Making Mamak, Emerging curator 2022-2023, Malaysian art collectives, south east asia, commoning
25 August 2024
Field Notes: From an Island to a Peninsula, and Back to Another Island
Clarissa Lim Kye Lee reflects on the findings from Making Mamak
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25 August 2024
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PH2000:0528
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- This photograph shows, clockwise from centre right to centre left, the Engineering Building (later the West Engineering Building, now the West Hall), the William L. Clements Library, Angell Hall (lower centre), the Natural Science Building (also known as the Krauss Natural Science Building) and the Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building among others (see University of Michigan, 'Central Campus').
architecture
between 1903 and 1973
Aerial view of part of the University of Michigan's central campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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PH2000:0528
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- This photograph shows, clockwise from centre right to centre left, the Engineering Building (later the West Engineering Building, now the West Hall), the William L. Clements Library, Angell Hall (lower centre), the Natural Science Building (also known as the Krauss Natural Science Building) and the Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building among others (see University of Michigan, 'Central Campus').
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between 1903 and 1973
architecture
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A Social Reset
archives
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Fonds
Richard Henriquez fonds
AP059
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The Richard Henriquez fonds, 1962-2002, documents the professional career of architect and urban designer Richard G. Henriquez. More specifically, the fonds documents Henriquez’s architectural training at the University of Manitoba, his early career as an architect in Jamaica, and his career as a principal at the architectural firm Henriquez Partners Architects. The fonds contains approximately 8935 drawings (including reprographic copies), 106 panels, 100 photographs, 31 l.m textual records, 5 offset printing plates and 1 model.
1962-2002
Richard Henriquez fonds
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The Richard Henriquez fonds, 1962-2002, documents the professional career of architect and urban designer Richard G. Henriquez. More specifically, the fonds documents Henriquez’s architectural training at the University of Manitoba, his early career as an architect in Jamaica, and his career as a principal at the architectural firm Henriquez Partners Architects. The fonds contains approximately 8935 drawings (including reprographic copies), 106 panels, 100 photographs, 31 l.m textual records, 5 offset printing plates and 1 model.
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1962-2002
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
26 January 2012 to 29 April 2012
Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza at work
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza travelled to Peru in 1995 with his usual baggage: only a few changes of clothes, some books of poetry, and a single sketchbook. This was the toolkit he used to interpret the voyage and integrate it into his architecture. More than half a century earlier, Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi had taken his famous series of portraits of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
The Mound of Vendôme
The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 June 2014 to 28 September 2014
The Mound of Vendôme
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The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
Adieu, Mel
In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
23 January 2013 , 6pm
Adieu, Mel
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In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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New Documentary
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Takashi Homma, conversation, oral history, waves, mushrooms
15 May 2023