Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Octagonal gallery
27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
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The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Octagonal gallery
textual records
ARCH260030
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Proposals: Wittington Properties; Rouse Company (Area 5 Inner Harbour, Baltimore); California Center, Los Angeles; Site analysis for Canadian Chancery; Air Defense Headquarters, Saudi Arabia; King Abdulaziz University; New BBC Radio Headquarters, London; Foreign Affairs Headquarters, Riyadh; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
1984-1989
Proposals for various projects
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ARCH260030
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Proposals: Wittington Properties; Rouse Company (Area 5 Inner Harbour, Baltimore); California Center, Los Angeles; Site analysis for Canadian Chancery; Air Defense Headquarters, Saudi Arabia; King Abdulaziz University; New BBC Radio Headquarters, London; Foreign Affairs Headquarters, Riyadh; Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
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1984-1989
photographs
AP173.S3.007
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Group consists of 5 slides of design development drawings of two projects by Neil Denari from the serial "de Architect" of November 1992 (pages 30 and 31), including drawings for Gateway Competition in Los Angeles (1988) and Tokyo International Forum Competition (1989).
n.d.
Lars Spuybroek's reference material of projects by Neil Denari
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AP173.S3.007
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Group consists of 5 slides of design development drawings of two projects by Neil Denari from the serial "de Architect" of November 1992 (pages 30 and 31), including drawings for Gateway Competition in Los Angeles (1988) and Tokyo International Forum Competition (1989).
photographs
n.d.
textual records, photographs
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4 file
ARCH241479
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Images (Anyway) - correspondence Illustrations - 35 negatives, 6 b&w photos Anyway photo research (captions and credits, permissions, etc.) - some material for the Lightness issue (issue 5 March/April 1994) of Any Magazine and some for the Anyway Journal Media Design Research / Tokyo - correspondence
1994
Anyway Journal 1994 negatives and photographs
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ARCH241479
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Images (Anyway) - correspondence Illustrations - 35 negatives, 6 b&w photos Anyway photo research (captions and credits, permissions, etc.) - some material for the Lightness issue (issue 5 March/April 1994) of Any Magazine and some for the Anyway Journal Media Design Research / Tokyo - correspondence
textual records, photographs
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4 file
1994
research
Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
5 January 2003 to 31 August 2003
Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
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Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
research
5 January 2003 to
31 August 2003
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
archives
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Fonds
Aldo Rossi fonds
AP142
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The Aldo Rossi fonds documents the professional practice of architect Aldo Rossi and that of his firm, Studio di Architettura (SDA). Drawings of nearly every project by Rossi and SDA are present, with significant Italian, German and Japanese projects particularly well represented. The fonds also includes material relating to exhibitions and some material on publications that feature the work of Rossi and his firm. Material in this fonds was produced between 1953 and 1997.
1953-1997, predominant 1962-1997
Aldo Rossi fonds
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The Aldo Rossi fonds documents the professional practice of architect Aldo Rossi and that of his firm, Studio di Architettura (SDA). Drawings of nearly every project by Rossi and SDA are present, with significant Italian, German and Japanese projects particularly well represented. The fonds also includes material relating to exhibitions and some material on publications that feature the work of Rossi and his firm. Material in this fonds was produced between 1953 and 1997.
archives
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Fonds
1953-1997, predominant 1962-1997
textual records
ARCH271696
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Group consists of documentation and texts about the Roosevelt Senior Citizen Housing Development in Roosevelt, New Jersey, including promotional project description, building description, project identification forms and text about the housing development. The group also includes clippings of articles, correspondence and a leaflet for the Passive Solar Forum in Tokyo.
1982-1993
Roosevelt - Text, Publications
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ARCH271696
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Group consists of documentation and texts about the Roosevelt Senior Citizen Housing Development in Roosevelt, New Jersey, including promotional project description, building description, project identification forms and text about the housing development. The group also includes clippings of articles, correspondence and a leaflet for the Passive Solar Forum in Tokyo.
textual records
1982-1993
ARCH273834
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The Massey Foundation Awards, on the recommendation of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada: Residence of Gordon Smith (1955), House in West Vancouver (n.d.), Simon Fraser University (1963), Man in the Community and Man & His Health, Expo '67, Canadian Pavilion Expo '70, MacMillan Bloedel Building (1965), Canadian Pavilion International Trade Fair, Tokyo,
Massey Foundation Awards awarded to Erickson
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ARCH273834
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The Massey Foundation Awards, on the recommendation of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada: Residence of Gordon Smith (1955), House in West Vancouver (n.d.), Simon Fraser University (1963), Man in the Community and Man & His Health, Expo '67, Canadian Pavilion Expo '70, MacMillan Bloedel Building (1965), Canadian Pavilion International Trade Fair, Tokyo,
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada