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An Ever-Changing Landscape
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Models Talk
model, models, video, c/o Tokyo, Kazuko Akamatsu, Kumiko Inui, Erika Nakagawa, Studio Gross, Kayoko Ota
20 December 2021
Models Talk
Kazuko Akamatsu, Kumiko Inui, and Erika Nakagawa lead us through recently completed and in-progress work
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Bringing Projects to Life
Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, correspondence, letters, Jean Prouvé, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Max Bill, Kenneth Frampton
12 November 2023
Bringing Projects to Life
A selection of letters written by Amancio Williams, introduced by Claudia Shmidt
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AP154.S1.1973.PR01.SS2.026
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Digital files from a 3.5" floppy disk labelled "Seagram Building Alphabet". Contents include font files in Adobe PostScript Font Metrics, Adobe Printer Font Binary, and TrueType Font formats, as well as OPTIDOWN, an executable program for "downloading Type 1 fonts to PostScript printers." File also includes a disk image of the floppy disk. Files exported from disk image on 22 August 2016 using tsk_recover.
1989-1996
Seagram Building alphabet font files
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AP154.S1.1973.PR01.SS2.026
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Digital files from a 3.5" floppy disk labelled "Seagram Building Alphabet". Contents include font files in Adobe PostScript Font Metrics, Adobe Printer Font Binary, and TrueType Font formats, as well as OPTIDOWN, an executable program for "downloading Type 1 fonts to PostScript printers." File also includes a disk image of the floppy disk. Files exported from disk image on 22 August 2016 using tsk_recover.
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1989-1996
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Weaving Modernity and Tradition
Abigail Duke explores the architecture of Arc Frank Mbanefo
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AP151.S1.D7
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File documents an executed project for baptismal font for the Wayfarers' Chapel. Material in the file was produced in 1963. File contains sketches and design development drawings.
1963
Wayfarers' Chapel Baptismal Font
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AP151.S1.D7
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File documents an executed project for baptismal font for the Wayfarers' Chapel. Material in the file was produced in 1963. File contains sketches and design development drawings.
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1963
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Correspondence on Fontes, Parque de Vidago, Complexo Termal e Hotel Palace, Vidago (folder 2 of 2)
AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1.135
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Original file title: Vidago Fontes 1, 2, 3 Correspondencia
October 2009-May 2010
Correspondence on Fontes, Parque de Vidago, Complexo Termal e Hotel Palace, Vidago (folder 2 of 2)
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AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1.135
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Original file title: Vidago Fontes 1, 2, 3 Correspondencia
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October 2009-May 2010
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Correspondence on Fontes, Parque de Vidago, Complexo Termal e Hotel Palace, Vidago (folder 1 of 2)
AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1.134
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Original file title: Vidago Fontes 1, 2, 3 Correspondencia
October 2009-May 2010
Correspondence on Fontes, Parque de Vidago, Complexo Termal e Hotel Palace, Vidago (folder 1 of 2)
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AP178.S1.2002.PR05.SS1.134
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Original file title: Vidago Fontes 1, 2, 3 Correspondencia
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October 2009-May 2010
3-1-1 and a Half
In Montreal, construction is a big part of our reality. Mandatory detours, endless noise, messy streets, dangerous intersections—you know the list. Since children see possibilities that adults might not, we need their help. In this program, they will address real questions and complaints posed by people in Montreal, analyse them, and develop imaginative responses that(...)
June 2017
3-1-1 and a Half
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In Montreal, construction is a big part of our reality. Mandatory detours, endless noise, messy streets, dangerous intersections—you know the list. Since children see possibilities that adults might not, we need their help. In this program, they will address real questions and complaints posed by people in Montreal, analyse them, and develop imaginative responses that(...)
A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 May 1993 to 29 August 1993
An Architectural Odyssey: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery