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archives
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Fonds
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Ábalos & Herreros fonds
Ábalos & Herreros fonds
Reference number:
AP164
Synopsis:
The Ábalos&Herreros fonds documents the activities of the architectural firm Ábalos&Herreros, founded by architects Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros. The archive primarily consists of drawings, photographic materials and textual documentation, and covers the existance of the firm from 1985 to 2008. The concentration of the firm's work was produced in the city of Madrid and the Community of Madrid where the firm maintained its head office. However, the archive also documents projects for other Spanish autonomous communities as well as for other countries such as Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
AP164
Synopsis:
The Ábalos&Herreros fonds documents the activities of the architectural firm Ábalos&Herreros, founded by architects Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros. The archive primarily consists of drawings, photographic materials and textual documentation, and covers the existance of the firm from 1985 to 2008. The concentration of the firm's work was produced in the city of Madrid and the Community of Madrid where the firm maintained its head office. However, the archive also documents projects for other Spanish autonomous communities as well as for other countries such as Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
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Date:
1920-2009
1920-2009
Title:
Ábalos & Herreros fonds
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AP164
Synopsis:
The Ábalos&Herreros fonds documents the activities of the architectural firm Ábalos&Herreros, founded by architects Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros. The archive primarily consists of drawings, photographic materials and textual documentation, and covers the existance of the firm from 1985 to 2008. The concentration of the firm's work was produced in the city of Madrid and the Community of Madrid where the firm maintained its head office. However, the archive also documents projects for other Spanish autonomous communities as well as for other countries such as Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
Ábalos & Herreros fonds
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AP164
Synopsis:
The Ábalos&Herreros fonds documents the activities of the architectural firm Ábalos&Herreros, founded by architects Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros. The archive primarily consists of drawings, photographic materials and textual documentation, and covers the existance of the firm from 1985 to 2008. The concentration of the firm's work was produced in the city of Madrid and the Community of Madrid where the firm maintained its head office. However, the archive also documents projects for other Spanish autonomous communities as well as for other countries such as Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Brazil.
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archives
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Fonds
archives
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Fonds
Date:
1920-2009
1920-2009
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textual records, photographs
textual records, photographs
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Reference number:
DR2012:0012:106:006
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including printouts, sketches, photographs, a slide, inventories of Melvin Charney's work, invoices, and notes related to the following projects: - Une oeuvre d'art publique à l'intersection de la rue Centre et de l'avenue Atwater dans le quartier Pointe St-Charles; - Usines, poteaux, maisons, drapeaux: célébration d'un quartier populaire ... Château d'eau d'usine dénoué; - In flight series ... TACA, Guatamala City, 1993; - In flight series ... an airbus on the ground at Warsaw Airport; - In flight series ... Libyan aircraft smolders at Entebbé; - In flight series ... Dienbienphu, May 7, 1954; - Rough cuts ... 4 studies; - Canada Memorial, Green Park, London ... study no. 8; - Toronto construction; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 2; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 3; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 4; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 5; - Floating houses ... Tree-House. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MC ARTWORK-CAT ENTRY NOTES
DR2012:0012:106:006
Description:
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including printouts, sketches, photographs, a slide, inventories of Melvin Charney's work, invoices, and notes related to the following projects: - Une oeuvre d'art publique à l'intersection de la rue Centre et de l'avenue Atwater dans le quartier Pointe St-Charles; - Usines, poteaux, maisons, drapeaux: célébration d'un quartier populaire ... Château d'eau d'usine dénoué; - In flight series ... TACA, Guatamala City, 1993; - In flight series ... an airbus on the ground at Warsaw Airport; - In flight series ... Libyan aircraft smolders at Entebbé; - In flight series ... Dienbienphu, May 7, 1954; - Rough cuts ... 4 studies; - Canada Memorial, Green Park, London ... study no. 8; - Toronto construction; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 2; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 3; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 4; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 5; - Floating houses ... Tree-House. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MC ARTWORK-CAT ENTRY NOTES
