Sustainable?
Sustainable? is an international colloquium bringing together individuals from various disciplines to explore questions of sustainability in relation to architecture. Initiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos, the colloquium and roundtable discussion historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 June 2007 to 17 June 2007
Sustainable?
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Sustainable? is an international colloquium bringing together individuals from various disciplines to explore questions of sustainability in relation to architecture. Initiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos, the colloquium and roundtable discussion historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
John Soane 1753-1837
Described by Henry James as “one of the most curious things in London,” Sir John Soane’s Museum was built as the picturesque and enigmatic home, office, collector’s trove, and personal showplace of one of history’s most innovative architects. This exhibition is a major re-evaluation of Soane’s career, as well as a reconsideration of his importance to the history of modern(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2001 to 3 September 2001
John Soane 1753-1837
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Described by Henry James as “one of the most curious things in London,” Sir John Soane’s Museum was built as the picturesque and enigmatic home, office, collector’s trove, and personal showplace of one of history’s most innovative architects. This exhibition is a major re-evaluation of Soane’s career, as well as a reconsideration of his importance to the history of modern(...)
Main galleries
In Response
In Response is a series of public seminars that mark the final weeks of the exhibition The Other Architect. If the exhibition presents alternative approaches and models that have challenged traditional design practices, the seminars offer alternative curatorial views on the exhibition and accompanying publication. Respondents include: Felicity Scott (Thursday 10 March),(...)
Main galleries
10 March 2016 to 1 April 2016
In Response
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In Response is a series of public seminars that mark the final weeks of the exhibition The Other Architect. If the exhibition presents alternative approaches and models that have challenged traditional design practices, the seminars offer alternative curatorial views on the exhibition and accompanying publication. Respondents include: Felicity Scott (Thursday 10 March),(...)
Main galleries
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ARCH267311
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Preliminary studies prepared by Victor Prus, Norbert Schoenauer and Stan Seeman, architects and planning consultants, for Quebec Home and Mortage Corporation.
1963-1980
Preliminary studies for the Nuns' Island development project, in Verdun, Québec
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Preliminary studies prepared by Victor Prus, Norbert Schoenauer and Stan Seeman, architects and planning consultants, for Quebec Home and Mortage Corporation.
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1963-1980
drawings
ARCH253137
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presentation drawing - landscape plan for National Museum (J.A. Langford, chief architect, Department of Public Works; Thompson Berwick Pratt and Partners, architects)
Presentation drawing - landscape plan for National Museum (J.A. Langford
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ARCH253137
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presentation drawing - landscape plan for National Museum (J.A. Langford, chief architect, Department of Public Works; Thompson Berwick Pratt and Partners, architects)
drawings
articles
Journeys and translation
Ford Foundation, Douglas Ensminger, Casablanca Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization, How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
20 February 2016
Journeys and translation
PH1984:0977:199
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Former Park Avenue Hotel by John Kellum (architect)
ca. 1860-1880
View of Park Avenue Hotel, 33rd and 4th Avenue (now Park Avenue), New York, New York, United States of America (demolished 1927)
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PH1984:0977:199
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Former Park Avenue Hotel by John Kellum (architect)
In conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect, Todd Rouhe and Rachel Himmelfarb of common room present the groups collaborative working process: This question—what’s the problem?—is central to how common room works. The question defines a process of searching, experiencing, interacting, and communicating that not only informs how we understand architecture and(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
19 November 2015
common room: What's the Problem?
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In conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect, Todd Rouhe and Rachel Himmelfarb of common room present the groups collaborative working process: This question—what’s the problem?—is central to how common room works. The question defines a process of searching, experiencing, interacting, and communicating that not only informs how we understand architecture and(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
ARCH252707
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Lettre de deux pages de Eugène Beaudouin, architecte de la Légation de France au Canada, à Ernest Cormier au sujet du choix des architectes montréalais Antoine Monette et Marcel Parizeau comme inspecteurs sur place lors de la construction du bâtiment.
22 juin 1936
Lettre d'Eugène Beaudouin à Ernest Cormier
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Lettre de deux pages de Eugène Beaudouin, architecte de la Légation de France au Canada, à Ernest Cormier au sujet du choix des architectes montréalais Antoine Monette et Marcel Parizeau comme inspecteurs sur place lors de la construction du bâtiment.
textual records
AP075.S3.SS2.049
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Summaries of some completed projects, predominantly from 1970s-1990s. Information includes title, date of completion, client, architect, landscape architect, descriptions and clippings.
circa 2000
Summaries of Cornelia Hahn Oberlanber completed project from 1953 to 2000
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AP075.S3.SS2.049
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Summaries of some completed projects, predominantly from 1970s-1990s. Information includes title, date of completion, client, architect, landscape architect, descriptions and clippings.
textual records
circa 2000