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,(...)
Main galleries
As part of the CCA’s ongoing exploration of key issues in contemporary architecture with a specific focus on urban, social, and environmental concerns, Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa features recent architectural projects that propose new solutions to the challenges of building homes in dense urban environments. London and(...)
Main galleries
14 May 2008 to 26 October 2008
Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa
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As part of the CCA’s ongoing exploration of key issues in contemporary architecture with a specific focus on urban, social, and environmental concerns, Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa features recent architectural projects that propose new solutions to the challenges of building homes in dense urban environments. London and(...)
Main galleries
DR1994:0094
Description:
- The columns in this drawing have been drawn mechanically, while stylized human figures (to indicate scale) have been drawn freehand.
architecture, interior design
1935-1940
Elevations, a partial elevation and plans for columns for the Chapel of the Holy Cross, Woodland Crematorium, Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden
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DR1994:0094
Description:
- The columns in this drawing have been drawn mechanically, while stylized human figures (to indicate scale) have been drawn freehand.
architecture, interior design
artefacts, books
DR1991:0021:001-002
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- The calculator is made up of three discs, two moveable and one fixed. The bottom disc is printed with seven concentric scales and is rotated using the top knob. The middle disc is clear plastic imprinted with a single black line and is rotated using the upper right knob. The top disc is the fixed protective shield, imprinted with a red line. Following the instructions in the accompanying booklet, DR1991:0021:002, the compass can be manipulated to perform calculations and conversions in much the same manner as a slide rule.
architecture
early 20th century
Fowler "12-10" calculator in a leather case, with instruction booklet
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DR1991:0021:001-002
Description:
- The calculator is made up of three discs, two moveable and one fixed. The bottom disc is printed with seven concentric scales and is rotated using the top knob. The middle disc is clear plastic imprinted with a single black line and is rotated using the upper right knob. The top disc is the fixed protective shield, imprinted with a red line. Following the instructions in the accompanying booklet, DR1991:0021:002, the compass can be manipulated to perform calculations and conversions in much the same manner as a slide rule.
artefacts, books
early 20th century
architecture
drawings
DR1988:0433:043
Description:
- This drawing shows elevations of the south facade, towards the east end of the building, and a section through the wall at the drawing room balcony. The subject was identified by comparison with DR1988:0433:011, an elevation of the south facade. - This drawing was not completed; it lacks the titles present on other drawings in the group DR1988:0433:001 - DR1988:0433:045. Several elements, such as the chimneys, were drawn in graphite and not completed with pen and ink. - 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
Elevations and a section for the east side of the south elevation, and a section for the south wall through the drawing room balcony, Fonthill House
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DR1988:0433:043
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- This drawing shows elevations of the south facade, towards the east end of the building, and a section through the wall at the drawing room balcony. The subject was identified by comparison with DR1988:0433:011, an elevation of the south facade. - This drawing was not completed; it lacks the titles present on other drawings in the group DR1988:0433:001 - DR1988:0433:045. Several elements, such as the chimneys, were drawn in graphite and not completed with pen and ink. - 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
Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
Mills and Factories of New England: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
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Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
Project
AP156.S3.SS1.D28
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Le dossier documente le projet de Pierre Jeanneret d'un bâtiment démontable pour les dessinateurs de la Société centrale de alliages légers (SCAL) réalisé à Issoire en France, en 1940. Jeanneret collabore avec Jean Prouvé pour la réalisaition de ce projet. Le bâtiment consiste en un pavillon à portique axiale sur deux étages, la première structure à portique axial réalisée par Jean Prouvé. Ce projet à été présenté dans la publication spéciale "Solutions d'urgence" de la revue "Architecture d'aujourd'hui" publiée en 1945. Le dossier contient une photographie du bâtiment. File documents Pierre Jeanneret's project for a dismontable building for the offices of the draftsman of the Société centrale de alliages légers (SCAL) in Issoire, France, in 1940. Jeanneret works on this projet in collaboration with Jean Prouvé. The building consists in a two-storey pavilion with an axial gantry, the first structure of the type realized by Jean Prouvé. This project was presented in the special publication "Solutions d'urgence" of the serial "Architecture d'aujourd'hui" published in 1945. The file contains a photograph of the building.
1940
Bureau des dessinateurs de la SCAL, Issoire, France = Offices of the draftsman of the SCAL, Issoire, France
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AP156.S3.SS1.D28
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Le dossier documente le projet de Pierre Jeanneret d'un bâtiment démontable pour les dessinateurs de la Société centrale de alliages légers (SCAL) réalisé à Issoire en France, en 1940. Jeanneret collabore avec Jean Prouvé pour la réalisaition de ce projet. Le bâtiment consiste en un pavillon à portique axiale sur deux étages, la première structure à portique axial réalisée par Jean Prouvé. Ce projet à été présenté dans la publication spéciale "Solutions d'urgence" de la revue "Architecture d'aujourd'hui" publiée en 1945. Le dossier contient une photographie du bâtiment. File documents Pierre Jeanneret's project for a dismontable building for the offices of the draftsman of the Société centrale de alliages légers (SCAL) in Issoire, France, in 1940. Jeanneret works on this projet in collaboration with Jean Prouvé. The building consists in a two-storey pavilion with an axial gantry, the first structure of the type realized by Jean Prouvé. This project was presented in the special publication "Solutions d'urgence" of the serial "Architecture d'aujourd'hui" published in 1945. The file contains a photograph of the building.
Dossier 28
1940
DR1974:0002:002:001-094
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- This album consists mainly of elevations, sections and plans for a number of domestic commissions by Charles Rohault de Fleury: a house in Cologne, a hothouse for M. Faquet-Lemaitre, two [?] apartment houses and three private houses in Paris, a house for Mme de Lescure, Royan, and the Administration générale des omnibus office building, Paris. Both the drawings for the house in Cologne and the three variant projects for a hothouse are probably presentation drawings. There are contract drawings, probably the architect's copies, for apartment houses for M. Piet and M. Le Comte, and houses for M. Moreau Chaslon, Mme la comtesse de Lubersac, Mme de Lescure and M. Waresquiel. A sheet of cost calculations attached to a preliminary site plan, are probably for M. Waresquiel's house. The first plan for Mme la comtesse de Lubersac's house (DR1974:0002:002:084), and the plans for M. Waresquiel's house are annotated with the functions of the rooms. The architect's copies of the drawings for the country house in Royan, given to the client by the architect, include drawings of the foundations and framework, larger scale elevational and sectional details of the architectural elements, profiles and joinery details. The function within the design process of the prints for the commercial building for the Administration Générale de Omnibus is unclear. The principal elevation (DR1974:0002:002:020) is rendered in watercolour, suggesting it may be a presentation print. The other prints for this building exhibit the same degree of finish as the contract drawings in this album, but the absence of the client's and contractor's signatures and the revision attached to DR1974:0002:002:022 suggests they may be part of the design development stage of the project. Also included in the album is a sheet of preliminary sketches for a tomb for Daguerre (not the photographer) and two small unbound sheets of sketches for unidentified projects (DR1974:0002:002:048 and DR1974:0002:002:028).
architecture
drawings exectued between 1838 and 1854, prints executed between 1838 and 1856
Album of prints and drawings for nine domestic commissions, an office building, a tomb, and a hothouse in Paris, Royan and Cologne
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DR1974:0002:002:001-094
Description:
- This album consists mainly of elevations, sections and plans for a number of domestic commissions by Charles Rohault de Fleury: a house in Cologne, a hothouse for M. Faquet-Lemaitre, two [?] apartment houses and three private houses in Paris, a house for Mme de Lescure, Royan, and the Administration générale des omnibus office building, Paris. Both the drawings for the house in Cologne and the three variant projects for a hothouse are probably presentation drawings. There are contract drawings, probably the architect's copies, for apartment houses for M. Piet and M. Le Comte, and houses for M. Moreau Chaslon, Mme la comtesse de Lubersac, Mme de Lescure and M. Waresquiel. A sheet of cost calculations attached to a preliminary site plan, are probably for M. Waresquiel's house. The first plan for Mme la comtesse de Lubersac's house (DR1974:0002:002:084), and the plans for M. Waresquiel's house are annotated with the functions of the rooms. The architect's copies of the drawings for the country house in Royan, given to the client by the architect, include drawings of the foundations and framework, larger scale elevational and sectional details of the architectural elements, profiles and joinery details. The function within the design process of the prints for the commercial building for the Administration Générale de Omnibus is unclear. The principal elevation (DR1974:0002:002:020) is rendered in watercolour, suggesting it may be a presentation print. The other prints for this building exhibit the same degree of finish as the contract drawings in this album, but the absence of the client's and contractor's signatures and the revision attached to DR1974:0002:002:022 suggests they may be part of the design development stage of the project. Also included in the album is a sheet of preliminary sketches for a tomb for Daguerre (not the photographer) and two small unbound sheets of sketches for unidentified projects (DR1974:0002:002:048 and DR1974:0002:002:028).
drawings, textual records, works of art
drawings exectued between 1838 and 1854, prints executed between 1838 and 1856
architecture
drawings
DR1988:0433:026
Description:
- 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
Elevations for dormer windows of the office buildings for Fonthill House
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DR1988:0433:026
Description:
- 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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Fonds
AP177
Synopsis:
The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
1996-2015
RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
Synopsis:
The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
archives
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Fonds
1996-2015