Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Hall cases
12 June 1990 to 16 September 1990
Airport Origins: Three Projects by Lloyd Wright
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Hall cases
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
10 May 2016 to 20 November 2016
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
31 May 2017 to 24 September 2017
Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton
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Amid education reform in American schools of architecture in the 1970s, Kenneth Frampton was integral in transforming the curriculum of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning. In particular, he designed and taught what became three core courses: the theory seminar “Comparative Critical Analysis,” the history lectures “Thresholds of Modern(...)
As Building Director of Baden in southwest Germany, Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826) had the unique opportunity to create in Karlsruhe—the capital and his native city—one of the most homogeneous architectural ensembles ever achieved by a single architect. The exhibition focuses on the impact of scientific and administrative reform on the urban and agricultural(...)
Main galleries
31 January 1990 to 18 March 1990
Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe
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As Building Director of Baden in southwest Germany, Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826) had the unique opportunity to create in Karlsruhe—the capital and his native city—one of the most homogeneous architectural ensembles ever achieved by a single architect. The exhibition focuses on the impact of scientific and administrative reform on the urban and agricultural(...)
Main galleries
Shaping the Great City explores the role of city-building throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both before and after its dissolution, and expands architectural history by bringing to the fore a rich variety of modernisms. In the years surrounding World War I, these strains of modernism both reflected and shaped the many national and multinational identities of the(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
14 May 2000 to 15 October 2000
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890–1937
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Shaping the Great City explores the role of city-building throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both before and after its dissolution, and expands architectural history by bringing to the fore a rich variety of modernisms. In the years surrounding World War I, these strains of modernism both reflected and shaped the many national and multinational identities of the(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
drawings
ARCH9073
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Chauffage et plomberie ailes N, R, Se, S, So, T, U, V, X, Y, Ze et Zo : copies de plans préliminiares des étages 0 à 8 montrant l'emplacement des radiateurs et autre équipements mécaniques (dessins N-7M, R-4M, R-7M à R-10M, Se-0M à Se-8M, S-8M, Soc-0M, Sop-0M, So-1M à So-8M, T-0M à T-7M, Up-0M, Uc-0M, U-1M à U-7M, V-0M à V-7M, X-0M, X-1M, Y-0M, Y-1M, Ze-1M, Ze-2M, Zo-1M, Zo-2M) / Lefrançois-Laflamme-Gauthier, ingénieurs-conseil. Aile U : copie d'un plan de l'étage U2 / Ernest Cormier.
1961
Plans de chauffage et plomberie
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ARCH9073
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Chauffage et plomberie ailes N, R, Se, S, So, T, U, V, X, Y, Ze et Zo : copies de plans préliminiares des étages 0 à 8 montrant l'emplacement des radiateurs et autre équipements mécaniques (dessins N-7M, R-4M, R-7M à R-10M, Se-0M à Se-8M, S-8M, Soc-0M, Sop-0M, So-1M à So-8M, T-0M à T-7M, Up-0M, Uc-0M, U-1M à U-7M, V-0M à V-7M, X-0M, X-1M, Y-0M, Y-1M, Ze-1M, Ze-2M, Zo-1M, Zo-2M) / Lefrançois-Laflamme-Gauthier, ingénieurs-conseil. Aile U : copie d'un plan de l'étage U2 / Ernest Cormier.
drawings
1961
drawings
ARCH4314
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Copies annotées : élévations de la façade principale et de la façade postérieure; plans d'armature du perron, de la nef et de l'escalier de la tribune; détails divers : toitures, pierre et brique extérieure pour les façades de l'église et du campanile, frise et chapiteaux, corniche en béton, appuis des fenêtres, demi-plan au-dessus de la voûte, pilier intérieur de la nef, confessionnaux, tribune de l'orgue, balcon, portes intérieures et extérieures, rosace de la façade principale, fenêtres cintrées en bois, escalier du vestibule (dessins 1, 12, 13, 309 à 312, 314 (x 2), 317, 318, 322 (x 2), 326 à 328, 341, 502, 509, 511, 520, 522, 527, 534, 542, 543, 545, 551).
1924-1926
Copies d'élévations de façades et plans de structures
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ARCH4314
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Copies annotées : élévations de la façade principale et de la façade postérieure; plans d'armature du perron, de la nef et de l'escalier de la tribune; détails divers : toitures, pierre et brique extérieure pour les façades de l'église et du campanile, frise et chapiteaux, corniche en béton, appuis des fenêtres, demi-plan au-dessus de la voûte, pilier intérieur de la nef, confessionnaux, tribune de l'orgue, balcon, portes intérieures et extérieures, rosace de la façade principale, fenêtres cintrées en bois, escalier du vestibule (dessins 1, 12, 13, 309 à 312, 314 (x 2), 317, 318, 322 (x 2), 326 à 328, 341, 502, 509, 511, 520, 522, 527, 534, 542, 543, 545, 551).
drawings
1924-1926
Project
Restaurant BOK
AP066.S2.D35
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Le dossier documente le projet d'aménagement du Restaurant BOK, situé au 3812 boul. St-Laurent, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient un desssin et une reprographie.
1993
Restaurant BOK
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AP066.S2.D35
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Le dossier documente le projet d'aménagement du Restaurant BOK, situé au 3812 boul. St-Laurent, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient un desssin et une reprographie.
Projet
1993
Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2003 to 6 September 2004
out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
Main galleries