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Date:
2009-2011
2009-2011
Title:
Projects lists and invoices, notes, sketches and photographs related to various projects
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DR2012:0012:106:006
Description:
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including printouts, sketches, photographs, a slide, inventories of Melvin Charney's work, invoices, and notes related to the following projects: - Une oeuvre d'art publique à l'intersection de la rue Centre et de l'avenue Atwater dans le quartier Pointe St-Charles; - Usines, poteaux, maisons, drapeaux: célébration d'un quartier populaire ... Château d'eau d'usine dénoué; - In flight series ... TACA, Guatamala City, 1993; - In flight series ... an airbus on the ground at Warsaw Airport; - In flight series ... Libyan aircraft smolders at Entebbé; - In flight series ... Dienbienphu, May 7, 1954; - Rough cuts ... 4 studies; - Canada Memorial, Green Park, London ... study no. 8; - Toronto construction; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 2; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 3; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 4; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 5; - Floating houses ... Tree-House. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MC ARTWORK-CAT ENTRY NOTES
Projects lists and invoices, notes, sketches and photographs related to various projects
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DR2012:0012:106:006
Description:
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including printouts, sketches, photographs, a slide, inventories of Melvin Charney's work, invoices, and notes related to the following projects: - Une oeuvre d'art publique à l'intersection de la rue Centre et de l'avenue Atwater dans le quartier Pointe St-Charles; - Usines, poteaux, maisons, drapeaux: célébration d'un quartier populaire ... Château d'eau d'usine dénoué; - In flight series ... TACA, Guatamala City, 1993; - In flight series ... an airbus on the ground at Warsaw Airport; - In flight series ... Libyan aircraft smolders at Entebbé; - In flight series ... Dienbienphu, May 7, 1954; - Rough cuts ... 4 studies; - Canada Memorial, Green Park, London ... study no. 8; - Toronto construction; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 2; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 3; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 4; - Floating houses ... Fabreville no. 5; - Floating houses ... Tree-House. Original folder inscribed in graphite: MC ARTWORK-CAT ENTRY NOTES
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textual records, photographs
textual records, photographs
Date:
2009-2011
2009-2011
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photographs
photographs
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Reference number:
PH1979:0005:001
PH1979:0005:001
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Subject:
architecture, engineering
architecture, engineering
Date:
1864-1899
1864-1899
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photographs
photographs
Date:
1864-1899
1864-1899
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Subject:
architecture, engineering
architecture, engineering
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Reference number:
PH1980:0657:001-288
Description:
This volume contains 285 photographs on 44 leaves, of designs commissioned by Graham Anderson Probst & White for the decoration of the buildings below. They date from 1927 to 1931, and most bear the approval marks of Mr. Alfred Shaw. Firms identified on the photographs include the Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., Flour City Ornamental Iron Co, and Havlick stone Co. The designs, executed in plaster, were for doorways, panelling, cornices, plaques, ceilings, etc., for: The Morton Building, Chicago The Pittsfield Building, Chicago The Koppers Building 20 Wacker Drive Building (Civic Opera House) Merchandise Mart Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn. Marshall Field Store, Oak Park, Illinois. Pennsylvania railroad Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Higbee Department Store (location?) and at least one unindentified building. J. Gregg 3/22/70" Note by J. Gregg, dated 3/22/70, typewritten on white paper glued on first page of album
PH1980:0657:001-288
Description:
This volume contains 285 photographs on 44 leaves, of designs commissioned by Graham Anderson Probst & White for the decoration of the buildings below. They date from 1927 to 1931, and most bear the approval marks of Mr. Alfred Shaw. Firms identified on the photographs include the Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., Flour City Ornamental Iron Co, and Havlick stone Co. The designs, executed in plaster, were for doorways, panelling, cornices, plaques, ceilings, etc., for: The Morton Building, Chicago The Pittsfield Building, Chicago The Koppers Building 20 Wacker Drive Building (Civic Opera House) Merchandise Mart Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn. Marshall Field Store, Oak Park, Illinois. Pennsylvania railroad Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Higbee Department Store (location?) and at least one unindentified building. J. Gregg 3/22/70" Note by J. Gregg, dated 3/22/70, typewritten on white paper glued on first page of album
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Subject:
architecture, ornament
architecture, ornament
Date:
1927-1931
1927-1931
Title:
Album of architectural ornaments
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PH1980:0657:001-288
Description:
