Starting From... Travel
Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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3 December 2008 to 1 May 2009
Starting From... Travel
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Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
Hall cases
As part of the CCA’s ongoing exploration of key issues in contemporary architecture with a specific focus on urban, social, and environmental concerns, Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa features recent architectural projects that propose new solutions to the challenges of building homes in dense urban environments. London and(...)
Main galleries
14 May 2008 to 26 October 2008
Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa
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As part of the CCA’s ongoing exploration of key issues in contemporary architecture with a specific focus on urban, social, and environmental concerns, Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa features recent architectural projects that propose new solutions to the challenges of building homes in dense urban environments. London and(...)
Main galleries
articles
Shifting Shores
Shifting Shores
Kirsten Keller and Feifei Zhou on the dynamic materialities of property-making in Jakarta
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Forces of Friction
archives
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Fonds
AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
1984-2003
Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg fonds
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
archives
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1984-2003
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries
18 October 2006 to 10 June 2007
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow
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Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries
graphic materials
DR2012:0015:027
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Portfolio containing ephemera and posters advertising the following conferences, events, and exhibitions: - mailout/poster for a Frank Stella exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; - mailout/poster for an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago; - posters for the 7th Venice biennale of architeture; - poster for the 1. Kolloquium Funktionialismus, Hamburg; - poster for a Jean Rustin exhibition at Maison de la culture et des loisirs; - signed poster for a Ric Evans exhibition, at David Mirvish Books, Toronto; - poster for an Edward Keinholz exhibition, London; - poster for a Frank Auerbach exhibition at the 42nd Venice Biennale; - paper placemat of the Taj Mahal; - poster of Hindu deities; - poster for Perspecta, the Yale School of design journal, in which Melvin Charney's article, Experimental strategies: notes for environmental design, appeared in the 11th edition; - poster of Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros; - mailout/poster for a Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Leo Castelli gallery; - poster for a Pierre Alechinsky exhibition, in Brussels; - poster for an exhibition on Pliny the Younger's La villa Laurentine, Paris; - poster for an exhibition, Places and monuments, in Paris; - poster for an event at George Gund Hall, Harvard; - posters for the exhibition, Rothmans salutes citysite sculpture, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto (Melvin Charney participated); - poster for event, Coop Himmelblau: der Engel des Tons; - poster, "Seize the time"; - poster, "Meeting solidarité Chili"; - poster for Don Judd exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; - posters for Aurora Borealis event at le Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (Melvin Charney participated); - poster for James Stirling exhibition at Riba Heinz Gallery, London; - untitled poster; - poster for political demonstration, UQAM; - poster for Joe Zucker exhibition, Combinations, at Holly Solomon Gallery, New York; - poster, "The drifting acropolis"; - poster for Lucas Samaras exhibition, Reconstructions, boxes, and photo-transformations, at Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago; - poster for Erica Lennard exhibition, Les femmes, les soeurs, at Agatha Gaillard Gallery, Paris.
1965-1985, 1994, 2000-2003
Portfolio of assorted posters
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DR2012:0015:027
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Portfolio containing ephemera and posters advertising the following conferences, events, and exhibitions: - mailout/poster for a Frank Stella exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; - mailout/poster for an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago; - posters for the 7th Venice biennale of architeture; - poster for the 1. Kolloquium Funktionialismus, Hamburg; - poster for a Jean Rustin exhibition at Maison de la culture et des loisirs; - signed poster for a Ric Evans exhibition, at David Mirvish Books, Toronto; - poster for an Edward Keinholz exhibition, London; - poster for a Frank Auerbach exhibition at the 42nd Venice Biennale; - paper placemat of the Taj Mahal; - poster of Hindu deities; - poster for Perspecta, the Yale School of design journal, in which Melvin Charney's article, Experimental strategies: notes for environmental design, appeared in the 11th edition; - poster of Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros; - mailout/poster for a Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Leo Castelli gallery; - poster for a Pierre Alechinsky exhibition, in Brussels; - poster for an exhibition on Pliny the Younger's La villa Laurentine, Paris; - poster for an exhibition, Places and monuments, in Paris; - poster for an event at George Gund Hall, Harvard; - posters for the exhibition, Rothmans salutes citysite sculpture, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto (Melvin Charney participated); - poster for event, Coop Himmelblau: der Engel des Tons; - poster, "Seize the time"; - poster, "Meeting solidarité Chili"; - poster for Don Judd exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; - posters for Aurora Borealis event at le Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (Melvin Charney participated); - poster for James Stirling exhibition at Riba Heinz Gallery, London; - untitled poster; - poster for political demonstration, UQAM; - poster for Joe Zucker exhibition, Combinations, at Holly Solomon Gallery, New York; - poster, "The drifting acropolis"; - poster for Lucas Samaras exhibition, Reconstructions, boxes, and photo-transformations, at Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago; - poster for Erica Lennard exhibition, Les femmes, les soeurs, at Agatha Gaillard Gallery, Paris.
