Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
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AP075.S4.SS3
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This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's research for projects of publications and research and preparation material for lectures. The sub-series comprise documents related to the book "Trees in the City", published in 1977 and written by Orberlander with Ira Bruce Nadel, and Lesley R. Bohm. A publication identifiying "the visual and spatial advantages trees offered to the city. [1]. The sub-series also contains documentation on landscape architecture education in British Columbia, which Oberlander possibly compiled for a lecture. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 120.
1960-1998
Research for publications and lectures
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AP075.S4.SS3
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This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's research for projects of publications and research and preparation material for lectures. The sub-series comprise documents related to the book "Trees in the City", published in 1977 and written by Orberlander with Ira Bruce Nadel, and Lesley R. Bohm. A publication identifiying "the visual and spatial advantages trees offered to the city. [1]. The sub-series also contains documentation on landscape architecture education in British Columbia, which Oberlander possibly compiled for a lecture. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 120.
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1960-1998
Philip Ursprung, guest curator of the 2002 CCA exhibition Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind, discusses the Swiss architects’ collaborative relationship with artists. The lecture is part a series exploring the boundary between art and architecture, presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary(...)
17 October 2002
Philip Ursprung: Close Encounters: Herzog & de Meuron en collaboration avec des artistes
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Philip Ursprung, guest curator of the 2002 CCA exhibition Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind, discusses the Swiss architects’ collaborative relationship with artists. The lecture is part a series exploring the boundary between art and architecture, presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary(...)
Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
textual records
Research files on various subjects that relate to 20th century criticism written by others (A-R)
AP197.S2.001
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These research materials are organized alphabetically, by the authors last names, from A-R. The writings from the following authors are included in this box : Mario Botta; Charles Correa; Alan Colquhoun; Marco Frascari; Jürgen Habermas; and Mary McCleod. Subjects explored in these texts consist of the international style, meaning in architecture and the modern movement.
circa 1966-1994
Research files on various subjects that relate to 20th century criticism written by others (A-R)
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AP197.S2.001
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These research materials are organized alphabetically, by the authors last names, from A-R. The writings from the following authors are included in this box : Mario Botta; Charles Correa; Alan Colquhoun; Marco Frascari; Jürgen Habermas; and Mary McCleod. Subjects explored in these texts consist of the international style, meaning in architecture and the modern movement.
textual records
circa 1966-1994
research
Visiting Scholars 2007
S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
May 2007 to September 2007
Visiting Scholars 2007
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S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
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May 2007 to
September 2007
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CI005.S1.1928.PR1
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Oud lectured in 1924-1925 in Prague and Brno on 'The Development of Modern Architecture in the Netherlands' where he made contact with contemporary international architects involved in avant-garde artists circles. As a result of his lecture tours, Oud was commissioned in 1928 to design an apartment building for a private client in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Oud designed a building where each floor consisted of a single dwelling with a communal ground floor that featured shared and functional spaces. The servants' dwelling occupied a separate wing and met with the residential dwellings at the communal staircase and lobby (Taverne et al. 2001, 319). Project series includes drawings of floor plans and elevations.
1928
Three-Family House, Brno, Czechoslovakia (1928)
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CI005.S1.1928.PR1
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Oud lectured in 1924-1925 in Prague and Brno on 'The Development of Modern Architecture in the Netherlands' where he made contact with contemporary international architects involved in avant-garde artists circles. As a result of his lecture tours, Oud was commissioned in 1928 to design an apartment building for a private client in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Oud designed a building where each floor consisted of a single dwelling with a communal ground floor that featured shared and functional spaces. The servants' dwelling occupied a separate wing and met with the residential dwellings at the communal staircase and lobby (Taverne et al. 2001, 319). Project series includes drawings of floor plans and elevations.
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1928
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Peter Caspari fonds
AP123
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The Peter Caspari fonds documents the education, personal and military activities of architect Peter Caspari from student work in Berlin to his immigration to England, and participation in WWII. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of drawings relating to student building design projects, and textual records relating to architecture course notes, training for the Pioneer Corps, and professional registration as an architect.
1928-1941
Peter Caspari fonds
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The Peter Caspari fonds documents the education, personal and military activities of architect Peter Caspari from student work in Berlin to his immigration to England, and participation in WWII. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of drawings relating to student building design projects, and textual records relating to architecture course notes, training for the Pioneer Corps, and professional registration as an architect.
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1928-1941
textual records
AP206.S2.008
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.006, AP206.S2.007 and AP206.S2.009. This file contains the following papers: "Reflections on Urban Planning," in Science Today, September 1971 "The Big Boss" "Second Thoughts on Modern Architecture" "Civic Design: The City Beautiful" "Planning of Office Buildings," in India Construction News, January 1959 "Future Urbanism and Human Habitations" "Architectural Control, Shops, Flats, etc."
1959-1972
Published and unpublished papers (folder 3 of 4)
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AP206.S2.008
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.006, AP206.S2.007 and AP206.S2.009. This file contains the following papers: "Reflections on Urban Planning," in Science Today, September 1971 "The Big Boss" "Second Thoughts on Modern Architecture" "Civic Design: The City Beautiful" "Planning of Office Buildings," in India Construction News, January 1959 "Future Urbanism and Human Habitations" "Architectural Control, Shops, Flats, etc."
textual records
1959-1972
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Fonds
Peter Eisenman fonds
AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Peter Eisenman fonds
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AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
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1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008