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
textual records
ARCH174253
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Contient des photographies de la maquette (10 décembre 1991), une estimation ordre de grandeur. Travaux d'architecture (9 décembre 1991), une ébauche de plan d'escalier circulaire 8.24” x 10”, 2 photocopies de plan 8.5” x 11”, un devis préliminaire du casse-croûte (2 pages 8.5” x 14”), photocopie de la coupe longitudinale (8.5” x 14”), correspondance entre l'atelier de Luc Laporte et des intervenants à Tecsult, Lumitech, Gidev, Cardinal & Hardy, S.V.P.M. et autres, factures diverses et détails de mat.
circa 1991
Correspondance avec ingénieurs, architectes et client, documents financiers, devis, plans, détails et coupes du pavillon, Pavillon du Bassin Bonsecours, Montréal, Québec
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Contient des photographies de la maquette (10 décembre 1991), une estimation ordre de grandeur. Travaux d'architecture (9 décembre 1991), une ébauche de plan d'escalier circulaire 8.24” x 10”, 2 photocopies de plan 8.5” x 11”, un devis préliminaire du casse-croûte (2 pages 8.5” x 14”), photocopie de la coupe longitudinale (8.5” x 14”), correspondance entre l'atelier de Luc Laporte et des intervenants à Tecsult, Lumitech, Gidev, Cardinal & Hardy, S.V.P.M. et autres, factures diverses et détails de mat.
textual records
circa 1991
photographs
ARCH158053
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Série de 21 photographies prises lors du séjour de Roger D'Astous à Taliesin West, Phoenix, Arizona, du mois de novembre 1952 au mois de mai 1953, avec annotations manuscrites au verso. Pour certaines de ces photographies, on peut retrouver le négatif dans la chemise 60-Ab03-02. Il y a plusieurs photographies de Frank Lloyd Wright avec des apprentis, en particulier autour de la maquette de la Price Tower. Parmi les autres personnes apparaissant sur ces photos : William Wesley Peters, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, Charles Laughton, Warren Biddle, Kamal Amin.
1952-1953
Photographies prises lors du séjour de Roger D'Astous à Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
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Série de 21 photographies prises lors du séjour de Roger D'Astous à Taliesin West, Phoenix, Arizona, du mois de novembre 1952 au mois de mai 1953, avec annotations manuscrites au verso. Pour certaines de ces photographies, on peut retrouver le négatif dans la chemise 60-Ab03-02. Il y a plusieurs photographies de Frank Lloyd Wright avec des apprentis, en particulier autour de la maquette de la Price Tower. Parmi les autres personnes apparaissant sur ces photos : William Wesley Peters, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, Charles Laughton, Warren Biddle, Kamal Amin.
photographs
1952-1953
This exhibition features British architect Will Alsop’s preparatory work for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in Toronto and explores the role of painting in his design process. Completed in 2004, OCAD’s Sharp Centre for Design was designed by Alsop Architects in collaboration with the Toronto-based firm Robbie/Young + Wright. The(...)
Octagonal gallery
13 June 2008 to 5 October 2008
Will Alsop: OCAD, An Urban Manifesto
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This exhibition features British architect Will Alsop’s preparatory work for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in Toronto and explores the role of painting in his design process. Completed in 2004, OCAD’s Sharp Centre for Design was designed by Alsop Architects in collaboration with the Toronto-based firm Robbie/Young + Wright. The(...)
Octagonal gallery
Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
drawings, textual records, photographs
Correspondance,contrat et cahier de charge, ordre du jour de la réunion du jury de sélection, notes
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6 feuillets: Correspondance avec la Ville de Montréal 8 avril 1993 - 18 octobre 1993 24 feuillets: Contrat et cahier de charge 1 feuillet: Ordre du jour de la réunion du jury de sélection 14 feuillets: Notes manuscrites 1 dépliant: "Assurances pour oeuvre d'art" 9,5 x 27 cm 5 bordeaux de transmission par télécopieur 3 photocopies de photographies: vue de fouilles archéologiques sous la Place Jacques-Cartier une photocopie couleur 15 feuillets: Documentation diverse 2 feuillets: "La Place Jacques-Cartier" photocopie d'un article de la Presse 22 septembre 1991 1 photographie: Vue de la Place Jacques-Cartier noir et blanc 20 x 25,5 cm 1 dépliant: "Promo-Béton" 13 feuillets: Notes et esquisses pour la Place Jacques-Cartier dessins à la mine de plomb et photocopies 6 dessins: Esquisses mine de plomb et crayon de couleur sur calque jusqu'à 36 x 22 cm 1 collage de cartons de couleur et 1 photocopie du collage 11 x 37 cm 9 reprographies: schémas géométriques, Vues de la maquette photocopie sur acétate format lettre 3 copies laser de photographies 1 photographie: Vue de la maquette noir et blanc 20 x 25,5 cm
Correspondance,contrat et cahier de charge, ordre du jour de la réunion du jury de sélection, notes
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6 feuillets: Correspondance avec la Ville de Montréal 8 avril 1993 - 18 octobre 1993 24 feuillets: Contrat et cahier de charge 1 feuillet: Ordre du jour de la réunion du jury de sélection 14 feuillets: Notes manuscrites 1 dépliant: "Assurances pour oeuvre d'art" 9,5 x 27 cm 5 bordeaux de transmission par télécopieur 3 photocopies de photographies: vue de fouilles archéologiques sous la Place Jacques-Cartier une photocopie couleur 15 feuillets: Documentation diverse 2 feuillets: "La Place Jacques-Cartier" photocopie d'un article de la Presse 22 septembre 1991 1 photographie: Vue de la Place Jacques-Cartier noir et blanc 20 x 25,5 cm 1 dépliant: "Promo-Béton" 13 feuillets: Notes et esquisses pour la Place Jacques-Cartier dessins à la mine de plomb et photocopies 6 dessins: Esquisses mine de plomb et crayon de couleur sur calque jusqu'à 36 x 22 cm 1 collage de cartons de couleur et 1 photocopie du collage 11 x 37 cm 9 reprographies: schémas géométriques, Vues de la maquette photocopie sur acétate format lettre 3 copies laser de photographies 1 photographie: Vue de la maquette noir et blanc 20 x 25,5 cm
drawings, textual records, photographs
Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Main galleries
18 June 1996 to 29 September 1996
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
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A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Main galleries
photographs
AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS5.014
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Original file title : Chiado - Bloco B - ver tambem slides © Theresa Siza Nota 1) Provas ja estavam no escritoro 2) Negativos - April 2012 Nota : Algur negativos da maquete do Bloco B estão na pasta das maquetes do Bloco A - Chib302 e CHIB232 + repetitas Siza's office numbered photographs in this file CHIB012-CHIB031, CHIB300-CHIB301
1988-1998
Photographs and negatives of a model, Bloco B, Reconstrução do Chiado, Lisbon
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AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS5.014
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Original file title : Chiado - Bloco B - ver tambem slides © Theresa Siza Nota 1) Provas ja estavam no escritoro 2) Negativos - April 2012 Nota : Algur negativos da maquete do Bloco B estão na pasta das maquetes do Bloco A - Chib302 e CHIB232 + repetitas Siza's office numbered photographs in this file CHIB012-CHIB031, CHIB300-CHIB301
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1988-1998
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery