archives
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Fonds
AP226
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The Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects fonds, 1970 – 2011, documents the studio’s architectural work and involvement in selected exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s. The records in this fonds represent 34 architectural projects, including built, unbuilt, and conceptual projects. The majority of the projects are located in Japan and are mostly documented through drawings as well as a limited number of videos, models, panels, textual records, and photographs. The fonds also contains records related to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects’ participation in three exhibitions in the USA and the UK in 1978 and 1986.
1970 - 2011
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects fonds
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AP226
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The Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects fonds, 1970 – 2011, documents the studio’s architectural work and involvement in selected exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s. The records in this fonds represent 34 architectural projects, including built, unbuilt, and conceptual projects. The majority of the projects are located in Japan and are mostly documented through drawings as well as a limited number of videos, models, panels, textual records, and photographs. The fonds also contains records related to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects’ participation in three exhibitions in the USA and the UK in 1978 and 1986.
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Fonds
1970 - 2011
Bas Princen: Volcano Walks
In this artist’s talk, Bas Princen will discuss the current status of the 17 Volcanoes project and explore the resonances between the works of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, works by early-twentieth-century Dutch photographers in Java (like van Nieuwenhuis), and his own practice. Although discovering new places seems impossible today, the talk takes as a point of departure the(...)
15 October 2016, 3pm
Bas Princen: Volcano Walks
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In this artist’s talk, Bas Princen will discuss the current status of the 17 Volcanoes project and explore the resonances between the works of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, works by early-twentieth-century Dutch photographers in Java (like van Nieuwenhuis), and his own practice. Although discovering new places seems impossible today, the talk takes as a point of departure the(...)
Luigi Ghirri / Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves presents a visual dialogue between two leading figures in contemporary Italian art and culture. Their discussion is based on a sympathy between photographer and architect that is grounded in a shared fascination for a region—the Padana of northern Italy—and a common belief both in the autonomous eye of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 August 1996 to 24 November 1996
Luigi Ghirri/Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves
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Luigi Ghirri / Aldo Rossi: Things Which Are Only Themselves presents a visual dialogue between two leading figures in contemporary Italian art and culture. Their discussion is based on a sympathy between photographer and architect that is grounded in a shared fascination for a region—the Padana of northern Italy—and a common belief both in the autonomous eye of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
events
Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
events
21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
drawings, graphic materials
Posters and prints
AP197.S4.010
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This box contains various drawings and collages, some of which are dedicated to Frampton. The box also comprises of posters for lectures/conferences/events that Frampton may have either participated in or attended. Posters include: the lecture on the Imaginary space of El Lissitzky, Harvard University; Place, form, and cultural identity, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne; the Alcan Lectures, McGill University; and Modern Architecture and Critique of Ulm, the University of Southern California. Also included in the box is a poster of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which is signed by Arata Isozaki.
circa 1978-2015
Posters and prints
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AP197.S4.010
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This box contains various drawings and collages, some of which are dedicated to Frampton. The box also comprises of posters for lectures/conferences/events that Frampton may have either participated in or attended. Posters include: the lecture on the Imaginary space of El Lissitzky, Harvard University; Place, form, and cultural identity, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne; the Alcan Lectures, McGill University; and Modern Architecture and Critique of Ulm, the University of Southern California. Also included in the box is a poster of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which is signed by Arata Isozaki.
drawings, graphic materials
circa 1978-2015
PHCON2002:0016:007
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Binder documents the years 1980-1989 and consists of correspondence with Jane Crawford concerning the sale and exhibition of Gordon Matta-Clark's work and the efforts made to save the project Office Baroque (1977) in Antwerp, Belguim. Also included are reviews of exhibitions, catalogues, periodicals, photographs and color slides. Extensive documentation on the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective" organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1985 and travelled to fourteen venues, is included, along with more limited documentation on smaller exhibitions. Binder contains photographs, slides, textual records and transparencies.
1981-1989
Reviews, Announcements, Catalogues 1981-89
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PHCON2002:0016:007
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Binder documents the years 1980-1989 and consists of correspondence with Jane Crawford concerning the sale and exhibition of Gordon Matta-Clark's work and the efforts made to save the project Office Baroque (1977) in Antwerp, Belguim. Also included are reviews of exhibitions, catalogues, periodicals, photographs and color slides. Extensive documentation on the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective" organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1985 and travelled to fourteen venues, is included, along with more limited documentation on smaller exhibitions. Binder contains photographs, slides, textual records and transparencies.
