The exhibition focuses on one of Ernest Cormier’s masterworks—the Université de Montréal, built high on the northwest slope of Mount Royal between 1928 and 1943—and situates the Montréal architect and his work in the context of international thought where European and North American cultural and architectural ideas converged. The objects in the exhibition are drawn in(...)
Main galleries
2 May 1990 to 21 October 1990
Ernest Cormier and the Université de Montréal
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The exhibition focuses on one of Ernest Cormier’s masterworks—the Université de Montréal, built high on the northwest slope of Mount Royal between 1928 and 1943—and situates the Montréal architect and his work in the context of international thought where European and North American cultural and architectural ideas converged. The objects in the exhibition are drawn in(...)
Main galleries
textual records
AP206.S2.034
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.031, AP206.S2.032 and AP206.S2.033. This file includes the following papers: "Research Cells" "Chandigarh" "Our Environment," 1977 "Administrative Aspects of Urban and Regional Planning," 1978 "Chandigarh - Its Trials and Travails," 1978 "Technology and Chandigarh," 1978 "Varanasi," 1976
1973-1978
Unpublished papers (folder 4 of 4)
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AP206.S2.034
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.031, AP206.S2.032 and AP206.S2.033. This file includes the following papers: "Research Cells" "Chandigarh" "Our Environment," 1977 "Administrative Aspects of Urban and Regional Planning," 1978 "Chandigarh - Its Trials and Travails," 1978 "Technology and Chandigarh," 1978 "Varanasi," 1976
textual records
1973-1978
12 file
ARCH240288
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Tape 1 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Paris Prologue : Emerging French Architecture Tape 2 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Paris Prologue : Emerging French Architecture Tape 3 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Anymore Theory or History? Tape 4 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Anymore Theory or History? Tape 5 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Context? Tape 6 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Context? Tape 7 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Architecture? Tape 8 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Architecture? Tape 9 - Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Technology? Tape 10 - Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Technology? Tape 11- Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Mores? Tape 12- Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Mores?
1999-06-23 - 1999-06-25
Audio recordings of Anymore Conference
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ARCH240288
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Tape 1 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Paris Prologue : Emerging French Architecture Tape 2 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Paris Prologue : Emerging French Architecture Tape 3 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Anymore Theory or History? Tape 4 - Anymore 23/06/99 - Anymore Theory or History? Tape 5 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Context? Tape 6 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Context? Tape 7 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Architecture? Tape 8 - Anymore 24/06/99 - Anymore Architecture? Tape 9 - Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Technology? Tape 10 - Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Technology? Tape 11- Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Mores? Tape 12- Anymore 25/06/99 - Anymore Mores?
12 file
1999-06-23 - 1999-06-25
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(...)
research
September 2001 to
August 2002
Series
CI007.S1
Description:
The series contains materials related to Mies van der Rohe's work as an architect, consulting architect, interior designer, and furniture designer. It documents various architectural projects in America and in Europe, predominantly in the United States and in Germany, between 1923 and 1958. The material in the series was produced between 1918 and 2000. Included are materials related to some of Mies' major projects as an architect, such as pavillion designs for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (1936-1958) and the Seagram Building in New York (1949-1958), Mies' work as consulting architect for the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Canada (1962-1985), as well as commissions for private residences, mainly in Germany and in the United States. The series also includes material related to his work for furniture designs. Documenting Mies's projects are photographs, textual documentation including notes, and some drawings, mainly conceptual sketches.
1918-2000
Architectural projects by Mies
CI007.S1
Description:
The series contains materials related to Mies van der Rohe's work as an architect, consulting architect, interior designer, and furniture designer. It documents various architectural projects in America and in Europe, predominantly in the United States and in Germany, between 1923 and 1958. The material in the series was produced between 1918 and 2000. Included are materials related to some of Mies' major projects as an architect, such as pavillion designs for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (1936-1958) and the Seagram Building in New York (1949-1958), Mies' work as consulting architect for the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Canada (1962-1985), as well as commissions for private residences, mainly in Germany and in the United States. The series also includes material related to his work for furniture designs. Documenting Mies's projects are photographs, textual documentation including notes, and some drawings, mainly conceptual sketches.
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1918-2000
photographs
AP149.S4.SS2.002
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Group consists of sets of slides of visual material for lectures on research project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. The group includes: - a set on open spaces in urban environment, related to the fifth Human Settlement Training Packages by Mininum Cost Housing Group - a set of slides on sanitation and sanitation systems previsously stored in a folder entitled "Sanitation" - a set of slides on doors in India and Mexico previously stored in a folder entitled "Doors", - a set entitled ''People'' - and a set on technology for housing developement, low cost houses construction, including slides on the Minimum Cost Housing Group's housing project, such as Ecol Operation, Maison Lessard project and Saddle Lake project, previously stored in a folder entitled "Technology".
1970s-1990s
Visual material for lectures on subject researchs
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AP149.S4.SS2.002
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Group consists of sets of slides of visual material for lectures on research project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. The group includes: - a set on open spaces in urban environment, related to the fifth Human Settlement Training Packages by Mininum Cost Housing Group - a set of slides on sanitation and sanitation systems previsously stored in a folder entitled "Sanitation" - a set of slides on doors in India and Mexico previously stored in a folder entitled "Doors", - a set entitled ''People'' - and a set on technology for housing developement, low cost houses construction, including slides on the Minimum Cost Housing Group's housing project, such as Ecol Operation, Maison Lessard project and Saddle Lake project, previously stored in a folder entitled "Technology".
photographs
1970s-1990s
research
TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant recipients: Jordan Kauffman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Julia Tischer (McGill University); Mariana Mogilevich (Harvard University); Elizabeth McFarland (Cornell University); Alexandra Quantrill (Columbia University); Enrique Ramirez (Princeton University); Yoonchun Jung (McGill University); Mark Clintberg (Concordia(...)
