Learning from… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Ross & Macdonald fonds
AP013
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The Ross & Macdonald fonds is comprised of documents concerning the work of six successive architectural firms: Ross & MacFarlane (1905-1912), Ross & Macdonald (1913-1944), Ross & Ross (1944-1946), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1946-1950), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1950-1958), and Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett (1958-1976). The greatest concentration of work was produced in Montreal where each of the firms maintained their head office, but there were also a large number of works executed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fonds contains 27 884 drawings (24 294 originals plus 3 590 reproductions), 236 photographs, and 18.6 metres of textual documents.
1902-1982
Ross & Macdonald fonds
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The Ross & Macdonald fonds is comprised of documents concerning the work of six successive architectural firms: Ross & MacFarlane (1905-1912), Ross & Macdonald (1913-1944), Ross & Ross (1944-1946), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1946-1950), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1950-1958), and Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett (1958-1976). The greatest concentration of work was produced in Montreal where each of the firms maintained their head office, but there were also a large number of works executed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fonds contains 27 884 drawings (24 294 originals plus 3 590 reproductions), 236 photographs, and 18.6 metres of textual documents.
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1902-1982
PH1979:0605
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This 98-page book illustrated with 73 photogravures, shows a pictorial record of San Diego's built and natural environment including beaches (like La Jolla) and back country scenes, after photographs by Herve Friend. Title page: Picturesque San Diego with Historical and Descriptive Notes by Douglas Gunn. San Diego, California, July 1, 1887. Chicago: Knight & Leonard Co., Printers 1887. Photogravures: .001 Old Palm Trees, foot of Presidio Hill Frontispiece .002 Point Lonea, and Entrance to San Diego harbor - from Coronado Beach .003 Ruins of the Old Mission, San Diego .004 Old Mission of San Diego, from the Olive Grove .005 Scene of the Battle of San Pasqual, December 6th, 1846 .006 Mission San Luis Rey .007 Bell Tower, Pala Mission .008 San Diego, looking West - Point Loma in Right Distance .009 San Diego, looking Southwest - Coronado Beach opposite .010 San Diego, looking Southeast .011 City Water Front - Babcock & Story Wharves .012 City Water Front - Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'s Wharves .013 Country Court House, San Diego .014 Interior Consolidated National Bank, San Diego .015 The "Russ" Public School, San Diego .016 Morse-Pierce Building, corner Sixth and F streets, San Diego .017 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, San Diego .018 Residence of A.E. Horton .019 First National Bank, corner Fifth and E streets .020 Woolwine, Spring & Nerney's Abstract and Real Estate Office, cor. Fourth and D streets .021 The Dells, Chollas Valley - Suburbs of San Diego .022 Initial Monument, marking Mexican Boundary .023 Tia Juana - American side .024 Tia Juana - Mexican side .025 "Point of Rocks" - 1 .026 "Point of Rocks" - 2 .027 "Point of Rocks" - 3 .028 Hotel Del Coronado Beach, San Diego .029 The Caves, La Jolla .030 La Jolla Beach .031 Cathedral Rocks, La Jolla .032 "Ocean Beach" .033 Seaside View at Del Mar .034 Escondido - Old Ranch House and Orange Orchard .035 View on Linda Lake, El Cajon Valley, 15 miles from San Diego .036 The Hotel at Murietta .037 Temecula Canon - 1. "The Big Curve", C.S.R.R. .038 Temecula Canon - 2. .039 Temecula Canon - 3. .040 Santa Margarita Ranch House, from the Vineyard .041 Courtyard, Couts' Estate, Guajome .042 View near Entrance to Bear Valley .043 View in San Pasqual Valley - Bernardo River .044 "Eagle's Nest" - Agua Caliente Mountains .045 Santa Rosa Mountains, near Elsinore .046 View from "The Glen" - Agua Tibia and Pala in Distance .047 San Jacinto Mountain .048 The Cajon Mountain, from the Northeast .049 Public School (Banner District) near mouth of San Felipe Canon .050 Home and Orchard of John Mitchell, Fall Brook .051 Agua Tibia - The Pond .052 Orchard and Home of James Madison, Julian .053 View at Elsinore Lake, West Side .054 Home and Orchard of Chester Gunn, Julian .055 West in Poway Valley .056 San Diego River, North of El Cajon .057 Cuyamaca Lake - Storage Water of San Diego Flume Co. .058 Diverting Dam, San Diego River - San Diego Flume Co. .059 Upper Valley of the San Diego River - "Capitan Grande" .060 Falls (146 ft.) East Branch of San Diego River .061 Santa Isabel Creek .062 Falls of Pauma Creek .063 View near Farm of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Spring Valley .064 Water Works of San Diego Town and Land Company .065 Gedney's Orchard, Mesa Grande .066 Public School, Spencer Valley, near Julian .067 Orchard and Farm of B.S. Scheckler, Cottonwood .069 Campo .070 Entrance to Colorado Desert, mouth of Mountain Springs Canon .071 Mountain Scenery, Agua Caliente - Overlooking Warner's Ranch .072 Indian Village. Agua Caliente .073 Indian Village and Church at Pauma, Upper San Luis Rey Valley
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1887
Picturesque San Diego with Historical and Descriptive Notes
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PH1979:0605
