Curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is the first of a trilogy of research and exhibition projects produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture on the medium of photography—between work of art, research tool, and document—as a means to investigate the built environment.
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Stefano Graziani, Bas Princen, Hester Keijser, photography, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
3 May 2023 to 7 April 2024
The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
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Description:
Curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is the first of a trilogy of research and exhibition projects produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture on the medium of photography—between work of art, research tool, and document—as a means to investigate the built environment.
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Stefano Graziani, Bas Princen, Hester Keijser, photography, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
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Fonds
Richard Henriquez fonds
AP059
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The Richard Henriquez fonds, 1962-2002, documents the professional career of architect and urban designer Richard G. Henriquez. More specifically, the fonds documents Henriquez’s architectural training at the University of Manitoba, his early career as an architect in Jamaica, and his career as a principal at the architectural firm Henriquez Partners Architects. The fonds contains approximately 8935 drawings (including reprographic copies), 106 panels, 100 photographs, 31 l.m textual records, 5 offset printing plates and 1 model.
1962-2002
Richard Henriquez fonds
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AP059
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The Richard Henriquez fonds, 1962-2002, documents the professional career of architect and urban designer Richard G. Henriquez. More specifically, the fonds documents Henriquez’s architectural training at the University of Manitoba, his early career as an architect in Jamaica, and his career as a principal at the architectural firm Henriquez Partners Architects. The fonds contains approximately 8935 drawings (including reprographic copies), 106 panels, 100 photographs, 31 l.m textual records, 5 offset printing plates and 1 model.
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Fonds
1962-2002
textual records
DR2021:0052:001-039
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The papers in this collection are related to the participation of Barry Campbell in a project to create a 1:50 scale model for the Maison d'Artiste, an unbuilt project designed by architects Theo van Doesburg and Cor van Eesteren in 1923. The model, sponsored by lawyer Piet Sanders and Barry Campbell, was made by Frans Postma and was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal (2009-2010) and the Tate Modern (2010) as part of the exhibition "Van Doesburg and the International Avant Garde: Constructing a New World". In 2013, Barry Campbell, Frans Postma and Victor Veldhuijzen van Zanten donated the 1:50 model to Het Nieuwe Instituut/The New Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Piet Sanders, who died in September, 2012, was also named as a donor). A 1:75 scale model was made for each of the donors. Textual records in the collection include correspondence, a copy of the donor agreement, and a text by Bertus Mulder. Drawings include printouts of plans, elevations, sections, and perspectives. There are also photographs of drawings. Digital files consist of a panorama by Postma & Partner. The collection includes a printout of a photograph of Barry Campbell with the 1:50 model.
2007-2013
Barry Campbell papers related to a 1:50 scale model for the Maison d'Artiste
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DR2021:0052:001-039
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The papers in this collection are related to the participation of Barry Campbell in a project to create a 1:50 scale model for the Maison d'Artiste, an unbuilt project designed by architects Theo van Doesburg and Cor van Eesteren in 1923. The model, sponsored by lawyer Piet Sanders and Barry Campbell, was made by Frans Postma and was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal (2009-2010) and the Tate Modern (2010) as part of the exhibition "Van Doesburg and the International Avant Garde: Constructing a New World". In 2013, Barry Campbell, Frans Postma and Victor Veldhuijzen van Zanten donated the 1:50 model to Het Nieuwe Instituut/The New Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Piet Sanders, who died in September, 2012, was also named as a donor). A 1:75 scale model was made for each of the donors. Textual records in the collection include correspondence, a copy of the donor agreement, and a text by Bertus Mulder. Drawings include printouts of plans, elevations, sections, and perspectives. There are also photographs of drawings. Digital files consist of a panorama by Postma & Partner. The collection includes a printout of a photograph of Barry Campbell with the 1:50 model.
textual records
2007-2013
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Fonds
Ábalos&Herreros fonds
AP164
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The Ábalos&Herreros fonds documents the activities of the architectural firm Ábalos&Herreros, founded by architects Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros. The archive primarily consists of drawings, photographic materials and textual documentation, and covers the existance of the firm from 1985 to 2008. The concentration of the firm's work was produced in the city of Madrid and the Community of Madrid where the firm maintained its head office. However, the archive also documents projects for other Spanish autonomous communities as well as for other countries such as Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
1920-2009
Ábalos&Herreros fonds
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AP164
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The Ábalos&Herreros fonds documents the activities of the architectural firm Ábalos&Herreros, founded by architects Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros. The archive primarily consists of drawings, photographic materials and textual documentation, and covers the existance of the firm from 1985 to 2008. The concentration of the firm's work was produced in the city of Madrid and the Community of Madrid where the firm maintained its head office. However, the archive also documents projects for other Spanish autonomous communities as well as for other countries such as Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
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Fonds
1920-2009
drawings
DR2012:0015:023:001-001
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches (109 drawings) referring to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Sable-Castelli exhibition, Toronto; - Cities on the move; - American city: Venice; - Assemblée nationale du Québec [National Assembly of Quebec]; - CCA garden; - Kansas City, Missouri; - One size fits all; - The parade of the engineers; - Stepping out; - Longueuil, Quebec; - Bodyworks.
