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ARCH267978
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This group consists of folders and clipping about the competition, correspondence and related documents for the Douglas Fir Plywood architectural competition, in Canada. There is also a report of the board of assessors of the architectural competition.
1953-1954
Folders and clipping about the competition, correspondence and related documents
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ARCH267978
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This group consists of folders and clipping about the competition, correspondence and related documents for the Douglas Fir Plywood architectural competition, in Canada. There is also a report of the board of assessors of the architectural competition.
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1953-1954
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
virtual fellowship program, Nokubekezela Mchunu, Wafa Ali, Papers that Remain, post-custodial archives, Africa
1 March 2022 to 23 December 2022
CCA Virtual Fellowship Program 2022
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
research
1 March 2022 to
23 December 2022
articles
drawings
DR2012:0012:080:005:001
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File containing architectural drawings related to A construction in Venice.
1987
Axonometric views, plans and elevations, A construction in Venice
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DR2012:0012:080:005:001
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File containing architectural drawings related to A construction in Venice.
drawings
1987
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ARCH220751
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correspondence, news release, press clippings and architectural drawings
1993
25 Year Award presented by American Institute of Architects, California Council
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correspondence, news release, press clippings and architectural drawings
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1993
Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 May 1995 to 15 October 1995
Four Photographers Visit Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding, Kawamata
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Inspired by the theme of travel, this exhibition presents the personal vision of four photographers—Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding, and Tadashi Kawamata—who visited Québec between the 1920s and today. The artists from elsewhere turn their attention to architecture and its environment, offering a view of Québec society from the perspective of their own(...)
Octagonal gallery
Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 September 2014 , 6pm
Digital Media Archaeology: Archive, Museum and Sonicity
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Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Nairobi
Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 October 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery