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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ARCH268724
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Contains photographic materials on projects and publications by Abalos & Herreros used during lectures and conferences: - Ordenación del área de Abandoibarra, Bilbao, AP164.S1.1993.D5 (18 slides: plans, model and reference materials); - Parque Dunar, Doñana National Park, AP164.S1.1993.D6 (54 slides: plans, collages, reference materials, etc.); - Encauzamiento del río Guadalhorce, AP164.S1.1993.D4 (11 slides: site plans); - Centro cívico y comercial, Majadahonda, AP164.S1.1992.D3 (40 slides: model, reference materials); - Las Afueras, AP164.S2.SS1.D5 (38 slides: landscape and reference materials); - 2 unidentified projects (17 slides: reference materials); - Casa mu? Arte (5 slides: interior and exterior views).
between 1993 and 1995?
Ring binder with photographic materials related to six or eight projects by Abalos & Herreros
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ARCH268724
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Contains photographic materials on projects and publications by Abalos & Herreros used during lectures and conferences: - Ordenación del área de Abandoibarra, Bilbao, AP164.S1.1993.D5 (18 slides: plans, model and reference materials); - Parque Dunar, Doñana National Park, AP164.S1.1993.D6 (54 slides: plans, collages, reference materials, etc.); - Encauzamiento del río Guadalhorce, AP164.S1.1993.D4 (11 slides: site plans); - Centro cívico y comercial, Majadahonda, AP164.S1.1992.D3 (40 slides: model, reference materials); - Las Afueras, AP164.S2.SS1.D5 (38 slides: landscape and reference materials); - 2 unidentified projects (17 slides: reference materials); - Casa mu? Arte (5 slides: interior and exterior views).
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between 1993 and 1995?
textual records
AP197.S3.002
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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1984-1990. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, attend or present at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries such as the American Academy in Rome. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio; Tadao Ando; Rafael Moneo; James Stirling; Marco Frascari; Alvaro Siza; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; the Progressive Architecture; and Architecture and Urbanism. This correspondence includes Frampton’s invitation to be the Craig Francis Cullinan Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Rice University; correspondence with Rizzoli International Publications about the Tadao Ando book; correspondence with MIT Press for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; and correspondence about critical regionalism.
1984-1990
Personal and professional correspondence from 1984-1990
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AP197.S3.002
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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1984-1990. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, attend or present at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries such as the American Academy in Rome. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio; Tadao Ando; Rafael Moneo; James Stirling; Marco Frascari; Alvaro Siza; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; the Progressive Architecture; and Architecture and Urbanism. This correspondence includes Frampton’s invitation to be the Craig Francis Cullinan Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Rice University; correspondence with Rizzoli International Publications about the Tadao Ando book; correspondence with MIT Press for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; and correspondence about critical regionalism.
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1984-1990
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
Freegans
Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 January 2009
Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Urban Diversity
Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2009
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
photographs
AP140.S2.SS7.D2.P7
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views of various projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan, James Stirling and James Stirling and Partner, including Flats at Ham Common, School Assembly Hall, Brunswick Park Primary School, Dorman Long Headquarters, Florey Building, Queen's College, University of Oxford and British Olivetti Headquarters in Milton Keynes, also views of Liverpool, of the Maison de verre in Paris by architect Pierre Charreau, the Alton Estate in Roehampton, the Atomium at the 1958 Exposition universelle et internationale in Brussels, Keeling House in London by architect Denys Lasdun, buildings by architect Antoni Gaudí, projects by Le Corbusier for lectures by James Stirling, of travels in the United States, including San Francisco, also includes a few negatives
Views of various projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan, James Stirling and James Stirling and Partner
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AP140.S2.SS7.D2.P7
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views of various projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan, James Stirling and James Stirling and Partner, including Flats at Ham Common, School Assembly Hall, Brunswick Park Primary School, Dorman Long Headquarters, Florey Building, Queen's College, University of Oxford and British Olivetti Headquarters in Milton Keynes, also views of Liverpool, of the Maison de verre in Paris by architect Pierre Charreau, the Alton Estate in Roehampton, the Atomium at the 1958 Exposition universelle et internationale in Brussels, Keeling House in London by architect Denys Lasdun, buildings by architect Antoni Gaudí, projects by Le Corbusier for lectures by James Stirling, of travels in the United States, including San Francisco, also includes a few negatives
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AP197.S1.SS9.003
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The box is comprised of notes, articles, interviews, lectures, and keynote speeches by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized alphabetically by either title or the architect's last name, from FO-MO. Subjects and architects explored in these texts include: Norman Foster; interviews with Kenneth Frampton; Tony Fretton; Hiromi Fujii; Naum Gabo; Luca Gazzaniga; genesis of the Philharmonie; German aesthetic philosophy; German enlightenment; global architecture; Michael Graves; Eileen Gray; Dan Hanganu; John Hejduk; Herman Hertzberger; Anthony Hill; Stephen Holl; Hans Hollein; IBA housing in Berlin; invention of liberty; India; Arata Isozaki; Japanese architecture; Michel Kagan; Louis Kahn; Kritisher regionalism; Panos Koulermos; Le Corbusier; Adolf Loos; Anthony Lumsden; John McAslan; Richard Meier; and modernism.
circa 1965-2015
Kenneth Frampton texts, articles and notes FO-MO
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AP197.S1.SS9.003
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The box is comprised of notes, articles, interviews, lectures, and keynote speeches by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized alphabetically by either title or the architect's last name, from FO-MO. Subjects and architects explored in these texts include: Norman Foster; interviews with Kenneth Frampton; Tony Fretton; Hiromi Fujii; Naum Gabo; Luca Gazzaniga; genesis of the Philharmonie; German aesthetic philosophy; German enlightenment; global architecture; Michael Graves; Eileen Gray; Dan Hanganu; John Hejduk; Herman Hertzberger; Anthony Hill; Stephen Holl; Hans Hollein; IBA housing in Berlin; invention of liberty; India; Arata Isozaki; Japanese architecture; Michel Kagan; Louis Kahn; Kritisher regionalism; Panos Koulermos; Le Corbusier; Adolf Loos; Anthony Lumsden; John McAslan; Richard Meier; and modernism.
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circa 1965-2015
David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Johannesburg
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)