Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 July 2015 to 13 September 2015
Landscapes of the Hyperreal: Ábalos&Herreros selected by SO – IL
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Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
Octagonal gallery
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Octagonal gallery
8 October 2014 to 15 February 2015
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Octagonal gallery
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BMI/HQ
AP144.S2.D74
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File documents the unexecuted design for the headquarters of the Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI), in Birmingham, England. This project is related to the Shantasea Development (AP144.S2.D72) from which Cedric Price resigned as architect to take on the role of architect for BMI, one of the proposed tenants for the Shantasea project. Cedric Price proposed a municipal and regional "nerve centre" to house seminar and study rooms, workshops, galleries, film, television and music studios, a library, a planetarium, and a theatre. A flexible life-cycle plan (expansion, static, contraction) for the building and the activities would allow BMI to expand in the short and medium term, and to shrink in the long term, when it was assumed that many of its roles would be replaced by the UK's Open University plan (Works II, 42). Work on the project came to a stop in 1970 under a new city council (Architectural Design, June 1971, 368). Existing conditions material consists of maps and a survey of Birmingham. Conceptual sketches and drawings include: annotated diagrammatic plans and sections used to develop the building's massing and the horizontal/vertical relationships between functional areas; axonometric views showing the building's general form/functions; plans used for calculating square footage; diagrams showing visual and physical movement through the building; information and movement charts; and flow charts showing the building's organization. Design development drawings consist of graphs showing how functional areas might be used over time. Design development and working drawings include: diagrammatic plans and sections; exploded axonometric views of the functional relationships between areas; exterior axonometric views; sectional perspectives; space allocation plans; circulation drawings; diagrams showing activities throughout the day; furniture equipment schedules; theatre seating and stair studies; and elevations for exterior cladding. Charts show links between activities/actions; activity distribution; activity/capacity; progress of pre-contract work; and the telephone network. File also includes drawings by engineering consultants Felix Samuely and Partners and Zisman, Bowyer and Partners. Presentation material includes: newspaper clippings and text concerning the project; diagrammatic plans, sections, and charts; and a photo collage of the site; and a text by Cedric Price entitled "The Present Position". Some materials in this file were published in "Cedric Price Supplement No. 3", 'Architectural Design', vol. 41, (June 1971), 364-368, and 'Cedric Price-Works II' (London: Architectural Press, 1984), 36, 42. Material in this file was produced between 1967 and 1971. Zisman Bowyer and Partners appear as the mechanical and electrical consulting engineers; Silk and Frazier as the quantity surveyors; and Versa-Serve Ltd as the catering consultants on this project. File contains cartographic materials, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, panels, photographic materials, presentation drawings, presentation panels, publication drawings, technical drawings, and textual records.
1967-1971
BMI/HQ
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AP144.S2.D74
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File documents the unexecuted design for the headquarters of the Birmingham and Midland Institute (BMI), in Birmingham, England. This project is related to the Shantasea Development (AP144.S2.D72) from which Cedric Price resigned as architect to take on the role of architect for BMI, one of the proposed tenants for the Shantasea project. Cedric Price proposed a municipal and regional "nerve centre" to house seminar and study rooms, workshops, galleries, film, television and music studios, a library, a planetarium, and a theatre. A flexible life-cycle plan (expansion, static, contraction) for the building and the activities would allow BMI to expand in the short and medium term, and to shrink in the long term, when it was assumed that many of its roles would be replaced by the UK's Open University plan (Works II, 42). Work on the project came to a stop in 1970 under a new city council (Architectural Design, June 1971, 368). Existing conditions material consists of maps and a survey of Birmingham. Conceptual sketches and drawings include: annotated diagrammatic plans and sections used to develop the building's massing and the horizontal/vertical relationships between functional areas; axonometric views showing the building's general form/functions; plans used for calculating square footage; diagrams showing visual and physical movement through the building; information and movement charts; and flow charts showing the building's organization. Design development drawings consist of graphs showing how functional areas might be used over time. Design development and working drawings include: diagrammatic plans and sections; exploded axonometric views of the functional relationships between areas; exterior axonometric views; sectional perspectives; space allocation plans; circulation drawings; diagrams showing activities throughout the day; furniture equipment schedules; theatre seating and stair studies; and elevations for exterior cladding. Charts show links between activities/actions; activity distribution; activity/capacity; progress of pre-contract work; and the telephone network. File also includes drawings by engineering consultants Felix Samuely and Partners and Zisman, Bowyer and Partners. Presentation material includes: newspaper clippings and text concerning the project; diagrammatic plans, sections, and charts; and a photo collage of the site; and a text by Cedric Price entitled "The Present Position". Some materials in this file were published in "Cedric Price Supplement No. 3", 'Architectural Design', vol. 41, (June 1971), 364-368, and 'Cedric Price-Works II' (London: Architectural Press, 1984), 36, 42. Material in this file was produced between 1967 and 1971. Zisman Bowyer and Partners appear as the mechanical and electrical consulting engineers; Silk and Frazier as the quantity surveyors; and Versa-Serve Ltd as the catering consultants on this project. File contains cartographic materials, conceptual drawings, design development drawings, panels, photographic materials, presentation drawings, presentation panels, publication drawings, technical drawings, and textual records.
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1967-1971
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
textual records
Programme du cours et notes
ARCH258469
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Programme du cours « Cours d'architecture à l'usage des ingénieurs » d'Ernest Cormier, incluant de la correspondance, des résultats d'examens, l'horaire des cours (1929-1930), une liste de personnes qui a gagné le Prix d'architecture. Comprend aussi des publications diverses d'École Polytechnique.
1926-1973
Programme du cours et notes
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ARCH258469
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Programme du cours « Cours d'architecture à l'usage des ingénieurs » d'Ernest Cormier, incluant de la correspondance, des résultats d'examens, l'horaire des cours (1929-1930), une liste de personnes qui a gagné le Prix d'architecture. Comprend aussi des publications diverses d'École Polytechnique.
textual records
1926-1973
Second Nature
As part of the exhibition It’s All Happening So Fast, an interactive workshop is offered to cegep and university groups in order to explore the complex and contradictory relationships that Canada maintains with the environment. By taking a stand and speaking on behalf of entities motivated by a multiplicity of interests—ecosystems, architecture, ethics, economic systems,(...)
26 January 2017 to 7 April 2017
Second Nature
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As part of the exhibition It’s All Happening So Fast, an interactive workshop is offered to cegep and university groups in order to explore the complex and contradictory relationships that Canada maintains with the environment. By taking a stand and speaking on behalf of entities motivated by a multiplicity of interests—ecosystems, architecture, ethics, economic systems,(...)
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
DR1974:0002:005:001-018
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- This album contains four folios of text in Italian concerning the history and architecture of the Museo di fiscia e storia naturale, Florence. The names of the museum's patrons and the parts of the museum have been inserted by a contemporary hand on the lithographs in pen and black ink. The text is followed by ten lithographs, including a perspectival view of the museum, four general plans, two sections, and more detailed sections, plans and elevations of the Tribuna de Galileo designed by Giuseppe Martelli and the Osservatorio Astronomico designed by Gaspero Paoletti. Also included in the album are four manuscripts, all in French: a letter presenting the album to Rohault de Fleury from Vincenzio Antinori, the director of the museum, a transcript of Rohault de Fleury's letters of thanks to Antorini and to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a note from the Légation de Toscanne in Paris concerning the presentation of the album, and a booklet containing Rohault de Fleury's translation of the album text into French.
architecture
printed between 1845 and 1846, manuscripts written 1846
Presentation album of prints of the Museo di fisica e storia naturelle, Florence
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DR1974:0002:005:001-018
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- This album contains four folios of text in Italian concerning the history and architecture of the Museo di fiscia e storia naturale, Florence. The names of the museum's patrons and the parts of the museum have been inserted by a contemporary hand on the lithographs in pen and black ink. The text is followed by ten lithographs, including a perspectival view of the museum, four general plans, two sections, and more detailed sections, plans and elevations of the Tribuna de Galileo designed by Giuseppe Martelli and the Osservatorio Astronomico designed by Gaspero Paoletti. Also included in the album are four manuscripts, all in French: a letter presenting the album to Rohault de Fleury from Vincenzio Antinori, the director of the museum, a transcript of Rohault de Fleury's letters of thanks to Antorini and to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a note from the Légation de Toscanne in Paris concerning the presentation of the album, and a booklet containing Rohault de Fleury's translation of the album text into French.
architecture
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Ross & Macdonald fonds
AP013
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The Ross & Macdonald fonds is comprised of documents concerning the work of six successive architectural firms: Ross & MacFarlane (1905-1912), Ross & Macdonald (1913-1944), Ross & Ross (1944-1946), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1946-1950), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1950-1958), and Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett (1958-1976). The greatest concentration of work was produced in Montreal where each of the firms maintained their head office, but there were also a large number of works executed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fonds contains 27 884 drawings (24 294 originals plus 3 590 reproductions), 236 photographs, and 18.6 metres of textual documents.
1902-1982
Ross & Macdonald fonds
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AP013
Synopsis:
The Ross & Macdonald fonds is comprised of documents concerning the work of six successive architectural firms: Ross & MacFarlane (1905-1912), Ross & Macdonald (1913-1944), Ross & Ross (1944-1946), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1946-1950), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1950-1958), and Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett (1958-1976). The greatest concentration of work was produced in Montreal where each of the firms maintained their head office, but there were also a large number of works executed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fonds contains 27 884 drawings (24 294 originals plus 3 590 reproductions), 236 photographs, and 18.6 metres of textual documents.
archives
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1902-1982
Main Galleries
16 February 2023, 6pm
Main Galleries