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Publisher and graphic designer Lars Müller discusses his work and the implications of producing books in the digital age. The lecture also addresses collaborations between Lars Müller Publishers and the CCA, and is held on occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The book(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
18 September 2008 , 6pm
Lars Müller: If this was not the End, what is the Future of Print?
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Publisher and graphic designer Lars Müller discusses his work and the implications of producing books in the digital age. The lecture also addresses collaborations between Lars Müller Publishers and the CCA, and is held on occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The book(...)
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18 September 2008
6pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 October 2009 , 7pm
Geoff Manaugh: Cities of the CDC
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
photographs
AP197.S1.SS9.027
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This box contains slides that depict architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects and from different geographic locations, including the works of: Renzo Piano; Atelier 5; Ed Weinberger; Tado Ando; Louis Kahn; and Soviet architecture. Frampton used these slides for his lectures.
circa 1970-1990
Slides of architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects
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AP197.S1.SS9.027
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This box contains slides that depict architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects and from different geographic locations, including the works of: Renzo Piano; Atelier 5; Ed Weinberger; Tado Ando; Louis Kahn; and Soviet architecture. Frampton used these slides for his lectures.
photographs
circa 1970-1990
textual records
F-I alphabetical files
ARCH255609
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15 files - F-I alphabetical files - Foundation of Canada, F-H miscellaneous files, Alastair Hunter photography litigation, Inner City Angels including 2 photographs of Erickson and company; International Year of the Child; Request for lectures, seminars, TV broadcasts, interview, or photo sittings; itineraries.
1977-1986
F-I alphabetical files
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15 files - F-I alphabetical files - Foundation of Canada, F-H miscellaneous files, Alastair Hunter photography litigation, Inner City Angels including 2 photographs of Erickson and company; International Year of the Child; Request for lectures, seminars, TV broadcasts, interview, or photo sittings; itineraries.
textual records
1977-1986
Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
19 February 2015 , 6pm
Windows and Screens: Georges Teyssot
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Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
photographs
AP197.S1.SS9.025
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This box contains slides that depict architecture drawings, models, and built projects by various architects and from different geographic locations, including the works of: Tadao Ando; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Jorn Utzon; Antonin Raymond; Atelier 5; and Soviet architecture. Frampton used these slides for various lectures.
circa 1970-1990
Slides of architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects
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AP197.S1.SS9.025
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This box contains slides that depict architecture drawings, models, and built projects by various architects and from different geographic locations, including the works of: Tadao Ando; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Jorn Utzon; Antonin Raymond; Atelier 5; and Soviet architecture. Frampton used these slides for various lectures.
photographs
circa 1970-1990
Following an intense period of work in the mid-1970s with Portugal’s post-revolutionary housing initiatives, in the early 1980s Álvaro Siza contributed projects to two of the most important urban renewal programs in Europe: Berlin’s IBA and The Hague’s Stadsvernieuwing als Kulturel Aktiviteit (Urban Renewal as a Cultural Activity). This lecture will examine the(...)
26 November 2015
Álvaro Siza’s Archaeology of the Ordinary
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Following an intense period of work in the mid-1970s with Portugal’s post-revolutionary housing initiatives, in the early 1980s Álvaro Siza contributed projects to two of the most important urban renewal programs in Europe: Berlin’s IBA and The Hague’s Stadsvernieuwing als Kulturel Aktiviteit (Urban Renewal as a Cultural Activity). This lecture will examine the(...)
archives
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Fonds
AP009
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The Arcop Associates Maison Alcan project records, 1979 – 1983, document Arcop’s (Architects in Co-Partnership) design and construction of Alcan’s Montreal head office, Maison Alcan. These project records consist of the following: approximately 6000 drawings (including reprographic copies), 915 photographic materials, 15 l.m. of textual records, 2 models, 2 panels, 2 plaster mouldings, 1 book, and 1 mullion extrusion.
1979-1983
Arcop Associates Maison Alcan project records
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The Arcop Associates Maison Alcan project records, 1979 – 1983, document Arcop’s (Architects in Co-Partnership) design and construction of Alcan’s Montreal head office, Maison Alcan. These project records consist of the following: approximately 6000 drawings (including reprographic copies), 915 photographic materials, 15 l.m. of textual records, 2 models, 2 panels, 2 plaster mouldings, 1 book, and 1 mullion extrusion.
archives
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Fonds
1979-1983
Building Knowledge
This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 April 2015 , 6pm
Building Knowledge
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This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2008
Ryue Nishizawa: Some Ideas on Living
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre