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AP140.S2.SS4.D7.P3
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lecture notes by James Stirling including on a document, issued 9 November 1961 from Yale University, Department of Architecture, titled "Master's Class and 4th Year Design - Problem III: Pierson-Saga Science Community at Yale", and undated lecture notes on housing solutions in English cities, written on California hotel stationary
Lecture notes by James Stirling including on a document
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AP140.S2.SS4.D7.P3
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lecture notes by James Stirling including on a document, issued 9 November 1961 from Yale University, Department of Architecture, titled "Master's Class and 4th Year Design - Problem III: Pierson-Saga Science Community at Yale", and undated lecture notes on housing solutions in English cities, written on California hotel stationary
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research
Visiting Scholars 2018
Elisa Dainese,Dalhousie University, Canada Architectural Culture in Translation: Postwar Cities and African Villages Martina Hrabová, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic The Geography of an Intellectual Field: The Social Network of Le Corbusier’s Studio Lina Malfona, Rome Sapienza, Italy Political Mind: Alvaro Siza’s Urban Projects From(...)
June 2018 to September 2018
Visiting Scholars 2018
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Elisa Dainese,Dalhousie University, Canada Architectural Culture in Translation: Postwar Cities and African Villages Martina Hrabová, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic The Geography of an Intellectual Field: The Social Network of Le Corbusier’s Studio Lina Malfona, Rome Sapienza, Italy Political Mind: Alvaro Siza’s Urban Projects From(...)
research
June 2018 to
September 2018
textual records
Press clippings and reference materials related to Melvin Charney, his projects and exhibitions
DR2012:0012:087:007
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File containing assorted documents in English and French, including newspaper clippings and reference materials related to the following projects: - Corridart; - Venice biennale; - Visions of the temple; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Parables and other allegories; - Power Plant Gallery, Toronto; - Sable-Castelli Gallery, New York; - Cities on the move; - Chicago construction.
between 1969 and 2010
Press clippings and reference materials related to Melvin Charney, his projects and exhibitions
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DR2012:0012:087:007
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File containing assorted documents in English and French, including newspaper clippings and reference materials related to the following projects: - Corridart; - Venice biennale; - Visions of the temple; - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Parables and other allegories; - Power Plant Gallery, Toronto; - Sable-Castelli Gallery, New York; - Cities on the move; - Chicago construction.
textual records
between 1969 and 2010
photographs
DR2012:0012:095:032
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File containing photographs and transparencies related to the German series, including the following artworks: - St. Anne's in Retlaw... forgotten cities; - Houses on the prairie... chez Keegstra; - Pliny's other villa; - Way station, no. 4. Original folder inscribed in graphite: German Series (3) -Way Stations -Pliny's Other Villa -In an Alberta Town -Cathedral Camp
1985
Photographs for the installation, The German Series
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DR2012:0012:095:032
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File containing photographs and transparencies related to the German series, including the following artworks: - St. Anne's in Retlaw... forgotten cities; - Houses on the prairie... chez Keegstra; - Pliny's other villa; - Way station, no. 4. Original folder inscribed in graphite: German Series (3) -Way Stations -Pliny's Other Villa -In an Alberta Town -Cathedral Camp
photographs
1985
photographs
ARCH193315
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Building demolition, photos (historic in terms of city's appearance); aerial photos of St. James St, St. Antoine, Notre Dame and University; photos of after demolition; retaining walls, excavation under CNR; caisson under rail tracks and girders, drilling, "strike", tiebacks for retaining walls, services supported along University Avenue.
entre janvier et mai 1966
Album de photographies relatives à l'échangeur rue University / autoroute Ville-Marie, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH193315
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Building demolition, photos (historic in terms of city's appearance); aerial photos of St. James St, St. Antoine, Notre Dame and University; photos of after demolition; retaining walls, excavation under CNR; caisson under rail tracks and girders, drilling, "strike", tiebacks for retaining walls, services supported along University Avenue.
photographs
entre janvier et mai 1966
drawings, textual records
DR2012:0011:021
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Sherbrooke columns; - Ottawa exhibition; - One fit sizes all, no. 4; - Body building; - Esplanade Frontenac; - HEC [École des hautes études commerciales] sculpture piece; - Sable Castelli Gallery exhibition, Toronto; - Bodyworks; - Cities on the run series.
2003
Notes and sketches by Melvin Charney on his later works
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DR2012:0011:021
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Sherbrooke columns; - Ottawa exhibition; - One fit sizes all, no. 4; - Body building; - Esplanade Frontenac; - HEC [École des hautes études commerciales] sculpture piece; - Sable Castelli Gallery exhibition, Toronto; - Bodyworks; - Cities on the run series.
drawings, textual records
2003
A conversation between Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama and CCA visiting curator Hubertus von Amelunxen on the exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales. Commissioned by the CCA, Naoya Hatakeyama created three photographic series of architectural models that challenge notions of scale and the perception of reality. He speaks about the series in the context of his work,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
27 September 2007
Naoya Hatakeyama and Hubertus von Amelunxen in Conversation
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A conversation between Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama and CCA visiting curator Hubertus von Amelunxen on the exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales. Commissioned by the CCA, Naoya Hatakeyama created three photographic series of architectural models that challenge notions of scale and the perception of reality. He speaks about the series in the context of his work,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Starting from... People
One of the markers of modernity from the eighteenth century onwards is the emergence of “the people” as a respected political entity. In response, architects have advocated for the transformation of cities, explored new technologies, pioneered design discourses, and engaged in heated cultural conflicts—all in the name of the people. During this time, fictional, abstracted(...)
Hall cases
5 October 2011 to 22 January 2012
Starting from... People
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One of the markers of modernity from the eighteenth century onwards is the emergence of “the people” as a respected political entity. In response, architects have advocated for the transformation of cities, explored new technologies, pioneered design discourses, and engaged in heated cultural conflicts—all in the name of the people. During this time, fictional, abstracted(...)
Hall cases
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries