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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
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How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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exhibitions
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26 November 2013 to
20 April 2014
26 November 2013 to
20 April 2014
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Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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23 October 2003 to 6 September 2004
23 October 2003 to 6 September 2004
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out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
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23 October 2003 to
6 September 2004
23 October 2003 to
6 September 2004
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
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The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
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exhibitions
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27 March 1991 to
26 May 1991
27 March 1991 to
26 May 1991
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
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Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
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9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
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Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
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9 December 1998 to
28 March 1999
9 December 1998 to
28 March 1999
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Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
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Empire
Empire
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The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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8 December 2005 to 12 March 2006
8 December 2005 to 12 March 2006
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Empire
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The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
Empire
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The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
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8 December 2005 to
12 March 2006
8 December 2005 to
12 March 2006
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Learning from... Cairo
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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15 September 2011 , 7pm
15 September 2011 , 7pm
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Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
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15 September 2011
7pm
15 September 2011
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
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Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
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2 May 2001 to
16 September 2001
2 May 2001 to
16 September 2001
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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ARCH283880
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Cette boîte contient des copies des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
ARCH283880
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Cette boîte contient des copies des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
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1920s-1930s
1920s-1930s
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Planches contacts de diverses photographies personnelles et professionnelles
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ARCH283880
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Cette boîte contient des copies des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
Planches contacts de diverses photographies personnelles et professionnelles
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ARCH283880
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Cette boîte contient des copies des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
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photographs
photographs
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1920s-1930s
1920s-1930s
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photographs
photographs
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ARCH259765
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
ARCH259765
Description:
Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
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1920s-1930s
1920s-1930s
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Planches contacts de diverses photographies personnelles et professionnelles
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ARCH259765
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
Planches contacts de diverses photographies personnelles et professionnelles
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ARCH259765
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles et professionnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de l'Université de Montréal, des bas-reliefs pour le Palais des Nations-Unies à New-York, de la résidence Cormier, ainsi que des portaits de Cormier et autres personnes non identifiés, d'architecture, de familles et d'amis et de voyages. Contient six cartables de planches contacts des originaux sur nitrates respectivement identifiés A - N° 1001 à A - N° 1062, B - N° 2000 à B - N° 2061, B - N° 2062 à B - N° 2090 et C - N° 3000 à C - N° 3031, D - N° 4001 à D - N° 4064, D - N°4065 à D - N° 4125, et ACD 6.4 918 / A.1 ADC 6.12 ADC 6, 18.4 ADC 6, 10.
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photographs
photographs
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1920s-1930s
1920s-1930s
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textual records
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ARCH158275
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Chemise comprenant, entre autres, une invitation modifiée à participer au concours de Recherche et développement de l’IRAC et de l’OAQ dans le cadre du Festival d’architecture de l’IRAC tenu en juin 1997 ; une correspondance relative à la soumission par Roger D’Astous de son projet pour la Bibliothèque nationale du Japon (1996) ; un texte de Roger D’Astous expliquant l’aspect innovateur de son projet ; un communiqué de presse donnant le nom des gagnants dont notamment celui de Roger D’Astous, dans la catégorie de projets architecturaux novateurs qui ont un fort potentiel à générer des activités technologiques novatrices ; et une attestation à l’effet que Roger D’Astous s’est vu octroyer un trophée comme gagnant de la catégorie Grands projets d’architecture porteurs de technologies.
ARCH158275
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Chemise comprenant, entre autres, une invitation modifiée à participer au concours de Recherche et développement de l’IRAC et de l’OAQ dans le cadre du Festival d’architecture de l’IRAC tenu en juin 1997 ; une correspondance relative à la soumission par Roger D’Astous de son projet pour la Bibliothèque nationale du Japon (1996) ; un texte de Roger D’Astous expliquant l’aspect innovateur de son projet ; un communiqué de presse donnant le nom des gagnants dont notamment celui de Roger D’Astous, dans la catégorie de projets architecturaux novateurs qui ont un fort potentiel à générer des activités technologiques novatrices ; et une attestation à l’effet que Roger D’Astous s’est vu octroyer un trophée comme gagnant de la catégorie Grands projets d’architecture porteurs de technologies.
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1996-1997, surtout 1997
1996-1997, surtout 1997
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Invitation modifiée à participer au concours de Recherche et développement de l’IRAC
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ARCH158275
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Chemise comprenant, entre autres, une invitation modifiée à participer au concours de Recherche et développement de l’IRAC et de l’OAQ dans le cadre du Festival d’architecture de l’IRAC tenu en juin 1997 ; une correspondance relative à la soumission par Roger D’Astous de son projet pour la Bibliothèque nationale du Japon (1996) ; un texte de Roger D’Astous expliquant l’aspect innovateur de son projet ; un communiqué de presse donnant le nom des gagnants dont notamment celui de Roger D’Astous, dans la catégorie de projets architecturaux novateurs qui ont un fort potentiel à générer des activités technologiques novatrices ; et une attestation à l’effet que Roger D’Astous s’est vu octroyer un trophée comme gagnant de la catégorie Grands projets d’architecture porteurs de technologies.
Invitation modifiée à participer au concours de Recherche et développement de l’IRAC
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ARCH158275
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Chemise comprenant, entre autres, une invitation modifiée à participer au concours de Recherche et développement de l’IRAC et de l’OAQ dans le cadre du Festival d’architecture de l’IRAC tenu en juin 1997 ; une correspondance relative à la soumission par Roger D’Astous de son projet pour la Bibliothèque nationale du Japon (1996) ; un texte de Roger D’Astous expliquant l’aspect innovateur de son projet ; un communiqué de presse donnant le nom des gagnants dont notamment celui de Roger D’Astous, dans la catégorie de projets architecturaux novateurs qui ont un fort potentiel à générer des activités technologiques novatrices ; et une attestation à l’effet que Roger D’Astous s’est vu octroyer un trophée comme gagnant de la catégorie Grands projets d’architecture porteurs de technologies.
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textual records
textual records
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1996-1997, surtout 1997
1996-1997, surtout 1997
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