How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
How Modern
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How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
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AP075.S4
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This series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's research and documentation she collected as reference for her landscape projects she to find inspiration or to informed herself on new practices, new technologies and new thinking. The sub-series also documents her research for publications and lectures. The series contains documentation and notes on playground designs, private and public landscape designs, research and texts for publications and lectures, and travels. Materials are predominantly textual documents such as correspondence, press clippings, and notes, as well as photographs. The series also documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's studies in landscape architecture at Harvard University.
1936-2004
Reference, research material and student work
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AP075.S4
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This series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's research and documentation she collected as reference for her landscape projects she to find inspiration or to informed herself on new practices, new technologies and new thinking. The sub-series also documents her research for publications and lectures. The series contains documentation and notes on playground designs, private and public landscape designs, research and texts for publications and lectures, and travels. Materials are predominantly textual documents such as correspondence, press clippings, and notes, as well as photographs. The series also documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's studies in landscape architecture at Harvard University.
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1936-2004
Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
April 2022
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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CI007
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The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
1918-2000
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection
CI007
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The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
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Collection institutionnelle
1918-2000
Join us on Thursday, 17 September for a talk by architect Nana Biamah-Ofosu. As founder and director of YAA Projects, she presents the work of the practice, which explores counter-histories and material cultures of diasporic communities through making, writing, and speaking architecture.
17 September 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Exploring Counter-Histories with Nana Biamah-Ofosu
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Join us on Thursday, 17 September for a talk by architect Nana Biamah-Ofosu. As founder and director of YAA Projects, she presents the work of the practice, which explores counter-histories and material cultures of diasporic communities through making, writing, and speaking architecture.
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DOE Air Structure
AP144.S2.D91
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File documents work undertaken by the Lightweight Enclosures Unit (LEU) for the Department of the Environment (DOE), to produce a Draft for Development Code of Practice for Air Supported Structures (DD50) for general use by industry. The project was carried out by Frank Newby and Cedric Price, and includes some of the initial research originally carried out for Air Structures (AP144.S2.D63) and Lightweight Enclosures Unit (AP144.S2.D79). They developed and circulated a questionnaire on behalf of DOE, dated August 1973. The Draft for Development was produced on behalf of British Standards Institution (BSI) for PSA (Property Services Agency) of the Department of the Environment (DOE). Material in this file was produced between 1951 and 1993, but predominantly between 1965 and 1975. Group DR2004:0168 contains material by Ant Farm. Groups DR2004:0170 and DR2004:0172 contain materials that relate to Frei Otto. File contains samples, design development drawing, photographic material, and textual records.
1951-1993, predominant 1965-1975
DOE Air Structure
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AP144.S2.D91
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File documents work undertaken by the Lightweight Enclosures Unit (LEU) for the Department of the Environment (DOE), to produce a Draft for Development Code of Practice for Air Supported Structures (DD50) for general use by industry. The project was carried out by Frank Newby and Cedric Price, and includes some of the initial research originally carried out for Air Structures (AP144.S2.D63) and Lightweight Enclosures Unit (AP144.S2.D79). They developed and circulated a questionnaire on behalf of DOE, dated August 1973. The Draft for Development was produced on behalf of British Standards Institution (BSI) for PSA (Property Services Agency) of the Department of the Environment (DOE). Material in this file was produced between 1951 and 1993, but predominantly between 1965 and 1975. Group DR2004:0168 contains material by Ant Farm. Groups DR2004:0170 and DR2004:0172 contain materials that relate to Frei Otto. File contains samples, design development drawing, photographic material, and textual records.
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1951-1993, predominant 1965-1975
research
Visiting Scholars 2001–2002
Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Brigitte Desrochers, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Topic: Au-delà du style. Naissance du classicisme structurel dans les ruines de Pompei Joseph Disponzio, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States Topic: Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape(...)
September 2001 to August 2002
Visiting Scholars 2001–2002
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Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Brigitte Desrochers, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Topic: Au-delà du style. Naissance du classicisme structurel dans les ruines de Pompei Joseph Disponzio, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States Topic: Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape(...)
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September 2001 to
August 2002
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Peter Eisenman fonds
AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Peter Eisenman fonds
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
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1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
In the second iteration of the Out of the Box: Amancio Williams series, Claudia Shmidt focuses on letters both sent and received by Amancio Williams. These letters, written to politicians, leading cultural institutions, and influential architects, help to situate Williams’s practice and elaborate on his persistence in bringing his projects to life.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, Buenos Aires, Out of the box, Argentina
12 October 2023 to 28 January 2024
Far from Nostalgia: Amancio Williams selected by Claudia Shmidt
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In the second iteration of the Out of the Box: Amancio Williams series, Claudia Shmidt focuses on letters both sent and received by Amancio Williams. These letters, written to politicians, leading cultural institutions, and influential architects, help to situate Williams’s practice and elaborate on his persistence in bringing his projects to life.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, Buenos Aires, Out of the box, Argentina
articles
A way of being an architect
A way of being an architect
Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden revisit the recent architectural history of Buenos Aires
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