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17 drawing(s)
ARCH270002
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Group consists of plans and site plans reproducing various existing urban spaces in Europe, United-States and South America including shopping centres, gardens, parks, squares, crescents and public buildings.
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Plans and site plans reproducing various existing urban spaces in Europe
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ARCH270002
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Group consists of plans and site plans reproducing various existing urban spaces in Europe, United-States and South America including shopping centres, gardens, parks, squares, crescents and public buildings.
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PHCON2002:0016:002:102
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Announcing a book called Unbuilt America and asks if Gordon Matta-Clark has any proposals he would like included in the book; on the back is a note with Sydney Lewis's address at Best Products.
11 December 1974
Letter from Alison Sky to Gordon Matta-Clark
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PHCON2002:0016:002:102
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Announcing a book called Unbuilt America and asks if Gordon Matta-Clark has any proposals he would like included in the book; on the back is a note with Sydney Lewis's address at Best Products.
textual records
11 December 1974
photographs
Our Old Home
PH1979:0602.02
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He started writing seriously in 1846 and spent the years 1853 to 1857 in England as the American Consul in Liverpool. The collection of essays that constitute 'Our Old Home' comes from the journals he kept during his stay in England. After spending two years in Italy he returned to the United States and completed his final novel, 'The Marble Faun' and 'Our Old Home'. This 594-page book comprises 14 photogravures, one engraving, a Title page and a Contents and list of illustrations and Index : Title page: Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne annotated with passages from the author's note-book, and illustrated with photogravures Volume II. Cambridge. Printed at the Riverside Press. MDCCCXCI. Verso of title page: Copyright, 1863 by Nathaniel Hawthorne Copyright, 1870 By Sophia Hawthorne Copyright, 1883, 1890 By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed No. 69 Contents and list of Illustrations: [Photogravures executed by A.W. Elson & Co. Boston] Lord Nelson Frontispiece NEAR OXFORD Blenheim The Thames at Oxford from Folly Bridge Magdalen College, Oxford, from the Cherwell SOME OF THE HAUNTS OF BURNS Robert Burns Burn's Birthplace, Alloway Parish, near Ayr The Auld Brig o' Doon, Ayr Alloway Kirk A LONDON SUBURB A Country House The Houses of Parliament UP THE THAMES London Bridge Tower of London, showing Traitor's Gate St. Paul's Cathedral Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey OUTSIDE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH POVERTY An English Almshouse CIVIC BANQUETS Index
architecture
1891
Our Old Home
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PH1979:0602.02
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He started writing seriously in 1846 and spent the years 1853 to 1857 in England as the American Consul in Liverpool. The collection of essays that constitute 'Our Old Home' comes from the journals he kept during his stay in England. After spending two years in Italy he returned to the United States and completed his final novel, 'The Marble Faun' and 'Our Old Home'. This 594-page book comprises 14 photogravures, one engraving, a Title page and a Contents and list of illustrations and Index : Title page: Our Old Home by Nathaniel Hawthorne annotated with passages from the author's note-book, and illustrated with photogravures Volume II. Cambridge. Printed at the Riverside Press. MDCCCXCI. Verso of title page: Copyright, 1863 by Nathaniel Hawthorne Copyright, 1870 By Sophia Hawthorne Copyright, 1883, 1890 By Houghton, Mifflin & Co. All rights reserved Two Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed No. 69 Contents and list of Illustrations: [Photogravures executed by A.W. Elson & Co. Boston] Lord Nelson Frontispiece NEAR OXFORD Blenheim The Thames at Oxford from Folly Bridge Magdalen College, Oxford, from the Cherwell SOME OF THE HAUNTS OF BURNS Robert Burns Burn's Birthplace, Alloway Parish, near Ayr The Auld Brig o' Doon, Ayr Alloway Kirk A LONDON SUBURB A Country House The Houses of Parliament UP THE THAMES London Bridge Tower of London, showing Traitor's Gate St. Paul's Cathedral Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey OUTSIDE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH POVERTY An English Almshouse CIVIC BANQUETS Index
photographs
1891
architecture
The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
9 February 2017
An Afternoon with Cedric Price no. 2
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The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
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AP115.S3.D3
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La sous-série porte sur le travail de documentation photographique de Robert Duchesnay du dôme géodésique de l'American Society for Metal (ASM) près de Cleveland, sur le campus du Materials Park, dans le Russell Township, près de Cleveland, Ohio, aux États-Unis. Conçu par Buckminster Fuller, le dôme d'un diamètre de 250 pieds est construit en 1959. Le bâtiment abrite toujours le siège sociale de la compagnie et est enregistré au U.S. National Register of Historic Places. La sous-série contient cinq photographies intérieures et extérieures prises par Robert Duchesnay en 1990. Source: Duchesnay, Robert. "Other domes by Buckminster Fuller". https://robertduchesnay.com/en/other-domes-by-buckminster-fuller/ (page consultée 24 février 2023).
