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews , which are represented in photocopy throughout the collection to document the research activities as well as curatorial choices and manuscript development. Subsequent curatorial decisions based on this research are detailed through notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and object lists as the book and exhibition projects took shape. Original annotations, edits, and comments made by Phyllis Lambert and her research associates are present throughout. The administrative activities of the research team are also documented through correspondence, research assistant assignments, research trips, and photography requests. Files from the assistant curator (Cammie McAtee), and research assistants (primarily Elspeth Cowell, Nathalie Senecal, and Deborah Miller) are integrated throughout the collection.
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1957-2002
drawings
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69 drawing(s)
Miscellaneous drawings
ARCH262407
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(6) Carpet pattern sketches (7) Elevation studies of glass wall @ St-Antoine and St-Urbain (12) Perspective studies of north south corridors Level 33 000 (13) Stone pattern and dimension studies for stone pattern on St-Antoine + (1) page of notes (2) Fire stair elevation studies along rue Viger (13) studies for ventilation box on roof at level 33 000 + (2) photocopies ( 3) overlays -A0 print - roof elevation study of corner of de Bleury and St-Antoine 1:400 (2) overlays- elevation study of base of Rogers and King building (11) overlays- elevation studies at kitchen area wrt to structure
Miscellaneous drawings
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ARCH262407
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(6) Carpet pattern sketches (7) Elevation studies of glass wall @ St-Antoine and St-Urbain (12) Perspective studies of north south corridors Level 33 000 (13) Stone pattern and dimension studies for stone pattern on St-Antoine + (1) page of notes (2) Fire stair elevation studies along rue Viger (13) studies for ventilation box on roof at level 33 000 + (2) photocopies ( 3) overlays -A0 print - roof elevation study of corner of de Bleury and St-Antoine 1:400 (2) overlays- elevation study of base of Rogers and King building (11) overlays- elevation studies at kitchen area wrt to structure
drawings
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69 drawing(s)
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
30 January 2014 to 25 May 2014
Photographing the Arab City in the Nineteenth Century
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By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
photographs
PH1984:0038:023
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- Photograph PH1984:0038:023 is apparently taken from the intersection of State and Adams Streets based on the imprinted title. Further research is required to determine if this photograph is in fact taken from the intersection and from which direction the photograph was taken, as well as to identify the domed building at the center left of the photograph. If photographer was looking east along Adams Street, the Chicago Art Institute would be located at the center left of the photograph, however, the Institute never had a dome. Research has revealed no building which would "block" Adams Street looking west and/or State Street looking north or south (Schulze and Harrington).
architecture
1863 - ca. 1887
View of State and Adams Streets [?] showing commericial buildings with the W.W. Kimball musical instrument store on the right, Chicago, Illinois
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PH1984:0038:023
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- Photograph PH1984:0038:023 is apparently taken from the intersection of State and Adams Streets based on the imprinted title. Further research is required to determine if this photograph is in fact taken from the intersection and from which direction the photograph was taken, as well as to identify the domed building at the center left of the photograph. If photographer was looking east along Adams Street, the Chicago Art Institute would be located at the center left of the photograph, however, the Institute never had a dome. Research has revealed no building which would "block" Adams Street looking west and/or State Street looking north or south (Schulze and Harrington).
