During the Second World War, exhibitions and publications played a critical role in the war effort. They were organized internationally as moments of reflection and propaganda, productions of a disciplinary approach to architecture and urban design. This display springs from Jean-Louis Cohen’s research for Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second(...)
Hall cases
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
A Paper War: Pictures and words, 1939-1945
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During the Second World War, exhibitions and publications played a critical role in the war effort. They were organized internationally as moments of reflection and propaganda, productions of a disciplinary approach to architecture and urban design. This display springs from Jean-Louis Cohen’s research for Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second(...)
Hall cases
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AP197.S3.004
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The box is comprised of correspondence for 1991-1994, organized in alphabetical order by last name, from L-T. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to Kenneth Frampton’s involvement/participation as: a lecturer at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Conference and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a keynote speaker at the National University of Singapore Conference; visiting professorship at the Université de Montréal; as Chairman of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; a member of the advisory board for the World Architecture Triennale, Nara.
1991-1994
Personal and professional correspondence for names L-T from 1991-1994
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AP197.S3.004
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The box is comprised of correspondence for 1991-1994, organized in alphabetical order by last name, from L-T. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to Kenneth Frampton’s involvement/participation as: a lecturer at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Conference and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a keynote speaker at the National University of Singapore Conference; visiting professorship at the Université de Montréal; as Chairman of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; a member of the advisory board for the World Architecture Triennale, Nara.
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1991-1994
Gilles Clément
French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 October 2006
Gilles Clément
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French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Dessins et tableaux
AP104.S1
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Series I consists of sketches, drawings and paintings, mostly created by Parizeau. From the period he spent in Europe (1923-1933), there are 11 student drawings in the standard presentation format of the École des Beaux-arts de Paris, a volume of course notes, as well as unidentified drawings, sketchbooks and paintings of primarily buildings and landscapes executed in Paris and during his travels in France. Drawings relating to Parizeau's architectural career in Montreal are represented in a number of independant projects, including a small chapel beside the St. Lawrence River, a pair of two-storey cabin-cottages outside of Montreal, and several residences in the city. The documents are mostly original preliminary studies with some reproductions of working drawings. It should be noted that there are also photographs of exterior details of the Laroque Residence and the Jarry Residence in documents CO2 in Series II. Reproductions of designs for worker housing by French architect Eugène Beaudoin in 1938 perhaps give a clue to Parizeau's relatively early employment of modernist forms. A residence in Baie D'Urfé is unlikely to be connected to Parizeau because its date, ca. 1955, is a decade after his death. Parizeau's concern with furniture and interior design is represented in the Archive with many lively perspective sketches in colour, and elevation and plan studies of several kinds of rooms and types of furniture. Some preliminary drawings for interiors were grouped with the Gillow house in Ville Mont-Royal, and the Walter Downs Residence in Montreal. The artworks by Parizeau consist of paintings and drawings of landscapes, buildings, still lifes and figure studies on loose sheets and in bound sketchbooks. These works are executed in a variety of media, including pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour on paper, and oil paint on masonite panels. Studies of buildings in Brittany and Paris are the subjects in three small sketchbooks, while larger spiral-bound drawing books contain some architectural plans, elevations and details. Most of these artworks and sketches were likely created in Europe before 1933.
1917-1955
Dessins et tableaux
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AP104.S1
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Series I consists of sketches, drawings and paintings, mostly created by Parizeau. From the period he spent in Europe (1923-1933), there are 11 student drawings in the standard presentation format of the École des Beaux-arts de Paris, a volume of course notes, as well as unidentified drawings, sketchbooks and paintings of primarily buildings and landscapes executed in Paris and during his travels in France. Drawings relating to Parizeau's architectural career in Montreal are represented in a number of independant projects, including a small chapel beside the St. Lawrence River, a pair of two-storey cabin-cottages outside of Montreal, and several residences in the city. The documents are mostly original preliminary studies with some reproductions of working drawings. It should be noted that there are also photographs of exterior details of the Laroque Residence and the Jarry Residence in documents CO2 in Series II. Reproductions of designs for worker housing by French architect Eugène Beaudoin in 1938 perhaps give a clue to Parizeau's relatively early employment of modernist forms. A residence in Baie D'Urfé is unlikely to be connected to Parizeau because its date, ca. 1955, is a decade after his death. Parizeau's concern with furniture and interior design is represented in the Archive with many lively perspective sketches in colour, and elevation and plan studies of several kinds of rooms and types of furniture. Some preliminary drawings for interiors were grouped with the Gillow house in Ville Mont-Royal, and the Walter Downs Residence in Montreal. The artworks by Parizeau consist of paintings and drawings of landscapes, buildings, still lifes and figure studies on loose sheets and in bound sketchbooks. These works are executed in a variety of media, including pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour on paper, and oil paint on masonite panels. Studies of buildings in Brittany and Paris are the subjects in three small sketchbooks, while larger spiral-bound drawing books contain some architectural plans, elevations and details. Most of these artworks and sketches were likely created in Europe before 1933.