February 2011 to November 2011
Doctoral Students Program 2011
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant recipients: Jordan Kauffman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Julia Tischer (McGill University); Mariana Mogilevich (Harvard University); Elizabeth McFarland (Cornell University); Alexandra Quantrill (Columbia University); Enrique Ramirez (Princeton University); Yoonchun Jung (McGill University); Mark Clintberg (Concordia(...)
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February 2011 to
November 2011
Sub-series
AP032.S1.SS4.D6
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Files ARCH219102-ARCH219120 are documents relating to various personal and professional activities (c.1961-1977). Includes notebooks, travel journals, correspondence, clippings, Oakland Bay Bridge booklet, Federal Building at N.Y. World's Fair brochure, F.L. Wright talk (1930), notes and sketches, photographs of bridges and rural buildings, postcards, periodicals, ephemera. Files ARCH254834-ARCH254880 are papers relating to personal business interests such as real estate, investments, taxes, as well as institutions and associations like the Chicago Arts Club, the AIA, the Illinois Institute of Technology, MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Documents include Goldsmith's entry in Who's Who, correspondence, medical reports, memos and notes, brochures and booklets on artists and exhibitions, periodicals and clippings. Architectural material includes an address by N.A. Owings, Presidential Design Awards 1984, T.Y. Lin, and documents concerning the call for proposals for the San Francisco main library, and a project for Athens College in Greece.
1964-1991
Personal and Business Documents
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AP032.S1.SS4.D6
Description:
Files ARCH219102-ARCH219120 are documents relating to various personal and professional activities (c.1961-1977). Includes notebooks, travel journals, correspondence, clippings, Oakland Bay Bridge booklet, Federal Building at N.Y. World's Fair brochure, F.L. Wright talk (1930), notes and sketches, photographs of bridges and rural buildings, postcards, periodicals, ephemera. Files ARCH254834-ARCH254880 are papers relating to personal business interests such as real estate, investments, taxes, as well as institutions and associations like the Chicago Arts Club, the AIA, the Illinois Institute of Technology, MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Documents include Goldsmith's entry in Who's Who, correspondence, medical reports, memos and notes, brochures and booklets on artists and exhibitions, periodicals and clippings. Architectural material includes an address by N.A. Owings, Presidential Design Awards 1984, T.Y. Lin, and documents concerning the call for proposals for the San Francisco main library, and a project for Athens College in Greece.
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1964-1991
Series
AP144.S3
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Series documents the professional and personal activities of Cedric Price primarily through textual records. The organization of the documents follows Price's own filing system and reflects his activities and interests, which include education and teaching, lectures, exhibitions and writing, travel and politics, professional associations and the management of the office. Price's involvement in a wide variety of professional associations is documented, including: the Royal Agricultural Society (now Royal Agricultural Society of England), the International Institute of Design (IID), London Subterranean Survey Assocation (LSSA), Centre for Environmental Studies (C.E.S.), Royal Aeronautical Society (R.Ae.S.), and Society for Underwater Technology (SUWT). Material in the series includes correspondence relating to publications and annotated drafts of articles, original layouts for articles that were published in "Cedric Price Supplement", 'Architectural Design', (1970-1972) and clippings relating to projects and other subjects. Also included are office diaries dated between 1971 and 1994.
1955-2006
Professional and Personal Records
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AP144.S3
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Series documents the professional and personal activities of Cedric Price primarily through textual records. The organization of the documents follows Price's own filing system and reflects his activities and interests, which include education and teaching, lectures, exhibitions and writing, travel and politics, professional associations and the management of the office. Price's involvement in a wide variety of professional associations is documented, including: the Royal Agricultural Society (now Royal Agricultural Society of England), the International Institute of Design (IID), London Subterranean Survey Assocation (LSSA), Centre for Environmental Studies (C.E.S.), Royal Aeronautical Society (R.Ae.S.), and Society for Underwater Technology (SUWT). Material in the series includes correspondence relating to publications and annotated drafts of articles, original layouts for articles that were published in "Cedric Price Supplement", 'Architectural Design', (1970-1972) and clippings relating to projects and other subjects. Also included are office diaries dated between 1971 and 1994.
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1955-2006
archives
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Peter Carter fonds
AP047
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The Peter Carter fonds, 1943-1996, documents the professional career of architect Peter Carter. The largest portion of the archive corresponds to projects Carter completed as principal of the office, Peter Carter Architect (1974-96). Materials in this fonds consist of 7263 drawings (including reprographic copies), 2007 photographic materials, approximately 65 panels, 3 l.m. of textual records, 26 models, 1 enclosing unit, 1 carpet sample, 1 graphic design layout for stationery letterhead, 1 brown oak sample, 1 window sample, 1 sign, 1 carioca stone, 1 travertine block and 1 grey carpet tile.
1943-1996
Peter Carter fonds
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AP047
Synopsis:
The Peter Carter fonds, 1943-1996, documents the professional career of architect Peter Carter. The largest portion of the archive corresponds to projects Carter completed as principal of the office, Peter Carter Architect (1974-96). Materials in this fonds consist of 7263 drawings (including reprographic copies), 2007 photographic materials, approximately 65 panels, 3 l.m. of textual records, 26 models, 1 enclosing unit, 1 carpet sample, 1 graphic design layout for stationery letterhead, 1 brown oak sample, 1 window sample, 1 sign, 1 carioca stone, 1 travertine block and 1 grey carpet tile.
archives
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Fonds
1943-1996