Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
17 October 2016, 6:30pm
What Comes After the Environment?
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
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Mart Stam collection
CI006
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The Mart Stam Collection documents Stam's work as an architect between 1926 and 1932. The collection focuses primarly on Stam's architectural projects, mainly work executed in The Netherlands, Germany and Czechoslovakia. The collection also includes photographic material of Stam projects by German photographer Ilse Bing.
1925-1932, 1972
Mart Stam collection
CI006
Synopsis:
The Mart Stam Collection documents Stam's work as an architect between 1926 and 1932. The collection focuses primarly on Stam's architectural projects, mainly work executed in The Netherlands, Germany and Czechoslovakia. The collection also includes photographic material of Stam projects by German photographer Ilse Bing.
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1925-1932, 1972
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
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John C. Parkin fonds
AP018
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The John C. Parkin fonds documents the professional career of Toronto-based architect John C. Parkin (1922-1988) at his firms John B. Parkin Associates and Parkin Architects Planners. Most materials in this fonds record 347 architectural projects covering the years 1947-1987. John C. Parkin’s professional involvement in the arts and architecture, his firms’ activities, and his professional achievements are also recorded.
1929-1987
John C. Parkin fonds
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AP018
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The John C. Parkin fonds documents the professional career of Toronto-based architect John C. Parkin (1922-1988) at his firms John B. Parkin Associates and Parkin Architects Planners. Most materials in this fonds record 347 architectural projects covering the years 1947-1987. John C. Parkin’s professional involvement in the arts and architecture, his firms’ activities, and his professional achievements are also recorded.
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1929-1987
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Fonds
Zéphirin Perrault fonds
AP107
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The Zéphirin Perrault fonds, 1866-1885, documents architect Zéphirin Perrault’s design of approximately ten churches in rural Québec and the St. Michael Cathedral in Toronto, Ontario. A drawing by Victor Bourgneau (1809-1888) is also included in this fonds. Materials consist of approximately 42 drawings and 5 textual documents.
1866-1885
Zéphirin Perrault fonds
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AP107
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The Zéphirin Perrault fonds, 1866-1885, documents architect Zéphirin Perrault’s design of approximately ten churches in rural Québec and the St. Michael Cathedral in Toronto, Ontario. A drawing by Victor Bourgneau (1809-1888) is also included in this fonds. Materials consist of approximately 42 drawings and 5 textual documents.
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1866-1885
DR1998:0149
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The drawing was for the "Red Feather" Community Chest and Council Building by Birmingham & Hollingsworth, architects and rendered by Hollinsworth. The drawing likely dates from 1956, the year the building was built.
ca. 1956
Exterior perspective of entrance facade, Community Chest and Council Building, Vancouver, British Columbia
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DR1998:0149
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The drawing was for the "Red Feather" Community Chest and Council Building by Birmingham & Hollingsworth, architects and rendered by Hollinsworth. The drawing likely dates from 1956, the year the building was built.
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AP075.S1.2014.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the landscape design of Zonda Ellis studio and store in shopping district of South Granville in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project from 2014-2017 with Enns Gauthier Landscape Architects. It was completed in 2017. The project consists in designing upper decks for the four-storey building that includes a commercial and residential space for textile artist and fashion designer Zonda Ellis. The project series contains working drawings landscape master plan and planting plans, and also reference construction plans. The project is also documented through proposals and presentations by landscape architects, documentation and correspondence with landscape architects.
2014-2017
Zonda Nellis studio and store, Vancouver, British Columbia (2014)
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AP075.S1.2014.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the landscape design of Zonda Ellis studio and store in shopping district of South Granville in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project from 2014-2017 with Enns Gauthier Landscape Architects. It was completed in 2017. The project consists in designing upper decks for the four-storey building that includes a commercial and residential space for textile artist and fashion designer Zonda Ellis. The project series contains working drawings landscape master plan and planting plans, and also reference construction plans. The project is also documented through proposals and presentations by landscape architects, documentation and correspondence with landscape architects.
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2014-2017
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
textual records
ARCH273830
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3 files- correspondence, schedules, travel itineraries from the offices of Arthur Erickson Architects, Vancouver British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. Also includes some personal correspondence related to Francisco Kripacz.
Correspondence, schedules, travel itineraries
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ARCH273830
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3 files- correspondence, schedules, travel itineraries from the offices of Arthur Erickson Architects, Vancouver British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. Also includes some personal correspondence related to Francisco Kripacz.
textual records
photographs
ARCH274581
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Reference slides related to subway design, from the Toronto offices of Arthur Erickson Architects. Includes: Toronto transit system, Chicago transit authority and commuter trains research and Montreal subway stations.
1974
Architectural reference slides
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ARCH274581
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Reference slides related to subway design, from the Toronto offices of Arthur Erickson Architects. Includes: Toronto transit system, Chicago transit authority and commuter trains research and Montreal subway stations.
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1974