This volume contains 285 photographs on 44 leaves, of designs commissioned by Graham Anderson Probst & White for the decoration of the buildings below. They date from 1927 to 1931, and most bear the approval marks of Mr. Alfred Shaw. Firms identified on the photographs include the Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., Flour City Ornamental Iron Co, and Havlick stone Co. The designs, executed in plaster, were for doorways, panelling, cornices, plaques, ceilings, etc., for: The Morton Building, Chicago The Pittsfield Building, Chicago The Koppers Building 20 Wacker Drive Building (Civic Opera House) Merchandise Mart Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn. Marshall Field Store, Oak Park, Illinois. Pennsylvania railroad Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Higbee Department Store (location?) and at least one unindentified building. J. Gregg 3/22/70" Note by J. Gregg, dated 3/22/70, typewritten on white paper glued on first page of album
Album of architectural ornaments
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PH1980:0657:001-288
Description:
This volume contains 285 photographs on 44 leaves, of designs commissioned by Graham Anderson Probst & White for the decoration of the buildings below. They date from 1927 to 1931, and most bear the approval marks of Mr. Alfred Shaw. Firms identified on the photographs include the Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., Flour City Ornamental Iron Co, and Havlick stone Co. The designs, executed in plaster, were for doorways, panelling, cornices, plaques, ceilings, etc., for: The Morton Building, Chicago The Pittsfield Building, Chicago The Koppers Building 20 Wacker Drive Building (Civic Opera House) Merchandise Mart Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn. Marshall Field Store, Oak Park, Illinois. Pennsylvania railroad Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Higbee Department Store (location?) and at least one unindentified building. J. Gregg 3/22/70" Note by J. Gregg, dated 3/22/70, typewritten on white paper glued on first page of album
Date:
1927-1931
1927-1931
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architecture, ornament
architecture, ornament
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events
events
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Description:
The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
Date:
27 April 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
27 April 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Title:
Peguis First Nation and the Netley-Libau Marsh: Documenting Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy at the Mouth of Lake Winnipeg
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The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
Peguis First Nation and the Netley-Libau Marsh: Documenting Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy at the Mouth of Lake Winnipeg
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The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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events
events
Date:
27 April 2023
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
27 April 2023
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
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online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
online Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
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archives
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Fonds
archives
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Fonds
Title:
Gianni Pettena fonds
Gianni Pettena fonds
Reference number:
AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
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Date:
1960-2019
1960-2019
Title:
Gianni Pettena fonds
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AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
Gianni Pettena fonds
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AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
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archives
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Fonds
archives
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Fonds
Date:
1960-2019
1960-2019
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drawings
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24 conceptual drawing(s)
drawings
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24 conceptual drawing(s)
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AP140.S2.SS1.D31.P2
Description:
conceptual and schematic sketches and drawings showing the earlier stages of the development of the design; conceptual sketches consist of several doodles and thumbnail sketches exploring different overall shapes for the building, and alternatives for an amphitheatre-shaped building; schematic sketches and drawings show more detailed alternatives for the planning of students' rooms, service rooms, and car park, and for the shape and position of the breakfast and seminar room, twin vertical circulation cores, and escape stairs; they include a revised schedule of accommodation, a drawing for diagrammatic cross and longitudinal sections for an amphitheatre-shaped building, diagrammatic floor plans, sections, partial sections, sectional elevations, and elevation obliques, showing more developed geometrical designs for the plan and the section for the building; some drawings depict a scheme with an underground parking garage and curved access ramp; some of the schematic drawings feature doodles and thumbnail sketches, some are hand-coloured, and some are annotated
