Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
April 2022
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
textual records
F-I alphabetical files
ARCH255609
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15 files - F-I alphabetical files - Foundation of Canada, F-H miscellaneous files, Alastair Hunter photography litigation, Inner City Angels including 2 photographs of Erickson and company; International Year of the Child; Request for lectures, seminars, TV broadcasts, interview, or photo sittings; itineraries.
1977-1986
F-I alphabetical files
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ARCH255609
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15 files - F-I alphabetical files - Foundation of Canada, F-H miscellaneous files, Alastair Hunter photography litigation, Inner City Angels including 2 photographs of Erickson and company; International Year of the Child; Request for lectures, seminars, TV broadcasts, interview, or photo sittings; itineraries.
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1977-1986
photographs
DR1987:0780
architecture, painting, topographic
1930s
photographs
1930s
architecture, painting, topographic
textual records
ARCH273730
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contains the records of Arthur Erickson's participation in Their Excellencies' State Visit to Finland and Iceland, as an official delegate. Includes schedules, memorandums, and photographs of Erickson with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada and His Excellency John Raston Saul.
2003
Their Excellencies' State Visit to Finland and Iceland
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ARCH273730
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contains the records of Arthur Erickson's participation in Their Excellencies' State Visit to Finland and Iceland, as an official delegate. Includes schedules, memorandums, and photographs of Erickson with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada and His Excellency John Raston Saul.
textual records
2003
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
31 March 2004 to 30 May 2004
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977
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Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
Project
China Pavilion
AP027.S1.D67
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Pavilion design for "Man & His World" exhibition in Montréal.
exhibition design
1975-1976
China Pavilion
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AP027.S1.D67
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Pavilion design for "Man & His World" exhibition in Montréal.
File 67
1975-1976
exhibition design
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R-Z alphabetical files
ARCH255601
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24 files - R-Z alphabetical files - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, R miscellaneous; S miscellaneous; Transcendental Meditation Soc., telex messages, travelling exhibition, trip file, T miscellaneous; U-Z miscellaneous including University of Calgary archived inventory of drawings; Who's Who correspondence and biographical sketches.
1979-1986
R-Z alphabetical files
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ARCH255601
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24 files - R-Z alphabetical files - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, R miscellaneous; S miscellaneous; Transcendental Meditation Soc., telex messages, travelling exhibition, trip file, T miscellaneous; U-Z miscellaneous including University of Calgary archived inventory of drawings; Who's Who correspondence and biographical sketches.
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1979-1986
textual records
ARCH258497
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2 classeurs à anneaux avec des documents officiels relatifs à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec, et à l’Ontario Association of Architects. Comprend aussi de la correspondance et des documents officiels relatifs à l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, et à la Corporation des ingénieurs du Québec.
1942-1972
Documents officiels relatifs à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec, et à l’Ontario Association of Architects
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ARCH258497
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2 classeurs à anneaux avec des documents officiels relatifs à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec, et à l’Ontario Association of Architects. Comprend aussi de la correspondance et des documents officiels relatifs à l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, et à la Corporation des ingénieurs du Québec.
textual records
1942-1972
Project
AP022.S1.1981.PR12
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File documents renovations to the Prime Minister of Canada's office (not built), Langevin Block, Ottawa, Ontario. File contains design development drawings, photographic material, textual documents.
1981-1984
Renovations to the Prime Minister's Office
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AP022.S1.1981.PR12
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File documents renovations to the Prime Minister of Canada's office (not built), Langevin Block, Ottawa, Ontario. File contains design development drawings, photographic material, textual documents.
Project
1981-1984
textual records
ARCH256665
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handwritten notes, draft of introduction to proposal, research on art museums, airplane tickets, gallery technology and lighting approach, statement by The National Gallery of Canada and Its Public outlining hopes for new gallery, itinerary, zones of spaces, proposal with presentation drawings, photocopy of site plan.
1982-1983
Research on art museums, gallery technology and lighting approach, proposal with presentation drawings
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ARCH256665
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handwritten notes, draft of introduction to proposal, research on art museums, airplane tickets, gallery technology and lighting approach, statement by The National Gallery of Canada and Its Public outlining hopes for new gallery, itinerary, zones of spaces, proposal with presentation drawings, photocopy of site plan.
textual records
1982-1983