1997-2010
Notes and sketches by Melvin Charney on his later works
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DR2012:0015:023:001-001
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches (109 drawings) referring to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Sable-Castelli exhibition, Toronto; - Cities on the move; - American city: Venice; - Assemblée nationale du Québec [National Assembly of Quebec]; - CCA garden; - Kansas City, Missouri; - One size fits all; - The parade of the engineers; - Stepping out; - Longueuil, Quebec; - Bodyworks.
drawings
1997-2010
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Van Ginkel Associates fonds
AP027
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The Van Ginkel Associates fonds is comprised of documents concerning van Ginkel Associates, van Ginkel Associates Ltd., Ecos Ltd., van Ginkel Partners, Ginkelvan Ltd, van Ginkel Associates Ltd. (1977), the styles under which H.P. van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel practiced as a multidisciplinary planning, management and architecture firm. Much of the van Ginkels' work was done in the Montréal area and nation-wide. The fonds contains approximately 1 985 drawings (1 420 originals plus 565 reproductions), 41 boards, 3 photographs, 2 collages, 2 typescripts, 1 model, 1 sketchbook and approximately 12.23 meters of textual documents. The documents were primarily produced between 1955 and 1980.
1944-1992
Van Ginkel Associates fonds
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AP027
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The Van Ginkel Associates fonds is comprised of documents concerning van Ginkel Associates, van Ginkel Associates Ltd., Ecos Ltd., van Ginkel Partners, Ginkelvan Ltd, van Ginkel Associates Ltd. (1977), the styles under which H.P. van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco van Ginkel practiced as a multidisciplinary planning, management and architecture firm. Much of the van Ginkels' work was done in the Montréal area and nation-wide. The fonds contains approximately 1 985 drawings (1 420 originals plus 565 reproductions), 41 boards, 3 photographs, 2 collages, 2 typescripts, 1 model, 1 sketchbook and approximately 12.23 meters of textual documents. The documents were primarily produced between 1955 and 1980.
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1944-1992
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AP198
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The Kivi Sotamaa OCEAN North project records, 1997-2000, consist of born-digital files, drawings, photographs, and physical models that document two projects by the OCEAN North collective: Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre (competition, 1997) and Tölöö Football Stadium (competition, 1997). The archive also includes born-digital reference materials on 14 projects from the collective, including the two projects mentioned above.
1997-2000
Kivi Sotamaa OCEAN North project records
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AP198
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The Kivi Sotamaa OCEAN North project records, 1997-2000, consist of born-digital files, drawings, photographs, and physical models that document two projects by the OCEAN North collective: Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre (competition, 1997) and Tölöö Football Stadium (competition, 1997). The archive also includes born-digital reference materials on 14 projects from the collective, including the two projects mentioned above.
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1997-2000
Project
Carbon Tower (2001)
AP174.S1.2001.D1
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This project file documents an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Carbon Tower (2001), a forty-storey building made almost entirely of carbon fibre. The project was developed in parallel with scripting software designed while Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser co-directed the Emergent Design Group at MIT. "The tower consists of an interdependent set of parts: floor plates hang from a diagrid structure of bundled fibres reinforced by two double-helix covered ramps, which are run in and out of the structure and are themselves made of strands woven at a finer scale. A thin composite skin—glass would be too heavy—wraps the tower’s parts together. A collaboration with Arup in 2002 allowed Testa & Weiser to simplify the scheme even further, by moving all core elements, from elevators to structural supports, to the tower’s perimeter. To take full advantage of the flexibility and energy efficiency of composite materials, Testa & Weiser also imagined that the carbon fibre structures would be formed on site through a process called pultrusion."[1] The file contains a large number of digital files documenting the conceptual and design development of the project; consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York; research on composite materials; fabrication of 3D printed physical models by 3D Systems and Windform; and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Also contained in the file are 56 paper drawings (including some sketches done on top of printed computer-aided designs) and two 3D printed physical models produced by 3D Systems. Sources: [1] Canadian Centre for Architecture. Archaeology of the Digital 12: Testa & Weiser, Carbon Tower, ed. Greg Lynn (2015), ISBN 978-1-927071-25-0.
2002-2014
Carbon Tower (2001)
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AP174.S1.2001.D1
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This project file documents an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Carbon Tower (2001), a forty-storey building made almost entirely of carbon fibre. The project was developed in parallel with scripting software designed while Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser co-directed the Emergent Design Group at MIT. "The tower consists of an interdependent set of parts: floor plates hang from a diagrid structure of bundled fibres reinforced by two double-helix covered ramps, which are run in and out of the structure and are themselves made of strands woven at a finer scale. A thin composite skin—glass would be too heavy—wraps the tower’s parts together. A collaboration with Arup in 2002 allowed Testa & Weiser to simplify the scheme even further, by moving all core elements, from elevators to structural supports, to the tower’s perimeter. To take full advantage of the flexibility and energy efficiency of composite materials, Testa & Weiser also imagined that the carbon fibre structures would be formed on site through a process called pultrusion."[1] The file contains a large number of digital files documenting the conceptual and design development of the project; consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York; research on composite materials; fabrication of 3D printed physical models by 3D Systems and Windform; and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Also contained in the file are 56 paper drawings (including some sketches done on top of printed computer-aided designs) and two 3D printed physical models produced by 3D Systems. Sources: [1] Canadian Centre for Architecture. Archaeology of the Digital 12: Testa & Weiser, Carbon Tower, ed. Greg Lynn (2015), ISBN 978-1-927071-25-0.
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2002-2014
drawings
Column Tower / Tower Column
DR2007:0017
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Original sketch for "Lyons Tower" drawing; mixed media on lined paper, 6" x 8". The large final "Lyons Tower" drawing is in the CCA Collections. The realized Lyons Tower project, near Halifax, was published in Larry Richards Works, 1977-1980 (pp. 30-31) and in Domus no. 620, Septembre 1981, p.34. "Lyons Tower" was also exhibited in the 1981 Okanada exhibition in Berlin.
1979-1980
Column Tower / Tower Column
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DR2007:0017
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Original sketch for "Lyons Tower" drawing; mixed media on lined paper, 6" x 8". The large final "Lyons Tower" drawing is in the CCA Collections. The realized Lyons Tower project, near Halifax, was published in Larry Richards Works, 1977-1980 (pp. 30-31) and in Domus no. 620, Septembre 1981, p.34. "Lyons Tower" was also exhibited in the 1981 Okanada exhibition in Berlin.
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1979-1980
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AP189.S2
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Series 2, Software for producing the projection and narration, 2007-2008, is composed of ten different versions of the module that generates the projection and narration in the open gallery. Seven of the versions were among the files saved to a compact disc following the CCA exhibition and have been kept together as group ARCH275207. Three of the versions were on a hard drive that was used in Rovereto and comprise group ARCH275212. The core elements of each module are two application files. One of these, whose name begins with "VE1" uses parameters contained in a file called "config.txt". The other application file, called "VECalibration" displays the entire volume of the projected architectural space. The geometric parameters for a room are recorded in a separate image file called "ecan-angles.jpg". A readme file in each module explains how the different files interact with one another. It also identifies the version of the "VE1" application files and any issues that may be related to the version. Each module includes hundreds of Shockwave Flash files (.swf), each containing an animated or still image of a person or persons and/or one or more pieces of furniture. Some of the .swf files contain an image of one or more furnished rooms inhabited by one or more persons. In most versions, the config.txt file contains a URL that accesses the database containing the sensor data. The URL references the file "captorsxml.aspx". As mentioned earlier, the config.txt file also contains parameters for the projected image, including scene geometry, colors and space occupation, and lists of the .swf files for persons and objects. Most versions of the module also include twenty-one .mp3 files, one of which is "empty". The other twenty each contain an audio recording of a female voice that states values for temperature, illumination and relative humidity and narrates a scenario written by Alain Robbe-Grillet. There is a French- and English-language version of each scenario
2007-2008
Software for producing the projection and narration
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AP189.S2
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Series 2, Software for producing the projection and narration, 2007-2008, is composed of ten different versions of the module that generates the projection and narration in the open gallery. Seven of the versions were among the files saved to a compact disc following the CCA exhibition and have been kept together as group ARCH275207. Three of the versions were on a hard drive that was used in Rovereto and comprise group ARCH275212. The core elements of each module are two application files. One of these, whose name begins with "VE1" uses parameters contained in a file called "config.txt". The other application file, called "VECalibration" displays the entire volume of the projected architectural space. The geometric parameters for a room are recorded in a separate image file called "ecan-angles.jpg". A readme file in each module explains how the different files interact with one another. It also identifies the version of the "VE1" application files and any issues that may be related to the version. Each module includes hundreds of Shockwave Flash files (.swf), each containing an animated or still image of a person or persons and/or one or more pieces of furniture. Some of the .swf files contain an image of one or more furnished rooms inhabited by one or more persons. In most versions, the config.txt file contains a URL that accesses the database containing the sensor data. The URL references the file "captorsxml.aspx". As mentioned earlier, the config.txt file also contains parameters for the projected image, including scene geometry, colors and space occupation, and lists of the .swf files for persons and objects. Most versions of the module also include twenty-one .mp3 files, one of which is "empty". The other twenty each contain an audio recording of a female voice that states values for temperature, illumination and relative humidity and narrates a scenario written by Alain Robbe-Grillet. There is a French- and English-language version of each scenario
Series 2
2007-2008