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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
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9 October 2008
9 October 2008
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Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
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events
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9 October 2008
9 October 2008
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exhibitions
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
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How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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26 November 2013 to
20 April 2014
26 November 2013 to
20 April 2014
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Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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photographs
photographs
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DR2012:0012:083:001
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Ring binder containing slides, including those related to the following projects: - Modern art (9 slides); - Fuller dome at McGill University 1956 (4 slides); - Le rapport Charney 1972 (8 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs, including works by John M. Johansen (26 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs of école Notre-Dame des Laurentides, by Melvin Charney 1965-1966 (34 slides); - Une histoire 1973-1975 (134 slides, 10 appear to be duplicates); - Maisons de la rue Sherbrooke 1976 (40 slides, 13 appear to be duplicates); - Fragments series (35 slides including: Wall facade (18 slides), Maison de Rivière-des-Prairies (9 slides) and Garage Lennoxville (8 slides); - Painted photographs series: The house in St. Bonaventure 1978 (10 slides).
DR2012:0012:083:001
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Ring binder containing slides, including those related to the following projects: - Modern art (9 slides); - Fuller dome at McGill University 1956 (4 slides); - Le rapport Charney 1972 (8 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs, including works by John M. Johansen (26 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs of école Notre-Dame des Laurentides, by Melvin Charney 1965-1966 (34 slides); - Une histoire 1973-1975 (134 slides, 10 appear to be duplicates); - Maisons de la rue Sherbrooke 1976 (40 slides, 13 appear to be duplicates); - Fragments series (35 slides including: Wall facade (18 slides), Maison de Rivière-des-Prairies (9 slides) and Garage Lennoxville (8 slides); - Painted photographs series: The house in St. Bonaventure 1978 (10 slides).
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1956-1980, predominant 1965-1979
1956-1980, predominant 1965-1979
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Slides of Melvin Charney's artworks
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DR2012:0012:083:001
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Ring binder containing slides, including those related to the following projects: - Modern art (9 slides); - Fuller dome at McGill University 1956 (4 slides); - Le rapport Charney 1972 (8 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs, including works by John M. Johansen (26 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs of école Notre-Dame des Laurentides, by Melvin Charney 1965-1966 (34 slides); - Une histoire 1973-1975 (134 slides, 10 appear to be duplicates); - Maisons de la rue Sherbrooke 1976 (40 slides, 13 appear to be duplicates); - Fragments series (35 slides including: Wall facade (18 slides), Maison de Rivière-des-Prairies (9 slides) and Garage Lennoxville (8 slides); - Painted photographs series: The house in St. Bonaventure 1978 (10 slides).
Slides of Melvin Charney's artworks
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DR2012:0012:083:001
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Ring binder containing slides, including those related to the following projects: - Modern art (9 slides); - Fuller dome at McGill University 1956 (4 slides); - Le rapport Charney 1972 (8 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs, including works by John M. Johansen (26 slides); - Architectural models, drawings and photographs of école Notre-Dame des Laurentides, by Melvin Charney 1965-1966 (34 slides); - Une histoire 1973-1975 (134 slides, 10 appear to be duplicates); - Maisons de la rue Sherbrooke 1976 (40 slides, 13 appear to be duplicates); - Fragments series (35 slides including: Wall facade (18 slides), Maison de Rivière-des-Prairies (9 slides) and Garage Lennoxville (8 slides); - Painted photographs series: The house in St. Bonaventure 1978 (10 slides).
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photographs
photographs
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1956-1980, predominant 1965-1979
1956-1980, predominant 1965-1979
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events
events
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Talking Pictures, a Circuit
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,(...)
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,(...)
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
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14 October 2017, 4pm
14 October 2017, 4pm
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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,(...)
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,(...)
