articles
Living Landscapes
Living Landscapes
Robyn Adams, Julia Pingeton, and Marie Pontais reflect on the transitional space of the shoreline
Actions:
articles
The Spirit of Cornelia
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Martien de Vletter, landscape, play, playground, restoration, Robson Square, green roofs, garden, environment
25 May 2021
DR1979:0042
Description:
- Ce plan montre un relevé d'arpentage d'une propriété située sur les bords de la rivière du Loiret, paroisse de Saint-Hillaire-Saint-Mesmin (Saint-Hilaire-sur-Mesmin ?), comté de Beaugency, département du Loiret, France. Un relevé d'arpentage précis donne les dimensions de la propriété incluant bâtiments, cours, jardins, prés, vignes, et terrasses.
topographic
1768
Surveyor's plan of the grounds and buildings belonging to Monsieur Jogues de Guedreville, on the Loiret River, France
Actions:
DR1979:0042
Description:
- Ce plan montre un relevé d'arpentage d'une propriété située sur les bords de la rivière du Loiret, paroisse de Saint-Hillaire-Saint-Mesmin (Saint-Hilaire-sur-Mesmin ?), comté de Beaugency, département du Loiret, France. Un relevé d'arpentage précis donne les dimensions de la propriété incluant bâtiments, cours, jardins, prés, vignes, et terrasses.
topographic
articles
Docket
10 March 2025
Docket
A project by Diller + Scofidio for the book The American Lawn with stereoscopic photographs by Robert Sansone
Actions:
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
Actions:
Description:
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Gilles Clément
French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 October 2006
Gilles Clément
Actions:
Description:
French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
textual records
Notes relatives au jardinage
ARCH257513
Description:
Notes de Cormier écrites sur des fiches, coupures de presses, et imprimés au sujet de jardinage.
1946, 1974
Notes relatives au jardinage
Actions:
ARCH257513
Description:
Notes de Cormier écrites sur des fiches, coupures de presses, et imprimés au sujet de jardinage.
textual records
1946, 1974
Making Seed Bombs
Montréal-based artist Gina Badger shows workshop participants how to make seed-bombs – balls of dirt, clay, water, and seeds that can be used to start gardens in the city. The workshop is presented in collaboration with DARE-DARE (Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal). In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008),(...)
14 March 2009
Making Seed Bombs
Actions:
Description:
Montréal-based artist Gina Badger shows workshop participants how to make seed-bombs – balls of dirt, clay, water, and seeds that can be used to start gardens in the city. The workshop is presented in collaboration with DARE-DARE (Centre de diffusion d’art multidisciplinaire de Montréal). In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008),(...)
articles
White Walls and Black Tiles
White Walls and Black Tiles
Taro Cai and Peter Sealy on how travel photography reframed Chinese garden aesthetics
Actions:
Acts of Looking
textual records
ARCH259770
Description:
Prospectus des cours: École Polytechnique et Montreal Technical Institue, 1945-1974, incluant des brochures relatifs au jardinage, aux voyages, à la littérature technique.
1945-1980
Prospectus des cours à l'École Polytechnique de Montréal et la Montreal Technical Institute
Actions:
ARCH259770
Description:
Prospectus des cours: École Polytechnique et Montreal Technical Institue, 1945-1974, incluant des brochures relatifs au jardinage, aux voyages, à la littérature technique.
textual records
1945-1980