Mies in America
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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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
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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Caption This
Critical Cataloguing, Photography Collection, China, Peking, Beijing, Lebanon, Beirut, Captions, Social Media
27 November 2023
Caption This
Shukri Sultan and Endriana Audisho, Julia Ramos, and Jacqueline Tran on the stories constructed by the collection, documentation, cataloguing, and sharing of photography
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3 May 2018
Learning from… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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CD042
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The collection documents the research of Susan Wagg, one of the curators of the exhibition “Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture”, on bank buildings in the United States and in Canada, from 1795 to 1979. It contains her research files on each of the bank buildings presented in the exhibition and the photograhic commission of the banks by photographers Robert Bourdeau, Edward Burtynsky, David Duchow, David Miller, Marilyn Bridges, James Iska, Len Jenshel, John Pfahl, George Tice, Catherine Wagner and Serge Hambourg.
1926-1993
Money Matters exhibition collection
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CD042
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The collection documents the research of Susan Wagg, one of the curators of the exhibition “Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture”, on bank buildings in the United States and in Canada, from 1795 to 1979. It contains her research files on each of the bank buildings presented in the exhibition and the photograhic commission of the banks by photographers Robert Bourdeau, Edward Burtynsky, David Duchow, David Miller, Marilyn Bridges, James Iska, Len Jenshel, John Pfahl, George Tice, Catherine Wagner and Serge Hambourg.
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1926-1993
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Harvard and its Surroundings
PH1979:0604
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This album comprises 102 pages of texts (descriptions of Harvard University and surroundings), a Key Plan of the vicinity of Harvard University, an Index, a List of Illustrations and an Introduction, 39 albertypes (collotypes, full pages), 28 engravings and 2 half-titles. The title page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription Edition. Published by Moses King, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.; a presentation page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription (fourth) edition by Moses King. Copiously illustrated with albertypes, and engravings. Cambridge. Moses King, Publisher, Harvard Square, 1882. Copyright, 1878, by Moses King. Copyright, 1880, by Charles W. Sever. Copyright, 1882, by Moses King. Designs by L.S. Ipsen; Sketches by H. M. Stephenson; University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. The illustrations are listed as follows: -Memorial Hall. - Dining Hall, Memorial Transept and Sanders Theatre -Harvard Hall. - Physical Laboratory and Lecture rooms -Massachusetts Hall. - Examinations Rooms -The Quadrance of Harvard College. Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Thayer -Matthews Hall. - Dormitory -Dane Hall. - Law School -Wadsworth, or Old Presidents' House. - Dormitory -Grays Hall. - Dormitory -Boylston Hall. - Chemical Laboratory -Gore Hall. - The Universityé Library -Weld Hall. - Dormitory -Old President's Chair -University Hall. - Administration and Lecture Rooms -Sever Hall. - Lectures, Recitations and Examinations -Thayer Hall. - Dormitory -Appleton Chapel. - University House of Worship -Holden Chapel (engraving) -Holworthy Hall. - Dormitory -Stoughton Hall. - Dormitory -Hollis Hall. - Dormitory -Holmes House (engraving) -Hemenway Gymnasium -Interior of the Harvard (Hemenway) Gymnasium -Society Hall (engraving) -Lawrence Scientific School. - Laboratories Lecture and Workrooms -Divinity Hall. - Lecture Room, Library and Dormitory -Memorial Hall Transept (engraving) -Memorial Dining Hall. - The Students' Commons -Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology -Museum of Comparative Zoology. - Natural History Collections -Plan of Oxford Street -The Old Gymnasium -University Boat Club House -The President's House. - Residence of the Executive Officer -Dana House (engraving) -Holyoke House. - Shops and Dormitory -College House. - Post Office, Shops and Dormitory -Botanic Garden and Herbarium -The Astronomical Observatory -The Old Medical School. - Lectures, Laboratories, Museums, etc. -The Harvard Medical School. The New Building -Dental School. - Lecture and Workrooms and Laboratory -Bussey Institution. - School of Horticulture and Agriculture -Harvard Surroundings (engraving) -Old Mile Stone (engraving) -Felton Building, - Dormitory -Beck Hall, - Dormitory -Old Cambridge Baptist Church (engraving) -Moses King's Harvard-Square Publishing House -Hasty Pudding Club House (sketch by Cabot and Chandler: Architects: Boston) -Little's Block. - Shops and Dormitory -First Parish Church (engraving) -Christ Church (engraving) -Soldiers' Monument (engraving) -Shepard Memorial Church (engraving) -Washington Elm (engraving) -Waterhouse House (engraving) -Elmwood (engraving) -Fayerweather House (engraving) -Lee House (engraving) -Riedesel House (engraving) -Washington's Head-quarters, or Longfellow's Home (engraving) -Protestant Episcopal Theological School of Massachusetts (engraving) -Vassal House (engraving) -Brattle House (engraving) -New CIty Building (engraving) -Hicks House (engraving) -St. Paul's Church (engraving) -University Press John Wilson & Son
architecture
1882
Harvard and its Surroundings
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PH1979:0604
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This album comprises 102 pages of texts (descriptions of Harvard University and surroundings), a Key Plan of the vicinity of Harvard University, an Index, a List of Illustrations and an Introduction, 39 albertypes (collotypes, full pages), 28 engravings and 2 half-titles. The title page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription Edition. Published by Moses King, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.; a presentation page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription (fourth) edition by Moses King. Copiously illustrated with albertypes, and engravings. Cambridge. Moses King, Publisher, Harvard Square, 1882. Copyright, 1878, by Moses King. Copyright, 1880, by Charles W. Sever. Copyright, 1882, by Moses King. Designs by L.S. Ipsen; Sketches by H. M. Stephenson; University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. The illustrations are listed as follows: -Memorial Hall. - Dining Hall, Memorial Transept and Sanders Theatre -Harvard Hall. - Physical Laboratory and Lecture rooms -Massachusetts Hall. - Examinations Rooms -The Quadrance of Harvard College. Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Thayer -Matthews Hall. - Dormitory -Dane Hall. - Law School -Wadsworth, or Old Presidents' House. - Dormitory -Grays Hall. - Dormitory -Boylston Hall. - Chemical Laboratory -Gore Hall. - The Universityé Library -Weld Hall. - Dormitory -Old President's Chair -University Hall. - Administration and Lecture Rooms -Sever Hall. - Lectures, Recitations and Examinations -Thayer Hall. - Dormitory -Appleton Chapel. - University House of Worship -Holden Chapel (engraving) -Holworthy Hall. - Dormitory -Stoughton Hall. - Dormitory -Hollis Hall. - Dormitory -Holmes House (engraving) -Hemenway Gymnasium -Interior of the Harvard (Hemenway) Gymnasium -Society Hall (engraving) -Lawrence Scientific School. - Laboratories Lecture and Workrooms -Divinity Hall. - Lecture Room, Library and Dormitory -Memorial Hall Transept (engraving) -Memorial Dining Hall. - The Students' Commons -Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology -Museum of Comparative Zoology. - Natural History Collections -Plan of Oxford Street -The Old Gymnasium -University Boat Club House -The President's House. - Residence of the Executive Officer -Dana House (engraving) -Holyoke House. - Shops and Dormitory -College House. - Post Office, Shops and Dormitory -Botanic Garden and Herbarium -The Astronomical Observatory -The Old Medical School. - Lectures, Laboratories, Museums, etc. -The Harvard Medical School. The New Building -Dental School. - Lecture and Workrooms and Laboratory -Bussey Institution. - School of Horticulture and Agriculture -Harvard Surroundings (engraving) -Old Mile Stone (engraving) -Felton Building, - Dormitory -Beck Hall, - Dormitory -Old Cambridge Baptist Church (engraving) -Moses King's Harvard-Square Publishing House -Hasty Pudding Club House (sketch by Cabot and Chandler: Architects: Boston) -Little's Block. - Shops and Dormitory -First Parish Church (engraving) -Christ Church (engraving) -Soldiers' Monument (engraving) -Shepard Memorial Church (engraving) -Washington Elm (engraving) -Waterhouse House (engraving) -Elmwood (engraving) -Fayerweather House (engraving) -Lee House (engraving) -Riedesel House (engraving) -Washington's Head-quarters, or Longfellow's Home (engraving) -Protestant Episcopal Theological School of Massachusetts (engraving) -Vassal House (engraving) -Brattle House (engraving) -New CIty Building (engraving) -Hicks House (engraving) -St. Paul's Church (engraving) -University Press John Wilson & Son
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1882
architecture
When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 September 2016, 6pm
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
14 October 2017, 4pm
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
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In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
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AP051
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
1975-1997
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
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1975-1997