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events
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14 October 2017
4pm
14 October 2017
4pm
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events
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Learning from... Cairo
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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15 September 2011 , 7pm
15 September 2011 , 7pm
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Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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15 September 2011
7pm
15 September 2011
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
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Main galleries and hall cases
Main galleries and hall cases
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24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
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En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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24 November 1999 to
30 April 2000
24 November 1999 to
30 April 2000
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Main galleries and hall cases
Main galleries and hall cases
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articles
articles
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Noise Versus Noise
Noise Versus Noise
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Geoff Manaugh in conversation with Sabine von Fischer
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The rest of your senses
The rest of your senses
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20th century, acouphène, acoustics, acoustique, ambiance, atmosphere, BLDGBLOG, bruit, construction, flooring, Geoff@CCA, Geoff Manaugh, hauts talons, high heels, histoire, history, isolant phonique, machine, noise, paysage sonore, plancher, Sabine von Fischer, son, sound, soundproofing, soundscape, tinnitus, XXe siècle
20th century, acouphène, acoustics, acoustique, ambiance, atmosphere, BLDGBLOG, bruit, construction, flooring, Geoff@CCA, Geoff Manaugh, hauts talons, high heels, histoire, history, isolant phonique, machine, noise, paysage sonore, plancher, Sabine von Fischer, son, sound, soundproofing, soundscape, tinnitus, XXe siècle
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13 February 2017
13 February 2017
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The rest of your senses
The rest of your senses
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photographs
photographs
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DR2012:0012:084:002
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Ring binder containing magazine clippings, a photocopy, photographs, and postcards related to the following projects: - Une histoire 1974-1977 (26 photographs, including 1 in colour and 7 duplicates); - Fragments 1975-1978 (2 photographs, including 1 in colour); - Streetwork 1978 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 photocopy, 1 magazine clipping); - Edifice 1979 (2 postcards); - Room 202, p. s. 1 1979 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 postcard); - A Chicago construction 1981-1983 (7 photographs, including 2 in colour and 1 duplicate); - A Toronto construction 1982 (10 photographs, including 7 in colour); - A Kingston construction 1983 (6 photographs); - Pliny on my mind 1983 (1 photograph); - A Quebec construction 1989 (3 photographs). Original folder labelled: MC ARTWORK / SCULPTURE + INSTALLATION / PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
DR2012:0012:084:002
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Ring binder containing magazine clippings, a photocopy, photographs, and postcards related to the following projects: - Une histoire 1974-1977 (26 photographs, including 1 in colour and 7 duplicates); - Fragments 1975-1978 (2 photographs, including 1 in colour); - Streetwork 1978 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 photocopy, 1 magazine clipping); - Edifice 1979 (2 postcards); - Room 202, p. s. 1 1979 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 postcard); - A Chicago construction 1981-1983 (7 photographs, including 2 in colour and 1 duplicate); - A Toronto construction 1982 (10 photographs, including 7 in colour); - A Kingston construction 1983 (6 photographs); - Pliny on my mind 1983 (1 photograph); - A Quebec construction 1989 (3 photographs). Original folder labelled: MC ARTWORK / SCULPTURE + INSTALLATION / PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
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1974-1989
1974-1989
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Artwork and installation slides
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DR2012:0012:084:002
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Ring binder containing magazine clippings, a photocopy, photographs, and postcards related to the following projects: - Une histoire 1974-1977 (26 photographs, including 1 in colour and 7 duplicates); - Fragments 1975-1978 (2 photographs, including 1 in colour); - Streetwork 1978 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 photocopy, 1 magazine clipping); - Edifice 1979 (2 postcards); - Room 202, p. s. 1 1979 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 postcard); - A Chicago construction 1981-1983 (7 photographs, including 2 in colour and 1 duplicate); - A Toronto construction 1982 (10 photographs, including 7 in colour); - A Kingston construction 1983 (6 photographs); - Pliny on my mind 1983 (1 photograph); - A Quebec construction 1989 (3 photographs). Original folder labelled: MC ARTWORK / SCULPTURE + INSTALLATION / PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
Artwork and installation slides
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DR2012:0012:084:002
