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Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
AP143.S4.D138
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File documents an executed project for six related buildings: Museum of Galician History, New Technologies Center, Music Theatre, Central Services and Administration Building, Galician Library, Periodicals Archive, in Santiago da Compostela, Spain. Material in this file was produced between 1999 and 2007.
1999-2008
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
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AP143.S4.D138
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File documents an executed project for six related buildings: Museum of Galician History, New Technologies Center, Music Theatre, Central Services and Administration Building, Galician Library, Periodicals Archive, in Santiago da Compostela, Spain. Material in this file was produced between 1999 and 2007.
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1999-2008
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(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
Devices of Design
A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004
Devices of Design
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A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
articles
15 July 2024
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
13 October 2017 to 4 March 2018
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City
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The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
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Research materials on Africa
CD037.S1
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This series consists of research materials from the 1960s to the1980s collected by Georg Lippsmeier during his work for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building). Topics covered in these research materials inlcude: low-cost housing, construction materials and technologies, and urbanization in Africa. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, and various maps of Africa.
1960s-1980s
Research materials on Africa
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CD037.S1
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This series consists of research materials from the 1960s to the1980s collected by Georg Lippsmeier during his work for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building). Topics covered in these research materials inlcude: low-cost housing, construction materials and technologies, and urbanization in Africa. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, and various maps of Africa.
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1960s-1980s
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CD037.S4
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This series consists of research material collected by Georg Lippsmeier for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building) on low-cost housing, construction material and technologies, and urbanization between the 1960s and late 1980s. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, maps, and photographs and negatives of construction material and techniques. It also includes a recording on roofing material.
1960s-2005
Research materials on low-cost housing, construction material and technologies, urbanization and energy
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CD037.S4
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This series consists of research material collected by Georg Lippsmeier for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building) on low-cost housing, construction material and technologies, and urbanization between the 1960s and late 1980s. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, maps, and photographs and negatives of construction material and techniques. It also includes a recording on roofing material.
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1960s-2005
Following an intense period of work in the mid-1970s with Portugal’s post-revolutionary housing initiatives, in the early 1980s Álvaro Siza contributed projects to two of the most important urban renewal programs in Europe: Berlin’s IBA and The Hague’s Stadsvernieuwing als Kulturel Aktiviteit (Urban Renewal as a Cultural Activity). This lecture will examine the(...)
26 November 2015
Álvaro Siza’s Archaeology of the Ordinary
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Following an intense period of work in the mid-1970s with Portugal’s post-revolutionary housing initiatives, in the early 1980s Álvaro Siza contributed projects to two of the most important urban renewal programs in Europe: Berlin’s IBA and The Hague’s Stadsvernieuwing als Kulturel Aktiviteit (Urban Renewal as a Cultural Activity). This lecture will examine the(...)