graphic materials
1965-1985, 1994, 2000-2003
textual records
DR2001:0020
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Documents include Business development General files: Alteka office building correspondences, Wexner correspondences, Centre of Berlin correspondences, memorandums, capital improvements bulletin from Ohio Department of Administrative services, Aleppo telephone conversation records, drawings, maps, plans, Purpose of the project bibliotheque de France, notes, World Architecture Triennial correspondences, qualification submission package for design of Museum of science and technology for Phoenix Arizona. Business development for Museum of Contemporary Art: documentations, correspondences, memo, notes, business contracts, telephone conversation records. Business development for San Diego Convention Centre competition: documentation and correspondences. Business development for Matrix: documentation, correspondences, plans, elevations. New Business Proposals rejected: the county of Mobile, Alabama in cooperation with the City of Mobile, documentation, correspondences, clippings. UC Riverside: photographs, draft-qualification statement science library, notes, telephone conversation records, fax transmittals, correspondences, documentation report, list of articles on Peter Eisenman in books, periodicals and catalogues. American Centre for Physics: statement of interest, correspondences, documentation, notes, faxes transmittals. Business Development General for Time-Pack Museum: fax communications. The Mandell Companies, Inc: report exhibits to the business plan, memo, correspondences, documentation, business plan, report of the Rick Mandell trip to Israel, clipping, curriculum vitea of Rick Mandell. Business Development for General Lake Superior Centre: statement of interest, correspondences, notes. Cleveland State University: capital improvements bulletin (Ohio department of administrative service) request for professional design services, telephone conversation records, documentation records, documentation program and Urban Design phase, clippings. Charlestown Navy Yard: notes, clippings, telephone conversation records, competition fees, professional cards, fax transmittals, project program, Harbor Park District Zoning amendment. Case Western Reserve University macromolecular science facility: proposal of phase one, memorandum 1990, chemistry note DRCON1999:0015:087:004. Koc University: statement of interest, meeting minutes, memo, correspondences, documentation, map of Istanbul, fax transmittals. The JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: promotion material folder, correspondences, meeting minutes, notes. The Environmental design building, University of California: proposal for detailed project program, maps, fax transmittals, notes, and documentations. Aerospace Centre Washington DC: Album with photographs, drawings and plans.
Correspondence and other administrative records for various projects
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DR2001:0020
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Documents include Business development General files: Alteka office building correspondences, Wexner correspondences, Centre of Berlin correspondences, memorandums, capital improvements bulletin from Ohio Department of Administrative services, Aleppo telephone conversation records, drawings, maps, plans, Purpose of the project bibliotheque de France, notes, World Architecture Triennial correspondences, qualification submission package for design of Museum of science and technology for Phoenix Arizona. Business development for Museum of Contemporary Art: documentations, correspondences, memo, notes, business contracts, telephone conversation records. Business development for San Diego Convention Centre competition: documentation and correspondences. Business development for Matrix: documentation, correspondences, plans, elevations. New Business Proposals rejected: the county of Mobile, Alabama in cooperation with the City of Mobile, documentation, correspondences, clippings. UC Riverside: photographs, draft-qualification statement science library, notes, telephone conversation records, fax transmittals, correspondences, documentation report, list of articles on Peter Eisenman in books, periodicals and catalogues. American Centre for Physics: statement of interest, correspondences, documentation, notes, faxes transmittals. Business Development General for Time-Pack Museum: fax communications. The Mandell Companies, Inc: report exhibits to the business plan, memo, correspondences, documentation, business plan, report of the Rick Mandell trip to Israel, clipping, curriculum vitea of Rick Mandell. Business Development for General Lake Superior Centre: statement of interest, correspondences, notes. Cleveland State University: capital improvements bulletin (Ohio department of administrative service) request for professional design services, telephone conversation records, documentation records, documentation program and Urban Design phase, clippings. Charlestown Navy Yard: notes, clippings, telephone conversation records, competition fees, professional cards, fax transmittals, project program, Harbor Park District Zoning amendment. Case Western Reserve University macromolecular science facility: proposal of phase one, memorandum 1990, chemistry note DRCON1999:0015:087:004. Koc University: statement of interest, meeting minutes, memo, correspondences, documentation, map of Istanbul, fax transmittals. The JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: promotion material folder, correspondences, meeting minutes, notes. The Environmental design building, University of California: proposal for detailed project program, maps, fax transmittals, notes, and documentations. Aerospace Centre Washington DC: Album with photographs, drawings and plans.
textual records
textual records
DR2012:0012:111:009
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Assorted reference materials in French, including reports and proposals related to the following Montreal municipal projects: - Société d'habitation et de dévéloppement de Montréal, site Hotel-de-Ville, la Gauchetiere, étude de faisabilité; - Énoncé d'orientations sur l'aménagement de l'arrondissement centre; - Étude pre-faisabilité environmentale du projet Champs-de-Mars; - Centre-ville est: opération 20 000 logements. Items originally housed in a box labelled: VILLE DE MONTREAL / SHDU Faubourg St-Laurent 1990 (Box #2)
1985-1989
Reference materials related to urban development in Montréal
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DR2012:0012:111:009
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Assorted reference materials in French, including reports and proposals related to the following Montreal municipal projects: - Société d'habitation et de dévéloppement de Montréal, site Hotel-de-Ville, la Gauchetiere, étude de faisabilité; - Énoncé d'orientations sur l'aménagement de l'arrondissement centre; - Étude pre-faisabilité environmentale du projet Champs-de-Mars; - Centre-ville est: opération 20 000 logements. Items originally housed in a box labelled: VILLE DE MONTREAL / SHDU Faubourg St-Laurent 1990 (Box #2)
textual records
1985-1989