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Carbon Tower (2001)
AP174.S1.2001.D1
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This project file documents an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Carbon Tower (2001), a forty-storey building made almost entirely of carbon fibre. The project was developed in parallel with scripting software designed while Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser co-directed the Emergent Design Group at MIT. "The tower consists of an interdependent set of parts: floor plates hang from a diagrid structure of bundled fibres reinforced by two double-helix covered ramps, which are run in and out of the structure and are themselves made of strands woven at a finer scale. A thin composite skin—glass would be too heavy—wraps the tower’s parts together. A collaboration with Arup in 2002 allowed Testa & Weiser to simplify the scheme even further, by moving all core elements, from elevators to structural supports, to the tower’s perimeter. To take full advantage of the flexibility and energy efficiency of composite materials, Testa & Weiser also imagined that the carbon fibre structures would be formed on site through a process called pultrusion."[1] The file contains a large number of digital files documenting the conceptual and design development of the project; consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York; research on composite materials; fabrication of 3D printed physical models by 3D Systems and Windform; and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Also contained in the file are 56 paper drawings (including some sketches done on top of printed computer-aided designs) and two 3D printed physical models produced by 3D Systems. Sources: [1] Canadian Centre for Architecture. Archaeology of the Digital 12: Testa & Weiser, Carbon Tower, ed. Greg Lynn (2015), ISBN 978-1-927071-25-0.
2002-2014
Carbon Tower (2001)
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AP174.S1.2001.D1
Description:
This project file documents an unbuilt design by Testa & Weiser for Carbon Tower (2001), a forty-storey building made almost entirely of carbon fibre. The project was developed in parallel with scripting software designed while Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser co-directed the Emergent Design Group at MIT. "The tower consists of an interdependent set of parts: floor plates hang from a diagrid structure of bundled fibres reinforced by two double-helix covered ramps, which are run in and out of the structure and are themselves made of strands woven at a finer scale. A thin composite skin—glass would be too heavy—wraps the tower’s parts together. A collaboration with Arup in 2002 allowed Testa & Weiser to simplify the scheme even further, by moving all core elements, from elevators to structural supports, to the tower’s perimeter. To take full advantage of the flexibility and energy efficiency of composite materials, Testa & Weiser also imagined that the carbon fibre structures would be formed on site through a process called pultrusion."[1] The file contains a large number of digital files documenting the conceptual and design development of the project; consultation with Arup Consulting Engineers, New York; research on composite materials; fabrication of 3D printed physical models by 3D Systems and Windform; and exhibition of the project at several museums and galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. Also contained in the file are 56 paper drawings (including some sketches done on top of printed computer-aided designs) and two 3D printed physical models produced by 3D Systems. Sources: [1] Canadian Centre for Architecture. Archaeology of the Digital 12: Testa & Weiser, Carbon Tower, ed. Greg Lynn (2015), ISBN 978-1-927071-25-0.
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2002-2014
books, photographs
PH1990:0327:001-073
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- Contemporary binding consists of purple cloth-covered boards and purple leather-covered spine and corners. There is a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers and secondary supports are of light brownish white paper. The book is comprised of 34 pages of text and 74 photographs.
architecture
printed ca. 1862
May's Views of Buckinghamshire
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PH1990:0327:001-073
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- Contemporary binding consists of purple cloth-covered boards and purple leather-covered spine and corners. There is a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers and secondary supports are of light brownish white paper. The book is comprised of 34 pages of text and 74 photographs.
books, photographs
printed ca. 1862
architecture
Toys and Transport
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
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(...)
Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 November 1990 to 31 March 1991
Buildings in Boxes: Architectural Toys from the CCA
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Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Montréal
Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
2 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Montréal
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Lance Blomgren uses his 2009 book Walkups—a novella set entirely within Montréal’s row house apartment buildings—as a springboard for an analysis of the discursive plane of fictional architecture. Looking at works by John Hejduk, Ilya Kabakov, Alice Aycock and others, Blomgren argues that contemporary modes of speculative architecture offer a vital, if ethically fraught,(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Project
AP149.S1.2004.PR01
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The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of research, design and construction to demonstrate the benefits of urban agriculture as a permanent feature in housing design and urban planning. A first phase of the project, from 2004 to 2007, the study project took place in developping countries in three diffrent sites: Colombo, Sri Lanka; Rosario, Argentina; and Kampala, Uganda. The project was funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and supported by the ETC-Urban Agriculture Unit in the Netherlands and the Resource centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF). In 2007, a second phase of the project had for objective to implement an urban agriculture production in Montréal. The Minimum Cost Housing Group team created, on McGill Campus, a vegetable garden on the terrace of a parking garage. The project is now known as "Making Edible Campus" and is still on-going. The material in this project series was produced between 2003 and 2010. The project series contains a large collection of working documents and reports submitted to funding institutions, correspondence with collaborators on the three sites, and also photographss of the project in Colombo, Kampala, Rosario sites. Also included are various artefacts related to the sites in the three developping countries and a board game "Gardenpoly" created by the Urban Agriculture seminar students on urban agriculture in Montréal. Promotional panels for the Making Edible Campus are also included.
2003-2010
Urban agriculture demonstration
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AP149.S1.2004.PR01
Description:
The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of research, design and construction to demonstrate the benefits of urban agriculture as a permanent feature in housing design and urban planning. A first phase of the project, from 2004 to 2007, the study project took place in developping countries in three diffrent sites: Colombo, Sri Lanka; Rosario, Argentina; and Kampala, Uganda. The project was funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and supported by the ETC-Urban Agriculture Unit in the Netherlands and the Resource centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF). In 2007, a second phase of the project had for objective to implement an urban agriculture production in Montréal. The Minimum Cost Housing Group team created, on McGill Campus, a vegetable garden on the terrace of a parking garage. The project is now known as "Making Edible Campus" and is still on-going. The material in this project series was produced between 2003 and 2010. The project series contains a large collection of working documents and reports submitted to funding institutions, correspondence with collaborators on the three sites, and also photographss of the project in Colombo, Kampala, Rosario sites. Also included are various artefacts related to the sites in the three developping countries and a board game "Gardenpoly" created by the Urban Agriculture seminar students on urban agriculture in Montréal. Promotional panels for the Making Edible Campus are also included.
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2003-2010
drawings, books
PH1990:0325:001-023
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- Contemporary binding consists of a grey paper cover. There are inscriptions on the spine and cover. Endpapers and pages are of light brownish white paper. Secondary supports are of light brownish white cardboard. The book is comprised of a dedication page, a plan of the exposition, a title page, 178 pages of text and 23 photographs.
architecture, sculpture
published 1883
Exposition Internationale d'Art Industriel: Palais Rameau, 1882, Documents
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PH1990:0325:001-023
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- Contemporary binding consists of a grey paper cover. There are inscriptions on the spine and cover. Endpapers and pages are of light brownish white paper. Secondary supports are of light brownish white cardboard. The book is comprised of a dedication page, a plan of the exposition, a title page, 178 pages of text and 23 photographs.
drawings, books
published 1883
architecture, sculpture
archives
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Fonds
AP190
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The Preston Scott Cohen Eyebeam project records, 2001-2016, consist of 281 digital files that document the architect’s competition entry for the Eyebeam Atelier Museum in New York City, developed in 2001. The archive includes 154 digital models in Rhinoceros, 30 digital models in STL, approximately 90 digital images, one video, and a number of Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, and Microsoft Word files.
2001-2016
Preston Scott Cohen Eyebeam project records
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AP190
Synopsis:
The Preston Scott Cohen Eyebeam project records, 2001-2016, consist of 281 digital files that document the architect’s competition entry for the Eyebeam Atelier Museum in New York City, developed in 2001. The archive includes 154 digital models in Rhinoceros, 30 digital models in STL, approximately 90 digital images, one video, and a number of Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, and Microsoft Word files.
archives
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Fonds
2001-2016
photographs
PH1989:0264:001-008
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- Contemporary binding consists of a grey paper cover, tied with red and grey string. There is a white ink inscription, a red stamp and a photograph on the cover. The secondary supports are of black paper. The album is comprised of 8 photographs, all of which have inscribed titles, except for the photograph attached to the cover.
architecture, topographic
before 1903
Album of views of Birtle showing topography and architecture, Manitoba
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PH1989:0264:001-008
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- Contemporary binding consists of a grey paper cover, tied with red and grey string. There is a white ink inscription, a red stamp and a photograph on the cover. The secondary supports are of black paper. The album is comprised of 8 photographs, all of which have inscribed titles, except for the photograph attached to the cover.
photographs
before 1903
architecture, topographic