This exhibition features British architect Will Alsop’s preparatory work for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in Toronto and explores the role of painting in his design process. Completed in 2004, OCAD’s Sharp Centre for Design was designed by Alsop Architects in collaboration with the Toronto-based firm Robbie/Young + Wright. The(...)
Octagonal gallery
13 June 2008 to 5 October 2008
Will Alsop: OCAD, An Urban Manifesto
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This exhibition features British architect Will Alsop’s preparatory work for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in Toronto and explores the role of painting in his design process. Completed in 2004, OCAD’s Sharp Centre for Design was designed by Alsop Architects in collaboration with the Toronto-based firm Robbie/Young + Wright. The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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
articles
Islands and Villages
What about the provinces?
posturban, Japan, Omishima, Toyo Ito, Momonoura, Atelier Bow-Wow, Umaki, dot architects, Kamiyama, Hajime Ishikawa, Inujima, Kazuyo Sejima
11 May 2018
Islands and Villages
A documentary series on the posturban phenomenon in rural Japan
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What about the provinces?
ARCH282180
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Lettre sur papier à en-tête de J.O. Marchand, architecte.
2 novembre 1926
Lettre de J.O. Marchand à Ernest Cormier
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Lettre sur papier à en-tête de J.O. Marchand, architecte.
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
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
textual records
Cahier de présentation du projet, Garage étage de l'est, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
ARCH204166
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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