Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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photographs
AP178.S1.1979.PR02.005
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Original file title: Piscina de "Gõrlitzer Bad" Kreuzberg, Berlim Oeste. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file PGB 002-006. Photograph PGB 002 was taken by Reinhard Friedrich. The office noted that one of the photographs was published in Lotus International Quarterly Architecture Review, number 32.
circa 1979
Photographs, contact sheets, and negatives, Görlitzer Bad swimming pool, Berlin
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AP178.S1.1979.PR02.005
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Original file title: Piscina de "Gõrlitzer Bad" Kreuzberg, Berlim Oeste. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file PGB 002-006. Photograph PGB 002 was taken by Reinhard Friedrich. The office noted that one of the photographs was published in Lotus International Quarterly Architecture Review, number 32.
photographs
circa 1979
born digital, photographs
AP075.S4.SS2.066
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs of cherry trees at The Waterfall Building (1997), photographs of cherry trees at the University of British Columbia. Also contains some photographs of Arthur Erickson Memorial at Simon Fraser University in 2009, and photographs of a conference of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Landscape Architecture in 2010.
2010
Photographs of Vancouver’s Universities landscape projects by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander.
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AP075.S4.SS2.066
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs of cherry trees at The Waterfall Building (1997), photographs of cherry trees at the University of British Columbia. Also contains some photographs of Arthur Erickson Memorial at Simon Fraser University in 2009, and photographs of a conference of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Landscape Architecture in 2010.
born digital, photographs
2010
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57 photographic material(s)
David S. Ingalls Rink, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Model and construction photographs
DR2007:0082
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Group includes: 37 photographs and the corresponding negatives (on 7 strips) of the construction of the Yale University hockey rink (1957); 8 photographs and 9 negatives (on 3 strips) of a presentation model of the same hockey rink (1956); and 2 photographs of students from the University of Toronto`s School of Architecture visiting Phillip Johnson at the Glass House (1948).
1948, 1956-1957
David S. Ingalls Rink, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Model and construction photographs
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DR2007:0082
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Group includes: 37 photographs and the corresponding negatives (on 7 strips) of the construction of the Yale University hockey rink (1957); 8 photographs and 9 negatives (on 3 strips) of a presentation model of the same hockey rink (1956); and 2 photographs of students from the University of Toronto`s School of Architecture visiting Phillip Johnson at the Glass House (1948).
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57 photographic material(s)
1948, 1956-1957
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AP162
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The Die gläserne Kette CCA Collection documents the chain of correspondence exchanged between German architects Hermann Finsterlin, Paul Goesch, Wenzel Hablik, Hans Hansen, Carl Krayl, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, Hans Scharoun, and Bruno and Max Taut between 1919 and 1920 on the subject of utopian architecture and society. This CCA collection features original copies and reproductions of the correspondence, as well as a limited number of drawings by the members of the group.
1911-1977
Die gläserne Kette collection
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AP162
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The Die gläserne Kette CCA Collection documents the chain of correspondence exchanged between German architects Hermann Finsterlin, Paul Goesch, Wenzel Hablik, Hans Hansen, Carl Krayl, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, Hans Scharoun, and Bruno and Max Taut between 1919 and 1920 on the subject of utopian architecture and society. This CCA collection features original copies and reproductions of the correspondence, as well as a limited number of drawings by the members of the group.
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Collection AP162
1911-1977
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
1984-2003
Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg fonds
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
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1984-2003
PH1984:0713:001-034
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Volume consists of 34 black-and-white mounted photographic prints of views of the architecture and landscape of Cologne before the Second World War. 2 cover pages containing text in Germany prelude the photographs. Pages are unbound.
1920-1939
Views of Cologne before World War II, Cologne, Germany
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PH1984:0713:001-034
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Volume consists of 34 black-and-white mounted photographic prints of views of the architecture and landscape of Cologne before the Second World War. 2 cover pages containing text in Germany prelude the photographs. Pages are unbound.
textual records
DR2012:0015:024:002
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including reference materials, and photographs. Possibly related to Louis Martin's 2013 book, "On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology". Original folder inscribed in graphite: IMAGES – ANTHOLOGY LM
1972-1976
Press clippings and reference material possible related to Louis Martin's 2013 book, "On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology".
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DR2012:0015:024:002
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including reference materials, and photographs. Possibly related to Louis Martin's 2013 book, "On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology". Original folder inscribed in graphite: IMAGES – ANTHOLOGY LM
textual records
1972-1976
Project
AP066.S2.D26
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Le dossier documente la rénovation du Bar l'oeuf- Brasserie Holder situé au 3816 boulevard Saint-Laurent, à Montréal, Québec. Le budget aloué pour ce projet était de 350 000$ et la superficie est de 660 m2. Aussi, le projet s'est mérité le Prix d'excellence de l'OAQ, Mention en architecture 1992, catégorie "bâtiment commercial". Le dossier contient des dessins et des documents photographiques. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Transformation d'une quincaillerie en un bar-causerie "à l'européenne" qui, après quelques mois d'exploitation, sera modifié en restaurant. Le bâtiment voit son volume et sa superficie presque doublés. Cette dernière passant de quelque 340 m2 à 660 m2." ARQ: Architecture-Québec, nº 70, janvier 1993, p. 24.
1990-1991
Bar L'oeuf - Brasserie Holder
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AP066.S2.D26
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Le dossier documente la rénovation du Bar l'oeuf- Brasserie Holder situé au 3816 boulevard Saint-Laurent, à Montréal, Québec. Le budget aloué pour ce projet était de 350 000$ et la superficie est de 660 m2. Aussi, le projet s'est mérité le Prix d'excellence de l'OAQ, Mention en architecture 1992, catégorie "bâtiment commercial". Le dossier contient des dessins et des documents photographiques. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Transformation d'une quincaillerie en un bar-causerie "à l'européenne" qui, après quelques mois d'exploitation, sera modifié en restaurant. Le bâtiment voit son volume et sa superficie presque doublés. Cette dernière passant de quelque 340 m2 à 660 m2." ARQ: Architecture-Québec, nº 70, janvier 1993, p. 24.
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1990-1991
Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
23 April 2009
Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre