drawings, textual records, photographs
DR1995:0243:727-857
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loose textual records including 2 folders, that include building programme, correspondence, minutes of meeting, clippings, cost appraisals, planning application forms, drawings, table, sketches, reports, demographic study, schedules, publications, standards, annual reports, notes, minutes of meetings, charts, negatives, code of practice, brochures, photographs, invoices, posters, engineering test results, graphs, price lists, clippings, specifications, quantity survey, estimates, list of HVAC and electrical requirements, contract documents, and engineer's report
Building programme, correspondence, minutes of meeting, clippings, cost appraisals
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DR1995:0243:727-857
Description:
loose textual records including 2 folders, that include building programme, correspondence, minutes of meeting, clippings, cost appraisals, planning application forms, drawings, table, sketches, reports, demographic study, schedules, publications, standards, annual reports, notes, minutes of meetings, charts, negatives, code of practice, brochures, photographs, invoices, posters, engineering test results, graphs, price lists, clippings, specifications, quantity survey, estimates, list of HVAC and electrical requirements, contract documents, and engineer's report
drawings, textual records, photographs
archives
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Fonds
John Bird fonds
AP108
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The John Bird fonds documents the professional practice of the Westmount-based architect, and includes drawings and photographs of 24 architectural projects carried out in and around Montréal, Québec between 1954 and 1992. The fonds also contains a number of published articles that document John Bird's professional activities. Key projects that are represented include the Canadian Technical Tape Building, St. Laurent (1955-1963), Saint Gabriel's Church, Montréal (1959-1960), and Saint John Brebeuf Church, Lasalle (1962-1966). The fonds also includes numerous projects for Toronto-Dominion Bank buildings (1959-1992) as well as residential designs completed for the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (1956-1969).
1942 - 1992
John Bird fonds
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AP108
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The John Bird fonds documents the professional practice of the Westmount-based architect, and includes drawings and photographs of 24 architectural projects carried out in and around Montréal, Québec between 1954 and 1992. The fonds also contains a number of published articles that document John Bird's professional activities. Key projects that are represented include the Canadian Technical Tape Building, St. Laurent (1955-1963), Saint Gabriel's Church, Montréal (1959-1960), and Saint John Brebeuf Church, Lasalle (1962-1966). The fonds also includes numerous projects for Toronto-Dominion Bank buildings (1959-1992) as well as residential designs completed for the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (1956-1969).
archives
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Fonds
1942 - 1992
To Build Law
To Build Law is the second chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of practice.
Berlin, HouseEurope!, bplus, Arno Brandlhuber, Francesco Garutti, To Build Law, groundwork, ecology
2024
To Build Law
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To Build Law is the second chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of practice.
Berlin, HouseEurope!, bplus, Arno Brandlhuber, Francesco Garutti, To Build Law, groundwork, ecology
textual records
Office records of contacts and employees, correspondence, and correspondence file regarding projects
ARCH273725
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6 files- office records of contacts and employees, Joan Stanley Baker, Allan Bell and Charlotte Gobeil, primarily correspondence; Arthur Erickson Atelier, correspondence file regarding projects in the Middle East; letters of support and verification from Arthur Erickson, Arthur Erickson Architectural Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia; correspondence regaring the Beijing Opera House design competition and architect Paul Andreu. Also contains Certificates of Practice (2002-2005), Architectural Institute of British Columbia.
1993-2004
Office records of contacts and employees, correspondence, and correspondence file regarding projects
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ARCH273725
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6 files- office records of contacts and employees, Joan Stanley Baker, Allan Bell and Charlotte Gobeil, primarily correspondence; Arthur Erickson Atelier, correspondence file regarding projects in the Middle East; letters of support and verification from Arthur Erickson, Arthur Erickson Architectural Corporation, Vancouver, British Columbia; correspondence regaring the Beijing Opera House design competition and architect Paul Andreu. Also contains Certificates of Practice (2002-2005), Architectural Institute of British Columbia.
textual records
1993-2004
Project
AP207.S1.1971.PR01
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This project series documents Pettena's movie "Intens, Progetto d'Architettura", produced in 1971. The movie consists of a three minutes sequence of Pettena sitting at a drawing board while doing various things except working on a design. "The film ironically represents the attitude of indifference shown by those who had to use the usual instruments to practice architecture." [1] The project series contains printouts of film stills, project descriptions in English and in Italian, and a digital version of the film. An online version of the "Intens, Progetto d'Architettura" can be found on Gianni Pettena website (see https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-intens-1971-1/). Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-intens-1971-1/ (last accessed 4 November 2019).
circa 1971-2015
Intens, Progetto d’Architetture [Intens, Architectural project] (1971)
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AP207.S1.1971.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's movie "Intens, Progetto d'Architettura", produced in 1971. The movie consists of a three minutes sequence of Pettena sitting at a drawing board while doing various things except working on a design. "The film ironically represents the attitude of indifference shown by those who had to use the usual instruments to practice architecture." [1] The project series contains printouts of film stills, project descriptions in English and in Italian, and a digital version of the film. An online version of the "Intens, Progetto d'Architettura" can be found on Gianni Pettena website (see https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-intens-1971-1/). Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-intens-1971-1/ (last accessed 4 November 2019).
Project
circa 1971-2015
Series
CD041.S4
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This series documents two projects by the firm Vecsei/Panzini Architects. In 1980, Eva Hollo Vecsei and Michelange Panzini opened the firm Vecsei/Panzini Architects. The firm closed in 1984 when Eva and André Vecsei opened their own practice, Vecsei Architects. During while working together Vecsei and Panzini designed the Sternthal residence, Westmount, Québec (1982), a low-rise office building on De Maisonneuve Boulevard, Montréal, Québec (circa 1983), and The Quebec Bar Association Headquarters, Montréal, Québec (circa 1984). This series includes documents for the Sternthal residence and the low-rise office building on De Maisonneuve Boulevard. Collection material in this series was produced between 1980 and 1984. Documents include architectural records, such as presentation and design development drawings, and as well as a clipping.
circa 1980-1984
Vecsei / Panzini Architects (1980-1984)
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CD041.S4
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This series documents two projects by the firm Vecsei/Panzini Architects. In 1980, Eva Hollo Vecsei and Michelange Panzini opened the firm Vecsei/Panzini Architects. The firm closed in 1984 when Eva and André Vecsei opened their own practice, Vecsei Architects. During while working together Vecsei and Panzini designed the Sternthal residence, Westmount, Québec (1982), a low-rise office building on De Maisonneuve Boulevard, Montréal, Québec (circa 1983), and The Quebec Bar Association Headquarters, Montréal, Québec (circa 1984). This series includes documents for the Sternthal residence and the low-rise office building on De Maisonneuve Boulevard. Collection material in this series was produced between 1980 and 1984. Documents include architectural records, such as presentation and design development drawings, and as well as a clipping.
Series
circa 1980-1984
How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
How Modern
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How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
Series
AP075.S4
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This series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's research and documentation she collected as reference for her landscape projects she to find inspiration or to informed herself on new practices, new technologies and new thinking. The sub-series also documents her research for publications and lectures. The series contains documentation and notes on playground designs, private and public landscape designs, research and texts for publications and lectures, and travels. Materials are predominantly textual documents such as correspondence, press clippings, and notes, as well as photographs. The series also documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's studies in landscape architecture at Harvard University.
1936-2004
Reference, research material and student work
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AP075.S4
Description:
This series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's research and documentation she collected as reference for her landscape projects she to find inspiration or to informed herself on new practices, new technologies and new thinking. The sub-series also documents her research for publications and lectures. The series contains documentation and notes on playground designs, private and public landscape designs, research and texts for publications and lectures, and travels. Materials are predominantly textual documents such as correspondence, press clippings, and notes, as well as photographs. The series also documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's studies in landscape architecture at Harvard University.
Series
1936-2004
Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
April 2022
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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CI007
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The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
1918-2000
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection
CI007
Synopsis:
The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
archives
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Collection institutionnelle
1918-2000