DR1994:0011:030
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- Group DR1994:0011:001 R/V - DR1994:0011:030 includes three sketches (DR1994:0011:001 R/V - DR1994:0011:002 R/V and DR1994:0011:030), 24 pages of notes (DR1994:0011:003 - DR1994:0011:026), two sketchbooks (DR1994:0011:027:001-035 and DR1994:0011:028:001-008 R/V), and the envelope in which these materials were housed at acquisition (DR1994:0011:029). The sketches are for various subjects including I-beams (DR1994:0011:001 R/V), a column-to-beam connection and an unidentified building (DR1994:0011:002 R/V), and a sketch plan of Mies' 1928-1929 design for the Friedrichstrasse office building in Berlin (DR1994:0011:030). Notes DR1994:0011:003 - DR1994:0011:024 are written in German and are generally illegible. Many changes have been made to the notes, and some sheets appear to have been reordered or struck out. Some of the notes may be about urban planning. The number in the upper left corner of sheets DR1994:0011:010, DR1994:0011:012-016 and DR1994:0011:020-021 may indicate the order of the topics dealt with in the notes. Notes DR1994:0011:025 are illegible. Notes DR1994:0011:026 are written in English, and may be notes of a lecture. The notes in sketchbook DR1994:0011:027:001-035 are written in German, are generally illegible, and are usually written in point form or sometimes as lists. Chicago is mentioned on several of the sheets. There is a shift in the clarity of the handwriting halfway through the sketchbook and some of the notes in the latter half may relate to Mies' readings of philosophy. Some of the notes in sketchbook DR1994:0028:001-008 R/V are written in German and some in English. The first and second pages of the sketchbook describe measurements for addresses on the campus of IIT, as well as for the Power Plant. The last three pages of the sketchbook discuss the architectural education programm at IIT and an exhibition of student work.
1955
Sketch plan of the 1928-1929 design for an office building on the Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
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DR1994:0011:030
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- Group DR1994:0011:001 R/V - DR1994:0011:030 includes three sketches (DR1994:0011:001 R/V - DR1994:0011:002 R/V and DR1994:0011:030), 24 pages of notes (DR1994:0011:003 - DR1994:0011:026), two sketchbooks (DR1994:0011:027:001-035 and DR1994:0011:028:001-008 R/V), and the envelope in which these materials were housed at acquisition (DR1994:0011:029). The sketches are for various subjects including I-beams (DR1994:0011:001 R/V), a column-to-beam connection and an unidentified building (DR1994:0011:002 R/V), and a sketch plan of Mies' 1928-1929 design for the Friedrichstrasse office building in Berlin (DR1994:0011:030). Notes DR1994:0011:003 - DR1994:0011:024 are written in German and are generally illegible. Many changes have been made to the notes, and some sheets appear to have been reordered or struck out. Some of the notes may be about urban planning. The number in the upper left corner of sheets DR1994:0011:010, DR1994:0011:012-016 and DR1994:0011:020-021 may indicate the order of the topics dealt with in the notes. Notes DR1994:0011:025 are illegible. Notes DR1994:0011:026 are written in English, and may be notes of a lecture. The notes in sketchbook DR1994:0011:027:001-035 are written in German, are generally illegible, and are usually written in point form or sometimes as lists. Chicago is mentioned on several of the sheets. There is a shift in the clarity of the handwriting halfway through the sketchbook and some of the notes in the latter half may relate to Mies' readings of philosophy. Some of the notes in sketchbook DR1994:0028:001-008 R/V are written in German and some in English. The first and second pages of the sketchbook describe measurements for addresses on the campus of IIT, as well as for the Power Plant. The last three pages of the sketchbook discuss the architectural education programm at IIT and an exhibition of student work.
Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
12 May 2015 to 4 October 2015
The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
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Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
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
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Octagonal gallery
In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2016, 6pm
Unravelling the Digital Landscape
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In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Starting From... Pink
Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... Pink
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Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Hall cases