Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
archives
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Fonds
AP128
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The Harold Ship Alexis Nihon Plaza and Nuns’ Island Master Plan project records, (1956- 1973), document architect Harold Ship’s design and plan for the Alexis Nihon Plaza (1956-1965) and the Nun’s Island Master Plan (1959-1973). Materials in these project records consist of 1 619 drawings (including reprographic copies), 330 photographs, 5 l.m. of textual records, 5 models and 2 panels.
1956-1973
Harold Ship Alexis Nihon Plaza and Nuns’ Island Master Plan project records
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AP128
Synopsis:
The Harold Ship Alexis Nihon Plaza and Nuns’ Island Master Plan project records, (1956- 1973), document architect Harold Ship’s design and plan for the Alexis Nihon Plaza (1956-1965) and the Nun’s Island Master Plan (1959-1973). Materials in these project records consist of 1 619 drawings (including reprographic copies), 330 photographs, 5 l.m. of textual records, 5 models and 2 panels.
archives
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Fonds
1956-1973
archives
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Fonds
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
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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.
archives
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Fonds
1902-1982
drawings
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3 working drawing(s)
ARCH195205
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Electrical plans and schedules for reservations office; section for work table and desk top, reservations office; floor plan for reservations office.
Electrical plans and schedules for reservations office; section for work table and desk top
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ARCH195205
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Electrical plans and schedules for reservations office; section for work table and desk top, reservations office; floor plan for reservations office.
drawings
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3 working drawing(s)
ARCH265116:021
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Le tapuscrit traite de l'office de l'architecte en chef (Senior Architect) et du personnel de l'office des architectes à Chandigarh (Office of the Architects Capital Project). Prakash, un architecte, est mentionné dans le tapuscrit.
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Transcription d'un manuscrit relatif à l'"Office of the Architects Capital Project" et à l'office du "Senior Architect Capital Project", Chandigarh, Inde
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ARCH265116:021
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Le tapuscrit traite de l'office de l'architecte en chef (Senior Architect) et du personnel de l'office des architectes à Chandigarh (Office of the Architects Capital Project). Prakash, un architecte, est mentionné dans le tapuscrit.
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ARCH265116:022
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Le tapuscrit traite de l'office de l'architecte en chef (Senior Architect) et du personnel de l'office des architectes à Chandigarh (Office of the Architects Capital Project). Prakash, un architecte, est mentionné dans le tapuscrit.
s.d.
Transcription d'un manuscrit relatif à l'"Office of the Architects Capital Project" et à l'office du "Senior Architect Capital Project", Chandigarh, Inde
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ARCH265116:022
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Le tapuscrit traite de l'office de l'architecte en chef (Senior Architect) et du personnel de l'office des architectes à Chandigarh (Office of the Architects Capital Project). Prakash, un architecte, est mentionné dans le tapuscrit.
s.d.
textual records
ARCH264550
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Le manuscrit traite de l'office de l'architecte en chef (Senior Architect) et du personnel de l'office des architectes à Chandigarh (Office of the Architects Capital Project). Prakash, un architecte, est mentionné dans le manuscrit.
s.d.
Manuscrit relatif à l'"Office of the Architects Capital Project" et à l'office du "Senior Architect Capital Project", Chandigarh, Inde
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ARCH264550
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Le manuscrit traite de l'office de l'architecte en chef (Senior Architect) et du personnel de l'office des architectes à Chandigarh (Office of the Architects Capital Project). Prakash, un architecte, est mentionné dans le manuscrit.
textual records
s.d.
drawings
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17 File
ARCH28406
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ticket office, hotel office, barber shop, parapet wall, roof and exhaust chambers, telephone and telegraph office, concession, layout of rooms and toilets
Ticket office, hotel office, barber shop, parapet wall, roof and exhaust chambers
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ARCH28406
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ticket office, hotel office, barber shop, parapet wall, roof and exhaust chambers, telephone and telegraph office, concession, layout of rooms and toilets
drawings
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17 File
The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
drawings
DR1989:0015:068
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- This work is part of a group of drawings and reprographic prints of drawings for St. Peter's Home, Woking, and St. Peter's Convent, Woking, from the offices of John Loughborough Pearson and Frank Loughborough Pearson (DR1989:0015:011 - DR1989:0015:085 R/V). Composed of contract and working drawings including plans, site plans, sections, and elevations dated between 1881 and 1936, these drawings were sold at auction by the convent along with those for the older institution of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn (DR1989:0015:001 - DR1989:0015:010). Both St. Peter's Home, Kilburn, and St. Peter's Home, Woking were commissioned from John Loughborough Pearson by Benjamin Lancaster. The alterations to the Home at Kilburn were commissioned on behalf of Lancaster's wife, who founded the home and a lay nursing order which ran it. The institution at Woking was founded by Lancaster as a home for incurables in 1882 and dedicated to the memory of his deceased wife (Quiney 67-68, 254-255, and 284). It was probably first known as St. Peter's Home, Woking, not becoming a convent until ca. 1934. - Although the inscription refers to the "cloister", it is the dormitory which is shown in this drawing, according to the current use of the terms (Fleming 1991).
architecture
December 1934
St. Peter's Convent, Woking: Plans for ground floor of the lay Sisters' dormitory and the upper floor of the Sisters' dormitory
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DR1989:0015:068
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- This work is part of a group of drawings and reprographic prints of drawings for St. Peter's Home, Woking, and St. Peter's Convent, Woking, from the offices of John Loughborough Pearson and Frank Loughborough Pearson (DR1989:0015:011 - DR1989:0015:085 R/V). Composed of contract and working drawings including plans, site plans, sections, and elevations dated between 1881 and 1936, these drawings were sold at auction by the convent along with those for the older institution of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn (DR1989:0015:001 - DR1989:0015:010). Both St. Peter's Home, Kilburn, and St. Peter's Home, Woking were commissioned from John Loughborough Pearson by Benjamin Lancaster. The alterations to the Home at Kilburn were commissioned on behalf of Lancaster's wife, who founded the home and a lay nursing order which ran it. The institution at Woking was founded by Lancaster as a home for incurables in 1882 and dedicated to the memory of his deceased wife (Quiney 67-68, 254-255, and 284). It was probably first known as St. Peter's Home, Woking, not becoming a convent until ca. 1934. - Although the inscription refers to the "cloister", it is the dormitory which is shown in this drawing, according to the current use of the terms (Fleming 1991).
drawings
December 1934
architecture