Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
9 October 2008
Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
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ARCH158396
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Cette chemise contient de la correspondance diverse de la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, adressée à M. et Mme Roger D'Astous, soit à titre d'amis de la Fondation ou à titre d'ancien apprenti du Fellowship, selon le cas, et en particulier de la correspondance relative aux célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire de Taliesin, en 1987 ; de même que des exemplaires du bulletin Taliesin Fellowship News (Vol. 1, no 2 et vol. 2, no 1) et 1 exemplaire du Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, et 1 exemplaire de la brochure The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - An Overview 1993-1994. De plus, on retrouve parmi la correspondance : 1 lettre de William Wesley Peters 1 lettre de Mme Frank Lloyd Wright 2 cartes de souhaits signées par Frank Lloyd Wright 11,5 x 16,5cm et 13 x 18cm 1 lettre de Kamal Amin à Roger D'Astous, 1er février 1977 1 lettre de Anna Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, 4 septembre 1989 1 feuillet 19,5 x 14,5 cm 1 lettre de Morton Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, ca. septembre 1989. 1 feuillet accompagné de photocopie et coupure de presse 9,5 x 25,5 cm 1 photographie: prise à l'occasion des célébrations du 50ième de Taliesin, noir et blanc 22,5 x 25,5 cm 1 projet de lettre de Roger D'Astous à William Wesley Peters, ca. 1991
Correspondance diverse de la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright
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Cette chemise contient de la correspondance diverse de la Fondation Frank Lloyd Wright, adressée à M. et Mme Roger D'Astous, soit à titre d'amis de la Fondation ou à titre d'ancien apprenti du Fellowship, selon le cas, et en particulier de la correspondance relative aux célébrations du cinquantième anniversaire de Taliesin, en 1987 ; de même que des exemplaires du bulletin Taliesin Fellowship News (Vol. 1, no 2 et vol. 2, no 1) et 1 exemplaire du Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, et 1 exemplaire de la brochure The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - An Overview 1993-1994. De plus, on retrouve parmi la correspondance : 1 lettre de William Wesley Peters 1 lettre de Mme Frank Lloyd Wright 2 cartes de souhaits signées par Frank Lloyd Wright 11,5 x 16,5cm et 13 x 18cm 1 lettre de Kamal Amin à Roger D'Astous, 1er février 1977 1 lettre de Anna Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, 4 septembre 1989 1 feuillet 19,5 x 14,5 cm 1 lettre de Morton Delson à Micheline et Roger D'Astous, ca. septembre 1989. 1 feuillet accompagné de photocopie et coupure de presse 9,5 x 25,5 cm 1 photographie: prise à l'occasion des célébrations du 50ième de Taliesin, noir et blanc 22,5 x 25,5 cm 1 projet de lettre de Roger D'Astous à William Wesley Peters, ca. 1991
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Tangent - Alain Paiement
The first in a series of exhibitions that invites artists to create new work in response to a corpus of photographs selected from the CCA’s collection. In a provocative installation, Québec artist Alain Paiement juxtaposes a wide range of photographic subjects from the collection – buildings under construction, models of student work, architectural abstractions, different(...)
23 April 2003 to 23 November 2003
Tangent - Alain Paiement
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The first in a series of exhibitions that invites artists to create new work in response to a corpus of photographs selected from the CCA’s collection. In a provocative installation, Québec artist Alain Paiement juxtaposes a wide range of photographic subjects from the collection – buildings under construction, models of student work, architectural abstractions, different(...)
This exhibition features British architect Will Alsop’s preparatory work for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in Toronto and explores the role of painting in his design process. Completed in 2004, OCAD’s Sharp Centre for Design was designed by Alsop Architects in collaboration with the Toronto-based firm Robbie/Young + Wright. The(...)
Octagonal gallery
13 June 2008 to 5 October 2008
Will Alsop: OCAD, An Urban Manifesto
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This exhibition features British architect Will Alsop’s preparatory work for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in Toronto and explores the role of painting in his design process. Completed in 2004, OCAD’s Sharp Centre for Design was designed by Alsop Architects in collaboration with the Toronto-based firm Robbie/Young + Wright. The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP111.S3.D3
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La sous-série comprend des albums de photographies vides.
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Albums de photographies vides
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La sous-série comprend des albums de photographies vides.
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
26 January 2012 to 29 April 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
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10 March 2025
Docket
A project by Diller + Scofidio for the book The American Lawn with stereoscopic photographs by Robert Sansone
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CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
1914-2008
Gordon Matta-Clark collection
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
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The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
12 March 2015 to 17 May 2015
Industrial Architecture: Ábalos&Herreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
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The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
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ARCH267209
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The photographs on the photocollage has been taken by the Engineering Departement of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, in Montréal.
Photographs of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada Building before the alterations and during the renovation
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The photographs on the photocollage has been taken by the Engineering Departement of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, in Montréal.
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