1981-1989
born digital
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25 digital file(s)
Presentation animations
AP174.S1.2006.D2.002
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Contains two sets of animations relating to the MMOG and Monster iterations of the Strand Tower. One set of animations dating from 2006 appears to have been created for use at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and contains instructions from Devyn Wesier on how to combine the individual .mov files into a continuous loop. The second set of animations contains higher resolution renders of the digital models created by the firm in 2014. Original directory name: "ANIMATIONS". Most common file formats: Quicktime, MPEG-4 Media File, DS_store file (MAC), Plain Text File
2006-2014
Presentation animations
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AP174.S1.2006.D2.002
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Contains two sets of animations relating to the MMOG and Monster iterations of the Strand Tower. One set of animations dating from 2006 appears to have been created for use at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and contains instructions from Devyn Wesier on how to combine the individual .mov files into a continuous loop. The second set of animations contains higher resolution renders of the digital models created by the firm in 2014. Original directory name: "ANIMATIONS". Most common file formats: Quicktime, MPEG-4 Media File, DS_store file (MAC), Plain Text File
born digital
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25 digital file(s)
2006-2014
textual records
Permanent files
ARCH260012
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Bound proposals labelled ''Permanent Files'': Consortium for Toronto 2, Imperial Oil Don Mills, Western Oceanographic Institute, BC Centre issues review, MacMillan Bloedel interiors and building, South Surrey Town Centre, Vancouver Urban Renewal study, village Lake Louise, False Creek, Blocks 51-61-71, Block 80 report, Burrard Inlet study, BC Medical Centre, City Square traffic study, Bus parcel express, Canadian Pacific Hotel, East End Lake, Government of Canada, Simon Fraser University, Museum of North West Coast Indian Art Centennial, SFU student family housing, Vancouver Complex.
1970-1973
Permanent files
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ARCH260012
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Bound proposals labelled ''Permanent Files'': Consortium for Toronto 2, Imperial Oil Don Mills, Western Oceanographic Institute, BC Centre issues review, MacMillan Bloedel interiors and building, South Surrey Town Centre, Vancouver Urban Renewal study, village Lake Louise, False Creek, Blocks 51-61-71, Block 80 report, Burrard Inlet study, BC Medical Centre, City Square traffic study, Bus parcel express, Canadian Pacific Hotel, East End Lake, Government of Canada, Simon Fraser University, Museum of North West Coast Indian Art Centennial, SFU student family housing, Vancouver Complex.
textual records
1970-1973
textual records
ARCH256703
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general office files from Erickson/Massey office - tender/contract stage procedures, office furniture, office machines, planters, management contracts, newspaper clippings, Mid-Canada development fund, miscellaneous correspondence, construction consultants, conveyors, drape track valance, ecology newsletter, Dharam Kohli/ Erickson Massey agreement, E/M procedures - interiors, invitations, Architecture Canada Magazine, Architectural Institute of B.C. booklet, Art for Architecture, Artists, Building system information clearinghouse, consultants, school construction systems, S.E.F. school, topographics, universities, research material, project management, Erickson/Massey project status summaries, real estate, reference material, Erickson/Massey Vancouver correspondence.
1967, 1970-1972, 1975
General office files from Erickson/Massey office - tender/contract stage procedures
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ARCH256703
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general office files from Erickson/Massey office - tender/contract stage procedures, office furniture, office machines, planters, management contracts, newspaper clippings, Mid-Canada development fund, miscellaneous correspondence, construction consultants, conveyors, drape track valance, ecology newsletter, Dharam Kohli/ Erickson Massey agreement, E/M procedures - interiors, invitations, Architecture Canada Magazine, Architectural Institute of B.C. booklet, Art for Architecture, Artists, Building system information clearinghouse, consultants, school construction systems, S.E.F. school, topographics, universities, research material, project management, Erickson/Massey project status summaries, real estate, reference material, Erickson/Massey Vancouver correspondence.
textual records
1967, 1970-1972, 1975