125 Kilos of Books
125 Kilos of Books presents a selection of printed architectural works from the CCA collection dating from the fifteenth century to the present in order to provoke thought about what seems, at first sight, the most banal fact of any book: its size. With dimensions ranging from 10 centimetres to 1 metre, the works are explored through such themes as Buildings are Bigger(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 March 2006 to 30 April 2006
125 Kilos of Books
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125 Kilos of Books presents a selection of printed architectural works from the CCA collection dating from the fifteenth century to the present in order to provoke thought about what seems, at first sight, the most banal fact of any book: its size. With dimensions ranging from 10 centimetres to 1 metre, the works are explored through such themes as Buildings are Bigger(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Cedric Price
AP103.S5.SS2
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Sub-series documents Cedric Price's IFCCA Prize Competition entry. Material in sub-series was produced in 1999. Sub-series contains drawings, a model, slides, photographs, and a presentation text.
1999
Cedric Price
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AP103.S5.SS2
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Sub-series documents Cedric Price's IFCCA Prize Competition entry. Material in sub-series was produced in 1999. Sub-series contains drawings, a model, slides, photographs, and a presentation text.
Sub-series 2
1999
Sub-series
Morphosis
AP103.S5.SS4
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Sub-series documents Morphosis' IFCCA Prize Competition entry. Material in sub-series was produced in 1999. Sub-series contains panels, a model, presentation booklets, a floppy disk, and photographs.
1999
Morphosis
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AP103.S5.SS4
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Sub-series documents Morphosis' IFCCA Prize Competition entry. Material in sub-series was produced in 1999. Sub-series contains panels, a model, presentation booklets, a floppy disk, and photographs.
Sub-series 4
1999
Visiting Scholar, Christopher Heuer, Guidebooks to Chaos, The Grotesque Renaissances, Hans Vredeman de Vries, The City Rehearsed, Urban Design, Architectural Imaginary, Visiting Scholar Seminar
13 July 2006
Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
textual records
ARCH258336
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Correspondance et rapports de diverses associations, incluant l'institut Royal d'Architecture de Canada, l'Ordre des architectes du Québec, le Prix Préfontaine, University of Calgary, et de la correspondance avec le Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal au sujet de l'exposition « Prize Award Winners 1908-1965 » qui inclus l'aquarelle de Cormier « Fontaine du Jardin Borghèse à Rome ».
1967-1977
Correspondance et rapports de diverses associations
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ARCH258336
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Correspondance et rapports de diverses associations, incluant l'institut Royal d'Architecture de Canada, l'Ordre des architectes du Québec, le Prix Préfontaine, University of Calgary, et de la correspondance avec le Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal au sujet de l'exposition « Prize Award Winners 1908-1965 » qui inclus l'aquarelle de Cormier « Fontaine du Jardin Borghèse à Rome ».
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1967-1977
textual records
ARCH258579
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Dossiers déposés entre séparateurs (classé par Cormier), incluant des notes et de la documentation technique relative aux arcs, aux voûtes, aux orgues, à l'acoustique, à la photographie, et des photographies d'architecture en Italie, à Paris, à New York. Comprend aussi 2 dissertations en allemand, et de la documentation de la traduction par Cormier du livre par M.H. Schulueter titré « Construction en béton armé ».
1909-1957
Notes et de la documentation technique relative aux arcs, aux voûtes, aux orgues, à l'acoustique, et à la photographie
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ARCH258579
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Dossiers déposés entre séparateurs (classé par Cormier), incluant des notes et de la documentation technique relative aux arcs, aux voûtes, aux orgues, à l'acoustique, à la photographie, et des photographies d'architecture en Italie, à Paris, à New York. Comprend aussi 2 dissertations en allemand, et de la documentation de la traduction par Cormier du livre par M.H. Schulueter titré « Construction en béton armé ».
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1909-1957
drawings
DR2012:0012:130:006
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File containing reprographic copies of architectural drawings related to the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CA. TRIB. TO HUMAN RIGHTS : GRANITE BUSSIÈRE SHOP DRAWINGS
1990
Shop drawings for granit contractor, Canadian Tribute to Human Rights, Ottawa, Ontario
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DR2012:0012:130:006
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File containing reprographic copies of architectural drawings related to the Canadian tribute to human rights. Original folder inscribed in graphite: CA. TRIB. TO HUMAN RIGHTS : GRANITE BUSSIÈRE SHOP DRAWINGS
drawings
1990
textual records
DR2012:0012:102:002
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Assorted documents in English, including two complete copies of the June 1962 edition of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal, as well as clippings and photocopies of Melvin Charney's article, "A journal of Istanbul".
1962
Clippings and photocopies of the article "A journal of Istanbul"
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DR2012:0012:102:002
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Assorted documents in English, including two complete copies of the June 1962 edition of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Journal, as well as clippings and photocopies of Melvin Charney's article, "A journal of Istanbul".
textual records
1962
drawings
ARCH5002
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Escaliers dans les tours est et ouest, mains courantes des escaliers du presbytère, balcon de la chapelle des mariages / Montreal Architectural Iron Works.
1926
Détails des escaliers et balcons
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ARCH5002
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Escaliers dans les tours est et ouest, mains courantes des escaliers du presbytère, balcon de la chapelle des mariages / Montreal Architectural Iron Works.
drawings
1926