PH1980:0557
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- The constructed alternate title is the title that appeared on the label copy in the CCA exhibition "Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata" (see exhibition file "Four Photographers Visit Québec").
architecture, sculpture
1950
Sculptures ornant la chapelle latérale gauche de l'église Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, L'Islet-sur-Mer, Québec
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PH1980:0557
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- The constructed alternate title is the title that appeared on the label copy in the CCA exhibition "Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata" (see exhibition file "Four Photographers Visit Québec").
architecture, sculpture
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
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27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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photographs
ARCH186250
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aerial photograph showing the downtown area of Montréal
circa 1960 - 1967
Aerial view of central Montréal
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ARCH186250
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aerial photograph showing the downtown area of Montréal
photographs
circa 1960 - 1967
textual records
New Canadian Chancery
ARCH255117
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presentation document including photographs of model and drawings.
circa 1947-2002
New Canadian Chancery
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ARCH255117
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presentation document including photographs of model and drawings.
textual records
circa 1947-2002
photographs
Steel Exhibition Center
ARCH255451
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photographs of drawings and buildings with photographer's notes
Steel Exhibition Center
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ARCH255451
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photographs of drawings and buildings with photographer's notes
photographs
books
ARCH258462
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Par Alfred Lenoir, Librairie Armand Colin, avec des photographies en noir et blanc.
publié 1926
Livre "Anthologie d'Art: Sculpture - Peinture"
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ARCH258462
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Par Alfred Lenoir, Librairie Armand Colin, avec des photographies en noir et blanc.
books
publié 1926
textual records
ARCH259216
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Correspondance avec l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, incluant des dessins, de la documentation photographique.
1949-1952
Correspondance avec clients, dessins et documentation photographique
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ARCH259216
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Correspondance avec l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, incluant des dessins, de la documentation photographique.
textual records
1949-1952