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(...)
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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(...)
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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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drawings, textual records, photographs
ARCH270157
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Includes descriptions, correspondence, diagrams, drawings, and 1 photograph.
1986-1989
Patent material folding structure #3
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ARCH270157
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Includes descriptions, correspondence, diagrams, drawings, and 1 photograph.
drawings, textual records, photographs
1986-1989
textual records
DR2012:0015:028
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Exhibition portfolio containing photographs, a program, and printouts.
2008
Metropolis: la ville dans l'oeil du sténopé (portfolio d'une exposition)
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DR2012:0015:028
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Exhibition portfolio containing photographs, a program, and printouts.
textual records
2008
textual records, photographs
Concept notes, design development and correspondence for the Russell Residence, Tacoma, Washington
AP075.S1.1986.PR08.001
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Also contains photographs, sketches and design development drawings.
1986
Concept notes, design development and correspondence for the Russell Residence, Tacoma, Washington
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AP075.S1.1986.PR08.001
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Also contains photographs, sketches and design development drawings.
textual records, photographs
1986
photographs
ARCH278589
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Photograph depicts a design for an expanding shelter.
Expanding structure with sheltering panels, fully open
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Photograph depicts a design for an expanding shelter.
photographs
photographs
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13 photograph(s)
PH1979:0044:001-013
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The photographs are copy prints of the originals
1922
Biltmore Hotel construction photographs, Los Angeles, California
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PH1979:0044:001-013
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The photographs are copy prints of the originals
photographs
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13 photograph(s)
1922
drawings, photographs
ARCH269278
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Contains presentation documents, site plans, photographs and collages.
ca. 1992
Portfolio with plans and presentation documents from the project Puerto Málaga, Spain
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Contains presentation documents, site plans, photographs and collages.
drawings, photographs
ca. 1992