The exhibition Jai Tech: ÁbalosHerreros selected by Juan José Castellón examines the way the tower typology manifests distinct, strategic approaches in the architecture of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Objects presented include site plans, photomontages, models, floor plans, and photographs. The exhibition also features a selection(...)
Octagonal gallery
24 May 2015 to 12 July 2015
Jai Tech: Ábalos&Herreros selected by Juan José Castellón
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The exhibition Jai Tech: ÁbalosHerreros selected by Juan José Castellón examines the way the tower typology manifests distinct, strategic approaches in the architecture of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Objects presented include site plans, photomontages, models, floor plans, and photographs. The exhibition also features a selection(...)
Octagonal gallery
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DDR [Miscellaneous, 1981]
ARCH153880
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Announcement from Rizzoli: publication of The Making of an Architect; Nov. 25, 1981. Two b&w prints of Peter Eisenman Program of the AIA National Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 17-21, 1981. Letter from Milan about the exhibition "Oggetto banale", 15 June 1981. Bill of a carpet sent to P. Eisenman's home and paid by Jacquelin Robertson, March 11, 1981. Letter from the Daily News answering a request for funding the retrospective of Raymond Hood's work, August 4, 1981. Telephone bill of Peter Eisenman's home, 12-16 August 1981. Three pages of information about Middle School. Page 5 of an article by Joan Copjec. Notes by P. Eisenman: "Colin when did you come"
1981
DDR [Miscellaneous, 1981]
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ARCH153880
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Announcement from Rizzoli: publication of The Making of an Architect; Nov. 25, 1981. Two b&w prints of Peter Eisenman Program of the AIA National Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 17-21, 1981. Letter from Milan about the exhibition "Oggetto banale", 15 June 1981. Bill of a carpet sent to P. Eisenman's home and paid by Jacquelin Robertson, March 11, 1981. Letter from the Daily News answering a request for funding the retrospective of Raymond Hood's work, August 4, 1981. Telephone bill of Peter Eisenman's home, 12-16 August 1981. Three pages of information about Middle School. Page 5 of an article by Joan Copjec. Notes by P. Eisenman: "Colin when did you come"
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1981
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
21 May 2014 to 5 October 2014
Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
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
Shaughnessy House
Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
DR2006:0167
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Le lustre est composé de 105 éléments en forme de larme. Chaque larme est en acrylique et contient soit un spécimen organique soit un objet trouvé cueilli par Gilles Clément d'un "Tiers paysage" près du Jardin du CCA. Attaché au bout de chaque élément est un fil en plastique. Lors de l'exposition "Environ(ne)ment", les éléments furent supendus du plafond pour former le lustre. -- The chandelier is composed of 105 teardrop-shaped elements, each of which is attached to a plastic cord. Each "teardrop" is made of acrylic, and in each one is encased either an organic specimen or a found object collected by Gilles Clément from a "Third Landscape" near the CCA Garden. For the "Environ(ne)ment" exhibition, each teardrop was suspended from the ceiling to form the chandelier.
2006
Lustre installé au Centre canadien d'architecture dans le cadre de l'exposition "Environnement - manières d'agir pour demain"
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DR2006:0167
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Le lustre est composé de 105 éléments en forme de larme. Chaque larme est en acrylique et contient soit un spécimen organique soit un objet trouvé cueilli par Gilles Clément d'un "Tiers paysage" près du Jardin du CCA. Attaché au bout de chaque élément est un fil en plastique. Lors de l'exposition "Environ(ne)ment", les éléments furent supendus du plafond pour former le lustre. -- The chandelier is composed of 105 teardrop-shaped elements, each of which is attached to a plastic cord. Each "teardrop" is made of acrylic, and in each one is encased either an organic specimen or a found object collected by Gilles Clément from a "Third Landscape" near the CCA Garden. For the "Environ(ne)ment" exhibition, each teardrop was suspended from the ceiling to form the chandelier.
2006
Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
Mills and Factories of New England: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
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Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room