Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
August 2025, 1pm English, 2:30pm French
Guided Tours of the Sculpture Garden
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Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
September 2025, 1pm English, 2:30pm French
Guided Tours of the Sculpture Garden
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Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
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Cedric Price fonds
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).
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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Fonds
1903-2006, predominant 1953-2000
Project
World Museum
AP144.S2.D2
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File documents an unexecuted proposal for a maritime museum in Liverpool, England, and a proposal for citizen participation in urban development in Glasgow, Scotland, published in Baumeister (1968) and in Architectural Design (1970). The project documents the publication and conceptual idea that incorporated the Queen Mary Museum (AP144.S2D.18) proposal. Some material in this file was produced in 1968. File contains publication drawings, photographic material, and a textual record.
1968
World Museum
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AP144.S2.D2
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File documents an unexecuted proposal for a maritime museum in Liverpool, England, and a proposal for citizen participation in urban development in Glasgow, Scotland, published in Baumeister (1968) and in Architectural Design (1970). The project documents the publication and conceptual idea that incorporated the Queen Mary Museum (AP144.S2D.18) proposal. Some material in this file was produced in 1968. File contains publication drawings, photographic material, and a textual record.
File 2
1968
Project
AP142.S1.D225
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File documents an unsuccessful competition entry for a building complex and urban planning in Berlin, Germany. Material in this file was produced in 1993 and 1994. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including a sketch, drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, a competition entry, a competition programme, calculations, a financial record, a clipping, minutes of meetings, and notes.
1993-1994
Spreeinsel Internationaler städtebaulicher Ideenwettbewerb
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AP142.S1.D225
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File documents an unsuccessful competition entry for a building complex and urban planning in Berlin, Germany. Material in this file was produced in 1993 and 1994. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including a sketch, drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, a competition entry, a competition programme, calculations, a financial record, a clipping, minutes of meetings, and notes.
File 225
1993-1994
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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.
Series
1970-1992
books
ARCH274451
28 December 1972
books
28 December 1972
drawings
"Open plan 79"
ARCH253039
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Poster announcing the seminars and other events at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
1979
"Open plan 79"
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ARCH253039
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Poster announcing the seminars and other events at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.
drawings
1979
textual records
ARCH252847
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Diagram for grant proposal. Page 19a
1969
Program in Generative Design: diagrams
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ARCH252847
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Diagram for grant proposal. Page 19a
textual records
1969
textual records
ARCH252848
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Diagram for grant proposal. Page 19b
1969
Program in Generative Design: diagrams
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ARCH252848
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Diagram for grant proposal. Page 19b
textual records
1969