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Fonds
AP002
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The Ludger and Paul M. Lemieux fonds, 1897-1966, documents the built projects of Québec architectural firm, Ludger & Paul M. Lemieux. The 500 projects that are represented in this fonds are divided by the architectural works of Macduff & Lemieux (1897-1917), Ludger Lemieux (1910-1950), Ludger & Paul M. Lemieux (1929-1951), and Paul M. Lemieux (1934-1966). Materials in this fonds consist of 4988 drawings (including reprographic prints), 320 photographic materials and 5 l.m. of textual records.
1897-1966
Ludger and Paul M. Lemieux fonds
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AP002
Synopsis:
The Ludger and Paul M. Lemieux fonds, 1897-1966, documents the built projects of Québec architectural firm, Ludger & Paul M. Lemieux. The 500 projects that are represented in this fonds are divided by the architectural works of Macduff & Lemieux (1897-1917), Ludger Lemieux (1910-1950), Ludger & Paul M. Lemieux (1929-1951), and Paul M. Lemieux (1934-1966). Materials in this fonds consist of 4988 drawings (including reprographic prints), 320 photographic materials and 5 l.m. of textual records.
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Fonds
1897-1966
Sub-series
AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS4
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This project series documents the restoration of the Castro & Melo building in Lisbon, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 58/80 N 8/9. The office assigned the date 1988-1998 for this project. The Edificio Castro e Melo was part of Bloco A and identified as building 8/9 in the reconstruction plan of Siza. The structure of the building, originally built in the18th century in order to resist earthquakes, was rebuilt in concrete. Archival research was done in order to reproduce as much as possible the original style of the building. The interior of the building was reorganized to introduce dwellings. The first and second floors were kept as they were originally for stores and storerooms. The third and fourth floors were built for offices. The fifth, sixth and seventh floors were rearranged to introduce apartments to the building. The eighth floor was used for the technical equipment of the building. In 1996, Siza received the Secil prize for this building. Drawings include studies, working drawings, mechanical drawings, and details of finishes. Textual material includes project documentation, studies, and correspondence. Photographic material include images of studies, details of the interior and exterior, as well as construction work. It is important to mention that documentation can also be found in subseries Master plans and exterior spaces (AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1) and Bloco A (AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS2).
1988-1998
Edifício Castro e Melo, Bloco A, Reconstrução do Chiado [Castro & Melo building, Block A, Reconstruction of the Chiado] Lisbon, Portugal, 1988-1998
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AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS4
Description:
This project series documents the restoration of the Castro & Melo building in Lisbon, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 58/80 N 8/9. The office assigned the date 1988-1998 for this project. The Edificio Castro e Melo was part of Bloco A and identified as building 8/9 in the reconstruction plan of Siza. The structure of the building, originally built in the18th century in order to resist earthquakes, was rebuilt in concrete. Archival research was done in order to reproduce as much as possible the original style of the building. The interior of the building was reorganized to introduce dwellings. The first and second floors were kept as they were originally for stores and storerooms. The third and fourth floors were built for offices. The fifth, sixth and seventh floors were rearranged to introduce apartments to the building. The eighth floor was used for the technical equipment of the building. In 1996, Siza received the Secil prize for this building. Drawings include studies, working drawings, mechanical drawings, and details of finishes. Textual material includes project documentation, studies, and correspondence. Photographic material include images of studies, details of the interior and exterior, as well as construction work. It is important to mention that documentation can also be found in subseries Master plans and exterior spaces (AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1) and Bloco A (AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS2).
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1988-1998
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AP178.S1.1980.PR05
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This project series documents the Monte Picoto hotel and restaurant in Braga, Portugal. While the records were held in the office's archives, this project was assigned the number 6/80. The office assigned the date 1981 to this project. Proposed as a hotel and restaurant, this project was designed for a competition on the most fitting real estate for Monte Picoto. Competitors had leeway to decide on the function and form of the real estate. The competition was administered by the entrepreneur José Veloso Braque and promoted by the City Council. A winner for the competition was never declared and the project was not built. Documenting this project are documents about the competition from the Camara Municipal de Braga, photographs, elevations, studies for the project site, and sketches of the proposed hotel and restaurant.
1980-1982
Monte Picoto [Monte Picoto hotel and restaurant], Braga, Portugal (1981)
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AP178.S1.1980.PR05
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This project series documents the Monte Picoto hotel and restaurant in Braga, Portugal. While the records were held in the office's archives, this project was assigned the number 6/80. The office assigned the date 1981 to this project. Proposed as a hotel and restaurant, this project was designed for a competition on the most fitting real estate for Monte Picoto. Competitors had leeway to decide on the function and form of the real estate. The competition was administered by the entrepreneur José Veloso Braque and promoted by the City Council. A winner for the competition was never declared and the project was not built. Documenting this project are documents about the competition from the Camara Municipal de Braga, photographs, elevations, studies for the project site, and sketches of the proposed hotel and restaurant.