1990
ASM International Dome, Geauga County, Ohio
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AP115.S3.D3
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La sous-série porte sur le travail de documentation photographique de Robert Duchesnay du dôme géodésique de l'American Society for Metal (ASM) près de Cleveland, sur le campus du Materials Park, dans le Russell Township, près de Cleveland, Ohio, aux États-Unis. Conçu par Buckminster Fuller, le dôme d'un diamètre de 250 pieds est construit en 1959. Le bâtiment abrite toujours le siège sociale de la compagnie et est enregistré au U.S. National Register of Historic Places. La sous-série contient cinq photographies intérieures et extérieures prises par Robert Duchesnay en 1990. Source: Duchesnay, Robert. "Other domes by Buckminster Fuller". https://robertduchesnay.com/en/other-domes-by-buckminster-fuller/ (page consultée 24 février 2023).
Dossier 3
1990
archives
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AP051
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
1975-1997
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds
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AP051
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
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1975-1997
archives
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Anyone Corporation fonds
AP116
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The Anyone Corporation fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic records which document the activities of the Anyone Corporation over the course of its planned ten year life span from 1990 to 2001. The non-profit, New York City based organization, was founded by Peter Eisenman, Cynthia Davidson, Arata Isozaki, and Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio in order to stimulate a fruitful dialogue between architecture and general culture at the dawn of the new millennium. To this end, ANY (acronym for Architecture New York) organised ten international conferences and numerous public seminars, as well as publishing conference journals, a series of architecture related books, and ANY, a theory driven bi-monthly magazine.
1990-2001
Anyone Corporation fonds
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AP116
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The Anyone Corporation fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic records which document the activities of the Anyone Corporation over the course of its planned ten year life span from 1990 to 2001. The non-profit, New York City based organization, was founded by Peter Eisenman, Cynthia Davidson, Arata Isozaki, and Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio in order to stimulate a fruitful dialogue between architecture and general culture at the dawn of the new millennium. To this end, ANY (acronym for Architecture New York) organised ten international conferences and numerous public seminars, as well as publishing conference journals, a series of architecture related books, and ANY, a theory driven bi-monthly magazine.
archives
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1990-2001
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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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AP013
Synopsis:
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
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Ernest Isbell Barott fonds
AP003
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The Ernest Isbell Barott fonds, 1912-1983, documents architect Ernest Isbell Barott’s design and construction of over 380 built projects in Canada. The fonds comprises of materials relating to projects executed by Ernest Isbell Barott during his active years at the firm, 1912-1962, as well as projects exclusively completed by the firm after Barott’s retirement, 1962-1983. Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 11 764 drawings (including reprographic copies), approximately 1795 photographic materials, 8.75 l.m. of textual records, 4 medals, and 1 key.
1912-1983
Ernest Isbell Barott fonds
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AP003
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The Ernest Isbell Barott fonds, 1912-1983, documents architect Ernest Isbell Barott’s design and construction of over 380 built projects in Canada. The fonds comprises of materials relating to projects executed by Ernest Isbell Barott during his active years at the firm, 1912-1962, as well as projects exclusively completed by the firm after Barott’s retirement, 1962-1983. Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 11 764 drawings (including reprographic copies), approximately 1795 photographic materials, 8.75 l.m. of textual records, 4 medals, and 1 key.
archives
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Fonds
1912-1983