Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
11 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
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PHCON2002:0016:005:021
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This article was published in Casabella (v.38, n.391, p.26-28) in italian and english, and shows images of Roof Top Atrium (1973) across the recto and images of Datium Cut (1973) on the verso of the english article.
published July 1994
Al di fuori del design: Gordon Matta-Clark / Beyond Design: L'Architettura E' un Ready Made
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PHCON2002:0016:005:021
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This article was published in Casabella (v.38, n.391, p.26-28) in italian and english, and shows images of Roof Top Atrium (1973) across the recto and images of Datium Cut (1973) on the verso of the english article.
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published July 1994
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Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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ARCH255506
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article on Florence in Italian; article on Frank Lloyd Wright from Newsweek; slides of unidentified townhouses; one page of existing conditions of Farlinger House on 21 McMaster Ave.; B.C. Place Report No. 3 on the next 25 years.
1983
Articles, slides of unidentified townhouses
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article on Florence in Italian; article on Frank Lloyd Wright from Newsweek; slides of unidentified townhouses; one page of existing conditions of Farlinger House on 21 McMaster Ave.; B.C. Place Report No. 3 on the next 25 years.
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1983
Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
DR1980:0061:001-105
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Architectural drawings and copies selected from two albums compiled by George Penrose Kennedy as he was a pupil and assistant to Charles Barry, architect. These albums were titled "Gothic volume" and "Italian volume". The selection includes the binding from the Gothic volume.
between 1820 and 1860
Selected drawings from the albums compiled by George Penrose Kennedy, including drawings and designs by Charles Barry
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DR1980:0061:001-105
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Architectural drawings and copies selected from two albums compiled by George Penrose Kennedy as he was a pupil and assistant to Charles Barry, architect. These albums were titled "Gothic volume" and "Italian volume". The selection includes the binding from the Gothic volume.
between 1820 and 1860
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
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DR2012:0012:102:023
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File containing documents in English (predominant), French, and Italian, including correspondence, multiple copies of Melvin Charney's article, "Trulli: an archaic tableau vivant", magazine and newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs.Original folder inscribed in graphite: TRULLI: NOTES ESSAY PHOTOS 1961-65
1964-1965
Correspondence, multiple copies of Melvin Charney's article, "Trulli: an archaic tableau vivant", magazine and newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs
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DR2012:0012:102:023
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File containing documents in English (predominant), French, and Italian, including correspondence, multiple copies of Melvin Charney's article, "Trulli: an archaic tableau vivant", magazine and newspaper clippings, notes, and photographs.Original folder inscribed in graphite: TRULLI: NOTES ESSAY PHOTOS 1961-65
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1964-1965
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AP197.S2.004
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The box is comprised of writings on modern architecture, divided by country and organized alphabetically. The sections are divided as follows: General; Austria; Australia; Belgium; Canada; China; Czechoslovakia; Dutch; England; French; Finland; France; German; Greek; Islam; Italian; Japan; Mexico; Russia; Scandanavian; and Spain.
1965-1996
Research files on modern architecture, organized by geographic location (A-S)
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AP197.S2.004
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The box is comprised of writings on modern architecture, divided by country and organized alphabetically. The sections are divided as follows: General; Austria; Australia; Belgium; Canada; China; Czechoslovakia; Dutch; England; French; Finland; France; German; Greek; Islam; Italian; Japan; Mexico; Russia; Scandanavian; and Spain.
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1965-1996