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ARCH257544
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Application for area development plan for Waterfront Centre including summary, context, planning principles, design concept, site analyses [1 binder].
1981
Application for area development plan for Waterfront Centre
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ARCH257544
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Application for area development plan for Waterfront Centre including summary, context, planning principles, design concept, site analyses [1 binder].
textual records
1981
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
Octagonal gallery
18 April 2002 to 29 September 2002
Lewis Baltz: The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
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The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Shanghai
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
7 May 2009
Learning from... Shanghai
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In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
photographs
ARCH268965
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Contains images of reference materials used in the context of a thesis. Further investigation is required. Most are duplicates of ARCH268964.
Images of reference materials used in the context of a thesis
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ARCH268965
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Contains images of reference materials used in the context of a thesis. Further investigation is required. Most are duplicates of ARCH268964.
photographs
drawings
AP046.S1.1983.PR01.164
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This file includes early record set (preliminary design package), context map, site plan, floor plans, elevations, and sections for the CCA.
1984
Early design phase before Erol Argun, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR01.164
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This file includes early record set (preliminary design package), context map, site plan, floor plans, elevations, and sections for the CCA.
drawings
1984
ARCH240267
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Anymore Context? Participants: Arata Isozaki/Akira Asada, Rem Koolhaas, Francois Roche, Saskia Sassen, Kazuyo Sejima Moderator: Phyllis Lambert, in Paris, June 1999
1999-06-24
Video recording of Anymore conference, tape 1
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ARCH240267
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Anymore Context? Participants: Arata Isozaki/Akira Asada, Rem Koolhaas, Francois Roche, Saskia Sassen, Kazuyo Sejima Moderator: Phyllis Lambert, in Paris, June 1999
1999-06-24
ARCH240268
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Anymore Context? Participants: Arata Isozaki/Akira Asada, Rem Koolhaas, Francois Roche, Saskia Sassen, Kazuyo Sejima Moderator: Phyllis Lambert, in Paris June 1999
1999-06-24
Video recording of Anymore conference, tape 2
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ARCH240268
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Anymore Context? Participants: Arata Isozaki/Akira Asada, Rem Koolhaas, Francois Roche, Saskia Sassen, Kazuyo Sejima Moderator: Phyllis Lambert, in Paris June 1999
1999-06-24
drawings
AP046.S1.1983.PR01.482
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This file includes context maps, cornice bracket details, Shaughnessy House sketches and plans, landscape plans, and axonometric drawing of the CCA and grounds.
1983-1989
Various architectural plans and sketches, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR01.482
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This file includes context maps, cornice bracket details, Shaughnessy House sketches and plans, landscape plans, and axonometric drawing of the CCA and grounds.
drawings
1983-1989