Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Octagonal gallery
photographs
ARCH278575
2000
photographs
2000
ARCH271046
2003
Origami tent (children's toy prototype with cloth doorway and princess motif)
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ARCH271046
2003
drawings, born digital
AP165.S7.SS1.020
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Original directory name: "final product drawings". Most common file formats: AutoCAD Drawing, ZIP Format
1996 - 1999
AutoCAD drawings and scripts for the final designs of toy products and patents
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AP165.S7.SS1.020
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Original directory name: "final product drawings". Most common file formats: AutoCAD Drawing, ZIP Format
drawings, born digital
1996 - 1999
photographs
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5 transparency(ies)
Portraits of Cuck Hoberman within the iris of the Hoberman Arch, holding a toy Hoberman sphere
ARCH268656
19 December 2001
photographs
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5 transparency(ies)
19 December 2001
photographs
Photographs depicting the Tokyo toy fair, many of which show children playing with Hoberman spheres
ARCH267915
2000
photographs
2000
drawings
ARCH276286
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Produits par Émile Lemieux.
1951 - 1953
Modifications de la salle d'exposition et des bureaux de la Toy Reliable Co. Limited
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ARCH276286
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Produits par Émile Lemieux.
drawings
1951 - 1953
PH2000:0088
topographic
1959
Partial view of trees showing a child playing with a toy car in the background, New York City, New York
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PH2000:0088
topographic
photographs
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16 transparency(ies)
ARCH271281
1998
photographs
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16 transparency(ies)
1998
photographs
ARCH268196
ca. 2000
photographs
ca. 2000