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DR2012:0012:111:012
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File containing materials in English and French, including newspaper clippings, project proposals, and reports related to the following municipal development projects: - Habitations Jeanne-Mance; - redevelopment of Saint Catherine St.; - Project to renovate a defective residential zone and to build low-rental dwellings (1954). Also includes one copy of Le monument national, published by Sauvons Montreal. Items originally housed in a box labelled: VILLE DE MONTREAL / SHDU Faubourg St-Laurent 1990 (Box #2)
1954, 1975-1976, 1988-1990
Reference materials related to municipal development projects
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DR2012:0012:111:012
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File containing materials in English and French, including newspaper clippings, project proposals, and reports related to the following municipal development projects: - Habitations Jeanne-Mance; - redevelopment of Saint Catherine St.; - Project to renovate a defective residential zone and to build low-rental dwellings (1954). Also includes one copy of Le monument national, published by Sauvons Montreal. Items originally housed in a box labelled: VILLE DE MONTREAL / SHDU Faubourg St-Laurent 1990 (Box #2)
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1954, 1975-1976, 1988-1990
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(...)
Project
AP066.S2.D24
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Le dossier documente l'Étude préliminaire pour le projet d'habitation situé sur le boulevard St-Laurent, à Montréal, et l'intégration de la salle de spectacle L'Étoile conçu par Luc Laporte, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies des panneaux et des documents textuels.
1989
L'Étoile et le projet de l'habitation
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AP066.S2.D24
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Le dossier documente l'Étude préliminaire pour le projet d'habitation situé sur le boulevard St-Laurent, à Montréal, et l'intégration de la salle de spectacle L'Étoile conçu par Luc Laporte, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies des panneaux et des documents textuels.
Projet
1989
Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2008
Ryue Nishizawa: Some Ideas on Living
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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ARCH264856
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Le manuscrit traite, notamment de systèmes de canalisations, d'espaces verts et d'habitations.
29 juillet 1960
Manuscrit traitant de l'urbanisme et de la construction à Talwara, Inde
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ARCH264856
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Le manuscrit traite, notamment de systèmes de canalisations, d'espaces verts et d'habitations.
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29 juillet 1960
ARCH265116:009
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Le tapuscrit traite, notamment de systèmes de canalisations, d'espaces verts et d'habitations.
29 juillet 1960
Transcription d'un manuscrit traitant de l'urbanisme et de la construction à Talwara, Inde
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ARCH265116:009
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Le tapuscrit traite, notamment de systèmes de canalisations, d'espaces verts et d'habitations.
29 juillet 1960
Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens, and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common(...)
Main galleries
4 November 2014 to 19 April 2015
Rooms You May Have Missed
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Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens, and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common(...)
Main galleries
When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
Hall cases
22 April 2015 to 30 November 2015
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
Hall cases
Urban Diversity
Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2009
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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AP066.S3.D13
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Le dossier documente la soumission pou le concours ouvert pour le Nouveau Confort d'Hydro-Québec tenu en 1997, d'août à novembre. L'architecte s'est mérité une mention lors de ce concours. Le dossier contient des dessins, des documents textuels et des reprographies. Objectifs du concours: "Le concours a pour objet la conception d'une unité d'habitation unifamiliale neuve détachée ou d'un groupe d'unités d'habitation unifamiliales, jumelées, en rangée ou contigües, chauffée(s) à l'électricité et respectant les exigences techniques du concept Nouveau confort." Extrait des Exigences du concours de conception architecturale. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Ainsi avons-nous choisi d'explorer l'idée de la plus petite maison possible tout en s'assurant d'y conserver la notion de maison familiale. Nous avons cherché à la rendre financièrement accessible aux petits budgets et avons tenté de coller à une typologie qui traduit clairement des valeurs d'usage familières." Jacques Rousseau, extrait d'un brouillon manuscrit d'une lettre à André Fortin au sujet de la petite maison (66-C013-001M).
1997
Concours Nouveau Confort d'Hydro-Québec - Une petite maison
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AP066.S3.D13
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Le dossier documente la soumission pou le concours ouvert pour le Nouveau Confort d'Hydro-Québec tenu en 1997, d'août à novembre. L'architecte s'est mérité une mention lors de ce concours. Le dossier contient des dessins, des documents textuels et des reprographies. Objectifs du concours: "Le concours a pour objet la conception d'une unité d'habitation unifamiliale neuve détachée ou d'un groupe d'unités d'habitation unifamiliales, jumelées, en rangée ou contigües, chauffée(s) à l'électricité et respectant les exigences techniques du concept Nouveau confort." Extrait des Exigences du concours de conception architecturale. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Ainsi avons-nous choisi d'explorer l'idée de la plus petite maison possible tout en s'assurant d'y conserver la notion de maison familiale. Nous avons cherché à la rendre financièrement accessible aux petits budgets et avons tenté de coller à une typologie qui traduit clairement des valeurs d'usage familières." Jacques Rousseau, extrait d'un brouillon manuscrit d'une lettre à André Fortin au sujet de la petite maison (66-C013-001M).
Dossier 13
1997