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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Ernest Cormier fonds
AP001
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Le Fonds Ernest Cormier documente la vie personnelle, artistique et professionnelle d'Ernest Cormier. Le fonds compte près de 30 000 dessins et reproductions ainsi que les dossier administratif relatifs à plus de 110 projets architecturaux réalisés par Cormier entre 1919 et 1964, environ 14 000 documents photographiques, incluant les photographies par Ernest Cormier, sa correspondance et documents personnels, ses oeuvres d'arts, et de nombreux outils et objets utilisés par Cormier pour ses projets artistiques et architecturaux.
1857-1980
Ernest Cormier fonds
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AP001
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Le Fonds Ernest Cormier documente la vie personnelle, artistique et professionnelle d'Ernest Cormier. Le fonds compte près de 30 000 dessins et reproductions ainsi que les dossier administratif relatifs à plus de 110 projets architecturaux réalisés par Cormier entre 1919 et 1964, environ 14 000 documents photographiques, incluant les photographies par Ernest Cormier, sa correspondance et documents personnels, ses oeuvres d'arts, et de nombreux outils et objets utilisés par Cormier pour ses projets artistiques et architecturaux.
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1857-1980
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Robert Duchesnay fonds
AP115
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Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
1985-1992
Robert Duchesnay fonds
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AP115
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Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
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1985-1992
textual records
ARCH259324
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Correspondance avec la Compagnie d'arbitrage de Montréal, relatifs du mur mitoyen de l'église Notre-Dame, incluant un tracé des dimensions du mur.
1937
Correspondence relative à l'évaluation de dommage par l'incendie de l'église Notre-Dame
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ARCH259324
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Correspondance avec la Compagnie d'arbitrage de Montréal, relatifs du mur mitoyen de l'église Notre-Dame, incluant un tracé des dimensions du mur.
textual records
1937
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
journals and magazines
ARCH268121
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Architecture-bâtiment-construction, vol. 22, no. 263, May 1967 issue with an article about the Bonaventure Metro Station in Montréal, Québec.
Architecture-bâtiment-construction
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ARCH268121
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Architecture-bâtiment-construction, vol. 22, no. 263, May 1967 issue with an article about the Bonaventure Metro Station in Montréal, Québec.
journals and magazines
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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.
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