*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
Main galleries
8 September 1992 to 28 February 1993
Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal
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*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
Main galleries
Learning from... Bahrain
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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ARCH255577
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20 publications including: Tall building structure: a world view / Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Bauwelt 6 Aug. 1962 Hugo Weber: Mies van der Rohe; L'architettura July-Aug. 1955 annotated in graphite "M.G. Thesis"; Bauen & Wohnen July 1972; Arts & Architecture Nov. 1956; Western Architect & Engineer Feb. 1961; Architectural Forum Feb. 1959, June 1959, April 1961 and May 1962; Polytechnisch Tydschrift 12 Sept. 1957; Architectural Review Oct. 1977; Architectural Record Oct. 1960; Document Architettura v.1 no.14; Casabella Jan-Feb 1988; Columus Indiana: central area plan; Elkhart Indiana: Comprehensive plan for parks, recreation and open land; Elkhat Indiana: central area plan; Mauna City: a city within a city
1951-1966
Misc. publications and magazines of architecture
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ARCH255577
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20 publications including: Tall building structure: a world view / Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Bauwelt 6 Aug. 1962 Hugo Weber: Mies van der Rohe; L'architettura July-Aug. 1955 annotated in graphite "M.G. Thesis"; Bauen & Wohnen July 1972; Arts & Architecture Nov. 1956; Western Architect & Engineer Feb. 1961; Architectural Forum Feb. 1959, June 1959, April 1961 and May 1962; Polytechnisch Tydschrift 12 Sept. 1957; Architectural Review Oct. 1977; Architectural Record Oct. 1960; Document Architettura v.1 no.14; Casabella Jan-Feb 1988; Columus Indiana: central area plan; Elkhart Indiana: Comprehensive plan for parks, recreation and open land; Elkhat Indiana: central area plan; Mauna City: a city within a city
textual records
1951-1966
Learning from... Dubai
Yasser Elsheshtawy presents the second lecture in the series Learning From… the Middle East.Whether presented as a playground for the super-rich, a land of unabashed consumerism, or an exemplary case study for capitalist exploitation – such portrayals ultimately suggest a one-sided dimension of the city of Dubai. The talk will examine the spaces of the everyday, the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
29 September 2011 , 7PM
Learning from... Dubai
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Yasser Elsheshtawy presents the second lecture in the series Learning From… the Middle East.Whether presented as a playground for the super-rich, a land of unabashed consumerism, or an exemplary case study for capitalist exploitation – such portrayals ultimately suggest a one-sided dimension of the city of Dubai. The talk will examine the spaces of the everyday, the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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AP206.S1.1975.PR01
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This project series documents Aditya Prakash's proposal for an alternative plan for Chandigarh, India, which came to be known as the Linear City. Prakash began developing and advocating for this idea around the early 1970s. The Linear City had two fundamental ideas at its core. The first was to raise the roadways in Chandigarh (or any future city) 10-12 feet from ground level. This, he proposed, would separate vehicular traffic from pedestrians, eliminating all the hazardous impacts of traffic on daily life. The large part of the drawings for this project show sector plans and city blocks with evenly dispersed roundabout roadways as major transit hubs, wrapping around but high above centres of pedestrian activity that included shops, markets and green spaces. The sale of the land below the roadways would pay for the upheaval. He also recommended building this city only a few sectors deep, but endlessly expanding it length-wise, with a raised canal along one side to provide an additional transpiration network and irrigation. The second fundamental idea of this city was the creation of self-sustaining sectors in the city plan, advocating that each neighbourhood should have the infrastructure to provide food and recycling for its residents. He fervently argued for the reimagination of modernist Chandigarh by incorporating sustainable, local traditions - the rural should exist in harmony with the urban. In opposition to Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, he believed areas for recycling, animal husbandry, and growing food should be incorporated into the fabric of the city.[1] This project is recorded largely through original drawings of city plans, perspectives and axonometric views detailing Prakash's new vision for the city. It seems that many of the perspectives were drawn by family friend Sandeep Virmani, after listening to Prakash's ideas.[2] The project is also recorded through photographs, negatives and slides showing plans and the project model. A small amount of notes and an article on the project are also included. [1]Vikramaditya Prakash, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash (Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019), 164-181. [2]Prakash, One Continuous Line, 169.
circa 1975-2003
Linear city, Chandigarh, India (circa 1975-1987)
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AP206.S1.1975.PR01
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This project series documents Aditya Prakash's proposal for an alternative plan for Chandigarh, India, which came to be known as the Linear City. Prakash began developing and advocating for this idea around the early 1970s. The Linear City had two fundamental ideas at its core. The first was to raise the roadways in Chandigarh (or any future city) 10-12 feet from ground level. This, he proposed, would separate vehicular traffic from pedestrians, eliminating all the hazardous impacts of traffic on daily life. The large part of the drawings for this project show sector plans and city blocks with evenly dispersed roundabout roadways as major transit hubs, wrapping around but high above centres of pedestrian activity that included shops, markets and green spaces. The sale of the land below the roadways would pay for the upheaval. He also recommended building this city only a few sectors deep, but endlessly expanding it length-wise, with a raised canal along one side to provide an additional transpiration network and irrigation. The second fundamental idea of this city was the creation of self-sustaining sectors in the city plan, advocating that each neighbourhood should have the infrastructure to provide food and recycling for its residents. He fervently argued for the reimagination of modernist Chandigarh by incorporating sustainable, local traditions - the rural should exist in harmony with the urban. In opposition to Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, he believed areas for recycling, animal husbandry, and growing food should be incorporated into the fabric of the city.[1] This project is recorded largely through original drawings of city plans, perspectives and axonometric views detailing Prakash's new vision for the city. It seems that many of the perspectives were drawn by family friend Sandeep Virmani, after listening to Prakash's ideas.[2] The project is also recorded through photographs, negatives and slides showing plans and the project model. A small amount of notes and an article on the project are also included. [1]Vikramaditya Prakash, One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash (Ahmedabad, India: Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2019), 164-181. [2]Prakash, One Continuous Line, 169.
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circa 1975-2003
articles
Living Landscapes
Living Landscapes
Robyn Adams, Julia Pingeton, and Marie Pontais reflect on the transitional space of the shoreline
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DR1985:0415
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- DR1985:0415 presents a cartographic survey of Wimbledon Park as "improved" in the second half of the eighteenth century. Covering some 1,200 acres, the park as shown in this plan contains all the elements of Capability Brown's mature landscape style: expanses of grass traversed by meandering paths, irregular plantings of trees placed singly and in clumps, and winding streams dammed to create a large, irregular lake near the centre of the property and several small ponds about the periphery. The main house (built 1732-33 for Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough), its outbuildings, and the village church are shown at the southern end of the park, as is a kitchen garden dating from an earlier period. Roads, lanes, and neighbouring properties are neatly labelled in the draughtsman's hand, and the fall of the land has been indicated in shade lines.
landscape architecture, topographic
between 1765 and 1785
A survey plan of Wimbledon Park as designed for Lord Spencer by Capability Brown
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DR1985:0415
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- DR1985:0415 presents a cartographic survey of Wimbledon Park as "improved" in the second half of the eighteenth century. Covering some 1,200 acres, the park as shown in this plan contains all the elements of Capability Brown's mature landscape style: expanses of grass traversed by meandering paths, irregular plantings of trees placed singly and in clumps, and winding streams dammed to create a large, irregular lake near the centre of the property and several small ponds about the periphery. The main house (built 1732-33 for Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough), its outbuildings, and the village church are shown at the southern end of the park, as is a kitchen garden dating from an earlier period. Roads, lanes, and neighbouring properties are neatly labelled in the draughtsman's hand, and the fall of the land has been indicated in shade lines.
landscape architecture, topographic
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
30 January 2014 to 25 May 2014
Photographing the Arab City in the Nineteenth Century
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By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
archives
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Fonds
AP195
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The Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records, 1996-2015, consist of approximately 43,800 digital files that document the design and construction of an interactive science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Materials related to presentations, publications, events, and the press are also represented. Formats include chiefly CAD files, especially plotter files and AutoCAD drawings, though related text documents and images are also represented. The majority of the records date from 2000 to 2006.
1996 - 2015
Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records
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AP195
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The Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records, 1996-2015, consist of approximately 43,800 digital files that document the design and construction of an interactive science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Materials related to presentations, publications, events, and the press are also represented. Formats include chiefly CAD files, especially plotter files and AutoCAD drawings, though related text documents and images are also represented. The majority of the records date from 2000 to 2006.
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1996 - 2015
DR2007:0018:003
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Page bound essay, "The Positive and Negative Influences of Electronic Systems on Architecture", 8 1/2" x 14", April 1983; summary presented at international conference in Warsaw, Poland, spring 1983; essay published as "Enjoying Electronic Mannerisms" in the journal CRIT, Fall 1984, pp. 14-18, as part of a special issue on "The Next Architecture" by Aaron Betsky; essay also published as "Sony Walkman-Adorned Teleriders Moving Through Cable Networks of Computerized Cottage Land, Under the Skies of Overcrowded Orbital Slots: Enjoying Electronic Mannerisms", The Fifth Column, Vo. 5, winter 1984 (Montreal); and parts of this project were discussed by Christopher Hume in The Toronto Star, January 19, 1985. Also, five original collage and colour pencil drawings on illustration board, each 8 1/2" x 14" that were the source of illustrations for the bound essay and the subsequent publications.
1983
Untitled work for the essay "The Positive and Negative Influences of Electronic Systems on Architecture"
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DR2007:0018:003
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Page bound essay, "The Positive and Negative Influences of Electronic Systems on Architecture", 8 1/2" x 14", April 1983; summary presented at international conference in Warsaw, Poland, spring 1983; essay published as "Enjoying Electronic Mannerisms" in the journal CRIT, Fall 1984, pp. 14-18, as part of a special issue on "The Next Architecture" by Aaron Betsky; essay also published as "Sony Walkman-Adorned Teleriders Moving Through Cable Networks of Computerized Cottage Land, Under the Skies of Overcrowded Orbital Slots: Enjoying Electronic Mannerisms", The Fifth Column, Vo. 5, winter 1984 (Montreal); and parts of this project were discussed by Christopher Hume in The Toronto Star, January 19, 1985. Also, five original collage and colour pencil drawings on illustration board, each 8 1/2" x 14" that were the source of illustrations for the bound essay and the subsequent publications.