Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
New towns created by private enterprise in the early years of the twentieth century bear witness to the confluence of economic, social, and political forces at work in shaping urban forms. Built quickly and expensively, these towns thoroughly planned to sustain industrial profits, relying on social control to ensure the hegemony of the ruling class. This exhibition traces(...)
Main galleries
6 March 1996 to 26 May 1996
Power and Planning: Industrial Towns in Québec, 1890-1950
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New towns created by private enterprise in the early years of the twentieth century bear witness to the confluence of economic, social, and political forces at work in shaping urban forms. Built quickly and expensively, these towns thoroughly planned to sustain industrial profits, relying on social control to ensure the hegemony of the ruling class. This exhibition traces(...)
Main galleries
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
photographs
PH1981:0803:001-040
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Portfolio of photographs has a title page and a list of plates on verso of title page: Table générale des planches I. Villas maritimes - Architectes 1. Villa au bord de la mer, à Elberon - McKim, Mead & White 2. Villa au bord de la mer, à Elberon - V.C. Taylor 3. Villa au bord de la mer, Newport - G.B. Post 4. Villa au bord de la mer, Newport - Peabody et Stearns 5. Villa au bord de la mer, Bar Harbour - Rotch et Tilden 7. Villa au bord de la mer, Bar Harbour - Rotch et Tilden II. Maisons de campagne 8. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 9. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 10. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 11. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 12. Maison de campagne, Hartford - G. Keller 13. Maison de campagne, Hartford - T.C. Withers 14. Maison de campagne, Hartford - Kimball et Wisedell 15. Maison de campagne, Hartford - Kimball et Wisedell 16. Maison de campagne, Brookline - C.S. Luce 17. Maison de campagne, Brookline - Peabody et Stearns 18. Maison de campagne, Brookline - Peabody et Stearns 19. Maison de campagne, Brookline - S.E. Toby 20. Maison de campagne, Brookline - E.A.P. Newcomb 21. Maison de campagne, à Jamaica-Plain - W.R. Emerson 22. Maison de campagne, à Jamaica-Plain - W.R. Emerson 23. Maison de campagne, Détroit - Mason et Rice 24. Maison de campagne, W. Scott et Cie. 25. Maison de campagne, Buffalo - J.-L. Silsbee 26. Maison de campagne, Buffalo - J.-L. Silsbee 27. Maison de campagne, Buffalo - J.-L. Silsbee 28. Maison de campagne, Chicago - Cobb et Frost 29. Maison de campagne, Chicago - J.J. Flanders 30. Maison de campagne, Dorcester - Cabot et Chandler 31. Maison de campagne, Milwaukee - Cabot et Chandler 32. Maison de campagne, Cleveland - Peabody et Stearns 33. Maison de campagne, Rochester - J.G. Cutter 34. Maison de campagne, Walnut-Hills - Bruce Price 35. Hôtel privé suburbain, à Chicago - Bruce Price 36. Hôtel privé suburbain, à Chicago - Peabody et Stearns 37. Petite maison de campagne, à Chicago III Dépendances 38. Maison de garde, à North-Easton - H.H. Richardson 39. Maison de garde, à North-Easton - H.H. Richardson 40. Loge de gardien, à Newport - H.H. Richardson
architecture
early 1886
Architecture Américaine, Troisième Série: Habitations Suburbaines: Villas, Maisons de Campagne, Cottages, Dépendances
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PH1981:0803:001-040
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Portfolio of photographs has a title page and a list of plates on verso of title page: Table générale des planches I. Villas maritimes - Architectes 1. Villa au bord de la mer, à Elberon - McKim, Mead & White 2. Villa au bord de la mer, à Elberon - V.C. Taylor 3. Villa au bord de la mer, Newport - G.B. Post 4. Villa au bord de la mer, Newport - Peabody et Stearns 5. Villa au bord de la mer, Bar Harbour - Rotch et Tilden 7. Villa au bord de la mer, Bar Harbour - Rotch et Tilden II. Maisons de campagne 8. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 9. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 10. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 11. Maison de campagne, à Orange - P.J. Boticher 12. Maison de campagne, Hartford - G. Keller 13. Maison de campagne, Hartford - T.C. Withers 14. Maison de campagne, Hartford - Kimball et Wisedell 15. Maison de campagne, Hartford - Kimball et Wisedell 16. Maison de campagne, Brookline - C.S. Luce 17. Maison de campagne, Brookline - Peabody et Stearns 18. Maison de campagne, Brookline - Peabody et Stearns 19. Maison de campagne, Brookline - S.E. Toby 20. Maison de campagne, Brookline - E.A.P. Newcomb 21. Maison de campagne, à Jamaica-Plain - W.R. Emerson 22. Maison de campagne, à Jamaica-Plain - W.R. Emerson 23. Maison de campagne, Détroit - Mason et Rice 24. Maison de campagne, W. Scott et Cie. 25. Maison de campagne, Buffalo - J.-L. Silsbee 26. Maison de campagne, Buffalo - J.-L. Silsbee 27. Maison de campagne, Buffalo - J.-L. Silsbee 28. Maison de campagne, Chicago - Cobb et Frost 29. Maison de campagne, Chicago - J.J. Flanders 30. Maison de campagne, Dorcester - Cabot et Chandler 31. Maison de campagne, Milwaukee - Cabot et Chandler 32. Maison de campagne, Cleveland - Peabody et Stearns 33. Maison de campagne, Rochester - J.G. Cutter 34. Maison de campagne, Walnut-Hills - Bruce Price 35. Hôtel privé suburbain, à Chicago - Bruce Price 36. Hôtel privé suburbain, à Chicago - Peabody et Stearns 37. Petite maison de campagne, à Chicago III Dépendances 38. Maison de garde, à North-Easton - H.H. Richardson 39. Maison de garde, à North-Easton - H.H. Richardson 40. Loge de gardien, à Newport - H.H. Richardson
