Learning from... Nairobi
Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 October 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
4 July 2007 to 30 September 2007
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
PH1990:0159
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Photograph PH1990:0159 is identified erroneously in Charney: Parables as photograph PH1990:0069 (p. 191).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
1990
CCA Garden: View of the temple-silo allegorical column with the Shaughnessy House in the background, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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PH1990:0159
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Photograph PH1990:0159 is identified erroneously in Charney: Parables as photograph PH1990:0069 (p. 191).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
ARCH265578
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Photograph.
Photograph of the model for the Redbrooke Apartments in Montréal, Québec
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ARCH265578
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Photograph.
photographs
DR2012:0012:075:004
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Box containing photographs related to the following projects: - Une histoire... (1 photograph); - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (8 photographs) - Corridart (3 photographs). Original box inscribed in black ink: CORRIDART PHOTOS ORIG & DOCUMENTAT.
n.d.
Photographs of various projects artworks
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DR2012:0012:075:004
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Box containing photographs related to the following projects: - Une histoire... (1 photograph); - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (8 photographs) - Corridart (3 photographs). Original box inscribed in black ink: CORRIDART PHOTOS ORIG & DOCUMENTAT.
photographs
n.d.
photographs
ARCH274422
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Group consists of photographs (362 photographs) and negatives (165 negatives) of Chandigarh, India, including photographs of the Capitol Complex, the University's building including the Ghandi Bhawan, schools, government housing and sports installations and some photographs of models. The group also includes photographs of furniture designed by Pierre Jeanneret, some photographs of Chandigarh before the construction and some photographs of India, other than Chandigarh.
between 1950 and 1965
Photographs of Chandigarh, India
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ARCH274422
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Group consists of photographs (362 photographs) and negatives (165 negatives) of Chandigarh, India, including photographs of the Capitol Complex, the University's building including the Ghandi Bhawan, schools, government housing and sports installations and some photographs of models. The group also includes photographs of furniture designed by Pierre Jeanneret, some photographs of Chandigarh before the construction and some photographs of India, other than Chandigarh.
photographs
between 1950 and 1965
DR1995:0263:032:011:018
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Photograph mounted on sheet of white paper. A label is affixed to the photograph and the paper.
circa 1974-1975
View of working/security lighting mounted on scaffold (from McAppy project series)
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DR1995:0263:032:011:018
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Photograph mounted on sheet of white paper. A label is affixed to the photograph and the paper.
PH1980:1220:060
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- The photograph shows the Sath Khundi or Sat Manzil. The photographer was facing north north west.
architecture
March - April 1855
View of the Sath Khundi, Beejapore (now Bijapur), India
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PH1980:1220:060
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- The photograph shows the Sath Khundi or Sat Manzil. The photographer was facing north north west.
architecture
photographs
DR2012:0012:090:002
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Photographs of the following projects: - Chicago construction (2 photographs); - Toronto Construction (6 photographs); - Kingston Construction (4 photographs). Container originally labelled: DOCUMENTATION PHOTOS OF WORK; CHICAGO 1982 / TORONTO 1982 / KINGSTON 1983 CONSTRUCTS
n.d.
Photographs of various projects by Melvin Charney
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DR2012:0012:090:002
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Photographs of the following projects: - Chicago construction (2 photographs); - Toronto Construction (6 photographs); - Kingston Construction (4 photographs). Container originally labelled: DOCUMENTATION PHOTOS OF WORK; CHICAGO 1982 / TORONTO 1982 / KINGSTON 1983 CONSTRUCTS
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n.d.