The drawings presented in this exhibition are annotated to show the Italian Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio as a draughtsman considering a blank sheet of paper. Palladio at Work considers a life sustained by drawing, the process by which Palladio’s design was developed, argued, and communicated. Curated by Guido Beltramini and Charles Hind. Co-organized with(...)
Octagonal gallery
3 March 2011 to 22 May 2011
Palladio at Work: An annotated exhibition
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The drawings presented in this exhibition are annotated to show the Italian Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio as a draughtsman considering a blank sheet of paper. Palladio at Work considers a life sustained by drawing, the process by which Palladio’s design was developed, argued, and communicated. Curated by Guido Beltramini and Charles Hind. Co-organized with(...)
Octagonal gallery
textual records
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A cardboard tube containing a Certificate of Commendation award presented to the Foreign Office Architects from Hidenobu Takahide, the Mayor of the City of Yokohama, that confirms that they have taken the Grand Prize for the Yokohama International Ferry Port Terminal competition, Japan. The certificate is accompanied by a sheet of Japanese text written in black ink.
13 February 1995
A certificate of commendation from the Mayor of the City of Yokohama to the Foreign Office Architects
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A cardboard tube containing a Certificate of Commendation award presented to the Foreign Office Architects from Hidenobu Takahide, the Mayor of the City of Yokohama, that confirms that they have taken the Grand Prize for the Yokohama International Ferry Port Terminal competition, Japan. The certificate is accompanied by a sheet of Japanese text written in black ink.
textual records
13 February 1995
Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
14 July 2016, 6pm
Antoni Folkers: Modern Architecture in Africa
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Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
archives
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Fonds
AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
1995-2013
ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records
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AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
archives
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Fonds
1995-2013
Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
31 March 2016
Fucking with Interoperability: Culture Lab 1991–94
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Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
drawings
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Plans de la cuisine, détails de la ventilation des pièces 35 à 38, de la porte de garage, de la porte d'entrée principale, de la salle à manger des juges, de la salle de consultation, des consoles, des plafonds de la Cour de l'Échiquier et de la salle des juges.
1939 - 1940
Plans de la cuisine, détails de la ventilation des pièces 35 à 38
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Plans de la cuisine, détails de la ventilation des pièces 35 à 38, de la porte de garage, de la porte d'entrée principale, de la salle à manger des juges, de la salle de consultation, des consoles, des plafonds de la Cour de l'Échiquier et de la salle des juges.
drawings
1939 - 1940
The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
Main galleries
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War
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The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica(...)
Main galleries
Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
19 February 2015 , 6pm
Windows and Screens: Georges Teyssot
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Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
Équipement photographique
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- 1 tireuse contact 9.5 x 11,5 pouces; - 2 tireuses contact format 8 x 10 pouces; - 1 accessoire de porte-négatif (en bois noir) pour agrandisseur; - 1 accessoire de porte-négatif (en carton) pour agrandisseur;
Équipement photographique
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- 1 tireuse contact 9.5 x 11,5 pouces; - 2 tireuses contact format 8 x 10 pouces; - 1 accessoire de porte-négatif (en bois noir) pour agrandisseur; - 1 accessoire de porte-négatif (en carton) pour agrandisseur;
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1 porte-copie (tilting lever) de marque CR (Copy-Right; New York)
Porte-copie pour banc de reproduction photographique
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1 porte-copie (tilting lever) de marque CR (Copy-Right; New York)