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AP156.S1.SS3
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Cette sous-série est constituée de 4 classeurs à attaches contenant les correspondances de Le Corbusier à divers destinataires, y compris Pierre Jeanneret, Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Jit Lal Malhotra, Jawaharlal Nehru, Parmeshwari Lal Varma, et autres. La correspondance couvre la période de 1951 à 1963. This sub-series contains 4 duotands containing the correspondence between Le Corbusier and various correspondents, including Pierre Jeanneret, Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Jit Lal Malhotra, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Parmeshwari Lal Varma, amongst others. The correspondence covers the period between 1951 and 1963.
1951-1963
Correspondance de Le Corbusier relative à Chandigarh = Correspondence of Le Corbusier predominantly pertaining to Chandigarh
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AP156.S1.SS3
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Cette sous-série est constituée de 4 classeurs à attaches contenant les correspondances de Le Corbusier à divers destinataires, y compris Pierre Jeanneret, Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Jit Lal Malhotra, Jawaharlal Nehru, Parmeshwari Lal Varma, et autres. La correspondance couvre la période de 1951 à 1963. This sub-series contains 4 duotands containing the correspondence between Le Corbusier and various correspondents, including Pierre Jeanneret, Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Jit Lal Malhotra, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Parmeshwari Lal Varma, amongst others. The correspondence covers the period between 1951 and 1963.
Sous-série 3
1951-1963
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Small sculptures
CP138.S5.D30
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File consists of small sculptures likely made between 1962 and 1968, the period that Gordon Matta-Clark was studying at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. File contains sculptures.
[ca. 1964]
Small sculptures
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CP138.S5.D30
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File consists of small sculptures likely made between 1962 and 1968, the period that Gordon Matta-Clark was studying at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. File contains sculptures.
File 30
[ca. 1964]
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Fonds
AP096
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The Charles B.K. Van Norman fonds consists of photographs, drawings, albums, a presentation panel, and textual records. The material ranges in date from ca. 1942 to 1967, and shows the variety of building types that Van Norman designed, primarily for corporate and government clients, through the busiest period of his career.
[ca. 1942-1967]
Charles B.K. Van Norman fonds
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AP096
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The Charles B.K. Van Norman fonds consists of photographs, drawings, albums, a presentation panel, and textual records. The material ranges in date from ca. 1942 to 1967, and shows the variety of building types that Van Norman designed, primarily for corporate and government clients, through the busiest period of his career.
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Fonds
[ca. 1942-1967]
textual records
ARCH268074
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Five-year plan for Chandigarh, India, covering the period 1985-1990, including the annual plan for 1985-1986. Plan is a government document prepared by the Planning and Evaluation Organisation, Finance Department, Chandigarh Administration.
1985
Five-year plan for Chandigarh, India
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ARCH268074
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Five-year plan for Chandigarh, India, covering the period 1985-1990, including the annual plan for 1985-1986. Plan is a government document prepared by the Planning and Evaluation Organisation, Finance Department, Chandigarh Administration.
textual records
1985
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Octagonal gallery
27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
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The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Octagonal gallery
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 May 2006 to 30 July 2006
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Jean Michaud fonds
AP012
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Le Fonds Jean Michaud est constitué autour de 5 projets étudiants, 79 projets professionnels, 6 projets non identifiés, 13 projets réalisés par d'autres architectes, ainsi que divers documents visuels et textuels. Les projets de l'architecte sont répartis en 42 projets résidentiels, 4 pour les loisirs et l'animation sociale, 9 éducatifs, 7 commerciaux et administratifs, 3 industriels et manufacturiers, 1 pour le transport routier, 9 gouvernementales, 1 médical, 2 religieux et 1 projet d'aménagement urbain. Ces projets sont principalement concentrés dans quatre régions du Québec. Il y en a 29 dans la région de Montréal (incluant Laval et Vaudreuil-Dorion; dont 17 à Montréal), 20 dans la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent et Gaspésie (11 à Rimouski), 12 en Montérégie (8 à Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu) et 7 dans les Laurentides. Le fonds Jean Michaud comprend 1613 dessins, 959 reprographies, 271 documents photographiques, 43 documents graphiques, 1 maquette, ainsi que 2.805 m.l. de documents textuels. Ces documents ont été principalement produits entre 1950 et 1970.
1852, 1916, 1938-1981, surtout 1950-1974
Jean Michaud fonds
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AP012
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Le Fonds Jean Michaud est constitué autour de 5 projets étudiants, 79 projets professionnels, 6 projets non identifiés, 13 projets réalisés par d'autres architectes, ainsi que divers documents visuels et textuels. Les projets de l'architecte sont répartis en 42 projets résidentiels, 4 pour les loisirs et l'animation sociale, 9 éducatifs, 7 commerciaux et administratifs, 3 industriels et manufacturiers, 1 pour le transport routier, 9 gouvernementales, 1 médical, 2 religieux et 1 projet d'aménagement urbain. Ces projets sont principalement concentrés dans quatre régions du Québec. Il y en a 29 dans la région de Montréal (incluant Laval et Vaudreuil-Dorion; dont 17 à Montréal), 20 dans la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent et Gaspésie (11 à Rimouski), 12 en Montérégie (8 à Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu) et 7 dans les Laurentides. Le fonds Jean Michaud comprend 1613 dessins, 959 reprographies, 271 documents photographiques, 43 documents graphiques, 1 maquette, ainsi que 2.805 m.l. de documents textuels. Ces documents ont été principalement produits entre 1950 et 1970.
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1852, 1916, 1938-1981, surtout 1950-1974
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Old Books New Cities
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
Hall cases
12 December 2013 to 15 June 2014
Old Books New Cities
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The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
Hall cases
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
Main galleries
20 October 2004 to 11 September 2005
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
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During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
Main galleries