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ARCH275459
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2 binders labeled "Miscellaneous," contains slides of various architectural projects, exhibtions, sites, and studies. Includes: Art Gallery of Ontario, Center for Inter-American Relations installation, Crysler Building, Regional Municipality of York, Scarborough Town Centre, Campbell House moving techniques, Ontario Trade and Industry Centre Analysis of Site, site photographs, mock-up model, construction phase, St James Town, Penthouse-Canada Square, Cox Townhouses- Site Study, Badr Touristic City Site, China Hotels Study, Site Study for Judicial Complex, Ottawa, Wellington St. West, Site Development, views of sites in Egypt, Hotel Youville,
ca. 1974-1995
Slides of various architectural projects, exhibtions, sites, and studies
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ARCH275459
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2 binders labeled "Miscellaneous," contains slides of various architectural projects, exhibtions, sites, and studies. Includes: Art Gallery of Ontario, Center for Inter-American Relations installation, Crysler Building, Regional Municipality of York, Scarborough Town Centre, Campbell House moving techniques, Ontario Trade and Industry Centre Analysis of Site, site photographs, mock-up model, construction phase, St James Town, Penthouse-Canada Square, Cox Townhouses- Site Study, Badr Touristic City Site, China Hotels Study, Site Study for Judicial Complex, Ottawa, Wellington St. West, Site Development, views of sites in Egypt, Hotel Youville,
photographs
ca. 1974-1995
photographs
DR2012:0012:112:003
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Binder containing transparencies related to the following projects from 1990 to 2002: - Parable series, 1989-1995 (13 transparencies, including 2 duplicates); - Mott Haven, on the run 1992 (2 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - In flight series, 1993-1995 (8 transparencies, including 4 duplicates); - The American city, 1996-2000 (2 transparencies); - Fathers and sons, 1996-1997 (1 transparency); - Cities on the run, 1996-1998 (2 transparencies; 2 additional transparencies and the one negative appear to also be part of this series); - Cities on the move, 1997-2002 (4 transparencies). Spine includes label, imprinted: MC ARTWORK / 1990 + TRANSPARENCIES
1992-2002
Photographs of various artworks from Melvin Charney's projects
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DR2012:0012:112:003
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Binder containing transparencies related to the following projects from 1990 to 2002: - Parable series, 1989-1995 (13 transparencies, including 2 duplicates); - Mott Haven, on the run 1992 (2 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - In flight series, 1993-1995 (8 transparencies, including 4 duplicates); - The American city, 1996-2000 (2 transparencies); - Fathers and sons, 1996-1997 (1 transparency); - Cities on the run, 1996-1998 (2 transparencies; 2 additional transparencies and the one negative appear to also be part of this series); - Cities on the move, 1997-2002 (4 transparencies). Spine includes label, imprinted: MC ARTWORK / 1990 + TRANSPARENCIES
photographs
1992-2002
Project
AP178.S1.1997.PR07
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This project series documents the Centro Municipal no Distrito Sud in Rosario, Argentina. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 89/90. The office assigned the date 1997 to this project. This was Siza's first building in South America. The Municipal center is one of six buildings for the decentralization of the city of Rosario. The buildings surround a public place. The building includes a 200 capacity auditorium, a workshop space, and offices. Documenting this project are studies, design development drawings, annotated plans, and details. Textual material includes documentation for the decentralization program, project documentation, and correspondence. Photographic material documents the project site, construction work, Siza's visit, and the built project. The project is also documented through study models.
1996-2003
Centro Municipal no Distrito Sud [South district Municipal center], Rosario, Argentina (1997)
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AP178.S1.1997.PR07
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This project series documents the Centro Municipal no Distrito Sud in Rosario, Argentina. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 89/90. The office assigned the date 1997 to this project. This was Siza's first building in South America. The Municipal center is one of six buildings for the decentralization of the city of Rosario. The buildings surround a public place. The building includes a 200 capacity auditorium, a workshop space, and offices. Documenting this project are studies, design development drawings, annotated plans, and details. Textual material includes documentation for the decentralization program, project documentation, and correspondence. Photographic material documents the project site, construction work, Siza's visit, and the built project. The project is also documented through study models.
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1996-2003
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Peter Eisenman fonds
AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Peter Eisenman fonds
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AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
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1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Mel Ziegler: Growing Concern
The front garden is a sign, a place both public and private, conveying the convictions and values of the households they frame. Growing Concern, a grass relief in Baile Park by American artist Mel Ziegler (b.1956), represents the North American obsession with the lawn. The artist considers the cultural obsession with the growth of our lawns to be symbolic of the taming(...)
Baile Park
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
Mel Ziegler: Growing Concern
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The front garden is a sign, a place both public and private, conveying the convictions and values of the households they frame. Growing Concern, a grass relief in Baile Park by American artist Mel Ziegler (b.1956), represents the North American obsession with the lawn. The artist considers the cultural obsession with the growth of our lawns to be symbolic of the taming(...)
Baile Park
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Ray Affleck fonds
AP088
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The Ray Affleck fonds, 1952-1989, documents Raymond Tait Affleck’s professional career as an associate at Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud, Sise (1958-1970) and a principal at Arcop Associates (1970-1989). The fonds comprises of approximately 370 administrative files that were collected by Affleck’s personal secretaries from 1952 to 1989.
1952-1989
Ray Affleck fonds
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AP088
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The Ray Affleck fonds, 1952-1989, documents Raymond Tait Affleck’s professional career as an associate at Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud, Sise (1958-1970) and a principal at Arcop Associates (1970-1989). The fonds comprises of approximately 370 administrative files that were collected by Affleck’s personal secretaries from 1952 to 1989.
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1952-1989
ARCH256020
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Right row (bottom to the top): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba; Pavilion of Economic Progress; Chatelaine House; Africa Place; Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion; Canadian Pacific-Cominco Pavilion. Middle right row (bottom to the top): - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion; - Africa Place; - Steel Pavilion. Middle left row (bottom to the top): - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Left-row (bottom to the top): Sainte Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH256020
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Right row (bottom to the top): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba; Pavilion of Economic Progress; Chatelaine House; Africa Place; Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; Canadian Pulp and Paper Pavilion; Canadian Pacific-Cominco Pavilion. Middle right row (bottom to the top): - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion; - Africa Place; - Steel Pavilion. Middle left row (bottom to the top): - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Left-row (bottom to the top): Sainte Hélène Island: - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
20 October 2016, 6pm
Sound Advice and Clear Drawings: Design and Computation in the Second Machine Age
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Melvin Charney fonds
AP041
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The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
1947-2012
Melvin Charney fonds
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AP041
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The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
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1947-2012
articles
Troubled Waters
Nature reorganized
20 January 2017
Troubled Waters
The Hudson River as Symbol of America’s Past and Harbinger of the Future
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Nature reorganized