Project
1980-1982
textual records
DR2012:0012:088:013
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Originally held in a box labelled: MC PERSONAL ARCHIVES 1950’s - 1965. Folder containing notes and a short report written by Melvin Charney during his time as a student at McGill University. Labelled "THESIS PROJECT: A LIBRARY FOR MONTREAL by: mel charney 1958".
1958
Thesis project: a library for Montreal
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DR2012:0012:088:013
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Originally held in a box labelled: MC PERSONAL ARCHIVES 1950’s - 1965. Folder containing notes and a short report written by Melvin Charney during his time as a student at McGill University. Labelled "THESIS PROJECT: A LIBRARY FOR MONTREAL by: mel charney 1958".
textual records
1958
The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
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This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
Project
AP178.S1.1985.PR02
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This project series documents the Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte in Giudecca, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 34/80. The office assigned the date 1985 to this project. In 1983, the IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari) initiated an architectural competition to modernize the existing housing and rehabilitate the urban space of Giudecca. The criteria were undefined in order to give the architect flexibility but insisted on respecting Venetian heritage. Álvaro Siza won the competition and selected Aldo Rossi (building completed in 2004), Carlo Aymonino (building completed in 2004), Rafael Moneo (not built) to collaborate on individual buildings. Siza's building was completed in 2016.
1984-2012
Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte [Restoration of Campo di Marte], Giudecca, Venice, Italy (1985)
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AP178.S1.1985.PR02
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This project series documents the Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte in Giudecca, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 34/80. The office assigned the date 1985 to this project. In 1983, the IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari) initiated an architectural competition to modernize the existing housing and rehabilitate the urban space of Giudecca. The criteria were undefined in order to give the architect flexibility but insisted on respecting Venetian heritage. Álvaro Siza won the competition and selected Aldo Rossi (building completed in 2004), Carlo Aymonino (building completed in 2004), Rafael Moneo (not built) to collaborate on individual buildings. Siza's building was completed in 2016.
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1984-2012
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AP178.S1.1980.PR06
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This project series documents the Casa J. M. Teixeira in Guimarães, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 11/80. The office assigned the date 1981 to this project. The project files document the repurposing of an old barn into a house. Additions to the site included a swimming pool, a fountain, and several decorative elements in the garden. The house also included a gymnasium. Granite blocks were used on the exterior of the house. The house was built between 1980 and 1990. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, working drawings, structural drawings, and technical drawings. Textual material includes project documentation. Photographic material documents the models, construction work, and the built project.
1979-1991
Casa J. M. Teixeira [J.M. Teixeira house], Quinta do Forno, Briteiros - Guimarães, Portugal (1980-1991)
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AP178.S1.1980.PR06
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This project series documents the Casa J. M. Teixeira in Guimarães, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 11/80. The office assigned the date 1981 to this project. The project files document the repurposing of an old barn into a house. Additions to the site included a swimming pool, a fountain, and several decorative elements in the garden. The house also included a gymnasium. Granite blocks were used on the exterior of the house. The house was built between 1980 and 1990. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, working drawings, structural drawings, and technical drawings. Textual material includes project documentation. Photographic material documents the models, construction work, and the built project.
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1979-1991
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AP198.S1.1997.PR02
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Project records document the design process for OCEAN North’s competition entry for the Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre in 1997. The project was titled Terra Cultura by OCEAN North. The international competition called to create a multi-usage space that would include a venue for the symphonic orchestra, a music school, exhibition spaces, and the possibility to host a variety of small cultural events in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä. The proposed site is in the center of the town, across the street from the Jyväskylä city church and its park, and nearby buildings designed by Alvar Aalto. OCEAN North’s concept presents a topological surface as an extension of the surrounding urban scape with two masses that would host the formal functions of the building (concert hall, music school, exhibition halls). The two volumes, or raised blocks, are divided along a diagonal elevated space, which is the extension of the ground’s topological surface filled and dubbed “Liquid Flow Space” by the design team. In their interview with Greg Lynn, Johan Bettum and Kivi Sotamaa mentioned that the idea for Jyväskylä was that it was a cloud. Digital files, in particular, show the process to achieve the projected design. Drawings provide views of streamed particles and of resulting peels. They also include plans, elevations and axonometric views of the structure. Most files are raster or vector images, likely saved from CAD software. A few files are in CAD formats such as Microstation, 3D Studio and form*Z. Digital files also present sine wave analysis and resulting charts for each component of the program. The analysis and charts present the relationships between various components of the building’s program such as the Art Museum, the Concert Halls, the technical space, and the Common facilities. These files are raster images and spreadsheets. Photographs of the site in Jyväskylä and of models built by OCEAN North were digitized and are included with the digital working files. Physical drawings are chiefly floor plans for the building, but also include sections and sketches. Finally, project files include photographic prints of two built models. One of these models, a small model of the conceptual masses of the building structure, is itself in the archive. Photographs show the model in the context of a city scape model. The second model, not part of the archive at CCA, was built at a bigger scale and was an intricate cardboard and wooden stick structure. Sources: Softspace: from a representation of form to a simulation of space, Edited by Sean Lally and Jessica Young. London, New York: Routledge, 2007. Greg Lynn, ed. Archaeology of the Digital 17: OCEAN North, Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017. ePub.
1997
Terra Cultura – Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, international competition entry
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AP198.S1.1997.PR02
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Project records document the design process for OCEAN North’s competition entry for the Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre in 1997. The project was titled Terra Cultura by OCEAN North. The international competition called to create a multi-usage space that would include a venue for the symphonic orchestra, a music school, exhibition spaces, and the possibility to host a variety of small cultural events in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä. The proposed site is in the center of the town, across the street from the Jyväskylä city church and its park, and nearby buildings designed by Alvar Aalto. OCEAN North’s concept presents a topological surface as an extension of the surrounding urban scape with two masses that would host the formal functions of the building (concert hall, music school, exhibition halls). The two volumes, or raised blocks, are divided along a diagonal elevated space, which is the extension of the ground’s topological surface filled and dubbed “Liquid Flow Space” by the design team. In their interview with Greg Lynn, Johan Bettum and Kivi Sotamaa mentioned that the idea for Jyväskylä was that it was a cloud. Digital files, in particular, show the process to achieve the projected design. Drawings provide views of streamed particles and of resulting peels. They also include plans, elevations and axonometric views of the structure. Most files are raster or vector images, likely saved from CAD software. A few files are in CAD formats such as Microstation, 3D Studio and form*Z. Digital files also present sine wave analysis and resulting charts for each component of the program. The analysis and charts present the relationships between various components of the building’s program such as the Art Museum, the Concert Halls, the technical space, and the Common facilities. These files are raster images and spreadsheets. Photographs of the site in Jyväskylä and of models built by OCEAN North were digitized and are included with the digital working files. Physical drawings are chiefly floor plans for the building, but also include sections and sketches. Finally, project files include photographic prints of two built models. One of these models, a small model of the conceptual masses of the building structure, is itself in the archive. Photographs show the model in the context of a city scape model. The second model, not part of the archive at CCA, was built at a bigger scale and was an intricate cardboard and wooden stick structure. Sources: Softspace: from a representation of form to a simulation of space, Edited by Sean Lally and Jessica Young. London, New York: Routledge, 2007. Greg Lynn, ed. Archaeology of the Digital 17: OCEAN North, Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017. ePub.
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1997
Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
24 September 2015 to 22 May 2016
Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities. Álvaro Siza in Berlin and The Hague
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Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
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AP178.S1.1998.PR03.SS2
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This project subseries documents the Caja Rural de Granada in the Edifício Zaida in Granada, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 98/90 B. The office assigned the dates 1998-2006 to this project subseries. This was part of phase 1 of the larger project to redevelop three parcels of land that faced the Plaza Puerta Real. This part of the project consisted of a bank branch for Caja Rural located on the ground level of the larger Zaida building. Documenting this project subseries are drawings and textual records dating from 2002-2005. The textual records include supplier catalogues, contract details, correspondence and documentation on the interiors. The drawings include plans, sketches, mechanical drawings and details.
2002-2005
Edifício Zaida, "Caja Rural de Granada" [Zaida building, "Caja Rural de Granada"], Granada, Spain (1998-2006)
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AP178.S1.1998.PR03.SS2
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This project subseries documents the Caja Rural de Granada in the Edifício Zaida in Granada, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 98/90 B. The office assigned the dates 1998-2006 to this project subseries. This was part of phase 1 of the larger project to redevelop three parcels of land that faced the Plaza Puerta Real. This part of the project consisted of a bank branch for Caja Rural located on the ground level of the larger Zaida building. Documenting this project subseries are drawings and textual records dating from 2002-2005. The textual records include supplier catalogues, contract details, correspondence and documentation on the interiors. The drawings include plans, sketches, mechanical drawings and details.
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2002-2005