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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
1936-2021
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
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1936-2021
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
25 March 2017, 3pm
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
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Futurecasting collection
CD048
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This collection documents the activities of the “Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic” group formed by Jenni Hakovirta, Naomi Ratte, Nicole Luke, Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Andrea McIntosh, Robyn Adams, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Johanna Minde, and Reanna Merasty. It contains materials related to the planning of seminars and workshops, and the creative process and projects created by its participants in 2022-2023 that were later presented in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition and related publication “ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards home” (2022-2023).
2008-2023
Futurecasting collection
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This collection documents the activities of the “Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic” group formed by Jenni Hakovirta, Naomi Ratte, Nicole Luke, Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Andrea McIntosh, Robyn Adams, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Johanna Minde, and Reanna Merasty. It contains materials related to the planning of seminars and workshops, and the creative process and projects created by its participants in 2022-2023 that were later presented in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition and related publication “ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards home” (2022-2023).
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2008-2023
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The First Nations Longhouse : our home away from home / Verna J. Kirkness and Jo-ann Archibald.
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xii, 100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 x 28 cm
Vancouver : First Nations House of Learning, ©2001.
The First Nations Longhouse : our home away from home / Verna J. Kirkness and Jo-ann Archibald.
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xii, 100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 x 28 cm
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Vancouver : First Nations House of Learning, ©2001.
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vii, 77 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Halifax, N.S. : Cities & Environment Unit, Faculty of Architecture, Dalhousie University, c2000.
First nations community planning model / project team, director, Frank Palermo ; principal investigators, Patricia Cuttell, Beata Dera ; research assistants, Tracy Bealing ... [et al.] ; First Nations community liasons, John James Gould ... [et al.] ; Joint Community Planning Steering Committee (JCPC), Brian Arbuthnot ... [et al.].
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vii, 77 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Halifax, N.S. : Cities & Environment Unit, Faculty of Architecture, Dalhousie University, c2000.
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xvi, 493 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
London ; New York : Methuen, 1983.
The first industrial nation : an economic history of Britain, 1700-1914 / Peter Mathias.
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xvi, 493 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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London ; New York : Methuen, 1983.
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31 pages ; 28 cm
New York : United Nations, 1963.
Report to the Economic and Social Council on the first session of the Committee, held at United Nations Headquarters from 21 January to 1 February 1963 / Committee on Housing, Building and Planning.
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31 pages ; 28 cm
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New York : United Nations, 1963.
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iv, 143 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Lake Success, N.Y. : United Nations, 1946.
Report of the Headquarters Commission to the Second Part of the First Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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iv, 143 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
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Lake Success, N.Y. : United Nations, 1946.