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This 98-page book illustrated with 73 photogravures, shows a pictorial record of San Diego's built and natural environment including beaches (like La Jolla) and back country scenes, after photographs by Herve Friend. Title page: Picturesque San Diego with Historical and Descriptive Notes by Douglas Gunn. San Diego, California, July 1, 1887. Chicago: Knight & Leonard Co., Printers 1887. Photogravures: .001 Old Palm Trees, foot of Presidio Hill Frontispiece .002 Point Lonea, and Entrance to San Diego harbor - from Coronado Beach .003 Ruins of the Old Mission, San Diego .004 Old Mission of San Diego, from the Olive Grove .005 Scene of the Battle of San Pasqual, December 6th, 1846 .006 Mission San Luis Rey .007 Bell Tower, Pala Mission .008 San Diego, looking West - Point Loma in Right Distance .009 San Diego, looking Southwest - Coronado Beach opposite .010 San Diego, looking Southeast .011 City Water Front - Babcock & Story Wharves .012 City Water Front - Pacific Coast Steamship Co.'s Wharves .013 Country Court House, San Diego .014 Interior Consolidated National Bank, San Diego .015 The "Russ" Public School, San Diego .016 Morse-Pierce Building, corner Sixth and F streets, San Diego .017 St. Paul's Episcopal Church, San Diego .018 Residence of A.E. Horton .019 First National Bank, corner Fifth and E streets .020 Woolwine, Spring & Nerney's Abstract and Real Estate Office, cor. Fourth and D streets .021 The Dells, Chollas Valley - Suburbs of San Diego .022 Initial Monument, marking Mexican Boundary .023 Tia Juana - American side .024 Tia Juana - Mexican side .025 "Point of Rocks" - 1 .026 "Point of Rocks" - 2 .027 "Point of Rocks" - 3 .028 Hotel Del Coronado Beach, San Diego .029 The Caves, La Jolla .030 La Jolla Beach .031 Cathedral Rocks, La Jolla .032 "Ocean Beach" .033 Seaside View at Del Mar .034 Escondido - Old Ranch House and Orange Orchard .035 View on Linda Lake, El Cajon Valley, 15 miles from San Diego .036 The Hotel at Murietta .037 Temecula Canon - 1. "The Big Curve", C.S.R.R. .038 Temecula Canon - 2. .039 Temecula Canon - 3. .040 Santa Margarita Ranch House, from the Vineyard .041 Courtyard, Couts' Estate, Guajome .042 View near Entrance to Bear Valley .043 View in San Pasqual Valley - Bernardo River .044 "Eagle's Nest" - Agua Caliente Mountains .045 Santa Rosa Mountains, near Elsinore .046 View from "The Glen" - Agua Tibia and Pala in Distance .047 San Jacinto Mountain .048 The Cajon Mountain, from the Northeast .049 Public School (Banner District) near mouth of San Felipe Canon .050 Home and Orchard of John Mitchell, Fall Brook .051 Agua Tibia - The Pond .052 Orchard and Home of James Madison, Julian .053 View at Elsinore Lake, West Side .054 Home and Orchard of Chester Gunn, Julian .055 West in Poway Valley .056 San Diego River, North of El Cajon .057 Cuyamaca Lake - Storage Water of San Diego Flume Co. .058 Diverting Dam, San Diego River - San Diego Flume Co. .059 Upper Valley of the San Diego River - "Capitan Grande" .060 Falls (146 ft.) East Branch of San Diego River .061 Santa Isabel Creek .062 Falls of Pauma Creek .063 View near Farm of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Spring Valley .064 Water Works of San Diego Town and Land Company .065 Gedney's Orchard, Mesa Grande .066 Public School, Spencer Valley, near Julian .067 Orchard and Farm of B.S. Scheckler, Cottonwood .069 Campo .070 Entrance to Colorado Desert, mouth of Mountain Springs Canon .071 Mountain Scenery, Agua Caliente - Overlooking Warner's Ranch .072 Indian Village. Agua Caliente .073 Indian Village and Church at Pauma, Upper San Luis Rey Valley
1887
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journals and magazines
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volumes ; 28 cm
Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides, -©1982.
journals and magazines
Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides, -©1982.
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xxxiv, 568 pages : maps (some color) ; 37 cm
Rickmansworth, Herts : Raleigh Publications, [1996]
The mapping of North America. A list of printed maps, 1511-1670 / by Philip D. Burden.
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xxxiv, 568 pages : maps (some color) ; 37 cm
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Rickmansworth, Herts : Raleigh Publications, [1996]
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1 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Washington, DC : Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Press, c1989.
Guide to architecture schools in North America : members and affiliates of the ACSA.
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1 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
journals and magazines
Washington, DC : Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Press, c1989.
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xii, 339 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
New York, C.N. Potter [1972]
The Viking settlements of North America, by Frederick J. Pohl.
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xii, 339 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
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New York, C.N. Potter [1972]
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3 volumes (xxx, 1770 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2002.
Architecture and town planning in colonial North America / James D. Kornwolf, with the assistance of Georgiana W. Kornwolf.
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3 volumes (xxx, 1770 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2002.
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Spanish city planning in North America / Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo.
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xxii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1982.
Spanish city planning in North America / Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo.
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xxii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1982.
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186 pages
U.S. G.P.O., ©1984. Washington, DC
Railroad maps of North America : the first hundred years.
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186 pages
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U.S. G.P.O., ©1984. Washington, DC