Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 July 1992 to 22 November 1992
An Industrial Landscape Observed: The Lachine Canal
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Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
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Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
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23 October 2008 to 15 February 2009
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960
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Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
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Teaching
AP041.S2
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Series documents Melvin Charney's professional activities at Université de Montréal, such as teaching materials, and student submissions. Includes textual records and photographic materials.
1966-1981
Teaching
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AP041.S2
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Series documents Melvin Charney's professional activities at Université de Montréal, such as teaching materials, and student submissions. Includes textual records and photographic materials.
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1966-1981
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Melvin Charney fonds
AP041
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The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
1947-2012
Melvin Charney fonds
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The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
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1947-2012
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(...)
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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(...)
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textual records
ARCH187032
1995
textual records
1995
textual records
ARCH187033
1998
textual records
1998
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Saucier + Perrotte fonds
AP130
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Le Fonds Saucier + Perrotte comprend une sélection de cinq projets d'architecture développés ou réalisés par l'agence en Ontario et au Québec entre 1989 et 2000. Il contient des cahiers d'esquisses, des dessins, des maquettes, des photographies, ainsi que des documents textuels. Ces documents nous renseignent sur la proposition présentée au concours du Kitchener City Hall (Ontario, 1989), et sur la conception de quatre autres projets, ceux-là réalisés, soit le Théâtre du Rideau Vert (reconstruction; Montréal, 1989-1991), le Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui (Montréal, 1990-1991), la Faculté d'aménagement de l'Université de Montréal (Montréal, 1995-1998) et le Collège Gérald-Godin (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Pierrefonds, 1997-2000).
1989-2000
Saucier + Perrotte fonds
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Le Fonds Saucier + Perrotte comprend une sélection de cinq projets d'architecture développés ou réalisés par l'agence en Ontario et au Québec entre 1989 et 2000. Il contient des cahiers d'esquisses, des dessins, des maquettes, des photographies, ainsi que des documents textuels. Ces documents nous renseignent sur la proposition présentée au concours du Kitchener City Hall (Ontario, 1989), et sur la conception de quatre autres projets, ceux-là réalisés, soit le Théâtre du Rideau Vert (reconstruction; Montréal, 1989-1991), le Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui (Montréal, 1990-1991), la Faculté d'aménagement de l'Université de Montréal (Montréal, 1995-1998) et le Collège Gérald-Godin (Sainte-Geneviève-de-Pierrefonds, 1997-2000).
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1989-2000
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Jean Ouellet fonds
AP129
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Le fonds Jean Ouellet contient des esquisses, des dessins de présentation et d'exécution, des photographies de maquettes, d'édifices construits ou en construction, des portraits et des panneaux de présentation, ainsi que des rapports, des études de faisabilité, des programmes et de la correspondance se rapportant à 14 projets d'architecture et d'urbanisme, réalisés ou proposés principalement à Montréal, mais aussi à Québec. Le fonds comprend 693 documents photographiques (approx.), 3 mètres linéaires de documents textuels (approx. 217 pièces), 91 dessins, 59 reprographies, 33 documents graphiques et 7 publications. Les documents ont été principalement créés entre les années 1960 à 2000 avec une forte proportion provenant des années 70.
1944-2002
Jean Ouellet fonds
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Le fonds Jean Ouellet contient des esquisses, des dessins de présentation et d'exécution, des photographies de maquettes, d'édifices construits ou en construction, des portraits et des panneaux de présentation, ainsi que des rapports, des études de faisabilité, des programmes et de la correspondance se rapportant à 14 projets d'architecture et d'urbanisme, réalisés ou proposés principalement à Montréal, mais aussi à Québec. Le fonds comprend 693 documents photographiques (approx.), 3 mètres linéaires de documents textuels (approx. 217 pièces), 91 dessins, 59 reprographies, 33 documents graphiques et 7 publications. Les documents ont été principalement créés entre les années 1960 à 2000 avec une forte proportion provenant des années 70.
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1944-2002
13 March 2025 to 20 March 2025