articles
5 May 2025
The Transformative Power of Film
Andrea Lissoni and Akram Zaatari on films, institutions, and their metamorphic characters
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In the second iteration of the Out of the Box: Amancio Williams series, Claudia Shmidt focuses on letters both sent and received by Amancio Williams. These letters, written to politicians, leading cultural institutions, and influential architects, help to situate Williams’s practice and elaborate on his persistence in bringing his projects to life.
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Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, Buenos Aires, Out of the box, Argentina
12 October 2023 to 28 January 2024
Far from Nostalgia: Amancio Williams selected by Claudia Shmidt
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In the second iteration of the Out of the Box: Amancio Williams series, Claudia Shmidt focuses on letters both sent and received by Amancio Williams. These letters, written to politicians, leading cultural institutions, and influential architects, help to situate Williams’s practice and elaborate on his persistence in bringing his projects to life.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, Buenos Aires, Out of the box, Argentina
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Towards Inuit Futures
20 June 2022
Towards Inuit Futures
Jocelyn Piirainen speaks with Rafico Ruiz about Inuit futurism, institutions, and being an urban Inuk
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Project
AP114.S1.SS1.D22
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At the request of the firm's president, Phyllis Lambert, Ridgway Ltd. began preliminary design work in 1981 on the Canadian Centre for Architecture, an institution devoted to the study of architecture. Ultimately, the Ridgway proposal for the CCA was not retained. The project, completed in 1989, was designed by Peter Rose with Phyllis Lambert, consulting architect, and Erol Argun, associate architect.
circa 1981
Canadian Centre for Architecture
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AP114.S1.SS1.D22
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At the request of the firm's president, Phyllis Lambert, Ridgway Ltd. began preliminary design work in 1981 on the Canadian Centre for Architecture, an institution devoted to the study of architecture. Ultimately, the Ridgway proposal for the CCA was not retained. The project, completed in 1989, was designed by Peter Rose with Phyllis Lambert, consulting architect, and Erol Argun, associate architect.
File 22
circa 1981
archives
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Fonds
A.D. Thacker fonds
AP004
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The A.D. Thacker fonds is comprised of project proposals and documentation dating from around 1913-1938, depicting structures designed by Thacker. Much of Thacker's work was completed in Quebec, but he also completed projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thacker designed many churches for religious institutions that were directly involved in the oppressive, colonial assimilation policies and systems of the Canadian government towards indigenous people. The fonds contains 33 drawings, 16 reprographic copies, 12 photographs and 8 textual documents.
1913-1944
A.D. Thacker fonds
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AP004
Synopsis:
The A.D. Thacker fonds is comprised of project proposals and documentation dating from around 1913-1938, depicting structures designed by Thacker. Much of Thacker's work was completed in Quebec, but he also completed projects in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thacker designed many churches for religious institutions that were directly involved in the oppressive, colonial assimilation policies and systems of the Canadian government towards indigenous people. The fonds contains 33 drawings, 16 reprographic copies, 12 photographs and 8 textual documents.
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Fonds
1913-1944
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Living Lands
Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
Living Lands
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Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
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Sub-series
AP057.S4.SS1
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Sub-series contains correspondence of Peter Eisenman with individuals, institutions, and magazines. Material in sub-series was produced between 1966 and 1982.
1966-1982
Correspondence of Peter Eisenman
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AP057.S4.SS1
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Sub-series contains correspondence of Peter Eisenman with individuals, institutions, and magazines. Material in sub-series was produced between 1966 and 1982.
Subseries
1966-1982
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Collection
Rohault de Fleury collection
CI001
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The Rohault de Fleury collection documents the work of three generations of French architects, Hubert, his son Charles, and his grandson Georges, spanning from the early 18th to late 19th century. The collection is extremely varied encompassing both private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning, and student work from both the École des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique, and archaeological studies. Stylistically, the projects incorporate the two dominant contemporary directions in French architecture - functionalism as advocated by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and the classicism of the École des beaux-arts.
1717-[1884]
Rohault de Fleury collection
CI001
Synopsis:
The Rohault de Fleury collection documents the work of three generations of French architects, Hubert, his son Charles, and his grandson Georges, spanning from the early 18th to late 19th century. The collection is extremely varied encompassing both private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning, and student work from both the École des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique, and archaeological studies. Stylistically, the projects incorporate the two dominant contemporary directions in French architecture - functionalism as advocated by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and the classicism of the École des beaux-arts.
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Collection 1
1717-[1884]
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AP164.S1.2000.D1
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The project series documents the competition entry for the new Alhamilla secondary education institution, in Almería, Spain. The site is delimited by the streets San Juan Bosco, Rambla de Belén, Pintor Rosales and Miguel Angel. The firm identified this project as number 125. Abalos & Herreros worked with Angel Jaramillo Esteban and Angel Jaramillo Sanchez. Documenting the project are conceptual descriptions, cartographic and photographic materials, project descriptions and competition documents.
2000
Instituto en Almería, Spain (2000)
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AP164.S1.2000.D1
Description:
The project series documents the competition entry for the new Alhamilla secondary education institution, in Almería, Spain. The site is delimited by the streets San Juan Bosco, Rambla de Belén, Pintor Rosales and Miguel Angel. The firm identified this project as number 125. Abalos & Herreros worked with Angel Jaramillo Esteban and Angel Jaramillo Sanchez. Documenting the project are conceptual descriptions, cartographic and photographic materials, project descriptions and competition documents.
Project
2000
Series
Professional Activities
AP109.S2
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Series 2 consists of documents relating to Desbarats' professional activities, including agendas and notebooks, texts written by Desbarats, professional activities with institutions and organizations (conferences, architectural competitions, education), and architectural offices (his own and in the Arcop firm of Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise).
1953 - 1998
Professional Activities
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AP109.S2
Description:
Series 2 consists of documents relating to Desbarats' professional activities, including agendas and notebooks, texts written by Desbarats, professional activities with institutions and organizations (conferences, architectural competitions, education), and architectural offices (his own and in the Arcop firm of Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise).
Series 2
1953 - 1998