3 August 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
27 June 2016 to 30 June 2016
Toolkit for Today: Keywords for the Environment
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The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
John Soane 1753-1837
Described by Henry James as “one of the most curious things in London,” Sir John Soane’s Museum was built as the picturesque and enigmatic home, office, collector’s trove, and personal showplace of one of history’s most innovative architects. This exhibition is a major re-evaluation of Soane’s career, as well as a reconsideration of his importance to the history of modern(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2001 to 3 September 2001
John Soane 1753-1837
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Described by Henry James as “one of the most curious things in London,” Sir John Soane’s Museum was built as the picturesque and enigmatic home, office, collector’s trove, and personal showplace of one of history’s most innovative architects. This exhibition is a major re-evaluation of Soane’s career, as well as a reconsideration of his importance to the history of modern(...)
Main galleries
textual records
DR2012:0012:098:019
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File containing documents in French, including newspaper clippings and photocopies of an article appearing in La Presse on the exhibition "Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979". In addition to the exhibition, the article makes references to the following projects: - Streetwork; - Une histoire...; - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières [part of Une histoire]; - Memo series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: 1979 LA PRESSE, NOV '79
1979
Press clippings related to exhibition "Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979"
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DR2012:0012:098:019
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File containing documents in French, including newspaper clippings and photocopies of an article appearing in La Presse on the exhibition "Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979". In addition to the exhibition, the article makes references to the following projects: - Streetwork; - Une histoire...; - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières [part of Une histoire]; - Memo series. Original folder inscribed in graphite: 1979 LA PRESSE, NOV '79
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1979
Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 2001 to 16 September 2001
Meditations on Piero
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Meditations on Piero presents contemporary sculptures by British/Canadian artist Geoffrey Smedley alongside over thirty rare books from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The sculptures draw their inspiration from a series of drawings of the human head by the great Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca. The exhibition relates these drawings and(...)
Octagonal gallery
books
ARCH270237
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Exhibition book for the exhibition "La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret (avant Le Corbusier)" by the Musée des Beaux-Arts et Musée d'Histoire de La Chaux-de-Fonds in May to July 1983
1983
La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret (avant Le Corbusier)
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Exhibition book for the exhibition "La Chaux-de-Fonds et Jeanneret (avant Le Corbusier)" by the Musée des Beaux-Arts et Musée d'Histoire de La Chaux-de-Fonds in May to July 1983
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1983
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(...)
Reading Landscapes
Reading Landscapes is a small selection of books from the CCA Collection that reflect on the ever-changing concept of landscape. The books on display bring together various landscape readings and highlight singular publishing techniques and formats, recognizing the gaps intrinsic to the history of publishing that are present in our library’s collection.
14 March 2024 to 2 March 2025
Reading Landscapes
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Reading Landscapes is a small selection of books from the CCA Collection that reflect on the ever-changing concept of landscape. The books on display bring together various landscape readings and highlight singular publishing techniques and formats, recognizing the gaps intrinsic to the history of publishing that are present in our library’s collection.
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3 March 2018
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Charles Rohault de Fleury
CI001.S2
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Series documents works by Charles Rohault de Fleury, including objects related to his architectural education as well as private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning. Material in this series was produced between 1717 and 1868. Series is arranged into six files: Education; Domestic Commissions; Opera Houses; Public and Urban Architecture; Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle; and Miscellanea.
1717-[1884]
Charles Rohault de Fleury
CI001.S2
Description:
Series documents works by Charles Rohault de Fleury, including objects related to his architectural education as well as private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning. Material in this series was produced between 1717 and 1868. Series is arranged into six files: Education; Domestic Commissions; Opera Houses; Public and Urban Architecture; Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle; and Miscellanea.
Series 2
1717-[1884]