photographs
early 1886
architecture
drawings, photographs
DR2012:0011:032
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Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects: - Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat); - Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy); - Small weekend house (3 stats); - Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat); - Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats); - Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats); - Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats); - Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats); - Child centre (3 stats); - Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats); - Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat); - Morse Jewellers (4 stats); - Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North; - Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat); - Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat); - Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat); - Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
1955-1957
Portfolio for application to the graduate program at Yale University
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DR2012:0011:032
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Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects: - Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat); - Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy); - Small weekend house (3 stats); - Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat); - Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats); - Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats); - Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats); - Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats); - Child centre (3 stats); - Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats); - Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat); - Morse Jewellers (4 stats); - Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North; - Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat); - Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat); - Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat); - Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
drawings, photographs
1955-1957
Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
20 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Katie Lloyd Thomas
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
textual records
DR1995:0316:001-001
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clippings, including material relating to the Cedric Price projects: New Aviary, Zoological Society (AP144.S2.D31), Robson Translloyd, London W.1 (AP144.S2.D36), Radome Development (AP144.S2.D40), Auditorium, Claverton Bath (AP144.S2.D41), House, Selsdon (AP144.S2.D42), Tone Vale Hospital, Taunton (AP144.S2.D47), Circlorama (AP144.S2.D51), Barking Flyover (AP144.S2.D57), Whyte Lion Development (AP144.S2.D60), Bath Festival (AP144.S2.D62), BAA/LHA/North (AP144.S2.D65), (AP144.S2.D70 BTDB Computer), Shantasea Development (AP144.S2.D72), BMI/HQ (AP144.S2.D74), Phun City (AP144.S2.D77), Olympia (AP144.S2.D83), Two Tree Island (AP144.S2.D84), McAppy (AP144.S2.D89), River Clyde Competition (AP144.S2.D90), Trucksafe Air Portable Dock Ahoy (AP144.S2.D93), Water Wall (AP144.S2.D94), Scotswhim (AP144.S2.D95), G.T.R. (AP144.S2.D97), Whitehall (AP144.S2.D98), Strike (AP144.S2.D99), Generator (AP144.S2.D100), Domain (AP144.S2.D108), Castel (AP144.S2.D109), CP Aviary (AP144.S2.D113), and for Picstate, Polyark (AP144.S3.D33), and a project for Tunisia
1962-1993
Press clippings for various projects
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DR1995:0316:001-001
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clippings, including material relating to the Cedric Price projects: New Aviary, Zoological Society (AP144.S2.D31), Robson Translloyd, London W.1 (AP144.S2.D36), Radome Development (AP144.S2.D40), Auditorium, Claverton Bath (AP144.S2.D41), House, Selsdon (AP144.S2.D42), Tone Vale Hospital, Taunton (AP144.S2.D47), Circlorama (AP144.S2.D51), Barking Flyover (AP144.S2.D57), Whyte Lion Development (AP144.S2.D60), Bath Festival (AP144.S2.D62), BAA/LHA/North (AP144.S2.D65), (AP144.S2.D70 BTDB Computer), Shantasea Development (AP144.S2.D72), BMI/HQ (AP144.S2.D74), Phun City (AP144.S2.D77), Olympia (AP144.S2.D83), Two Tree Island (AP144.S2.D84), McAppy (AP144.S2.D89), River Clyde Competition (AP144.S2.D90), Trucksafe Air Portable Dock Ahoy (AP144.S2.D93), Water Wall (AP144.S2.D94), Scotswhim (AP144.S2.D95), G.T.R. (AP144.S2.D97), Whitehall (AP144.S2.D98), Strike (AP144.S2.D99), Generator (AP144.S2.D100), Domain (AP144.S2.D108), Castel (AP144.S2.D109), CP Aviary (AP144.S2.D113), and for Picstate, Polyark (AP144.S3.D33), and a project for Tunisia
textual records
1962-1993
Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 November 2015
John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
24 April 2014 , 6pm
Artist’s Talk: Amie Siegel, Provenance
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American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)