photographs
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10 photograph(s)
ARCH273325
Description:
Group consists of photographs (including a contact sheet) of members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group working on sulphur concrete bricks, photographs of the group members and photographs of the sulphur concrete bricks, including some for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publications on sulphur concrete.
ca. 1974
Photographs of members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group working on sulphur concrete bricks
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ARCH273325
Description:
Group consists of photographs (including a contact sheet) of members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group working on sulphur concrete bricks, photographs of the group members and photographs of the sulphur concrete bricks, including some for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publications on sulphur concrete.
photographs
Quantity:
10 photograph(s)
ca. 1974
textual records
DR1999:0469
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documents include 6 slides, 34 photographic reproductions, accounting files, correspondence, fax transmittals - February - August 1990, project description, budget, memos, notes, meeting minutes, consulting architects, blueprints: details, cross sections, floor plans, elevations, ceiling, maps, publications, trade catalogues
Slides, photographic reproductions, accounting files, correspondence, fax transmittals
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DR1999:0469
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documents include 6 slides, 34 photographic reproductions, accounting files, correspondence, fax transmittals - February - August 1990, project description, budget, memos, notes, meeting minutes, consulting architects, blueprints: details, cross sections, floor plans, elevations, ceiling, maps, publications, trade catalogues
textual records
Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2003
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
events
Learning from... Astana
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2007 , 7pm
Learning from... Astana
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Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
events
19 April 2007
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Israel
Yuval Yasky presents the kibbutz as a radical alternative to familiar types of human settlement. Ever since its early days, the kibbutz was conceived as a hybrid between rural and urban typologies in an attempt to eliminate the disadvantages of both types – the primitive conservatism of village life and the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat in the city – while(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
31 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Israel
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Yuval Yasky presents the kibbutz as a radical alternative to familiar types of human settlement. Ever since its early days, the kibbutz was conceived as a hybrid between rural and urban typologies in an attempt to eliminate the disadvantages of both types – the primitive conservatism of village life and the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat in the city – while(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Starting From... The Bubble
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
Hall cases
26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
Hall cases
Starting From... Pink
Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... Pink
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Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Hall cases
born digital
AP195.S2.006
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The material in this directory relates closely with material in Series 4: Press, publications, and events. Original directory name: "Press_Correspondenz". Most common file formats: Microsoft Word Document, Raw JPEG Stream, Tagged Image File Format, Acrobat PDF 1.2 - Portable Document Format.
20 March 2000 - 12 May 2004
Events for press and related texts for Phaeno Science Centre
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AP195.S2.006
Description:
The material in this directory relates closely with material in Series 4: Press, publications, and events. Original directory name: "Press_Correspondenz". Most common file formats: Microsoft Word Document, Raw JPEG Stream, Tagged Image File Format, Acrobat PDF 1.2 - Portable Document Format.
born digital
20 March 2000 - 12 May 2004
drawings, textual records, photographs
DR2004:0170
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loose textual records and files containing questionnaires and responses, report including slides, correspondence, minutes of meetings, graphs, notes and sketches on 1971 Las Vegas Air Structures conference, draft specifications, brochures, LEU draft proposals for a Draft for Development for Air Supported Structures, regulations, standards, reports including technical drawings, publications, promotional material, LEU questionnaires, material on the 1974 Las Vegas 'International Conference: Practical Applications for Air-Supported Structures', and a file containing material relating to LEU including correspondence, clippings, notes on meetings, office memoranda, distribution list, publications and brochures, with annotations on creating microfiches, reports, and possibly unrelated lecture notes
Loose textual records and files containing questionnaires and responses
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DR2004:0170
Description:
loose textual records and files containing questionnaires and responses, report including slides, correspondence, minutes of meetings, graphs, notes and sketches on 1971 Las Vegas Air Structures conference, draft specifications, brochures, LEU draft proposals for a Draft for Development for Air Supported Structures, regulations, standards, reports including technical drawings, publications, promotional material, LEU questionnaires, material on the 1974 Las Vegas 'International Conference: Practical Applications for Air-Supported Structures', and a file containing material relating to LEU including correspondence, clippings, notes on meetings, office memoranda, distribution list, publications and brochures, with annotations on creating microfiches, reports, and possibly unrelated lecture notes
drawings, textual records, photographs
photographs
Quantity:
145 photograph(s)
ARCH273328
Description:
Group consists of photographs (including 3 contact sheets) of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group making sulphur concrete and sulphur concrete bricks, and photographs of installation, tools and devices for making concrete and bricks, including some used for the publications about sulphur concrete.
ca. 1974
Photographs of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group
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ARCH273328
Description:
Group consists of photographs (including 3 contact sheets) of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group making sulphur concrete and sulphur concrete bricks, and photographs of installation, tools and devices for making concrete and bricks, including some used for the publications about sulphur concrete.
photographs
Quantity:
145 photograph(s)
ca. 1974