Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals that appeared in response to the political, social, and artistic changes of the period. Clip/Stamp/Fold 2 investigates how a diverse group of(...)
Octagonal gallery and library rotunda
12 April 2007 to 9 September 2007
Clip/Stamp/Fold 2: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X
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Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals that appeared in response to the political, social, and artistic changes of the period. Clip/Stamp/Fold 2 investigates how a diverse group of(...)
Octagonal gallery and library rotunda
Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
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17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
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Learning from... Rome
Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
5 March 2009
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks
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Realism and Illusion: Catherine Wagner Photographs the Disney Theme Parks presents a visual essay of the Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. Fascinated by the importance of illusion in the design and layout of the parks, Wagner aspired “to add yet another layer of deception to this already simulated world, our world, where illusion is now more real(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
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10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
In the Yesterday Today lecture series, Canadian architect and author Witold Rybczynski discusses the roots of Ecol House, a prototype for an autonomous dwelling for use in developing countries. The project was created in Montréal in 1972 by Ecol Operation, a group of architects and students of which he was a member that became an international point of reference for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
29 November 2007
Witold Rybczynski: Green Before Green
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In the Yesterday Today lecture series, Canadian architect and author Witold Rybczynski discusses the roots of Ecol House, a prototype for an autonomous dwelling for use in developing countries. The project was created in Montréal in 1972 by Ecol Operation, a group of architects and students of which he was a member that became an international point of reference for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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DR2001:0020
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Documents include Business development General files: Alteka office building correspondences, Wexner correspondences, Centre of Berlin correspondences, memorandums, capital improvements bulletin from Ohio Department of Administrative services, Aleppo telephone conversation records, drawings, maps, plans, Purpose of the project bibliotheque de France, notes, World Architecture Triennial correspondences, qualification submission package for design of Museum of science and technology for Phoenix Arizona. Business development for Museum of Contemporary Art: documentations, correspondences, memo, notes, business contracts, telephone conversation records. Business development for San Diego Convention Centre competition: documentation and correspondences. Business development for Matrix: documentation, correspondences, plans, elevations. New Business Proposals rejected: the county of Mobile, Alabama in cooperation with the City of Mobile, documentation, correspondences, clippings. UC Riverside: photographs, draft-qualification statement science library, notes, telephone conversation records, fax transmittals, correspondences, documentation report, list of articles on Peter Eisenman in books, periodicals and catalogues. American Centre for Physics: statement of interest, correspondences, documentation, notes, faxes transmittals. Business Development General for Time-Pack Museum: fax communications. The Mandell Companies, Inc: report exhibits to the business plan, memo, correspondences, documentation, business plan, report of the Rick Mandell trip to Israel, clipping, curriculum vitea of Rick Mandell. Business Development for General Lake Superior Centre: statement of interest, correspondences, notes. Cleveland State University: capital improvements bulletin (Ohio department of administrative service) request for professional design services, telephone conversation records, documentation records, documentation program and Urban Design phase, clippings. Charlestown Navy Yard: notes, clippings, telephone conversation records, competition fees, professional cards, fax transmittals, project program, Harbor Park District Zoning amendment. Case Western Reserve University macromolecular science facility: proposal of phase one, memorandum 1990, chemistry note DRCON1999:0015:087:004. Koc University: statement of interest, meeting minutes, memo, correspondences, documentation, map of Istanbul, fax transmittals. The JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: promotion material folder, correspondences, meeting minutes, notes. The Environmental design building, University of California: proposal for detailed project program, maps, fax transmittals, notes, and documentations. Aerospace Centre Washington DC: Album with photographs, drawings and plans.
Correspondence and other administrative records for various projects
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DR2001:0020
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Documents include Business development General files: Alteka office building correspondences, Wexner correspondences, Centre of Berlin correspondences, memorandums, capital improvements bulletin from Ohio Department of Administrative services, Aleppo telephone conversation records, drawings, maps, plans, Purpose of the project bibliotheque de France, notes, World Architecture Triennial correspondences, qualification submission package for design of Museum of science and technology for Phoenix Arizona. Business development for Museum of Contemporary Art: documentations, correspondences, memo, notes, business contracts, telephone conversation records. Business development for San Diego Convention Centre competition: documentation and correspondences. Business development for Matrix: documentation, correspondences, plans, elevations. New Business Proposals rejected: the county of Mobile, Alabama in cooperation with the City of Mobile, documentation, correspondences, clippings. UC Riverside: photographs, draft-qualification statement science library, notes, telephone conversation records, fax transmittals, correspondences, documentation report, list of articles on Peter Eisenman in books, periodicals and catalogues. American Centre for Physics: statement of interest, correspondences, documentation, notes, faxes transmittals. Business Development General for Time-Pack Museum: fax communications. The Mandell Companies, Inc: report exhibits to the business plan, memo, correspondences, documentation, business plan, report of the Rick Mandell trip to Israel, clipping, curriculum vitea of Rick Mandell. Business Development for General Lake Superior Centre: statement of interest, correspondences, notes. Cleveland State University: capital improvements bulletin (Ohio department of administrative service) request for professional design services, telephone conversation records, documentation records, documentation program and Urban Design phase, clippings. Charlestown Navy Yard: notes, clippings, telephone conversation records, competition fees, professional cards, fax transmittals, project program, Harbor Park District Zoning amendment. Case Western Reserve University macromolecular science facility: proposal of phase one, memorandum 1990, chemistry note DRCON1999:0015:087:004. Koc University: statement of interest, meeting minutes, memo, correspondences, documentation, map of Istanbul, fax transmittals. The JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: promotion material folder, correspondences, meeting minutes, notes. The Environmental design building, University of California: proposal for detailed project program, maps, fax transmittals, notes, and documentations. Aerospace Centre Washington DC: Album with photographs, drawings and plans.
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 November 2015
John Palmesino: Territorial Agency
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Territories are the complex set of relations to things that keep us alive. They are bound spaces, where intersecting borders establish semi-stable relations between polities and their material base of operations. A new intensification is reshaping the surface and the cycles of the Earth: the Anthropocene marks an exit from modern forms of territorial organization of(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
Hall cases
28 June 2012 to 21 October 2012
Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation