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Weaving Modernity and Tradition
Abigail Duke explores the architecture of Arc Frank Mbanefo
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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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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
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
Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 March 2000 to 7 May 2000
Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
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(...)
This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
18 March 1998 to 24 May 1998
Montréal Métropole, 1880–1930
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This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
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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
textual records
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
PH2007:0012:001
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From the CCA photographic commission "Scales". Les photographies de la série "Scales" font partie d'une commande accordée par le Centre Canadien d'Architecture.
2003
Partial view of the Mori Building's model of Tokyo, Japan
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PH2007:0012:001
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From the CCA photographic commission "Scales". Les photographies de la série "Scales" font partie d'une commande accordée par le Centre Canadien d'Architecture.