Scouting Skateboard Sites
Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
11 April 2009
Scouting Skateboard Sites
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Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
The City Decoded
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
The City Decoded
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What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
Learning from… Tokyo
In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
26 April 2007 , 7pm
Learning from… Tokyo
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In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Toys and Transport
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
drawings
AP140.S2.SS1.D70.P151
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Topographic maps of Bilbao, rendered cadastral maps of Bilbao for alternative urban design schemes and superposed site plans of Abando Passenger Interchange over aerial views of Bilbao for first Interchange project, also schematic perspective for Stadium Development in Seville
circa 1974-1999
Topographic maps of Bilbao, rendered cadastral maps of Bilbao, Abando Passenger Interchange, Bilbao, Spain
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AP140.S2.SS1.D70.P151
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Topographic maps of Bilbao, rendered cadastral maps of Bilbao for alternative urban design schemes and superposed site plans of Abando Passenger Interchange over aerial views of Bilbao for first Interchange project, also schematic perspective for Stadium Development in Seville
drawings
circa 1974-1999
textual records
AP206.S2.033
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.031, AP206.S2.032 and AP206.S2.034. This file includes the following papers: “A Note on the Conditions of Service in Schools of Architecture” "Introspection," 1976 "Housing the Urban Poor," 1976 "Chandigarh in Retrospect"
1973-1978
Unpublished papers (folder 3 of 4)
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AP206.S2.033
Description:
File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.031, AP206.S2.032 and AP206.S2.034. This file includes the following papers: “A Note on the Conditions of Service in Schools of Architecture” "Introspection," 1976 "Housing the Urban Poor," 1976 "Chandigarh in Retrospect"
textual records
1973-1978
drawings
AP178.S2.1990.005
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This sketchbook contains notes and sketches of the Santa Maria church and parish centre in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal, the urban and circulation study for Praça de Espanha in Lisbon, and Macau City expansion plan in China. It also includes sketches of people and dogs.
July 1990
Sketchbook 309: Igreja M. Canaveses- Moveis Escritorio -Pr. Espanha estimativa- Macau- Restau. Porto Santiago
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AP178.S2.1990.005
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This sketchbook contains notes and sketches of the Santa Maria church and parish centre in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal, the urban and circulation study for Praça de Espanha in Lisbon, and Macau City expansion plan in China. It also includes sketches of people and dogs.
drawings
July 1990
archives
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Maxwell Levinson fonds
AP037
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The Maxwell Levison fonds (Shelter, T. Square) illustrates primarily the activities of Maxwell Levinson as editor of T-Square Club Journal, T-Square, Shelter and USA Tomorrow. It documents the various aspects of the publication of these magazines. It includes editorial, production and promotional material as well as documentation and research files. The fonds also contains records pertaining to the professional practice of Maxwell Levinson as architect and city planning consultant.
1926-1990
Maxwell Levinson fonds
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AP037
Synopsis:
The Maxwell Levison fonds (Shelter, T. Square) illustrates primarily the activities of Maxwell Levinson as editor of T-Square Club Journal, T-Square, Shelter and USA Tomorrow. It documents the various aspects of the publication of these magazines. It includes editorial, production and promotional material as well as documentation and research files. The fonds also contains records pertaining to the professional practice of Maxwell Levinson as architect and city planning consultant.
archives
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Fonds
1926-1990
archives
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Fonds
AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
2003-2011
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records
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AP196
Synopsis:
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
archives
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Fonds
2003-2011
The Other Architect
For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
28 October 2015 to 10 April 2016
The Other Architect
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For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)