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Ring binder containing magazine clippings, a photocopy, photographs, and postcards related to the following projects: - Une histoire 1974-1977 (26 photographs, including 1 in colour and 7 duplicates); - Fragments 1975-1978 (2 photographs, including 1 in colour); - Streetwork 1978 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 photocopy, 1 magazine clipping); - Edifice 1979 (2 postcards); - Room 202, p. s. 1 1979 (4 photographs, including 2 in colour, 1 postcard); - A Chicago construction 1981-1983 (7 photographs, including 2 in colour and 1 duplicate); - A Toronto construction 1982 (10 photographs, including 7 in colour); - A Kingston construction 1983 (6 photographs); - Pliny on my mind 1983 (1 photograph); - A Quebec construction 1989 (3 photographs). Original folder labelled: MC ARTWORK / SCULPTURE + INSTALLATION / PHOTO DOCUMENTATION
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photographs
photographs
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1974-1989
1974-1989
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events
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
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11 August 2016, 6pm
11 August 2016, 6pm
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
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events
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11 August 2016
6pm
11 August 2016
6pm
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works of art
works of art
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DR1974:0002:029:001-044
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- This published portfolio contains 42 prints of Charles Rohault de Fleury's architectural works - mostly plans, elevations, sections and detail drawings, but also some perspective views, and a biographical note on the architect. Prints for domestic architecture in Paris include: Hôtel Soltykoff, Hôtel Sauvage, Hôtels Fontenilliat, and an hôtel on avenue Montaigne. There are two photogravures by P. Dujardin of the interior of Hôtel Sauvage. Prints for public buildings in Paris include: the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, the Théâtre-Italien, the Hippodrome national, the façade of Pavillon de Rohan, a plan for the opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, and the Chambre des Notaires. The album contains a print of two tombs and a mausoleum, a print for the Hôtel de Prefecture, Poitiers, a plan for Saint-Augustin, Paris, and a photogravure of Charles Rohault de Fleury in profile.
DR1974:0002:029:001-044
Description:
- This published portfolio contains 42 prints of Charles Rohault de Fleury's architectural works - mostly plans, elevations, sections and detail drawings, but also some perspective views, and a biographical note on the architect. Prints for domestic architecture in Paris include: Hôtel Soltykoff, Hôtel Sauvage, Hôtels Fontenilliat, and an hôtel on avenue Montaigne. There are two photogravures by P. Dujardin of the interior of Hôtel Sauvage. Prints for public buildings in Paris include: the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, the Théâtre-Italien, the Hippodrome national, the façade of Pavillon de Rohan, a plan for the opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, and the Chambre des Notaires. The album contains a print of two tombs and a mausoleum, a print for the Hôtel de Prefecture, Poitiers, a plan for Saint-Augustin, Paris, and a photogravure of Charles Rohault de Fleury in profile.
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architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
Date:
published 1884
published 1884
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OEUVRE / DE / C. ROHAULT DE FLEURY / ARCHITECTE
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DR1974:0002:029:001-044
Description:
- This published portfolio contains 42 prints of Charles Rohault de Fleury's architectural works - mostly plans, elevations, sections and detail drawings, but also some perspective views, and a biographical note on the architect. Prints for domestic architecture in Paris include: Hôtel Soltykoff, Hôtel Sauvage, Hôtels Fontenilliat, and an hôtel on avenue Montaigne. There are two photogravures by P. Dujardin of the interior of Hôtel Sauvage. Prints for public buildings in Paris include: the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, the Théâtre-Italien, the Hippodrome national, the façade of Pavillon de Rohan, a plan for the opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, and the Chambre des Notaires. The album contains a print of two tombs and a mausoleum, a print for the Hôtel de Prefecture, Poitiers, a plan for Saint-Augustin, Paris, and a photogravure of Charles Rohault de Fleury in profile.
OEUVRE / DE / C. ROHAULT DE FLEURY / ARCHITECTE
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DR1974:0002:029:001-044
Description:
- This published portfolio contains 42 prints of Charles Rohault de Fleury's architectural works - mostly plans, elevations, sections and detail drawings, but also some perspective views, and a biographical note on the architect. Prints for domestic architecture in Paris include: Hôtel Soltykoff, Hôtel Sauvage, Hôtels Fontenilliat, and an hôtel on avenue Montaigne. There are two photogravures by P. Dujardin of the interior of Hôtel Sauvage. Prints for public buildings in Paris include: the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, the Théâtre-Italien, the Hippodrome national, the façade of Pavillon de Rohan, a plan for the opera house for the Théâtre impérial de l'opéra, and the Chambre des Notaires. The album contains a print of two tombs and a mausoleum, a print for the Hôtel de Prefecture, Poitiers, a plan for Saint-Augustin, Paris, and a photogravure of Charles Rohault de Fleury in profile.
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works of art
works of art
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published 1884
published 1884
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Subject:
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
