Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
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17 January 1990 to 22 April 1990
Process as Interpretation: Photographs from the CCA
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Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
Hall cases
textual records
ARCH276176
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43 files - Group contains subject working files, project files, press materials, professional organizations and honours and files related to book and film projects. Files are generally organized alphabetically, A-P, and include: Association of International Architects; Arthur Erickson Commercial Buildings (large scale developments); AIA Gold Medal Certificate, Honours, Awards and C.V.; Avon; Architect License - Washington; AIBC Learning Units and Correspondence; AIBC Notice of Inquiry; Book - "Works in Concrete"; Canada Council - Architecture Office; Changsha/Weihai 2004; China Trip 2003; Concord Pacific; Contacts; Edmonton Art Gallery; Evelyn Drive; Evergreen/Coal Harbour; Gastown Canopy; Governor General - Correspondence; International Academy of Architecture; Kunming Trip June 2003; Life & Times Doc.; Lethbridge - Larry Paterson; Museum of Anthropology Expansion files; Oberlander, Cornelia; Onley, Yukiko - book; Order of British Columbia; "Passions"- Documentary.
ca. 2000-2005
Project files, press materials, and various office files
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ARCH276176
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43 files - Group contains subject working files, project files, press materials, professional organizations and honours and files related to book and film projects. Files are generally organized alphabetically, A-P, and include: Association of International Architects; Arthur Erickson Commercial Buildings (large scale developments); AIA Gold Medal Certificate, Honours, Awards and C.V.; Avon; Architect License - Washington; AIBC Learning Units and Correspondence; AIBC Notice of Inquiry; Book - "Works in Concrete"; Canada Council - Architecture Office; Changsha/Weihai 2004; China Trip 2003; Concord Pacific; Contacts; Edmonton Art Gallery; Evelyn Drive; Evergreen/Coal Harbour; Gastown Canopy; Governor General - Correspondence; International Academy of Architecture; Kunming Trip June 2003; Life & Times Doc.; Lethbridge - Larry Paterson; Museum of Anthropology Expansion files; Oberlander, Cornelia; Onley, Yukiko - book; Order of British Columbia; "Passions"- Documentary.
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ca. 2000-2005
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
drawings
DR1988:0433:042
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- These drawings of moulding profiles are tentatively identified as jamb profiles because of similarities to the jamb profile on DR1988:0433:025. - One of a group of working drawings for William Burn's October 1849 project for Fonthill House, Wiltshire, a country house designed in the Jacobethan style. This group represents only one of the projects that Burn proposed for Fonthill House; the final project, executed in 1856, was much smaller (Walker, 31, illustrated in Hitchcock, vol. 2, fig. VIII 31). Drawings include plans, elevations, and sections, as well as full-scale drawings of masonry details. Approximately half of the drawings are part of a numbered series from one to twenty-two, while the other drawings, mostly masonry details, were not numbered. These latter drawings are not as carefully finished, and a few are incomplete.
architecture
October 1849 ?
Details for stonework for Fonthill House, possibly sections for jambs
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DR1988:0433:042
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- These drawings of moulding profiles are tentatively identified as jamb profiles because of similarities to the jamb profile on DR1988:0433:025. - One of a group of working drawings for William Burn's October 1849 project for Fonthill House, Wiltshire, a country house designed in the Jacobethan style. This group represents only one of the projects that Burn proposed for Fonthill House; the final project, executed in 1856, was much smaller (Walker, 31, illustrated in Hitchcock, vol. 2, fig. VIII 31). Drawings include plans, elevations, and sections, as well as full-scale drawings of masonry details. Approximately half of the drawings are part of a numbered series from one to twenty-two, while the other drawings, mostly masonry details, were not numbered. These latter drawings are not as carefully finished, and a few are incomplete.
drawings
October 1849 ?
architecture
archives
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CD033
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The Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection primarily consists of presentation materials, publications and born digital materials, like videos and photographs, by Aldo Cibic produced between 2003 and 2008 for the project “Microrealities”.
2003-2008
Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection
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CD033
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The Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection primarily consists of presentation materials, publications and born digital materials, like videos and photographs, by Aldo Cibic produced between 2003 and 2008 for the project “Microrealities”.
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2003-2008
DR1974:0002:003:001-105
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- This album consists primarily of design development drawings and the architect's copies of the working drawings for Hôtel Soltykoff. The hôtel consisted of a single rectangular pavilion with a central porte cochère and a rear courtyard with an outbuilding. The principal façade facing rue Saint-Arnaud (now rue Volney) and the interior were lavishly decorated. The structure of the hôtel consisted of load-bearing masonry combined with cast-iron columns, iron beams, and interior wood framing. The exterior was finished with cut stone. The album contains plans, elevations, details and sections, and full-scale drawings of the architectural elements, ornamentation, as well as joinery. Many of the drawings and transfer lithographs are inscribed with both the date of the drawing/original and the date of contract. Revisions, which are also often dated, have been made either directly on the drawing or on pieces of paper attached to the sheets. Inscriptions indicate that in some cases these revisions were added after the construction of the building. Also included are preliminary drawings (DR1974:0002:003:028 R/V), and detailed interior views, some of which are partially coloured with watercolour (DR1974:0002:003:049, DR1974:0002:003:069, DR1974:0002:003:078). The drawings and transfer lithographs have been grouped, possibly by the compiler of the album, according to the part of the building represented, and by the type of construction: stonework, woodwork, framework, and ironwork. Unbound material inserted into the album includes four large unbound full-scale preliminary sketches for architectural ornament, possibly for Hôtel Soltykoff (DR1974:0002:003:061 - DR1974:0002:003:064) and two drawings for a terrace and staircase, apparently not for Hôtel Soltykoff (DR1974:0002:003:003 and DR1974:0002:003:042).
architecture
1854-1858, printed 1854-1858
Album of prints and drawings for Hôtel Soltykoff, rue Saint-Arnaud, Paris
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DR1974:0002:003:001-105
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- This album consists primarily of design development drawings and the architect's copies of the working drawings for Hôtel Soltykoff. The hôtel consisted of a single rectangular pavilion with a central porte cochère and a rear courtyard with an outbuilding. The principal façade facing rue Saint-Arnaud (now rue Volney) and the interior were lavishly decorated. The structure of the hôtel consisted of load-bearing masonry combined with cast-iron columns, iron beams, and interior wood framing. The exterior was finished with cut stone. The album contains plans, elevations, details and sections, and full-scale drawings of the architectural elements, ornamentation, as well as joinery. Many of the drawings and transfer lithographs are inscribed with both the date of the drawing/original and the date of contract. Revisions, which are also often dated, have been made either directly on the drawing or on pieces of paper attached to the sheets. Inscriptions indicate that in some cases these revisions were added after the construction of the building. Also included are preliminary drawings (DR1974:0002:003:028 R/V), and detailed interior views, some of which are partially coloured with watercolour (DR1974:0002:003:049, DR1974:0002:003:069, DR1974:0002:003:078). The drawings and transfer lithographs have been grouped, possibly by the compiler of the album, according to the part of the building represented, and by the type of construction: stonework, woodwork, framework, and ironwork. Unbound material inserted into the album includes four large unbound full-scale preliminary sketches for architectural ornament, possibly for Hôtel Soltykoff (DR1974:0002:003:061 - DR1974:0002:003:064) and two drawings for a terrace and staircase, apparently not for Hôtel Soltykoff (DR1974:0002:003:003 and DR1974:0002:003:042).
architecture
DR1980:0060:001
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- This perspective drawing, with the plans for the first (DR1980:0060:002) and second (DR1980:0060:003) floors, form a set of early presentation drawings. According to David De Long, the scale is probably 1/4" = 1' (see object file). The house is presented as if seen from behind a window across the street. De Long also notes that this drawing does not show the low wall and the garden court indicated in the plans shown in Hitchcock; that the CCA drawing portrays a less cubic house than the photograph of the building in Hitchcock due to the former's higher point of view; and that the front windows in the drawing extend down to a sill slightly higher than that which supports the plants whereas they stop short of halfway down to the "plant" sill in the finished house.
architecture
1915
Exterior perspective for the street facade for Emil Bach House, Chicago, Illinois
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DR1980:0060:001
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- This perspective drawing, with the plans for the first (DR1980:0060:002) and second (DR1980:0060:003) floors, form a set of early presentation drawings. According to David De Long, the scale is probably 1/4" = 1' (see object file). The house is presented as if seen from behind a window across the street. De Long also notes that this drawing does not show the low wall and the garden court indicated in the plans shown in Hitchcock; that the CCA drawing portrays a less cubic house than the photograph of the building in Hitchcock due to the former's higher point of view; and that the front windows in the drawing extend down to a sill slightly higher than that which supports the plants whereas they stop short of halfway down to the "plant" sill in the finished house.
architecture
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
Main galleries
20 October 2004 to 11 September 2005
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
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During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
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drawings
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37 design development drawing(s)
AP140.S2.SS1.D31.P3
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set of numbered drawings (dated September 1966) showing floor plans (including a basement plan with underground parking garage and ramp), cross sections, a longitudinal section, a bird's-eye plan oblique, and plans for typical furnished students' rooms; includes sets of drawings and sketches comprising floor plans and cross sections, a cross section and ground floor plan (dated February 1967) showing a parking garage below the modified A-frames, a few preliminary plans and cross sections at a larger scale, and preliminary plans for typical furnished students' rooms; there is a group of design development drawings (dated June 1967) on a larger format of paper, consisting of floor plans, plans for typical furnished students' rooms, cross sections, a partial section, longitudinal sections, elevations, and sectional elevations, and there is a bird's-eye plan oblique (dated September 1967)
1966-1967
Set of numbered drawings
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AP140.S2.SS1.D31.P3
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set of numbered drawings (dated September 1966) showing floor plans (including a basement plan with underground parking garage and ramp), cross sections, a longitudinal section, a bird's-eye plan oblique, and plans for typical furnished students' rooms; includes sets of drawings and sketches comprising floor plans and cross sections, a cross section and ground floor plan (dated February 1967) showing a parking garage below the modified A-frames, a few preliminary plans and cross sections at a larger scale, and preliminary plans for typical furnished students' rooms; there is a group of design development drawings (dated June 1967) on a larger format of paper, consisting of floor plans, plans for typical furnished students' rooms, cross sections, a partial section, longitudinal sections, elevations, and sectional elevations, and there is a bird's-eye plan oblique (dated September 1967)
drawings
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37 design development drawing(s)
1966-1967
Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries
13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries