photographs
AP115.S3.D3.001
1990
photographs
1990
textual records
ARCH269239
1977
Method of testing to determine the thermal performance of solar collectors
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textual records
1977
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AP058.S1
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This series documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement in professional committees and associations, as the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Board (1977-1992), the National Capital Commission (1970-1983), the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, at Princeton University (1976-1988), the Graduate School of Design, at Harvard University (1979-1990), the National Architectural Accrediting Board (U.S.) (1983-1991), the Toronto Arts Week (1987-1989), the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards, the Canadian Friends of Finland, the Canadian Housing Design Council, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the University of Miami Visiting Committee, and many others. The series contains correspondence, programmes and scheduled activities, publications, schedules, information packages, notes, minutes, lists of members, posters, papers, calendars, directories, studies, and reports, dating from 1970 to 1992. The main areas of interests extracted from the material are North American architecture schools and their development, and the architecture and urban planning of the National Capital Region, in Canada.
1970-1992
Professional committees and associations
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AP058.S1
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This series documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement in professional committees and associations, as the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Board (1977-1992), the National Capital Commission (1970-1983), the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, at Princeton University (1976-1988), the Graduate School of Design, at Harvard University (1979-1990), the National Architectural Accrediting Board (U.S.) (1983-1991), the Toronto Arts Week (1987-1989), the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards, the Canadian Friends of Finland, the Canadian Housing Design Council, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the University of Miami Visiting Committee, and many others. The series contains correspondence, programmes and scheduled activities, publications, schedules, information packages, notes, minutes, lists of members, posters, papers, calendars, directories, studies, and reports, dating from 1970 to 1992. The main areas of interests extracted from the material are North American architecture schools and their development, and the architecture and urban planning of the National Capital Region, in Canada.
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1970-1992
Documents of Displacement proposes to explore the notion of displacement and its diverse meanings and effects in photographic and video works of artists through the subjects documented or through their methodologies and processes. The artists invited for this series all live in North America, but develop work from a sense of displacement, whether by their cultural or(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Victor Arroyo, Documents of Displacement, Hester Keijser, photography, Cherán, P’urhépecha
7 December 2023, 6:30pm
Documents of Displacement III
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Documents of Displacement proposes to explore the notion of displacement and its diverse meanings and effects in photographic and video works of artists through the subjects documented or through their methodologies and processes. The artists invited for this series all live in North America, but develop work from a sense of displacement, whether by their cultural or(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Victor Arroyo, Documents of Displacement, Hester Keijser, photography, Cherán, P’urhépecha
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
The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
9 February 2017
An Afternoon with Cedric Price no. 2
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The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
archives
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Fonds
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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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.
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1975-1997
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Main galleries
27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Main galleries
articles
Waste Creeps Back
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Abroad, ADN, American Gothic, Bangalore, Buffalo University, DNA, Imperfect Health, India, recycling, United States, waste
7 February 2012
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