Édouard Baldus, more than any other photographer, defined the modern landscape and established the standard for architectural photography. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France chronicles the Golden Age of France as seen by the photographer. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus is organized by chronological sections to reveal the evolution of(...)
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25 January 1995 to 23 April 1995
The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France
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Édouard Baldus, more than any other photographer, defined the modern landscape and established the standard for architectural photography. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France chronicles the Golden Age of France as seen by the photographer. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus is organized by chronological sections to reveal the evolution of(...)
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
7 March 2009
Exploring Urban Microclimates
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
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During the eighteenth century, Rome was both an important centre for Italian art and the focal point for the studies of most European artists; all were drawn by the city’s antique art, architecture, and statuary, as well as its Renaissance, Baroque, and eighteenth-century masterpieces. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries is concerned with eighteenth-century(...)
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18 August 1993 to 2 January 1994
Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries
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During the eighteenth century, Rome was both an important centre for Italian art and the focal point for the studies of most European artists; all were drawn by the city’s antique art, architecture, and statuary, as well as its Renaissance, Baroque, and eighteenth-century masterpieces. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries is concerned with eighteenth-century(...)
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AP197.S4.009
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This box contains Kenneth Frampton's various certificates and diplomas as well as some prints, drawings, posters, and photographs. This box includes: posters of lectures and exhibitions presented at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; a print by Frampton entitled "unfinished modern project in homage to it and to Habermas;" his diploma from the Architectural Association (1956); a certifacte from the Royal Insititute of British Architects (1961); a certificate from the L'Academie d`architecture; a Honory Fellowship from the Royal Institiute of Architects of Ireland; a professional headshot and a group photograph of Frampton at the ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012). This box also includes gifts that Frampton received over the years such as an old photograph of Frampton that was given to him for 56th birthday and drawings from SHIM SUTCLIFFE for his 80th birthday.
1956-2016
Kenneth Frampton certificates, diplomas, and posters
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AP197.S4.009
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This box contains Kenneth Frampton's various certificates and diplomas as well as some prints, drawings, posters, and photographs. This box includes: posters of lectures and exhibitions presented at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; a print by Frampton entitled "unfinished modern project in homage to it and to Habermas;" his diploma from the Architectural Association (1956); a certifacte from the Royal Insititute of British Architects (1961); a certificate from the L'Academie d`architecture; a Honory Fellowship from the Royal Institiute of Architects of Ireland; a professional headshot and a group photograph of Frampton at the ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012). This box also includes gifts that Frampton received over the years such as an old photograph of Frampton that was given to him for 56th birthday and drawings from SHIM SUTCLIFFE for his 80th birthday.
drawings, textual records, graphic materials, photographs
1956-2016
The Greg Lynn Show
It’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation has been a big part of the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital program. Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological(...)
11 May 2016
The Greg Lynn Show
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It’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation has been a big part of the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital program. Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological(...)
Archaeology of the Digital
Archaeology of the Digital is conceived as an investigation into the foundations of digital architecture at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s through four seminal projects that established bold new directions for architectural research by experimenting with novel digital tools: the Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1985–1995), Peter Eisenman’s unrealized(...)
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7 May 2013 to 27 October 2013
Archaeology of the Digital
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Archaeology of the Digital is conceived as an investigation into the foundations of digital architecture at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s through four seminal projects that established bold new directions for architectural research by experimenting with novel digital tools: the Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1985–1995), Peter Eisenman’s unrealized(...)
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Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 July 2015 to 13 September 2015
Landscapes of the Hyperreal: Ábalos&Herreros selected by SO – IL
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Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
Octagonal gallery
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DR2012:0012:073:001
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Seven mats containing presentation materials related to the Canada War Memorial in Green Park, London, UK. The mats are closed (though not sealed), making accurate measurements of the materials difficult. Originally held in a box labelled: CAN MEM LONDON / EXHIB PLATES 1993
circa 1992
Presentation panels, Canada War Memorial, Green Park, London, England
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DR2012:0012:073:001
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Seven mats containing presentation materials related to the Canada War Memorial in Green Park, London, UK. The mats are closed (though not sealed), making accurate measurements of the materials difficult. Originally held in a box labelled: CAN MEM LONDON / EXHIB PLATES 1993
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circa 1992