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(...)
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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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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(...)
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15 July 2024
Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north facade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing(...)
North façade
11 September 2009 to 19 October 2009
Robert Burley: Photographic Proof
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Created on the occasion of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, Canadian photographer Robert Burley’s Photographic Proof is a large-scale photographic installation on the north facade of the CCA. The mural reproduces a processed Polaroid photograph, symmetrically juxtaposing the negative and positive versions of the same image, and shows an unidentified crowd observing(...)
North façade
Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
20 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
Cages for non-humans: An architectural history of animal farming
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
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20th century, Cedric Price, dessin, drawing, Eidophor, Fun Palace, J. Lyons & Co., London, London Hydraulic Power Company, Londres, Marshall McLuhan, media, média, Oxford Corner House, XXe siècle
9 March 2011