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DR2012:0015:021:022
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File containing documents in English and French, including correspondence (primarily printouts of emails) regarding the appraisal and donation of the following works to the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal: - Square Berri: concours d'art public : Falaises - cascades d'eau, plan urbaine, 1:400 scale; - Square Berri: concours d'art public : Falaises - cascades d'eau, plan d'implementation et système de canalisation de l'eau, 1:100 scale; - Square Berri: concours d'art public : Falaises - cascades d'eau, 1:50 scale; - Gratte-ciel, cascades d'eau / rues, ruisseaux... une construction, maquette du projet final, 1:20 scale; Also: - This must be the place, by Roy Lichtenstein. Original folder inscribed in graphite: 2006 MACM / CULT PROP
2005-2007
Correspondence related to Melvin Charney's projects
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DR2012:0015:021:022
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File containing documents in English and French, including correspondence (primarily printouts of emails) regarding the appraisal and donation of the following works to the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal: - Square Berri: concours d'art public : Falaises - cascades d'eau, plan urbaine, 1:400 scale; - Square Berri: concours d'art public : Falaises - cascades d'eau, plan d'implementation et système de canalisation de l'eau, 1:100 scale; - Square Berri: concours d'art public : Falaises - cascades d'eau, 1:50 scale; - Gratte-ciel, cascades d'eau / rues, ruisseaux... une construction, maquette du projet final, 1:20 scale; Also: - This must be the place, by Roy Lichtenstein. Original folder inscribed in graphite: 2006 MACM / CULT PROP
textual records
2005-2007
photographs
AP178.S1.1993.PR06.020
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Original file title: The J. P. Getty Museum - Provas maquete Siza's office numbered photographs in this file JPGM079- JPGM080, R-JPGM006, R-JPGM008, R-JPGM009, R-JPGM010, R-JPGM012, R-JPGM013).
1993
Photographs of model, Museu J. Paul Getty, Malibu
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AP178.S1.1993.PR06.020
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Original file title: The J. P. Getty Museum - Provas maquete Siza's office numbered photographs in this file JPGM079- JPGM080, R-JPGM006, R-JPGM008, R-JPGM009, R-JPGM010, R-JPGM012, R-JPGM013).
photographs
1993
photographs
AP178.S1.1980.PR02.SS3.009
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Original file title: Concurso-Schlesisches Tor-Block 121-Berlim Maquete-Kita não realizado. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file STK 005-019. Numbers STK005-012 were taken by Arcus.
circa 1981-1983
Photographs, negatives, and contact sheets of model for the Kindergarten, Block 121, Berlin
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AP178.S1.1980.PR02.SS3.009
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Original file title: Concurso-Schlesisches Tor-Block 121-Berlim Maquete-Kita não realizado. Siza's office numbered photographic materials in this file STK 005-019. Numbers STK005-012 were taken by Arcus.
