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AP066.S3.D13
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Le dossier documente la soumission pou le concours ouvert pour le Nouveau Confort d'Hydro-Québec tenu en 1997, d'août à novembre. L'architecte s'est mérité une mention lors de ce concours. Le dossier contient des dessins, des documents textuels et des reprographies. Objectifs du concours: "Le concours a pour objet la conception d'une unité d'habitation unifamiliale neuve détachée ou d'un groupe d'unités d'habitation unifamiliales, jumelées, en rangée ou contigües, chauffée(s) à l'électricité et respectant les exigences techniques du concept Nouveau confort." Extrait des Exigences du concours de conception architecturale. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Ainsi avons-nous choisi d'explorer l'idée de la plus petite maison possible tout en s'assurant d'y conserver la notion de maison familiale. Nous avons cherché à la rendre financièrement accessible aux petits budgets et avons tenté de coller à une typologie qui traduit clairement des valeurs d'usage familières." Jacques Rousseau, extrait d'un brouillon manuscrit d'une lettre à André Fortin au sujet de la petite maison (66-C013-001M).
1997
Concours Nouveau Confort d'Hydro-Québec - Une petite maison
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AP066.S3.D13
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Le dossier documente la soumission pou le concours ouvert pour le Nouveau Confort d'Hydro-Québec tenu en 1997, d'août à novembre. L'architecte s'est mérité une mention lors de ce concours. Le dossier contient des dessins, des documents textuels et des reprographies. Objectifs du concours: "Le concours a pour objet la conception d'une unité d'habitation unifamiliale neuve détachée ou d'un groupe d'unités d'habitation unifamiliales, jumelées, en rangée ou contigües, chauffée(s) à l'électricité et respectant les exigences techniques du concept Nouveau confort." Extrait des Exigences du concours de conception architecturale. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Ainsi avons-nous choisi d'explorer l'idée de la plus petite maison possible tout en s'assurant d'y conserver la notion de maison familiale. Nous avons cherché à la rendre financièrement accessible aux petits budgets et avons tenté de coller à une typologie qui traduit clairement des valeurs d'usage familières." Jacques Rousseau, extrait d'un brouillon manuscrit d'une lettre à André Fortin au sujet de la petite maison (66-C013-001M).
Dossier 13
1997
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
26 January 2012 to 29 April 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
31 March 2004 to 30 May 2004
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977
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Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Montréal
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
2 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Montréal
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Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
14 October 2017, 4pm
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
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In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 December 2006 to 25 March 2007
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries
22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
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ARCH158184
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Cette chemise contient des articles de journaux et autres publications qui traitent de Frank Lloyd Wright et que Roger D'Astous a conservés, notamment une série de photos prises lors de l'anniversaire de naissance de M. Wright en 1953, parues dans le Chicago Sun-Times du 14 juin 1953, et parmi lesquelles, Roger et Nancy D'Astous apparaissent aux côtés de Frank Lloyd Wright. Une épreuve photographique, noir et blanc, 8 x 10, de cette photo se trouve dans la chemise 60-Ab04-01.
Articles de journaux et autres publications sur Frank Lloyd Wright
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ARCH158184
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Cette chemise contient des articles de journaux et autres publications qui traitent de Frank Lloyd Wright et que Roger D'Astous a conservés, notamment une série de photos prises lors de l'anniversaire de naissance de M. Wright en 1953, parues dans le Chicago Sun-Times du 14 juin 1953, et parmi lesquelles, Roger et Nancy D'Astous apparaissent aux côtés de Frank Lloyd Wright. Une épreuve photographique, noir et blanc, 8 x 10, de cette photo se trouve dans la chemise 60-Ab04-01.
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