DR1996:0009
Description:
- Two groups of four pastel drawings were originally produced in connection with the Village Polychrome project. The architect André Bruyère had retained one group, while the other was given to the patron and client, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, who then donated it to the Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art. Bruyère subsequently gave one of the four drawings in his group to a friend. The three remaining drawings from Bruyère's group are in the CCA Prints and Drawings collection (DR1996:0001 - DR1996:0003) ("Projet de Village Polychrome, Biot, France").
architecture
1952-1953
Perspective for a villa with three workshops, Village Polychrome, near Biot, France
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DR1996:0009
Description:
- Two groups of four pastel drawings were originally produced in connection with the Village Polychrome project. The architect André Bruyère had retained one group, while the other was given to the patron and client, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, who then donated it to the Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art. Bruyère subsequently gave one of the four drawings in his group to a friend. The three remaining drawings from Bruyère's group are in the CCA Prints and Drawings collection (DR1996:0001 - DR1996:0003) ("Projet de Village Polychrome, Biot, France").
architecture
DR1996:0010
Description:
- Two groups of four pastel drawings were originally produced in connection with the Village Polychrome project. The architect André Bruyère had retained one group, while the other was given to the patron and client, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, who then donated it to the Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art. Bruyère subsequently gave one of the four drawings in his group to a friend. The three remaining drawings from Bruyère's group are in the CCA Prints and Drawings collection (DR1996:0001 - DR1996:0003) ("Projet de Village Polychrome, Biot, France").
architecture
1952-1953
Perspective for a guest villa showing the terrace and the principal and lateral façades, Village Polychrome, near Biot, France
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DR1996:0010
Description:
- Two groups of four pastel drawings were originally produced in connection with the Village Polychrome project. The architect André Bruyère had retained one group, while the other was given to the patron and client, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, who then donated it to the Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art. Bruyère subsequently gave one of the four drawings in his group to a friend. The three remaining drawings from Bruyère's group are in the CCA Prints and Drawings collection (DR1996:0001 - DR1996:0003) ("Projet de Village Polychrome, Biot, France").
architecture
DR1996:0012
Description:
- Two groups of four pastel drawings were originally produced in connection with the Village Polychrome project. The architect André Bruyère had retained one group, while the other was given to the patron and client, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, who then donated it to the Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art. Bruyère subsequently gave one of the four drawings in his group to a friend. The three remaining drawings from Bruyère's group are in the CCA Prints and Drawings collection (DR1996:0001 - DR1996:0003) ("Projet de Village Polychrome, Biot, France").
architecture
May 1953
Specifications for Village Polychrome, near Biot, France
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DR1996:0012
Description:
- Two groups of four pastel drawings were originally produced in connection with the Village Polychrome project. The architect André Bruyère had retained one group, while the other was given to the patron and client, Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Melo, who then donated it to the Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art. Bruyère subsequently gave one of the four drawings in his group to a friend. The three remaining drawings from Bruyère's group are in the CCA Prints and Drawings collection (DR1996:0001 - DR1996:0003) ("Projet de Village Polychrome, Biot, France").
architecture
Mirrors / Miroirs
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
22 June 2017 to 14 January 2018
Mirrors / Miroirs
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Description:
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
Sub-series
AP058.S2.SS2
Description:
This subseries documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement, participation, and attendance in various conferences and lectures, like the XIII World Congress of International Union of Architects in Mexico City, Mexico (1978), the National Endowment for the Arts, an urban design educators retreat in San Juan, Porto Rico (1981), the Colloquy on Rural Development and Design, in Washington, D.C. (1987), and the Construct Canada Conference, in Toronto, Ontario (1988). The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, agendas, reports, lists of participants, papers, programmes and scheduled activities, and notes, dating from 1977 to 1990. Among the papers, there are draughts and final versions of text entitled ‘An Education in architecture’ and ‘To Critical Risk-Quality Care’.
1977-1990
Other conferences and lectures
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AP058.S2.SS2
Description:
This subseries documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement, participation, and attendance in various conferences and lectures, like the XIII World Congress of International Union of Architects in Mexico City, Mexico (1978), the National Endowment for the Arts, an urban design educators retreat in San Juan, Porto Rico (1981), the Colloquy on Rural Development and Design, in Washington, D.C. (1987), and the Construct Canada Conference, in Toronto, Ontario (1988). The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, agendas, reports, lists of participants, papers, programmes and scheduled activities, and notes, dating from 1977 to 1990. Among the papers, there are draughts and final versions of text entitled ‘An Education in architecture’ and ‘To Critical Risk-Quality Care’.
Subseries
1977-1990
Legislating Architecture explores how architecture is shaped by law and other societal regulatory systems. The film, directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, presents excerpts from conversations conducted with architects including Luigi Snozzi, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, and Christian Kerez. It is a point of departure for an issue of ARCH+ also entitled(...)
27 October 2016, 6pm
Legislating Architecture: Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth
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Legislating Architecture explores how architecture is shaped by law and other societal regulatory systems. The film, directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, presents excerpts from conversations conducted with architects including Luigi Snozzi, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, and Christian Kerez. It is a point of departure for an issue of ARCH+ also entitled(...)
events
Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
events
10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
drawings, textual records
DR2004:1290
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materials relate to the 2001 exhibition 'Cedric Price Drawings' organized by Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), in London and include correspondence, list of exhibition materials, clipping, press release, invitation card, receipt, notes, gallery floor plans and section, loan agreement forms, exhibition text, transcript of interview between Cedric Price and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and also includes site plan, elevations and exhibition layout for AFX (AP144.S2.D177)
2000-2001
Materials relate to the 2001 exhibition 'Cedric Price Drawings'
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DR2004:1290
Description:
materials relate to the 2001 exhibition 'Cedric Price Drawings' organized by Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), in London and include correspondence, list of exhibition materials, clipping, press release, invitation card, receipt, notes, gallery floor plans and section, loan agreement forms, exhibition text, transcript of interview between Cedric Price and Hans Ulrich Obrist, and also includes site plan, elevations and exhibition layout for AFX (AP144.S2.D177)
drawings, textual records
2000-2001
drawings
DR1978:0014:009
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- A student project for a park fountain dedicated to the fine arts and described in elevation, plan, and profile. Rising from a series of circular basins, the central monument -- a four-sided aedicula capped by a curved pavilion roof -- houses four allegorical figures, one on each side and set in a niche. In the entablature above the figure shown in the elevation appears the inscription "Peinture".
architecture
1886
Student project for a park fountain dedicated to the arts
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DR1978:0014:009
Description:
- A student project for a park fountain dedicated to the fine arts and described in elevation, plan, and profile. Rising from a series of circular basins, the central monument -- a four-sided aedicula capped by a curved pavilion roof -- houses four allegorical figures, one on each side and set in a niche. In the entablature above the figure shown in the elevation appears the inscription "Peinture".
drawings
1886
architecture
textual records
CD042.S1.001
Description:
Box contains a spiral bound volume of texts for the exhibition "Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture" by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, various slides of bank buildings in Canada and in the United States, research materials on Canadian bank building, including photocopies of publications, press clippings, and publications. Also contains a first spiral bound volume of press clippings on American bank buildings.
1980-1990
Research material on Canadian bank buildings
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CD042.S1.001
Description:
Box contains a spiral bound volume of texts for the exhibition "Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture" by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, various slides of bank buildings in Canada and in the United States, research materials on Canadian bank building, including photocopies of publications, press clippings, and publications. Also contains a first spiral bound volume of press clippings on American bank buildings.
textual records
1980-1990