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Maxwell Levinson fonds
AP037
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The Maxwell Levison fonds (Shelter, T. Square) illustrates primarily the activities of Maxwell Levinson as editor of T-Square Club Journal, T-Square, Shelter and USA Tomorrow. It documents the various aspects of the publication of these magazines. It includes editorial, production and promotional material as well as documentation and research files. The fonds also contains records pertaining to the professional practice of Maxwell Levinson as architect and city planning consultant.
1926-1990
Maxwell Levinson fonds
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AP037
Synopsis:
The Maxwell Levison fonds (Shelter, T. Square) illustrates primarily the activities of Maxwell Levinson as editor of T-Square Club Journal, T-Square, Shelter and USA Tomorrow. It documents the various aspects of the publication of these magazines. It includes editorial, production and promotional material as well as documentation and research files. The fonds also contains records pertaining to the professional practice of Maxwell Levinson as architect and city planning consultant.
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1926-1990
archives
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Fonds
AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
2003-2011
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
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2003-2011
drawings, photographs
DR2012:0011:032
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Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects: - Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat); - Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy); - Small weekend house (3 stats); - Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat); - Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats); - Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats); - Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats); - Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats); - Child centre (3 stats); - Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats); - Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat); - Morse Jewellers (4 stats); - Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North; - Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat); - Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat); - Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat); - Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
1955-1957
Portfolio for application to the graduate program at Yale University
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DR2012:0011:032
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Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects: - Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat); - Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy); - Small weekend house (3 stats); - Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat); - Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats); - Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats); - Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats); - Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats); - Child centre (3 stats); - Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats); - Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat); - Morse Jewellers (4 stats); - Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North; - Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat); - Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat); - Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat); - Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
drawings, photographs
1955-1957
textual records
ARCH256696
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41 files - 1 file "Future projects mail for AE" (includes correspondence and sketches); new business - initial leads (12 files) in Cuba, B.C., Ontario, Canada, USA, Far East, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, and "Notes on trip to Middle East, Arthur prospects", 28 files of other projects - Meditation Centre in Kingston, City of Stratford, North York YMCA, Old Don Jail (Toronto), City of Vanier (Ottawa), Ryerson Institute, Samson Cheng (associated with many projects - Maracaibo, a Montreal hotel, Caicos Island hotel), Erin Mills Townsite, B.C. projects (North Vancouver Eastern Community School, Block 56, Burke Mountain, Seymour Town Centre), CBC Wascana Centre in Regina, Jubail Industrial Complex in Saudi Arabia, University of Riyadh, Empress Farah Foundation/Khalili project, Helwan University in Cairo, Aleppo project in Syria, Monaco Hotel development, Maritime museums in B.C., Francesco & Aldo Piccaluga Inc., Ploughkeepsie Bridge, Red Deer College, Reimer Office building in Matsqui, Edificio Anauco Sotano Uno in Caracas Venezuela, AEA general Alberta projects, Corporacion de turismo de Venezuala, Reza Shah Kabir University in Iran, Harbour Square Park in Toronto, Maple Mountain Resort development
"Future projects mail for AE"
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ARCH256696
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41 files - 1 file "Future projects mail for AE" (includes correspondence and sketches); new business - initial leads (12 files) in Cuba, B.C., Ontario, Canada, USA, Far East, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, and "Notes on trip to Middle East, Arthur prospects", 28 files of other projects - Meditation Centre in Kingston, City of Stratford, North York YMCA, Old Don Jail (Toronto), City of Vanier (Ottawa), Ryerson Institute, Samson Cheng (associated with many projects - Maracaibo, a Montreal hotel, Caicos Island hotel), Erin Mills Townsite, B.C. projects (North Vancouver Eastern Community School, Block 56, Burke Mountain, Seymour Town Centre), CBC Wascana Centre in Regina, Jubail Industrial Complex in Saudi Arabia, University of Riyadh, Empress Farah Foundation/Khalili project, Helwan University in Cairo, Aleppo project in Syria, Monaco Hotel development, Maritime museums in B.C., Francesco & Aldo Piccaluga Inc., Ploughkeepsie Bridge, Red Deer College, Reimer Office building in Matsqui, Edificio Anauco Sotano Uno in Caracas Venezuela, AEA general Alberta projects, Corporacion de turismo de Venezuala, Reza Shah Kabir University in Iran, Harbour Square Park in Toronto, Maple Mountain Resort development
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textual records
ARCH153474
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Correspondence with different foundations (CBS, NEH, NY Community Trust, Graham, etc.) Folder Operating and Development [1981]; - Minutes of the Operating Committee and relating correspondence with different foundations - Exhibitions budgets, March 16, 1981 - Several letters to PDE from foundations (grants received & refused) - Procedures to keep track of donators and destination of received grants - NEH - Audit report, June 4, 1980 - Open Plan Fall 1980, Lecturers Various documents from the Executive Committee Development Committee Report to Executive Committee, April 15, 1981 Folder [Development Committee] - Recommendations for a Development Program for the Institute, Aug. 31, 1981 - Report to the Board of Trustees, 22 Jan. 1981 - Report of the Development Committee to Charles Gwathmey - Correspondence with foundations (grants received and refused) - Status report, Jan. 13, 1981 - Grant Application to FIPSE for Advanced Design Study Program - Correspondence with various foundations - Memo to PDE from C. Gwathmey concerning Plan for Development 1980-1981 - Deadlines for Federal Grants - Folder Development Workbook, November 1980 - Correspondence of Letty H. Simon, Director of Development - Development Priorities - Proposed Budget for FY 81 - List of catalogue purchasers, May 12, 1980 - NEA : Request for Proposals for a Television Series on Architecture, January 1980
1980-1982
C. IAUS - Administrative 5. Development. 1980-1982
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ARCH153474
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Correspondence with different foundations (CBS, NEH, NY Community Trust, Graham, etc.) Folder Operating and Development [1981]; - Minutes of the Operating Committee and relating correspondence with different foundations - Exhibitions budgets, March 16, 1981 - Several letters to PDE from foundations (grants received & refused) - Procedures to keep track of donators and destination of received grants - NEH - Audit report, June 4, 1980 - Open Plan Fall 1980, Lecturers Various documents from the Executive Committee Development Committee Report to Executive Committee, April 15, 1981 Folder [Development Committee] - Recommendations for a Development Program for the Institute, Aug. 31, 1981 - Report to the Board of Trustees, 22 Jan. 1981 - Report of the Development Committee to Charles Gwathmey - Correspondence with foundations (grants received and refused) - Status report, Jan. 13, 1981 - Grant Application to FIPSE for Advanced Design Study Program - Correspondence with various foundations - Memo to PDE from C. Gwathmey concerning Plan for Development 1980-1981 - Deadlines for Federal Grants - Folder Development Workbook, November 1980 - Correspondence of Letty H. Simon, Director of Development - Development Priorities - Proposed Budget for FY 81 - List of catalogue purchasers, May 12, 1980 - NEA : Request for Proposals for a Television Series on Architecture, January 1980
textual records
1980-1982
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
articles
Building a Forest
Forces of Friction
PH1984:0130:001
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The communities of the Hopi Reservation shown in this photograph have been identified from the foreground to the background: Tewa (now Hano), Sichomovi and Walpi.
architecture
1879 or 1881
View of the First Mesa showing Tewa (now Hano) in the foreground, Sichomovi and Walpi, Hopi Reservation, Arizona, United States
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PH1984:0130:001
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The communities of the Hopi Reservation shown in this photograph have been identified from the foreground to the background: Tewa (now Hano), Sichomovi and Walpi.
architecture
As part of the CCA’s ongoing exploration of key issues in contemporary architecture with a specific focus on urban, social, and environmental concerns, Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa features recent architectural projects that propose new solutions to the challenges of building homes in dense urban environments. London and(...)
Main galleries
14 May 2008 to 26 October 2008
Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa
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As part of the CCA’s ongoing exploration of key issues in contemporary architecture with a specific focus on urban, social, and environmental concerns, Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa features recent architectural projects that propose new solutions to the challenges of building homes in dense urban environments. London and(...)
Main galleries