Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
textual records
ARCH268209
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Documentation concerning CIAM, the International Congress of Modern Architecture (“Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne”), including textual documents in the hand of José Luis Sert. Documents include articles and illustrations clipped from publications, photographs (reproductions), and notes. Some documents pertain to the exhibition on the city of Amsterdam titled “Ville fonctionnelle.”
ca. 1936
Documentation concerning CIAM, the International Congress of Modern Architecture (“Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne”)
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ARCH268209
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Documentation concerning CIAM, the International Congress of Modern Architecture (“Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne”), including textual documents in the hand of José Luis Sert. Documents include articles and illustrations clipped from publications, photographs (reproductions), and notes. Some documents pertain to the exhibition on the city of Amsterdam titled “Ville fonctionnelle.”
textual records
ca. 1936
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AP197.S1.SS9
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This subseries is comprised of notes, drafts, research, and photographic materials that were organized by topic. Unlike Kenneth Frampton’s research files which are arranged in Series AP197.S2, these files were compiled for book projects, articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, conference addresses, and keynote speeches, and document over 300 of Frampton's published or unpublished texts. The materials include notes, contracts, drafts, correspondence, final copies of texts, photographic materials, and research materials. This subseries also includes Frampton’s curriculum vitaes, notebooks, and covers he designed for the journal Architectural Design (1962-1964). The files are organized alphabetically by the topic explored, namely architects. Some of these architects include: Alvar Aalto; Tadao Ando; Georges Baines; Luis Barragan; H.P. Berlage; Mario Botta; Alberto Campo Baeza; David Chipperfield; Alvaro Siza; Michael Kagan; Louis Kahn; Rem Koolhaas; Kengo Kuma; Kisho Kurakawa; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Raphael Moneo; Carlo Scarpa; O.M. Ungers; Raj Rewal; Rogelio Salmona; Frank Lloyd Wright; and Monica Pidgeon. Subjects explored in these texts include: photography; the predicament of environmental design; reciprocal regionalism; the British Library; China's sacred sites; reflections on the oppositions of architecture and building; reflections on Perspecta; and the role of education. Large portions of these boxes document the publications "World Architecture 1900-2000: a Critical Mosaic" (1999), "Le Corbusier" (1997 and 2002), "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House" (1995), and "American Masterworks" (2008). Some folders may include coloured tabs with the note "copied." These tabs were used to identify whether the particular writing/project in question had been added to Frampton's curriculum vitae.
circa 1952 -2016
Books, articles, reviews, lectures, and juries
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AP197.S1.SS9
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This subseries is comprised of notes, drafts, research, and photographic materials that were organized by topic. Unlike Kenneth Frampton’s research files which are arranged in Series AP197.S2, these files were compiled for book projects, articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, conference addresses, and keynote speeches, and document over 300 of Frampton's published or unpublished texts. The materials include notes, contracts, drafts, correspondence, final copies of texts, photographic materials, and research materials. This subseries also includes Frampton’s curriculum vitaes, notebooks, and covers he designed for the journal Architectural Design (1962-1964). The files are organized alphabetically by the topic explored, namely architects. Some of these architects include: Alvar Aalto; Tadao Ando; Georges Baines; Luis Barragan; H.P. Berlage; Mario Botta; Alberto Campo Baeza; David Chipperfield; Alvaro Siza; Michael Kagan; Louis Kahn; Rem Koolhaas; Kengo Kuma; Kisho Kurakawa; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Raphael Moneo; Carlo Scarpa; O.M. Ungers; Raj Rewal; Rogelio Salmona; Frank Lloyd Wright; and Monica Pidgeon. Subjects explored in these texts include: photography; the predicament of environmental design; reciprocal regionalism; the British Library; China's sacred sites; reflections on the oppositions of architecture and building; reflections on Perspecta; and the role of education. Large portions of these boxes document the publications "World Architecture 1900-2000: a Critical Mosaic" (1999), "Le Corbusier" (1997 and 2002), "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House" (1995), and "American Masterworks" (2008). Some folders may include coloured tabs with the note "copied." These tabs were used to identify whether the particular writing/project in question had been added to Frampton's curriculum vitae.
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circa 1952 -2016
webpages
These public programs offer an opportunity to meet and engage with artists and photographers from the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project and to continue reflecting on the methodologies and strategies they use in constructing visual arguments.
Programs Extending The Lives of Documents
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These public programs offer an opportunity to meet and engage with artists and photographers from the exhibition The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project and to continue reflecting on the methodologies and strategies they use in constructing visual arguments.
webpages
ARCH286039
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Public Fear - ANYevent
1997-01-25
Copy of audio recording of in ANY event: public fear tape 1, disc 1 of 1
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ARCH286039
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Public Fear - ANYevent
1997-01-25
ARCH242948
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Public Fear - ANYevent
1997-01-25
Audio recording of in ANY event: public fear tape 1
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ARCH242948
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Public Fear - ANYevent
1997-01-25
DR1988:0394
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- This plan shows a bedroom and drawing room suite, part of the Electric House showrooms. The placement of the furniture is indicated on the plan, as is the pale rose and lilac colour scheme of the drawing room and the pale orange colour scheme for the bedroom. Elevations of the drawing room and bedroom windows appear to the right of the plan. - This work is part of an incomplete group of possibly working reprographic copies for Electric House, Battersea Borough, designed by the borough architect, Henry Hyams. The group also includes some reprographic copies which may have been used for publication purposes. - The style of many of these drawings and reprographic copies by Henry Hyams (DR1988:0332 - DR1988:0414) suggests that they were possibly for periodical illustrations. Hyams contributed articles to the periodicals 'The Builder' and 'The Architect'. Two objects in the CCA collections can be directly linked to an article published prior to 1926 in 'The Architect'; a reprographic copy (DR1988:0357) and a drawing (DR1988:0364) (Who's Who in Architecture, 161).
architecture, interior design
printed March 1927
Plan and details for the model drawing room and bedroom, Electric House, Battersea Borough
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DR1988:0394
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- This plan shows a bedroom and drawing room suite, part of the Electric House showrooms. The placement of the furniture is indicated on the plan, as is the pale rose and lilac colour scheme of the drawing room and the pale orange colour scheme for the bedroom. Elevations of the drawing room and bedroom windows appear to the right of the plan. - This work is part of an incomplete group of possibly working reprographic copies for Electric House, Battersea Borough, designed by the borough architect, Henry Hyams. The group also includes some reprographic copies which may have been used for publication purposes. - The style of many of these drawings and reprographic copies by Henry Hyams (DR1988:0332 - DR1988:0414) suggests that they were possibly for periodical illustrations. Hyams contributed articles to the periodicals 'The Builder' and 'The Architect'. Two objects in the CCA collections can be directly linked to an article published prior to 1926 in 'The Architect'; a reprographic copy (DR1988:0357) and a drawing (DR1988:0364) (Who's Who in Architecture, 161).
architecture, interior design
archives
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AP186
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The Cloud 9 Villa Nurbs project records,1990s-2013, document the firm’s Villa Nurbs project, a private residence in Empuriabrava (Costa Brava), Spain. The archive consists of the firm’s total born-digital archive for the project, as well as physical materials in a number of formats, including drawings, textual records, slides, presentation materials, photographs, paintings, protoypes, material samples, and models.
1990s-2013
Cloud 9 Villa Nurbs project records
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AP186
Synopsis:
The Cloud 9 Villa Nurbs project records,1990s-2013, document the firm’s Villa Nurbs project, a private residence in Empuriabrava (Costa Brava), Spain. The archive consists of the firm’s total born-digital archive for the project, as well as physical materials in a number of formats, including drawings, textual records, slides, presentation materials, photographs, paintings, protoypes, material samples, and models.
archives
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Fonds
1990s-2013
textual records
Listes des membres, procès-verbaux, correspondance relatifs à diverses associations professionnelles
ARCH258397
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Listes des membres, procès-verbaux, correspondance, bulletins relatifs au Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Comprend aussi des rapports des documents, et des publications des Corporations des Ingénieurs professionnels de Québec, Pen and Pencil Club, Le Cercle Universitaire de Montréal, La Chambre de construction, Engineering Institute of Canada, et Le Devoir (14 septembre 1956).
1931-1959
Listes des membres, procès-verbaux, correspondance relatifs à diverses associations professionnelles
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ARCH258397
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Listes des membres, procès-verbaux, correspondance, bulletins relatifs au Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Comprend aussi des rapports des documents, et des publications des Corporations des Ingénieurs professionnels de Québec, Pen and Pencil Club, Le Cercle Universitaire de Montréal, La Chambre de construction, Engineering Institute of Canada, et Le Devoir (14 septembre 1956).
textual records
1931-1959
archives
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Fonds
Ernest Isbell Barott fonds
AP003
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The Ernest Isbell Barott fonds, 1912-1983, documents architect Ernest Isbell Barott’s design and construction of over 380 built projects in Canada. The fonds comprises of materials relating to projects executed by Ernest Isbell Barott during his active years at the firm, 1912-1962, as well as projects exclusively completed by the firm after Barott’s retirement, 1962-1983. Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 11 764 drawings (including reprographic copies), approximately 1795 photographic materials, 8.75 l.m. of textual records, 4 medals, and 1 key.
1912-1983
Ernest Isbell Barott fonds
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AP003
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The Ernest Isbell Barott fonds, 1912-1983, documents architect Ernest Isbell Barott’s design and construction of over 380 built projects in Canada. The fonds comprises of materials relating to projects executed by Ernest Isbell Barott during his active years at the firm, 1912-1962, as well as projects exclusively completed by the firm after Barott’s retirement, 1962-1983. Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 11 764 drawings (including reprographic copies), approximately 1795 photographic materials, 8.75 l.m. of textual records, 4 medals, and 1 key.
archives
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Fonds
1912-1983