11 November 2021 to 19 November 2021, 6:30pm
drawings
AP178.S2.1978.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Banco Borges & Irmão in Vila do Conde, Portugal and for the Bouça housing complex in Porto, Portugal. It also contains notes regarding Berlin, Germany and some monuments as well as what appears to be studies of block apartments in Berlin.
February 1978
Sketchbook 17: A. Nobre - BB - Bouça - Berlim Fr.
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AP178.S2.1978.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Banco Borges & Irmão in Vila do Conde, Portugal and for the Bouça housing complex in Porto, Portugal. It also contains notes regarding Berlin, Germany and some monuments as well as what appears to be studies of block apartments in Berlin.
drawings
February 1978
Adieu, Mel
In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
23 January 2013 , 6pm
Adieu, Mel
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In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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AP207.S1.1972.PR05
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The project series documents "About Non-conscious Architecture", a series of photographs thought as a catalogue of natural geographical features, seen by Pettena as "architecture not made by architects" [1]. The catalogue was built during Pettena's travels in the United States, between 1972 and 1973, and includes landscapes of Utah and the Great Salt Lake area and Monument Valley in Arizona. The project was also presented in the form of a film at the 1973 Milan Triennale. The project series contains the photographs taken during research travels for the project selection, including behind the scene photographs, and final photographs series of "non-conscious" architecture. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-non-conscious-1972-73-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).
circa 1972-2015
About None-conscious Architecture (1972-1973)
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AP207.S1.1972.PR05
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The project series documents "About Non-conscious Architecture", a series of photographs thought as a catalogue of natural geographical features, seen by Pettena as "architecture not made by architects" [1]. The catalogue was built during Pettena's travels in the United States, between 1972 and 1973, and includes landscapes of Utah and the Great Salt Lake area and Monument Valley in Arizona. The project was also presented in the form of a film at the 1973 Milan Triennale. The project series contains the photographs taken during research travels for the project selection, including behind the scene photographs, and final photographs series of "non-conscious" architecture. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-non-conscious-1972-73-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).
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circa 1972-2015
photographs
PH1981:0772:001-227
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Album of photographs showing views and monuments of german towns, mostly churches, castles, houses, streets, monnuments, museums and rivers. The cities shown are Munich, Wurzburg, Regensburg, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Bamberg, Nurnberg, Halberstadt, Munster, Strassburg, Speier, Worms, Wetzlar, Limburg, Marburg, Koln, Bonn, Karlsbad, Dresden, Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Braunschweig, Schwerin, Hamburg, Stendal, Doberan and Lubeck. Some views are from Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).
architecture
1870s-1880s
Album of photographs showing views of Germany and of Prague (Czech Republic)
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PH1981:0772:001-227
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Album of photographs showing views and monuments of german towns, mostly churches, castles, houses, streets, monnuments, museums and rivers. The cities shown are Munich, Wurzburg, Regensburg, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Bamberg, Nurnberg, Halberstadt, Munster, Strassburg, Speier, Worms, Wetzlar, Limburg, Marburg, Koln, Bonn, Karlsbad, Dresden, Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Braunschweig, Schwerin, Hamburg, Stendal, Doberan and Lubeck. Some views are from Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).
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1870s-1880s
architecture
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Un dictionnaire
AP041.S1.1970.D2
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UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of black and white photographs of wire-service newspaper articles selected by Charney for their depiction of “people and buildings caught in upheavals”. Charney described these images as “monuments which are created by events outside the confines of architectural institutions”, meaning that buildings and locations assume a “monumental connotation” when they become associated with a significant event. UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of 300 plates, each plate a photograph that “traces the contours of relations which affect our grasp of the significance of buildings”. UN DICTIONNAIRE was presented as an installation at Galerie Catherine & Stéphane de Beyrie in Paris in 1994 and at the Canadian Pavilion of the 7th International Architectural Exhibition in Venice in 2000 as well as at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001-2002. The publication “Tracking images : Melvin Charney, un dictionnaire...” related to this project was also realized in collaboration the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000. This project series contains correspondence, notes, photographs, installations plans and exhibition space plans related for the aforementioned exhibitions in Paris, at the Venice Biennale and in Montréal. It also contains reprints of panels shown outside the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Source: Montréal : Musée d’art contemporain. (1979) Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. (p. 21-28)
1970-2001
Un dictionnaire
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AP041.S1.1970.D2
