drawings
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ARCH29433
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floor alterations, drains, staircases, retaining wall, smokestack, borrowed lights, doors, layout of toilets, stage, assembly hall
Floor alterations, drains, staircases, retaining wall, smokestack, borrowed lights
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ARCH29433
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floor alterations, drains, staircases, retaining wall, smokestack, borrowed lights, doors, layout of toilets, stage, assembly hall
drawings
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12 File
drawings
AP046.S1.1983.PR02.120
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This file includes sketches for fence, park and street lights, the Esplanade pond pavilion, and removable railings.
1984-1985
Railing and lamp post sketches, Old Port of Montreal Master Plan, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR02.120
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This file includes sketches for fence, park and street lights, the Esplanade pond pavilion, and removable railings.
drawings
1984-1985
archives
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Fonds
Gene Summers fonds
AP114
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
1957 - 2004
Gene Summers fonds
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AP114
Synopsis:
The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
archives
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Fonds
1957 - 2004
The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Hall cases
drawings
AP046.S1.1983.PR01.148
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This file includes studies and sketches for the CCA auditorium, library, gallery lights and main stair hall hand rail.
1983-1989
Various studies and sketches, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR01.148
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This file includes studies and sketches for the CCA auditorium, library, gallery lights and main stair hall hand rail.
drawings
1983-1989
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
4 July 2007 to 30 September 2007
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
Project
CP138.S5.D24
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File consists of drawings on graph paper exploring the concept of housing in, and supported by, lighter than air balloons which Gordon Matta-Clark investigated in 1977 and 1978. File contains drawings.
[1977-1978]
Balloon buildings and housing
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CP138.S5.D24
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File consists of drawings on graph paper exploring the concept of housing in, and supported by, lighter than air balloons which Gordon Matta-Clark investigated in 1977 and 1978. File contains drawings.
File 24
[1977-1978]
Project
Lighter House
AP163.S2.SS1.D10
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File documents Victor Prus's project for a single-family residence commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Saul Lighter in Montréal. Material in this file was produced in 1957. The drawings are reprographic copies.
1957
Lighter House
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AP163.S2.SS1.D10
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File documents Victor Prus's project for a single-family residence commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Saul Lighter in Montréal. Material in this file was produced in 1957. The drawings are reprographic copies.
File 10
1957
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
ARCH400120
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Notes and sketches planning the sequence of scenes with descriptions of the atmosphere (“cold dark space, without images”), lights, and sounds (“regular rhythm,” “Pygmy funeral song, Central Africa”).
ca. 1970-1971
Notes and sketches for Architettura Interplanetaria [Interplanetary Architecture]
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ARCH400120
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Notes and sketches planning the sequence of scenes with descriptions of the atmosphere (“cold dark space, without images”), lights, and sounds (“regular rhythm,” “Pygmy funeral song, Central Africa”).