Dream Houses, Toy Homes
Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
textual records
ARCH153523
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Folder [untitled] - [moved from Lot 3 016] - Documents relating to the conference “Populism and Elitism in American Architecture Today” held on 26 September 1980; includes schedule, correspondence and budget - Memo from Patrick Pinnell about “Open Plan's successor programs” Folder Open Plan - [moved from Lot 3 016] - Documents relating to the conference “Populism and Elitism in American Architecture Today” held on 26 September 1980 - Budget sheets, schedule, various memos and notes - Text: PDE - “Instrinsic Architecture, Beyond Abstraction”; 27 April 1978
1978-1980
D. Programmes and Publications: 1. Open plan
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Folder [untitled] - [moved from Lot 3 016] - Documents relating to the conference “Populism and Elitism in American Architecture Today” held on 26 September 1980; includes schedule, correspondence and budget - Memo from Patrick Pinnell about “Open Plan's successor programs” Folder Open Plan - [moved from Lot 3 016] - Documents relating to the conference “Populism and Elitism in American Architecture Today” held on 26 September 1980 - Budget sheets, schedule, various memos and notes - Text: PDE - “Instrinsic Architecture, Beyond Abstraction”; 27 April 1978
textual records
1978-1980
journals and magazines
PH2008:0037:017
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Review by Judith Rodenbeck titled "Gordon Matta-Clark" (pp. 110-111) discusses the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007.
June 2007
Modern Painters: The International Contemporary Art Magazine
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PH2008:0037:017
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Review by Judith Rodenbeck titled "Gordon Matta-Clark" (pp. 110-111) discusses the exhibition "Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are The Measure" held at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 22 February 2007 to 3 June 2007.
journals and magazines
June 2007
textual records
ARCH218639
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envelopes and file folders of newspaper and periodical clippings, issues of architectural periodicals, including Amepnko, Casabella, L'architettura, Spazio, Domus, Metron, Der Stahlbau, Arts & Architecture, Architectural Forum, Steel Construction, Informes and Journal of the American Concrete Institute
ca.1951-1963
Envelopes and file folders of newspaper and periodical clippings
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envelopes and file folders of newspaper and periodical clippings, issues of architectural periodicals, including Amepnko, Casabella, L'architettura, Spazio, Domus, Metron, Der Stahlbau, Arts & Architecture, Architectural Forum, Steel Construction, Informes and Journal of the American Concrete Institute
textual records
ca.1951-1963
archives
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Fonds
André Blouin fonds
AP038
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The André Blouin fonds, 1933-1996, documents the professional career of architect André Blouin. Materials in this fonds consist of the following: approximately 4821 drawings (including reprographic copies), 4006 photographic materials, 52 l.m. of textual records, 127 panels and 4 reels of 16 mm film.
1933-1996
André Blouin fonds
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The André Blouin fonds, 1933-1996, documents the professional career of architect André Blouin. Materials in this fonds consist of the following: approximately 4821 drawings (including reprographic copies), 4006 photographic materials, 52 l.m. of textual records, 127 panels and 4 reels of 16 mm film.
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Fonds
1933-1996
Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
9 June 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Elisabeth Essaïan
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Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
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
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
drawings, textual records
DR2012:0011:020
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Cities on the move; - Monument to Canadian Aid Workers; - The size of things; - New York exhibition; - Golems on the move; - American city series; - Saigon; - Federation CJA building entrance.
1998-1999
Notes and sketches by Melvin Charney on his later works
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DR2012:0011:020
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Ring binder containing notes and sketches related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Cities on the move; - Monument to Canadian Aid Workers; - The size of things; - New York exhibition; - Golems on the move; - American city series; - Saigon; - Federation CJA building entrance.
drawings, textual records
1998-1999
research
Visiting Scholars 2008
Vittoria Di Palma, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Wasteland Nikola Jankovic, ENSAPLV-École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Paris-La Villette, Paris, France Topic: Biomodernisme ou le conditionnement de la vie. Une histoire critique (1928-1954) Juliet Koss, Scripps College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, United States Topic: The USSR in(...)
2 April 2008 to 29 September 2008
Visiting Scholars 2008
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Vittoria Di Palma, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Wasteland Nikola Jankovic, ENSAPLV-École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Paris-La Villette, Paris, France Topic: Biomodernisme ou le conditionnement de la vie. Une histoire critique (1928-1954) Juliet Koss, Scripps College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, United States Topic: The USSR in(...)
research
2 April 2008 to
29 September 2008