Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
textual records
ARCH273597
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AIA Gold Medal 1986 publication confering the highest award offered by the American Institute of Architects on Arthur Erickson; correspondence from the Arthur Erickson House and Garden Foundation.
1986-2003
Awards and related correspondence
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ARCH273597
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AIA Gold Medal 1986 publication confering the highest award offered by the American Institute of Architects on Arthur Erickson; correspondence from the Arthur Erickson House and Garden Foundation.
textual records
1986-2003
textual records
ARCH273108
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File contains predominantly textual records relating to the Community Planning Association of Canada/American Society of Planning Officials1975 Joint Planning Conference. File also includes negatives.
1974-1975
ASPO conference planning and notes
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ARCH273108
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File contains predominantly textual records relating to the Community Planning Association of Canada/American Society of Planning Officials1975 Joint Planning Conference. File also includes negatives.
textual records
1974-1975
This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 December 1996 to 9 March 1997
Uncovering Geometry: Ben Nicholson at the Laurentian Library
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This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
Octagonal gallery
journals and magazines
PH2008:0037:007
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A mention of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007, appears on p. 56.
March 2007
dwell: At Home in the Modern World
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PH2008:0037:007
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A mention of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007, appears on p. 56.
journals and magazines
March 2007
journals and magazines
Culture & Travel
PH2008:0037:013
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A mention of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007, appears on p. 14.
February-March 2007
Culture & Travel
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PH2008:0037:013
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A mention of the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007, appears on p. 14.
journals and magazines
February-March 2007
textual records
AP075.S3.SS3.009
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Award for Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the landscape of the Canadian Government Embassy in Washington D.C. Original folder entitled "30th NATIONAL LANDSCAPE AWARDS 1990 / AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of NURSERYMEN"
1990
Award to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander from the National Landscape Awards Program
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AP075.S3.SS3.009
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Award for Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the landscape of the Canadian Government Embassy in Washington D.C. Original folder entitled "30th NATIONAL LANDSCAPE AWARDS 1990 / AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of NURSERYMEN"
textual records
1990
archives
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
2003-2011
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
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2003-2011
Environmental Histories
To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 December 2016, 6pm
Environmental Histories
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To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House