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1917-1955
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Bernard Tschumi fonds
AP214
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
circa 1964-2015
Bernard Tschumi fonds
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
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circa 1964-2015
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(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
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(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP022.S3.SS3
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Sub-series documents public relations, marketing activities and collaborations of the offices of Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects in Vancouver, British columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. The material was intended for media and press releases, publications, photographs and information requests, presentations, publicity and marketing brochures, and includes project descriptions, photographs and slides, magazine articles and clippings, publication drawings, galley proofs for books and a Life Magazine article on the Graham House, correspondence, and printing plates for a publicity brochure. Sub-series also documents Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects collaboration with Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd the company of Francisco Leopoldo Kripacz (b. 8 April, 1942 - d. 3 August, 2000). Kripacz was born in Caracas, Venezuela, educated in Europe, the United States, and studied design in Vancouver and New York. He also went to the University of British Columbia for a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1964. He became a resident Canadian in 1961, and a Canadian citizen in 1973. In 1964 he founded an interior design and furniture import business in Vancouver with Arthur Erickson, and opened a showroom in Montreal (550 Sherbrooke St. West), in 1965. Kripacz designed the exhibition unit in Habitat 67 (by architect Moshe Safdie) for the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal, and created interiors for a private clientel as well as for many of Arthur Erickson's buildings. The latter included the Helmut Eppich House and Erickson's own residence in Vancouver, the Hilborn Residence in Ontario, the Prime Minister's office and resdence in Ottawa, the UBC Faculty Club, the Macmillan Blodel Bulding, Vancouver, the Bank of Canada Headquarters in Ottawa, the Student Union Building at Queen's University, Kingston, the Provincial Law Courts in Robson Square, Vancouver, Roy Thomson Hall and the Tech Mining offices in Toronto, the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C., amongst others. Material related to Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd Sub-series also contains professional correspondence with Arthur Erickson Architect, financial documents of Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd, furniture design proposals, photographs and personal correspondance files of Francisco Kripacz.
1967-1988
Public relations, marketing and collaborations
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AP022.S3.SS3
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Sub-series documents public relations, marketing activities and collaborations of the offices of Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects in Vancouver, British columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. The material was intended for media and press releases, publications, photographs and information requests, presentations, publicity and marketing brochures, and includes project descriptions, photographs and slides, magazine articles and clippings, publication drawings, galley proofs for books and a Life Magazine article on the Graham House, correspondence, and printing plates for a publicity brochure. Sub-series also documents Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects collaboration with Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd the company of Francisco Leopoldo Kripacz (b. 8 April, 1942 - d. 3 August, 2000). Kripacz was born in Caracas, Venezuela, educated in Europe, the United States, and studied design in Vancouver and New York. He also went to the University of British Columbia for a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1964. He became a resident Canadian in 1961, and a Canadian citizen in 1973. In 1964 he founded an interior design and furniture import business in Vancouver with Arthur Erickson, and opened a showroom in Montreal (550 Sherbrooke St. West), in 1965. Kripacz designed the exhibition unit in Habitat 67 (by architect Moshe Safdie) for the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal, and created interiors for a private clientel as well as for many of Arthur Erickson's buildings. The latter included the Helmut Eppich House and Erickson's own residence in Vancouver, the Hilborn Residence in Ontario, the Prime Minister's office and resdence in Ottawa, the UBC Faculty Club, the Macmillan Blodel Bulding, Vancouver, the Bank of Canada Headquarters in Ottawa, the Student Union Building at Queen's University, Kingston, the Provincial Law Courts in Robson Square, Vancouver, Roy Thomson Hall and the Tech Mining offices in Toronto, the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C., amongst others. Material related to Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd Sub-series also contains professional correspondence with Arthur Erickson Architect, financial documents of Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd, furniture design proposals, photographs and personal correspondance files of Francisco Kripacz.
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1967-1988
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AP197.S3.002
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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1984-1990. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, attend or present at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries such as the American Academy in Rome. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio; Tadao Ando; Rafael Moneo; James Stirling; Marco Frascari; Alvaro Siza; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; the Progressive Architecture; and Architecture and Urbanism. This correspondence includes Frampton’s invitation to be the Craig Francis Cullinan Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Rice University; correspondence with Rizzoli International Publications about the Tadao Ando book; correspondence with MIT Press for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; and correspondence about critical regionalism.
1984-1990
Personal and professional correspondence from 1984-1990
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AP197.S3.002
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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1984-1990. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, attend or present at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries such as the American Academy in Rome. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio; Tadao Ando; Rafael Moneo; James Stirling; Marco Frascari; Alvaro Siza; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; the Progressive Architecture; and Architecture and Urbanism. This correspondence includes Frampton’s invitation to be the Craig Francis Cullinan Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Rice University; correspondence with Rizzoli International Publications about the Tadao Ando book; correspondence with MIT Press for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; and correspondence about critical regionalism.
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1984-1990
Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
31 March 1993 to 25 July 1993
Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880
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Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
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Publisher and graphic designer Lars Müller discusses his work and the implications of producing books in the digital age. The lecture also addresses collaborations between Lars Müller Publishers and the CCA, and is held on occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The book(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
18 September 2008 , 6pm
Lars Müller: If this was not the End, what is the Future of Print?
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Publisher and graphic designer Lars Müller discusses his work and the implications of producing books in the digital age. The lecture also addresses collaborations between Lars Müller Publishers and the CCA, and is held on occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The book(...)
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18 September 2008
6pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre