Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
13 June 2008
Urgency 2008: Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang
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Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
photographs
ARCH153756
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views of various projects by Wallace Harrison for the exhibition catalogue: "Wallace Harrison : fifty years of architecture." Introduction by Rem Koolhaas, New York, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1980?
circa 1980
Views of various projects by Wallace Harrison for the exhibition catalogue
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views of various projects by Wallace Harrison for the exhibition catalogue: "Wallace Harrison : fifty years of architecture." Introduction by Rem Koolhaas, New York, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1980?
photographs
circa 1980
10 file
ARCH242816
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Anyhow 1 - [Sanford] Kwinter, [Peter] Eisenman Anyhow 2 - [Ben] van Berkel, [Frederic] Jameson, [Saskia] Sassen Anyhow 3 - [Rem] Koolhaas Anyhow 4 Anyhow 5 VHS, 2 copies of each
1997
Video recordings of Anyhow Conference, 1997
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Anyhow 1 - [Sanford] Kwinter, [Peter] Eisenman Anyhow 2 - [Ben] van Berkel, [Frederic] Jameson, [Saskia] Sassen Anyhow 3 - [Rem] Koolhaas Anyhow 4 Anyhow 5 VHS, 2 copies of each
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1997
Learning from… Lagos
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
29 March 2007 , 6pm
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
models
DR1994:0216
architecture
September 1994
models
September 1994
architecture
Europe, 1997
DR2007:0022
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Set of 40 drawings and collages with notes and text on paper, 11" x 17", executed in Europe during October-November 1997, preparatory to unrealized book; include comment on MCA Universal, Rem Koolhaas, popular culture in Europe.
1997
Europe, 1997
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DR2007:0022
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Set of 40 drawings and collages with notes and text on paper, 11" x 17", executed in Europe during October-November 1997, preparatory to unrealized book; include comment on MCA Universal, Rem Koolhaas, popular culture in Europe.
textual records
MCA Universal, 1995-1996
DR2007:0021
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During 1995-96, L.W. Richards was architectural advisor to Edgar Bronfman Jr., for the selection of an architect for a master plan and new headquarters building at Universal Studios, Los Angeles. The search that L.W. Richards conducted resulted in the selection of OMA and Rem Koolhaas. Two items are included here: a) bound notebook from the summer and fall of 1995, documenting meetings with Edgar Bronfman Jr., conversations with various architects (including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Peter Rose), and a record of the meeting between Edgar, Rem Koolhaas, and L.W. Richards in Malibu in which Rem was selected for the project, and b) spiral bound booklet, PLAN (vision plan for de development of Universal City) by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture and presented to MCA Inc., July 1996, no.58.
1995-1996
MCA Universal, 1995-1996
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DR2007:0021
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During 1995-96, L.W. Richards was architectural advisor to Edgar Bronfman Jr., for the selection of an architect for a master plan and new headquarters building at Universal Studios, Los Angeles. The search that L.W. Richards conducted resulted in the selection of OMA and Rem Koolhaas. Two items are included here: a) bound notebook from the summer and fall of 1995, documenting meetings with Edgar Bronfman Jr., conversations with various architects (including Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Peter Rose), and a record of the meeting between Edgar, Rem Koolhaas, and L.W. Richards in Malibu in which Rem was selected for the project, and b) spiral bound booklet, PLAN (vision plan for de development of Universal City) by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture and presented to MCA Inc., July 1996, no.58.
textual records
1995-1996
archives
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Fonds
Cedric Price fonds
AP144
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The Cedric Price fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Cedric Price, and includes his student work and architectural and urban planning projects. The fonds also contains records that document Cedric Price's teaching, publication, and exhibition activities. The archive comprises over 200 projects, from Price's student work in the 1950s at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association to projects he undertook as late as 2000. Key projects that are represented include New Aviary (1960-1966), Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979), Generator (1976-1980), and Magnet (1995-1996).
1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
Cedric Price fonds
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AP144
Synopsis:
The Cedric Price fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Cedric Price, and includes his student work and architectural and urban planning projects. The fonds also contains records that document Cedric Price's teaching, publication, and exhibition activities. The archive comprises over 200 projects, from Price's student work in the 1950s at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association to projects he undertook as late as 2000. Key projects that are represented include New Aviary (1960-1966), Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979), Generator (1976-1980), and Magnet (1995-1996).
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000