photographs
circa 1981-1983
textual records
ARCH166518
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14 feuillets: Copies de la lettre de Jacques Rousseau à Pierre Desjardins de la Société d'Habitation et de Développement de Montréal 4 janvier 1991 4 feuillets: Lettre à Pierre-Luc Dumas du projet Faubourg Québec 11 janvier 1991 14 feuillets: Notes manuscrites et croquis à la mine de plomb: " Quelques notes de recherche" 10 feuillets: Rapport sous forme de maquette de travail 8 feuillets: notes manuscrites et croquis 12 dessins: Plans de la ville photocopies laser 28 feuillets: Copie originale du rapport d'étude 4 pages: 1 dépliant "Le Faubourg Québec" publié par la Société d'Habitation et de Développement de Montréal 28 x43 cm 4 factures 1 plan de planche de présentation 2 disquettes 3.5"
janvier-février 1991
Lettre de Jacques Rousseau à Pierre Desjardins de la Société d'Habitation et de Développement de Montréal
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ARCH166518
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14 feuillets: Copies de la lettre de Jacques Rousseau à Pierre Desjardins de la Société d'Habitation et de Développement de Montréal 4 janvier 1991 4 feuillets: Lettre à Pierre-Luc Dumas du projet Faubourg Québec 11 janvier 1991 14 feuillets: Notes manuscrites et croquis à la mine de plomb: " Quelques notes de recherche" 10 feuillets: Rapport sous forme de maquette de travail 8 feuillets: notes manuscrites et croquis 12 dessins: Plans de la ville photocopies laser 28 feuillets: Copie originale du rapport d'étude 4 pages: 1 dépliant "Le Faubourg Québec" publié par la Société d'Habitation et de Développement de Montréal 28 x43 cm 4 factures 1 plan de planche de présentation 2 disquettes 3.5"
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janvier-février 1991
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
archives
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Fonds
Victor Landriault fonds
AP111
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Le fonds est principalement constitué de documents photographiques de natures et de formats différents illustrant 12 projets de génie civil et autres constructions au Québec, en Ontario, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à Terre-Neuve, au Sri Lanka et en Algérie réalisés par la compagnie Atlas entre 1948 et 1987. On y retrouve des épreuves noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs et des diapositives. Au total, le nombre de documents photographiques est évalué à 3 553 items qui étaient à l'origine répartis dans 28 albums. Le fonds comprend aussi 139 reproductions de plans (cyanotypes) et des documents textuels se rapportant à quelques-uns des projets. Enfin, plusieurs publications ayant appartenu à Victor Landriault et relatives aux activités de l'entreprise ou aux techniques de construction, ainsi que quelques souvenirs que le donateur a conservés de l'entreprise, viennent compléter le fonds.
1948-1987
Victor Landriault fonds
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AP111
Synopsis:
Le fonds est principalement constitué de documents photographiques de natures et de formats différents illustrant 12 projets de génie civil et autres constructions au Québec, en Ontario, au Nouveau-Brunswick, à Terre-Neuve, au Sri Lanka et en Algérie réalisés par la compagnie Atlas entre 1948 et 1987. On y retrouve des épreuves noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs et des diapositives. Au total, le nombre de documents photographiques est évalué à 3 553 items qui étaient à l'origine répartis dans 28 albums. Le fonds comprend aussi 139 reproductions de plans (cyanotypes) et des documents textuels se rapportant à quelques-uns des projets. Enfin, plusieurs publications ayant appartenu à Victor Landriault et relatives aux activités de l'entreprise ou aux techniques de construction, ainsi que quelques souvenirs que le donateur a conservés de l'entreprise, viennent compléter le fonds.
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1948-1987
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
Hall cases
17 March 1993 to 1 August 1993
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
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The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
Hall cases
photographs
AP178.S1.1985.PR02.SS1.005
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Original file title: Concurso - Giudecca - Veneza - Foto © Alberto Placido - Maquete © 18 diapositivos (8 imagens) - G.001 ate G.008 + repetidas + Stampe e 35mm não digitalizado Siza's office numbered photographs in this file GC001-GC008
1984
Photographs and negatives of the model, Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte, Giudecca
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AP178.S1.1985.PR02.SS1.005
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Original file title: Concurso - Giudecca - Veneza - Foto © Alberto Placido - Maquete © 18 diapositivos (8 imagens) - G.001 ate G.008 + repetidas + Stampe e 35mm não digitalizado Siza's office numbered photographs in this file GC001-GC008
photographs
1984
Inter / Faces
How can architecture respond to a specific urban context? How can the various typologies and cultural needs of diverse inhabitants influence design? How to capture the character of a city through its buildings? Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza’s social housing projects Bonjour Tristesse and Punt en Komma, designed for immigrant communities in Berlin and The Hague(...)
29 November 2015, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Inter / Faces
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How can architecture respond to a specific urban context? How can the various typologies and cultural needs of diverse inhabitants influence design? How to capture the character of a city through its buildings? Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza’s social housing projects Bonjour Tristesse and Punt en Komma, designed for immigrant communities in Berlin and The Hague(...)