In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
Hall cases
5 September 2013 to 5 December 2013
H-BLOCK: Social Housing – Ilse Bing
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In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
Hall cases
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
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British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
drawings
AP154.S1.1973.PR01.SS2.045
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Includes plan and elevations of meeting room and details, sections (John Langenbach Er Co/Gordon Carr Architect), tenant reflected ceiling plan (J. Gordon Carr Architect), auxiliary plans showing openings in beams (Customer: George A. Fuller Co.; Bethlehem Steel Company), 5th floor plan and framing plans for the 5th-10th floors.
1955-1957
Prints of structural and mechanical drawings
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AP154.S1.1973.PR01.SS2.045
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Includes plan and elevations of meeting room and details, sections (John Langenbach Er Co/Gordon Carr Architect), tenant reflected ceiling plan (J. Gordon Carr Architect), auxiliary plans showing openings in beams (Customer: George A. Fuller Co.; Bethlehem Steel Company), 5th floor plan and framing plans for the 5th-10th floors.
drawings
1955-1957
textual records
ARCH267394
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This group consists of minutes of meetings, notes, schedules, correspondence and related documents concerning the Palais des Congrès de Montréal. There are also a partnership agreement between the architects of the Palais des Congrès, an organization chart and a professional services contract between the architects and the Ministère des Travaux publics et de l'Approvisionnement du Québec.
1978-1982
Centre de Congrès / Contrat avec MTPA / Convention de société
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This group consists of minutes of meetings, notes, schedules, correspondence and related documents concerning the Palais des Congrès de Montréal. There are also a partnership agreement between the architects of the Palais des Congrès, an organization chart and a professional services contract between the architects and the Ministère des Travaux publics et de l'Approvisionnement du Québec.
textual records
1978-1982
archives
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Fonds
Peter Eisenman fonds
AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Peter Eisenman fonds
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AP143
Synopsis:
The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
archives
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Fonds
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
DR1998:0151
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Drawing from Spence and Mathias Architectes. The drawing is a perspective of the north-est side of the Philips Square buidling in Montreal.
ca. 1947
Perspective of the Philips Square Building, Montréal, Québec
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DR1998:0151
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Drawing from Spence and Mathias Architectes. The drawing is a perspective of the north-est side of the Philips Square buidling in Montreal.
archives
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Fonds
Aditya Prakash fonds
AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
1947-2008
Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
archives
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Fonds
1947-2008
drawings
ARCH256615
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Law Building Dalhousie University Law School - working drawings (Webber, Harrington & Weld, Architects and Engineers, 1965), renovation plans, sections, elevations
circa 1986
Law Building Dalhousie University Law School
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Law Building Dalhousie University Law School - working drawings (Webber, Harrington & Weld, Architects and Engineers, 1965), renovation plans, sections, elevations
drawings
circa 1986
textual records
ARCH258346
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Correspondance incluant des règlements généraux et amendements de divers comités: « Code d'éthique », « Loi des architectes - Bill 246 », « Avis aux candidats » et une composition architecturale par Cormier pour l'avis aux candidats.
1962-1966
Correspondance relative à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec
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ARCH258346
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Correspondance incluant des règlements généraux et amendements de divers comités: « Code d'éthique », « Loi des architectes - Bill 246 », « Avis aux candidats » et une composition architecturale par Cormier pour l'avis aux candidats.
textual records
1962-1966
textual records
Notes de lecture
ARCH259106
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Notes écrites par Ernest Cormier, incluant des extraits de revues, des tirages techniques, des calculs, relatifs à béton armé, « électrotechnique », « thermodynamique », architecture et architectes, mathématique, paraboles, électricité.
1964-1965?
Notes de lecture
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ARCH259106
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Notes écrites par Ernest Cormier, incluant des extraits de revues, des tirages techniques, des calculs, relatifs à béton armé, « électrotechnique », « thermodynamique », architecture et architectes, mathématique, paraboles, électricité.
textual records
1964-1965?