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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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22 October 1997 to
15 February 1998
22 October 1997 to
15 February 1998
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Arrivals
Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
24 January 2008 to 23 March 2008
24 January 2008 to 23 March 2008
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Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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24 January 2008 to
23 March 2008
24 January 2008 to
23 March 2008
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
23 April 2009
23 April 2009
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Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
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events
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23 April 2009
23 April 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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20 October 2016, 6pm
20 October 2016, 6pm
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Sound Advice and Clear Drawings: Design and Computation in the Second Machine Age
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Sound Advice and Clear Drawings: Design and Computation in the Second Machine Age
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
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events
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20 October 2016
6pm
20 October 2016
6pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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events
events
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
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21 September 2017, 6:30pm
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
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David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
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events
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21 September 2017
6:30pm
21 September 2017
6:30pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
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exhibitions
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Mies in America
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
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Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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17 October 2001 to
20 January 2002
17 October 2001 to
20 January 2002
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
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7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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7 November 2007 to
20 April 2008
7 November 2007 to
20 April 2008
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
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Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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25 November 2009 to
28 February 2010
25 November 2009 to
28 February 2010
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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photographs
photographs
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PH1984:0711:001-040
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Album of 40 photographs by Jules-Alphonse Terpereau of the ville d'hiver, Arcachon, France, ordered by the Compagnie du Midi owned by Emile Pereire, showing views of several villas, the casino, a belvedere, a castle, a theatre, a gymnasium, cottages, etc. The album is dedicated to Mr. Edouard Charton by Paul Regnauld, ingénieur en chef de la Compagnie du Midi et maître d'oeuvre de la ville d'hiver. Photographs are unidentified but are titled (documentation taken from an Internet source) as follows: .001 Le casino mauresque .002 Le chalet Pereire, lors de la visite de l'Empereur .003 Avenue Euphrosine (Avenue Gambetta) .004 .005 Le Chateau Deganne .006 Monument à la gloire de Brémontier .007 La première chapelle Saint Ferdinand .008 Notre Dame, deuxième version .009 .010 .011 Le buffet chinois de la gare .012 .013 Le casino vu de la ville d'été .014 Le théâtre Euterpe .015 La Passerelle avec le chariot de Terpereau .016 Le théâtre San Carlino .017 Gymnase Bertini .018 Villa du Moulin Rouge .019 Villa Newton, aujourd'hui Montfleuri .020 .021 Villa Faust .022 .023 .024 Villa Isabelle .025 Villa Napoléon .026 Villa Victoria .027 Villa Montaigne .028 La chapelle Ste-Cécile, devenue un temple protestant .029 Villa Graciosa, aujourd'hui Trocadero .030 Villa Grangeneuve .031 Villa Halévy, villa locative d'Emile Pereire, située Cours Desbiey, aujourd'hui disparue .032 Villa Marguerite .033 Villa Coecilia .034 Villa Montesquieu .035 Villa Noémi .036 Villa Montretout .037 Notre Dame des Passes .038 Villa Riquet .039 L'Établissement de bain, près du Grand Hotel .040 Une cabine de bain...
PH1984:0711:001-040
Description:
Album of 40 photographs by Jules-Alphonse Terpereau of the ville d'hiver, Arcachon, France, ordered by the Compagnie du Midi owned by Emile Pereire, showing views of several villas, the casino, a belvedere, a castle, a theatre, a gymnasium, cottages, etc. The album is dedicated to Mr. Edouard Charton by Paul Regnauld, ingénieur en chef de la Compagnie du Midi et maître d'oeuvre de la ville d'hiver. Photographs are unidentified but are titled (documentation taken from an Internet source) as follows: .001 Le casino mauresque .002 Le chalet Pereire, lors de la visite de l'Empereur .003 Avenue Euphrosine (Avenue Gambetta) .004 .005 Le Chateau Deganne .006 Monument à la gloire de Brémontier .007 La première chapelle Saint Ferdinand .008 Notre Dame, deuxième version .009 .010 .011 Le buffet chinois de la gare .012 .013 Le casino vu de la ville d'été .014 Le théâtre Euterpe .015 La Passerelle avec le chariot de Terpereau .016 Le théâtre San Carlino .017 Gymnase Bertini .018 Villa du Moulin Rouge .019 Villa Newton, aujourd'hui Montfleuri .020 .021 Villa Faust .022 .023 .024 Villa Isabelle .025 Villa Napoléon .026 Villa Victoria .027 Villa Montaigne .028 La chapelle Ste-Cécile, devenue un temple protestant .029 Villa Graciosa, aujourd'hui Trocadero .030 Villa Grangeneuve .031 Villa Halévy, villa locative d'Emile Pereire, située Cours Desbiey, aujourd'hui disparue .032 Villa Marguerite .033 Villa Coecilia .034 Villa Montesquieu .035 Villa Noémi .036 Villa Montretout .037 Notre Dame des Passes .038 Villa Riquet .039 L'Établissement de bain, près du Grand Hotel .040 Une cabine de bain...
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architecture
architecture
Date:
ca. 1862-1864
ca. 1862-1864
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Miscellaneous views, some large pavilions, smaller houses and buildings, a bathing establishment of the ville d'hiver, Arcachon, France
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PH1984:0711:001-040
Description:
Album of 40 photographs by Jules-Alphonse Terpereau of the ville d'hiver, Arcachon, France, ordered by the Compagnie du Midi owned by Emile Pereire, showing views of several villas, the casino, a belvedere, a castle, a theatre, a gymnasium, cottages, etc. The album is dedicated to Mr. Edouard Charton by Paul Regnauld, ingénieur en chef de la Compagnie du Midi et maître d'oeuvre de la ville d'hiver. Photographs are unidentified but are titled (documentation taken from an Internet source) as follows: .001 Le casino mauresque .002 Le chalet Pereire, lors de la visite de l'Empereur .003 Avenue Euphrosine (Avenue Gambetta) .004 .005 Le Chateau Deganne .006 Monument à la gloire de Brémontier .007 La première chapelle Saint Ferdinand .008 Notre Dame, deuxième version .009 .010 .011 Le buffet chinois de la gare .012 .013 Le casino vu de la ville d'été .014 Le théâtre Euterpe .015 La Passerelle avec le chariot de Terpereau .016 Le théâtre San Carlino .017 Gymnase Bertini .018 Villa du Moulin Rouge .019 Villa Newton, aujourd'hui Montfleuri .020 .021 Villa Faust .022 .023 .024 Villa Isabelle .025 Villa Napoléon .026 Villa Victoria .027 Villa Montaigne .028 La chapelle Ste-Cécile, devenue un temple protestant .029 Villa Graciosa, aujourd'hui Trocadero .030 Villa Grangeneuve .031 Villa Halévy, villa locative d'Emile Pereire, située Cours Desbiey, aujourd'hui disparue .032 Villa Marguerite .033 Villa Coecilia .034 Villa Montesquieu .035 Villa Noémi .036 Villa Montretout .037 Notre Dame des Passes .038 Villa Riquet .039 L'Établissement de bain, près du Grand Hotel .040 Une cabine de bain...
Miscellaneous views, some large pavilions, smaller houses and buildings, a bathing establishment of the ville d'hiver, Arcachon, France
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PH1984:0711:001-040
Description:
Album of 40 photographs by Jules-Alphonse Terpereau of the ville d'hiver, Arcachon, France, ordered by the Compagnie du Midi owned by Emile Pereire, showing views of several villas, the casino, a belvedere, a castle, a theatre, a gymnasium, cottages, etc. The album is dedicated to Mr. Edouard Charton by Paul Regnauld, ingénieur en chef de la Compagnie du Midi et maître d'oeuvre de la ville d'hiver. Photographs are unidentified but are titled (documentation taken from an Internet source) as follows: .001 Le casino mauresque .002 Le chalet Pereire, lors de la visite de l'Empereur .003 Avenue Euphrosine (Avenue Gambetta) .004 .005 Le Chateau Deganne .006 Monument à la gloire de Brémontier .007 La première chapelle Saint Ferdinand .008 Notre Dame, deuxième version .009 .010 .011 Le buffet chinois de la gare .012 .013 Le casino vu de la ville d'été .014 Le théâtre Euterpe .015 La Passerelle avec le chariot de Terpereau .016 Le théâtre San Carlino .017 Gymnase Bertini .018 Villa du Moulin Rouge .019 Villa Newton, aujourd'hui Montfleuri .020 .021 Villa Faust .022 .023 .024 Villa Isabelle .025 Villa Napoléon .026 Villa Victoria .027 Villa Montaigne .028 La chapelle Ste-Cécile, devenue un temple protestant .029 Villa Graciosa, aujourd'hui Trocadero .030 Villa Grangeneuve .031 Villa Halévy, villa locative d'Emile Pereire, située Cours Desbiey, aujourd'hui disparue .032 Villa Marguerite .033 Villa Coecilia .034 Villa Montesquieu .035 Villa Noémi .036 Villa Montretout .037 Notre Dame des Passes .038 Villa Riquet .039 L'Établissement de bain, près du Grand Hotel .040 Une cabine de bain...
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photographs
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ca. 1862-1864
ca. 1862-1864
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
14 May 2015 , 6pm
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Title:
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
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events
events
Date:
14 May 2015
6pm
14 May 2015
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
