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.
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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”).
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
drawings
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ARCH44843
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"A" Building, counter; "B" Building, ceiling plan and electrical outlets; "C" Building, overhead doors, vestibule entrance, windows, toilets, washroom, steel shutter, borrowed lights, stair, ceiling plan of auditorium, heater
Building "A", Building "B", Building "C"
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ARCH44843
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"A" Building, counter; "B" Building, ceiling plan and electrical outlets; "C" Building, overhead doors, vestibule entrance, windows, toilets, washroom, steel shutter, borrowed lights, stair, ceiling plan of auditorium, heater
drawings
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16 File
drawings
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18 File
ARCH36162
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canopy, rooms, dark room fittings, vestibule, library shelving, serveries, wash up room, partition, channel supports, toilet and shower, biochemistry room, bacteriology room, clinical lab, borrowed lights, exhaust house, office
Canopy, rooms, dark room fittings, vestibule, library shelving, serveries, wash up room
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ARCH36162
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canopy, rooms, dark room fittings, vestibule, library shelving, serveries, wash up room, partition, channel supports, toilet and shower, biochemistry room, bacteriology room, clinical lab, borrowed lights, exhaust house, office
drawings
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18 File