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UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of black and white photographs of wire-service newspaper articles selected by Charney for their depiction of “people and buildings caught in upheavals”. Charney described these images as “monuments which are created by events outside the confines of architectural institutions”, meaning that buildings and locations assume a “monumental connotation” when they become associated with a significant event. UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of 300 plates, each plate a photograph that “traces the contours of relations which affect our grasp of the significance of buildings”. UN DICTIONNAIRE was presented as an installation at Galerie Catherine & Stéphane de Beyrie in Paris in 1994 and at the Canadian Pavilion of the 7th International Architectural Exhibition in Venice in 2000 as well as at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001-2002. The publication “Tracking images : Melvin Charney, un dictionnaire...” related to this project was also realized in collaboration the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000. This project series contains correspondence, notes, photographs, installations plans and exhibition space plans related for the aforementioned exhibitions in Paris, at the Venice Biennale and in Montréal. It also contains reprints of panels shown outside the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Source: Montréal : Musée d’art contemporain. (1979) Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. (p. 21-28)
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1970-2001
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AP207.S1.2014.PR03
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The project series documents "Secoli E Milenni" a series of drawings by Pettena in 2014. The drawing series shows the passing of time through the illustration of a monument slowly decaying and overcome by nature. "With the passing of millennia everything may disappear and only traces remain of the fabric of previous cultures, superimposed one on the other, but in the end, Nature re-elaborates and recovers its role, prevailing in the end over the small quarrelsomeness of centuries: Nature recounts the millennia, the thousands, the millions of years." [1] The project series contains six printouts of the drawings, a photographic reproduction showing all six drawings, and a video montage of the drawings. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-centuries-and-millennia-2014/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
2014-2015
Secoli E Milenni [Centuries and Millennia] (2014)
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AP207.S1.2014.PR03
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The project series documents "Secoli E Milenni" a series of drawings by Pettena in 2014. The drawing series shows the passing of time through the illustration of a monument slowly decaying and overcome by nature. "With the passing of millennia everything may disappear and only traces remain of the fabric of previous cultures, superimposed one on the other, but in the end, Nature re-elaborates and recovers its role, prevailing in the end over the small quarrelsomeness of centuries: Nature recounts the millennia, the thousands, the millions of years." [1] The project series contains six printouts of the drawings, a photographic reproduction showing all six drawings, and a video montage of the drawings. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-centuries-and-millennia-2014/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
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2014-2015
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AP066.S2.D12
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Le dossier documente la production d'un mémoire présenté au Comité consultatif du Vieux-Port de Montréal, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies et des documents textuels. Description du projet par l'architecte: Pour la renaissance d'un espace naturel: UN NOUVEAU PORT "… nous croyons à la fois au projet porté par [l'architecte Marc] Drouin et au projet nommé par [l'architecte Jean-Claude] Marsan… Du premier, plutôt que le fleuve seul, retenons l'élément de reflexion de base: la nature comme modèle de l'espace… Du second, plutôt que la continuité portuaire seule, retenons l'élément de figuration de base : la culture comme l'espace idéal de 'projetation' du modèle." Jacques Rousseau, "Le Monument Ultime", Section A, mai 1985, p. 35-36.
1985
Mémoire présenté au Comité consultatif du Vieux-Port de Montréal
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AP066.S2.D12
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Le dossier documente la production d'un mémoire présenté au Comité consultatif du Vieux-Port de Montréal, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies et des documents textuels. Description du projet par l'architecte: Pour la renaissance d'un espace naturel: UN NOUVEAU PORT "… nous croyons à la fois au projet porté par [l'architecte Marc] Drouin et au projet nommé par [l'architecte Jean-Claude] Marsan… Du premier, plutôt que le fleuve seul, retenons l'élément de reflexion de base: la nature comme modèle de l'espace… Du second, plutôt que la continuité portuaire seule, retenons l'élément de figuration de base : la culture comme l'espace idéal de 'projetation' du modèle." Jacques Rousseau, "Le Monument Ultime", Section A, mai 1985, p. 35-36.
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1985
archives
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Cedric Price fonds
AP144
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The Cedric Price fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Cedric Price, and includes his student work and architectural and urban planning projects. The fonds also contains records that document Cedric Price's teaching, publication, and exhibition activities. The archive comprises over 200 projects, from Price's student work in the 1950s at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association to projects he undertook as late as 2000. Key projects that are represented include New Aviary (1960-1966), Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979), Generator (1976-1980), and Magnet (1995-1996).
1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
Cedric Price fonds
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AP144
Synopsis:
The Cedric Price fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Cedric Price, and includes his student work and architectural and urban planning projects. The fonds also contains records that document Cedric Price's teaching, publication, and exhibition activities. The archive comprises over 200 projects, from Price's student work in the 1950s at the University of Cambridge and the Architectural Association to projects he undertook as late as 2000. Key projects that are represented include New Aviary (1960-1966), Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979), Generator (1976-1980), and Magnet (1995-1996).
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1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
DR1985:0638
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war memorial monument with sculptural relief
architecture
1937-1938
Perspective sketch of the Memorial to Paul Vaillant-Couturier
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DR1985:0638
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war memorial monument with sculptural relief
architecture