This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 December 1996 to 9 March 1997
Uncovering Geometry: Ben Nicholson at the Laurentian Library
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This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
Octagonal gallery
drawings
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2 File
ARCH255059
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preliminary landscape proposal plan and sections (EVM Limited landscape architects), plan elevation and section (Mathers and Haldenby architects)
1979-1980
Preliminary landscape proposal plan and sections (EVM Limited landscape architects)
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preliminary landscape proposal plan and sections (EVM Limited landscape architects), plan elevation and section (Mathers and Haldenby architects)
drawings
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2 File
1979-1980
textual records
ARCH256929
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Documentation - trade catalogs, reports, Picasso catalogue, magazines (Japan Architect, Executive, Canadian Building, Interior Design, Progressive Architecture, Canadian Architect)
1979, 1988-1989
Trade catalogs, reports, and Picasso catalogue, used as documentation
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Documentation - trade catalogs, reports, Picasso catalogue, magazines (Japan Architect, Executive, Canadian Building, Interior Design, Progressive Architecture, Canadian Architect)
textual records
1979, 1988-1989
textual records
Cahier de présentation du projet, Garage étage de l'est, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
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Cahier de présentation par Les Architectes Reeves et Associées.
1991
Cahier de présentation du projet, Garage étage de l'est, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
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Cahier de présentation par Les Architectes Reeves et Associées.
textual records
1991
photographs
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4 photograph(s)
Exterior views
ARCH187174
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2 by Architecte-Photos, Montréal
photographs
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4 photograph(s)
drawings
ARCH276366
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Produits par les Architectes Crevier, Lemieux et Mercier.
1956
Détails de l'autel et des pilastres de la Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde
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Produits par les Architectes Crevier, Lemieux et Mercier.
drawings
1956
Siza Speaks
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theater
26 April 2012 , 7pm
Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theater
photographs
ARCH268634
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Includes portraits, reference materials and plans of architect offices (Skidmore Owings & Merrill [SOM] and The Architects Collaborative [TAC]).
Portraits, reference materials and plans of architect offices
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Includes portraits, reference materials and plans of architect offices (Skidmore Owings & Merrill [SOM] and The Architects Collaborative [TAC]).
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drawings
AP197.S2.062
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This box includes reprographic copies by the following architects: Alvaro Siza; Mario Botta; Marmol &Radziner Architects;and Glenn Murcutt.
circa 1978-2000
Reseach drawings by various architects
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AP197.S2.062
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This box includes reprographic copies by the following architects: Alvaro Siza; Mario Botta; Marmol &Radziner Architects;and Glenn Murcutt.
drawings
circa 1978-2000
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Octagonal gallery
26 March 1997 to 1 June 1997
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Octagonal gallery