photographs
1863 - ca. 1887
architecture
The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
9 February 2017
An Afternoon with Cedric Price no. 2
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The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
photographs
AP140.S2.SS1.D18.P8
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exterior and interior views of the completed project, views of presentation drawings, of a typescript text by W. Somerset Maugham on Charlie Chaplin, of a typescript statement on the project by Stirling and Gowan (which is not otherwise present in the project documents), and of several paintings by Laurence Stephen Lowry; also includes views of an incomplete set of working drawings (which are not otherwise present in the project documents), showing diagrammatic and detailed site plans, floor plans (including furnished plans for a bed sitting unit in a ten-storey point block by Lyons, Israel, and Ellis, situated to the north of the site) and elevations for the three and four-storey terraces and the two-storey houses
1957 or after
Exterior and interior views of the completed project
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AP140.S2.SS1.D18.P8
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exterior and interior views of the completed project, views of presentation drawings, of a typescript text by W. Somerset Maugham on Charlie Chaplin, of a typescript statement on the project by Stirling and Gowan (which is not otherwise present in the project documents), and of several paintings by Laurence Stephen Lowry; also includes views of an incomplete set of working drawings (which are not otherwise present in the project documents), showing diagrammatic and detailed site plans, floor plans (including furnished plans for a bed sitting unit in a ten-storey point block by Lyons, Israel, and Ellis, situated to the north of the site) and elevations for the three and four-storey terraces and the two-storey houses
photographs
1957 or after
drawings
AP154.S1.1973.PR01.SS2.035
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Thirty-two drawings numbered 1, BD1, C114, LP205, S11-S12, and SK1 through SK205 with significant gaps. Drawings include section thru elevator core, section thru stair, spandrel heights, street elevations, section at lobby steps, partial plans, expansion joints (record of observation), special mullions at 1st floor (General Bronze Corporation), column schedule center core, loading platform and bumper, building model, lighting plan, fire exit signs, building elevations along north sides of E. 51st and 54th Streets (George A. Fuller Company), Four Seasons Restaurant--chain barrier details, ceiling revision (9th fl.), construction plan, rev'd bumper guard, front stair const., architectural symbols and abbreviations, truck entrance and loading dock, and window unit.
1955-1963
Copies of drawings for the Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y.
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AP154.S1.1973.PR01.SS2.035
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Thirty-two drawings numbered 1, BD1, C114, LP205, S11-S12, and SK1 through SK205 with significant gaps. Drawings include section thru elevator core, section thru stair, spandrel heights, street elevations, section at lobby steps, partial plans, expansion joints (record of observation), special mullions at 1st floor (General Bronze Corporation), column schedule center core, loading platform and bumper, building model, lighting plan, fire exit signs, building elevations along north sides of E. 51st and 54th Streets (George A. Fuller Company), Four Seasons Restaurant--chain barrier details, ceiling revision (9th fl.), construction plan, rev'd bumper guard, front stair const., architectural symbols and abbreviations, truck entrance and loading dock, and window unit.
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1955-1963
British architect Stephen Taylor speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 May 2008
Stephen Taylor: Some Ideas on Living
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British architect Stephen Taylor speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
drawings
DR1995:0179:001-008
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- This group of drawings are for a "truck transportable week-end house to be located on a beach in North Wales, UK" ('Architectural Design', 511). Accordion-shaped extendible boxes with cross bracing are designed to be pulled out by car from a fixed central core onto structural rail sections leveled on jacks. The fixed central core consists of living, dining, kitchen and bathroom facilities. Four extendible boxes house additional sleeping quarters along with a carport and a dock which is shown extended out into the water. Two sketches have apparently been redrawn from originals by Cedric Price in order to clarify ideas for publication in 'Architectural Design', (May 1970) (DR1995:0179:007 - DR1995:0179:008).
1960
Hague Hole extendable portable beach house: Conceptual drawings, annotated sketches and diagrams
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DR1995:0179:001-008
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- This group of drawings are for a "truck transportable week-end house to be located on a beach in North Wales, UK" ('Architectural Design', 511). Accordion-shaped extendible boxes with cross bracing are designed to be pulled out by car from a fixed central core onto structural rail sections leveled on jacks. The fixed central core consists of living, dining, kitchen and bathroom facilities. Four extendible boxes house additional sleeping quarters along with a carport and a dock which is shown extended out into the water. Two sketches have apparently been redrawn from originals by Cedric Price in order to clarify ideas for publication in 'Architectural Design', (May 1970) (DR1995:0179:007 - DR1995:0179:008).
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1960
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery