Project
Porthole
AP144.S2.D154
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File documents a commission from Lord Eliot, Earl St. Germans, for an architectural folly, a lead tent in memory of the Earl's grandmother, to be built on the grounds of the Port Eliot estate in St. Germans, Cornwall, England. Material in this file was produced in 1989. File contains conceptual drawings and textual records.
1989
Porthole
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AP144.S2.D154
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File documents a commission from Lord Eliot, Earl St. Germans, for an architectural folly, a lead tent in memory of the Earl's grandmother, to be built on the grounds of the Port Eliot estate in St. Germans, Cornwall, England. Material in this file was produced in 1989. File contains conceptual drawings and textual records.
File 154
1989
Sub-series
AP104.S2.D3
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Le dossier contient 5 documents relatifs au comité de rédaction du journal du Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, 3 photographies des maisons dont Marcel Parizeau était architecte, et des lettres à Marcel Parizeau de John Bland.
1944-1945
Dossier "Publications architecturales"
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AP104.S2.D3
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Le dossier contient 5 documents relatifs au comité de rédaction du journal du Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, 3 photographies des maisons dont Marcel Parizeau était architecte, et des lettres à Marcel Parizeau de John Bland.
Dossier 3
1944-1945
Project
Canadian Pavilion at Osaka
AP163.S2.SS1.D49
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File documents Victor Prus's unrealized architectural competition project for the Canadian Pavilion at Osaka, Japan, in 1969. Material in this file was produced between 1967 and 1969. The file contains drawings, such as design development and presentation drawings, presentation panels, textual records and photographs of the site in Japan or of the project model.
1969-1970
Canadian Pavilion at Osaka
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AP163.S2.SS1.D49
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File documents Victor Prus's unrealized architectural competition project for the Canadian Pavilion at Osaka, Japan, in 1969. Material in this file was produced between 1967 and 1969. The file contains drawings, such as design development and presentation drawings, presentation panels, textual records and photographs of the site in Japan or of the project model.
File 49
1969-1970
textual records
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16 textual record(s)
ARCH267532
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Photocopies of various personal documents, including an identity card issued to Pierre Jeanneret (1963), numerous pages from the architects' Swiss and French passports (1937-1963), a certificate of employment issued by the "Ministère de l'Armement" (1940), movement cards ("carte de circulation") and authorisations to carry weapons issued to Pierre Jeanneret during World War II by the "Bureau Militaire de Circulation" and the "Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur" (1939-1945), and a movement card issued to André Masson by the "Détachement Armée des Alpes (1945). Also contains a copy of the agenda for CIAM2, the second International Congress of Modern Architecture ("Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne"), which reveals Pierre Jeanneret's participation in the Congress.
Photocopies of various personal documents
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ARCH267532
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Photocopies of various personal documents, including an identity card issued to Pierre Jeanneret (1963), numerous pages from the architects' Swiss and French passports (1937-1963), a certificate of employment issued by the "Ministère de l'Armement" (1940), movement cards ("carte de circulation") and authorisations to carry weapons issued to Pierre Jeanneret during World War II by the "Bureau Militaire de Circulation" and the "Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur" (1939-1945), and a movement card issued to André Masson by the "Détachement Armée des Alpes (1945). Also contains a copy of the agenda for CIAM2, the second International Congress of Modern Architecture ("Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne"), which reveals Pierre Jeanneret's participation in the Congress.
textual records
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16 textual record(s)
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
23 April 2009
Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 September 2018 to 19 May 2019
Scripts for a new world
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Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
Sub-series
Photographs of Works
AP032.S1.SS2.D2
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Collection of mostly b/w and some Kodacolour photographs from an envelope labelled "Mies - Prints of Works". Includes views of buildings both completed and under construction, drawings and architectural models, and views of Mies exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1947. Also includes photos of F.L. Wright and Taliesin East.
1939-1947
Photographs of Works
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AP032.S1.SS2.D2
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Collection of mostly b/w and some Kodacolour photographs from an envelope labelled "Mies - Prints of Works". Includes views of buildings both completed and under construction, drawings and architectural models, and views of Mies exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1947. Also includes photos of F.L. Wright and Taliesin East.
File 2
1939-1947
archives
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Fonds
Aldo Rossi fonds
AP142
Synopsis:
The Aldo Rossi fonds documents the professional practice of architect Aldo Rossi and that of his firm, Studio di Architettura (SDA). Drawings of nearly every project by Rossi and SDA are present, with significant Italian, German and Japanese projects particularly well represented. The fonds also includes material relating to exhibitions and some material on publications that feature the work of Rossi and his firm. Material in this fonds was produced between 1953 and 1997.
1953-1997, predominant 1962-1997
Aldo Rossi fonds
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AP142
Synopsis:
The Aldo Rossi fonds documents the professional practice of architect Aldo Rossi and that of his firm, Studio di Architettura (SDA). Drawings of nearly every project by Rossi and SDA are present, with significant Italian, German and Japanese projects particularly well represented. The fonds also includes material relating to exhibitions and some material on publications that feature the work of Rossi and his firm. Material in this fonds was produced between 1953 and 1997.
archives
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Fonds
1953-1997, predominant 1962-1997
photographs
DR2012:0015:024:003
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File containing photographic materials held in plastic sleeves and glassine, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Melvin Charney’s travels through Italy (118 black-and-white negative frames, 91 contact sheet frames, 1 colour slide); - Corridart project (1 gelatin silver print); - CCA garden (5 colour slides); - Montréal, plus ou moins? (19 black-and-white slides). Materials possibly gathered for inclusion in Louis Martin's 2013 book, On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology. Original folder inscribed in graphite: AIGEUS MORT OSTIA ANTICA 1961
1960-1961, 1986, 2000
Photographs of various artworks from Melvin Charney's projects and events
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DR2012:0015:024:003
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File containing photographic materials held in plastic sleeves and glassine, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Melvin Charney’s travels through Italy (118 black-and-white negative frames, 91 contact sheet frames, 1 colour slide); - Corridart project (1 gelatin silver print); - CCA garden (5 colour slides); - Montréal, plus ou moins? (19 black-and-white slides). Materials possibly gathered for inclusion in Louis Martin's 2013 book, On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology. Original folder inscribed in graphite: AIGEUS MORT OSTIA ANTICA 1961
photographs
1960-1961, 1986, 2000