AP140.S2.SS1.D31.P2
Description:
conceptual and schematic sketches and drawings showing the earlier stages of the development of the design; conceptual sketches consist of several doodles and thumbnail sketches exploring different overall shapes for the building, and alternatives for an amphitheatre-shaped building; schematic sketches and drawings show more detailed alternatives for the planning of students' rooms, service rooms, and car park, and for the shape and position of the breakfast and seminar room, twin vertical circulation cores, and escape stairs; they include a revised schedule of accommodation, a drawing for diagrammatic cross and longitudinal sections for an amphitheatre-shaped building, diagrammatic floor plans, sections, partial sections, sectional elevations, and elevation obliques, showing more developed geometrical designs for the plan and the section for the building; some drawings depict a scheme with an underground parking garage and curved access ramp; some of the schematic drawings feature doodles and thumbnail sketches, some are hand-coloured, and some are annotated
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Conceptual and schematic sketches and drawings
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AP140.S2.SS1.D31.P2
Description:
conceptual and schematic sketches and drawings showing the earlier stages of the development of the design; conceptual sketches consist of several doodles and thumbnail sketches exploring different overall shapes for the building, and alternatives for an amphitheatre-shaped building; schematic sketches and drawings show more detailed alternatives for the planning of students' rooms, service rooms, and car park, and for the shape and position of the breakfast and seminar room, twin vertical circulation cores, and escape stairs; they include a revised schedule of accommodation, a drawing for diagrammatic cross and longitudinal sections for an amphitheatre-shaped building, diagrammatic floor plans, sections, partial sections, sectional elevations, and elevation obliques, showing more developed geometrical designs for the plan and the section for the building; some drawings depict a scheme with an underground parking garage and curved access ramp; some of the schematic drawings feature doodles and thumbnail sketches, some are hand-coloured, and some are annotated
Conceptual and schematic sketches and drawings
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AP140.S2.SS1.D31.P2
Description:
conceptual and schematic sketches and drawings showing the earlier stages of the development of the design; conceptual sketches consist of several doodles and thumbnail sketches exploring different overall shapes for the building, and alternatives for an amphitheatre-shaped building; schematic sketches and drawings show more detailed alternatives for the planning of students' rooms, service rooms, and car park, and for the shape and position of the breakfast and seminar room, twin vertical circulation cores, and escape stairs; they include a revised schedule of accommodation, a drawing for diagrammatic cross and longitudinal sections for an amphitheatre-shaped building, diagrammatic floor plans, sections, partial sections, sectional elevations, and elevation obliques, showing more developed geometrical designs for the plan and the section for the building; some drawings depict a scheme with an underground parking garage and curved access ramp; some of the schematic drawings feature doodles and thumbnail sketches, some are hand-coloured, and some are annotated
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drawings
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24 conceptual drawing(s)
drawings
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24 conceptual drawing(s)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Description:
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Title:
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Description:
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Description:
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
26 November 2008 to
19 April 2009
26 November 2008 to
19 April 2009
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Form:
events
events
Title:
The City Decoded
The City Decoded
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Description:
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
Keyword(s):
The Other Architect
The Other Architect
Date:
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
Title:
The City Decoded
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Description:
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The City Decoded
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Description:
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
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events
events
Date:
7 February 2016 to
21 February 2016
7 February 2016 to
21 February 2016
Keyword(s):
The Other Architect
The Other Architect
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Project
Project
Reference number:
AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
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Date:
1969-1971
1969-1971
Title:
Architettura Interplanetaria [Interplanetary Architecture] (1970-1971)
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
Architettura Interplanetaria [Interplanetary Architecture] (1970-1971)
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02
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The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
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1969-1971
1969-1971
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