ARCH256014
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Front row (left to right): - Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; - Africa Place. Back row (left to right): - Mexican Pavilion = Pavilion of Mexico; - Pavilion of India = Indian Pavilion; - Australian Pavilion = Pavilion of Australia.
1966-1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH256014
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Front row (left to right): - Thailand Pavilion = Thai Pavilion; - Africa Place. Back row (left to right): - Mexican Pavilion = Pavilion of Mexico; - Pavilion of India = Indian Pavilion; - Australian Pavilion = Pavilion of Australia.
DR1984:0152
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- Drawings DR1984:0152, DR1984:0449 R/V and DR1984:0459 R/V are for furniture or unidentified buildings by J.J.P. Oud. The geographic location for these drawings therefore includes all of the countries for which Oud designed buildings and furniture: the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and the United States. South Africa has not been included, since it is improbable that the drawings are for Oud's project for a branch bank for the Netherlands Bank for Pretoria, South Africa.
interior design
1908-1963
Elevations, plan, and perspective for a table
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DR1984:0152
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- Drawings DR1984:0152, DR1984:0449 R/V and DR1984:0459 R/V are for furniture or unidentified buildings by J.J.P. Oud. The geographic location for these drawings therefore includes all of the countries for which Oud designed buildings and furniture: the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and the United States. South Africa has not been included, since it is improbable that the drawings are for Oud's project for a branch bank for the Netherlands Bank for Pretoria, South Africa.
interior design
DR1984:0459 R/V
Description:
- Drawings DR1984:0152, DR1984:0449 R/V and DR1984:0459 R/V are for furniture or unidentified buildings by J.J.P. Oud. The geographic location for these drawings therefore includes all of the countries for which Oud designed buildings and furniture: the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and the United States. South Africa has not been included, since it is improbable that the drawings are for Oud's project for a branch bank for the Netherlands Bank for Pretoria, South Africa.
architecture
1908-1963
Plan, possibly for a house, Netherlands; verso: Site plan [?] for an unidentified structure, Netherlands
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DR1984:0459 R/V
Description:
- Drawings DR1984:0152, DR1984:0449 R/V and DR1984:0459 R/V are for furniture or unidentified buildings by J.J.P. Oud. The geographic location for these drawings therefore includes all of the countries for which Oud designed buildings and furniture: the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and the United States. South Africa has not been included, since it is improbable that the drawings are for Oud's project for a branch bank for the Netherlands Bank for Pretoria, South Africa.
architecture
Through selected objects from the CCA Collection and by using the case study of South African township Bophelong, Bongisa Msutu explores globally applicable strategies of building an “unarchivable” architectural archive as a decolonial project.
23 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Archiving "Unarchivable" Architectures
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Through selected objects from the CCA Collection and by using the case study of South African township Bophelong, Bongisa Msutu explores globally applicable strategies of building an “unarchivable” architectural archive as a decolonial project.
This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
27 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
UFA, Université des Futurs Africains 2. It Matters What Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories of the Future
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
drawings, textual records
DR2012:0011:024
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Ring binder containing notes and study sketches (including 11 studies of floor plans, and 2 drawn maps of the island of Crete and the Aegean Sea). Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
n.d.
Art history notes and travel sketches, Greece
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DR2012:0011:024
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Ring binder containing notes and study sketches (including 11 studies of floor plans, and 2 drawn maps of the island of Crete and the Aegean Sea). Contemporary to Melvin Charney's travels through Europe, northern Africa, and Asia Minor.
drawings, textual records
n.d.
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.040
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publications, reports, promotional and commercial material, such as brochures, leaflets on construction material. Also includes a file of reference material on slums improvement in Africa.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on construction material
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AP149.S2.SS3.040
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publications, reports, promotional and commercial material, such as brochures, leaflets on construction material. Also includes a file of reference material on slums improvement in Africa.
textual records
1970s-1990s
Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
15 November 2024 to 30 March 2025
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries
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Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
events
Study Room Keyword(s):
visiting scholars 2018, Dainese Elisa, african architecture, Africa, Van Ginkel Associates
23 August 2018, 6:30pm
events
23 August 2018
6:30pm
Study Room Keyword(s):
visiting scholars 2018, Dainese Elisa, african architecture, Africa, Van Ginkel Associates
DR1984:0449 R/V
Description:
- The sketch plan on the verso (upper right) shows the same layout as the sketch plan on the recto (lower left) of the drawing. - Drawings DR1984:0152, DR1984:0449 R/V and DR1984:0459 R/V are for furniture or unidentified buildings by J.J.P. Oud. The geographic location for these drawings therefore includes all of the countries for which Oud designed buildings and furniture: the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and the United States. South Africa has not been included, since it is improbable that the drawings are for Oud's project for a branch bank for the Netherlands Bank for Pretoria, South Africa.
architecture, interior design
1908-1963
Sketch plan, possibly for a house, Netherlands; verso: Sketch plan and sketch perspective, possibly for a house interior and sketch perspective, possibly for a fireplace, Netherlands
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DR1984:0449 R/V
Description:
- The sketch plan on the verso (upper right) shows the same layout as the sketch plan on the recto (lower left) of the drawing. - Drawings DR1984:0152, DR1984:0449 R/V and DR1984:0459 R/V are for furniture or unidentified buildings by J.J.P. Oud. The geographic location for these drawings therefore includes all of the countries for which Oud designed buildings and furniture: the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), and the United States. South Africa has not been included, since it is improbable that the drawings are for Oud's project for a branch bank for the Netherlands Bank for Pretoria, South Africa.
architecture, interior design