Inter / Faces
How can architecture respond to a specific urban context? How can the various typologies and cultural needs of diverse inhabitants influence design? How to capture the character of a city through its buildings? Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza’s social housing projects Bonjour Tristesse and Punt en Komma, designed for immigrant communities in Berlin and The Hague(...)
29 November 2015, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Inter / Faces
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How can architecture respond to a specific urban context? How can the various typologies and cultural needs of diverse inhabitants influence design? How to capture the character of a city through its buildings? Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza’s social housing projects Bonjour Tristesse and Punt en Komma, designed for immigrant communities in Berlin and The Hague(...)
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Roland Dumais fonds
AP005
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The Roland Dumais fonds, 1930-1975, documents architect Roland Dumais’s design and construction of over 500 built projects in Québec. In addition to documenting Dumais’s professional career (1935-1971), the fonds includes materials relating to the everyday administration of Dumais’s architectural firm (1941-1977) as well as materials pertaining to his personal life (1932-1982). Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 12 400 drawings (including reprographic copies), 126 photographic materials, 10.33 l.m. of textual records, 5 models, and 3 reels of 16 mm film.
1930-1975
Roland Dumais fonds
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The Roland Dumais fonds, 1930-1975, documents architect Roland Dumais’s design and construction of over 500 built projects in Québec. In addition to documenting Dumais’s professional career (1935-1971), the fonds includes materials relating to the everyday administration of Dumais’s architectural firm (1941-1977) as well as materials pertaining to his personal life (1932-1982). Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 12 400 drawings (including reprographic copies), 126 photographic materials, 10.33 l.m. of textual records, 5 models, and 3 reels of 16 mm film.
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1930-1975
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8 File
Gleneagles Apartments
ARCH31921
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31P-01: b/w (18,0 x 23,6 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, east facade. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal 31P-02: b/w (18,3 x 23,3 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, west facade. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal. 31P-03: b/w (18,0 x 23,6 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, detail of entrance and driveway entrance of west elevation. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal. 31P-04: b/w (18,0 x 23,6 cm); duplicate of above print. 31P-05: b/w (23,6 x 18,1 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, detail of driveway entrance of east facade. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal. 31P-06: b/w (23,7 x 18,0 cm); duplicate of above print. 31P-07: b/w (5,7 x 10,4 cm); Gleneagles Apartments' garage ? Photographer unknown. 31P-08: b/w (5,8 x 10,4 cm); Gleneagles Apartments' garage entrance ? Photographer unknown.31P-09: b/w (5,9 x 10,4 cm); Gleneagles Apartments' garage ? Photographer unknown
Gleneagles Apartments
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31P-01: b/w (18,0 x 23,6 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, east facade. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal 31P-02: b/w (18,3 x 23,3 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, west facade. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal. 31P-03: b/w (18,0 x 23,6 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, detail of entrance and driveway entrance of west elevation. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal. 31P-04: b/w (18,0 x 23,6 cm); duplicate of above print. 31P-05: b/w (23,6 x 18,1 cm); Gleneagles Apartments, detail of driveway entrance of east facade. Photographer; S.J. Hayward, Montreal. 31P-06: b/w (23,7 x 18,0 cm); duplicate of above print. 31P-07: b/w (5,7 x 10,4 cm); Gleneagles Apartments' garage ? Photographer unknown. 31P-08: b/w (5,8 x 10,4 cm); Gleneagles Apartments' garage entrance ? Photographer unknown.31P-09: b/w (5,9 x 10,4 cm); Gleneagles Apartments' garage ? Photographer unknown
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First, the Forests
*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 October 2012 to 6 January 2013
First, the Forests
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*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
Project
AP137.D9
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File documents a nine-storey building with an exterior of pre-cast concrete panels, containing lecture rooms, offices, two auditoriums, and a connecting corridor to McGill University's Arts Building, Montréal, Québec. File contains design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation panels.
1962-1964
McGill University New Arts Building
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AP137.D9
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File documents a nine-storey building with an exterior of pre-cast concrete panels, containing lecture rooms, offices, two auditoriums, and a connecting corridor to McGill University's Arts Building, Montréal, Québec. File contains design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation panels.
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1962-1964
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AP013.S1.D140
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File documents an executed (?) project for an ironworks and machine shop addition in Saint-Henri, Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1928 and 1929. File contains index cards, preliminary drawings, working and detail drawings, a mechanical drawing, and a textual document.
1928-1929
Additions to Jenkins Brothers Ltd. Iron Foundry and Machine Shop
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AP013.S1.D140
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File documents an executed (?) project for an ironworks and machine shop addition in Saint-Henri, Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1928 and 1929. File contains index cards, preliminary drawings, working and detail drawings, a mechanical drawing, and a textual document.
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1928-1929
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AP013.S1.D106
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File documents an executed project for a church in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1925 and 1926. File contains index cards, a survey drawing, preliminary drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, design development drawings, mechanical drawings, and textual documents.
1925-1926
Livingstone Presbyterian Church
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AP013.S1.D106
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File documents an executed project for a church in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1925 and 1926. File contains index cards, a survey drawing, preliminary drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, design development drawings, mechanical drawings, and textual documents.
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1925-1926
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AP013.S1.D191
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File documents an executed project for church additions and alterations in Verdun, Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced in 1937. File contains index cards, miscellaneous drawings, a consultant drawing, preliminary and design development drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, and textual documents.
1937
Additions to the Church of Saint John the Divine
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AP013.S1.D191
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File documents an executed project for church additions and alterations in Verdun, Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced in 1937. File contains index cards, miscellaneous drawings, a consultant drawing, preliminary and design development drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, and textual documents.
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1937
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AP013.S1.D234
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File documents an executed (?) project for fertilizer plant alterations and additions in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1943 and 1944. File contains index cards, preliminary drawings, preliminary and design development drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, and textual documents.
1943-1944
Alterations and Additions to Canada Packers Plant
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AP013.S1.D234
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File documents an executed (?) project for fertilizer plant alterations and additions in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1943 and 1944. File contains index cards, preliminary drawings, preliminary and design development drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, and textual documents.
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1943-1944
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AP013.S1.D283
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File documents an executed project for a commercial and office building in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1946 and 1948. File contains index cards, survey drawings, preliminary drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, mechanical drawings, a photograph, and textual documents.
1946-1948
Truck Sales Building for International Harvester
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AP013.S1.D283
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File documents an executed project for a commercial and office building in Montréal, Québec. Material in this file was produced between 1946 and 1948. File contains index cards, survey drawings, preliminary drawings, working drawings, detail drawings, mechanical drawings, a photograph, and textual documents.
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1946-1948