Project
AP075.S1.2003.PR06
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design proposal for the Calgary Law Courts, located on the city block between 6th and the 7th Avenue, in Calgary, Alberta. This project was part of a design competition in 2004. Oberlander concept for the landscape consisted in depicting Albert's natural landscape of the Rockies, the foothills, and the prairie. The Rockies were to be recreated with excavation material from the site and would include a water feature spilling in a elongated water basins in the foothills, transforming into the prairie represented by tall grasses. Large lawn and bosque of Aspen trees would represente the City and provides shade and seating areas. The planting plan included the use of low maintenance and indigenous plants. The project also included a green roof on top of the Council Chamber and was planned to allow the reuse of storm water. The project was not realized. The project series contains perspective drawings and site plans showing planters concept, and a complete set of building plans used as reference. The project is also documented throught correspondence, including correspondence with architects, consultants and clients, competition information, competition proposal, including landscape concept proposal by Oberlander, financial documents and photographs of the site.
2003-2004
Calgary Law Courts, Calgary, Alberta (2003-2004)
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AP075.S1.2003.PR06
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape design proposal for the Calgary Law Courts, located on the city block between 6th and the 7th Avenue, in Calgary, Alberta. This project was part of a design competition in 2004. Oberlander concept for the landscape consisted in depicting Albert's natural landscape of the Rockies, the foothills, and the prairie. The Rockies were to be recreated with excavation material from the site and would include a water feature spilling in a elongated water basins in the foothills, transforming into the prairie represented by tall grasses. Large lawn and bosque of Aspen trees would represente the City and provides shade and seating areas. The planting plan included the use of low maintenance and indigenous plants. The project also included a green roof on top of the Council Chamber and was planned to allow the reuse of storm water. The project was not realized. The project series contains perspective drawings and site plans showing planters concept, and a complete set of building plans used as reference. The project is also documented throught correspondence, including correspondence with architects, consultants and clients, competition information, competition proposal, including landscape concept proposal by Oberlander, financial documents and photographs of the site.
Project
2003-2004
textual records
DR2012:0012:130:022
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including contracts, correpondence (primarily printouts of faxes), memos, notes, photographs, price quotes, reference materials, and reprographic copies of architectural drawings and plans related to the indigenous language plaques for the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: TRIBUTE TO HUMAN RIGHTS : FIRST NATIONS : INSCRIPTIONS / GRANITE
1990-1993
Contracts, correspondence, memos, notes, photographs, and reference materials, The Canadian tribute to human rights
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DR2012:0012:130:022
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including contracts, correpondence (primarily printouts of faxes), memos, notes, photographs, price quotes, reference materials, and reprographic copies of architectural drawings and plans related to the indigenous language plaques for the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: TRIBUTE TO HUMAN RIGHTS : FIRST NATIONS : INSCRIPTIONS / GRANITE
textual records
1990-1993
photographs
ARCH255710
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File includes photos of the Indians of Canada Pavillion, which featured work by Indigenous artists including George Clutesi, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Simon Charlie, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Nathan Monture, Francis Kagige, Noel Wuttunee, Gerald Tailfeathers, Ross Woods, Tom Hill, and Jean-Marie Gros-Louis. The pavillion was built by Kanyen’kehà:ka steelworkers from Kahnawá:ke.
1967
Photographs of walkways and waterways, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH255710
Description:
File includes photos of the Indians of Canada Pavillion, which featured work by Indigenous artists including George Clutesi, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Simon Charlie, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Nathan Monture, Francis Kagige, Noel Wuttunee, Gerald Tailfeathers, Ross Woods, Tom Hill, and Jean-Marie Gros-Louis. The pavillion was built by Kanyen’kehà:ka steelworkers from Kahnawá:ke.
photographs
1967
photographs
ARCH255712
Description:
File includes photos of the Indians of Canada Pavillion, which featured work by Indigenous artists including George Clutesi, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Simon Charlie, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Nathan Monture, Francis Kagige, Noel Wuttunee, Gerald Tailfeathers, Ross Woods, Tom Hill, and Jean-Marie Gros-Louis. The pavillion was built by Kanyen’kehà:ka steelworkers from Kahnawá:ke.
1967
Photographs of services, restaurants and boutiques, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH255712
Description:
File includes photos of the Indians of Canada Pavillion, which featured work by Indigenous artists including George Clutesi, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Simon Charlie, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Nathan Monture, Francis Kagige, Noel Wuttunee, Gerald Tailfeathers, Ross Woods, Tom Hill, and Jean-Marie Gros-Louis. The pavillion was built by Kanyen’kehà:ka steelworkers from Kahnawá:ke.
photographs
1967
photographs
ARCH255717
Description:
File includes photos of the Indians of Canada Pavillion, which featured work by Indigenous artists including George Clutesi, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Simon Charlie, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Nathan Monture, Francis Kagige, Noel Wuttunee, Gerald Tailfeathers, Ross Woods, Tom Hill, and Jean-Marie Gros-Louis. The pavillion was built by Kanyen’kehà:ka steelworkers from Kahnawá:ke.
1967
Photographs of the Canada and provinces pavilions, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH255717
Description:
File includes photos of the Indians of Canada Pavillion, which featured work by Indigenous artists including George Clutesi, Henry Hunt, Tony Hunt, Simon Charlie, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray, Nathan Monture, Francis Kagige, Noel Wuttunee, Gerald Tailfeathers, Ross Woods, Tom Hill, and Jean-Marie Gros-Louis. The pavillion was built by Kanyen’kehà:ka steelworkers from Kahnawá:ke.
photographs
1967
With an Acre
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
19 June 2025 to 12 October 2025
With an Acre
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Description:
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
articles
3 November 2025
articles
Placekeeping
sustainability, indigenous, colonialism, indigeneity, reindigenize, sisterhood, sorority, ecology, food, reciprocity, land-based practices
28 December 2025
Placekeeping
Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers reflect on acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings
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archives
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Fonds
AP225
Synopsis:
The Roderick Robbie Katimavik project records describe Robbie's collaboration with his architectural partners at the Toronto-based firm Ashworth Robbie Vaughan and Williams to create Katimavik, an entry for the competition for the design of the Canadian Government’s pavilion at Expo 67. The records in this fonds relate to the project's design process, the reception of the completed structure in Canadian and international architectural discourse, reporting on the project to the Canadian government, and Expo 67 memerobilia.
1966-2017
Roderick Robbie Katimavik project records
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AP225
Synopsis:
The Roderick Robbie Katimavik project records describe Robbie's collaboration with his architectural partners at the Toronto-based firm Ashworth Robbie Vaughan and Williams to create Katimavik, an entry for the competition for the design of the Canadian Government’s pavilion at Expo 67. The records in this fonds relate to the project's design process, the reception of the completed structure in Canadian and international architectural discourse, reporting on the project to the Canadian government, and Expo 67 memerobilia.
archives
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Fonds
1966-2017
photographs
DR2012:0012:077:001:002
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File containing magazine clippings (in French), film negatives, photographs, and slides of the following: - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières (1 colour slide); - A house in the village of Cavusin (1 gelatin silver print); - Cave exteriors and interiors (5 gelatin silver prints); - 415-419 des Récollets (1 gelatin silver print); - Montreal grain elevator (1 gelatin silver print); - Interior, Connecticut General Insurance Building (1 gelatin silver print); - Street housing of Manduria, Italy, 1960 (1 colour slide); - Maison Hector Brossard (1 gelatin silver print); - Indigenous housing destroyed (1 black-and-white slide); - Unidentified house (1 colour slide); - Unidentified street (1 gelatin silver print).
ca. 1975
Press clippings and photographic materials related to projects
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DR2012:0012:077:001:002
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File containing magazine clippings (in French), film negatives, photographs, and slides of the following: - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières (1 colour slide); - A house in the village of Cavusin (1 gelatin silver print); - Cave exteriors and interiors (5 gelatin silver prints); - 415-419 des Récollets (1 gelatin silver print); - Montreal grain elevator (1 gelatin silver print); - Interior, Connecticut General Insurance Building (1 gelatin silver print); - Street housing of Manduria, Italy, 1960 (1 colour slide); - Maison Hector Brossard (1 gelatin silver print); - Indigenous housing destroyed (1 black-and-white slide); - Unidentified house (1 colour slide); - Unidentified street (1 gelatin silver print).
photographs
ca. 1975