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AP149.S1.2004.PR02
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The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of a student exchange with universities in Mexico and in the United States to expose the urgent need in urban and sustainable housing in North America. The research project was undertaken in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The material in this project series was produced between 2004 and 2007 and includes textual records related to the planning of the project, including grant applications, correspondence and project applications.
2004-2007
North American Sustainability, Housing and Community Consortium Student Exchange
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AP149.S1.2004.PR02
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The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of a student exchange with universities in Mexico and in the United States to expose the urgent need in urban and sustainable housing in North America. The research project was undertaken in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The material in this project series was produced between 2004 and 2007 and includes textual records related to the planning of the project, including grant applications, correspondence and project applications.
Project
2004-2007
articles
9 March 2026
What is the architecture of interactive entertainment?
Farzin Lotfi-Jam discusses the legacy of Culture Lab with Brian Boigon
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 October 2009 , 7pm
Geoff Manaugh: Cities of the CDC
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
archives
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Fonds
CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
1914-2008
Gordon Matta-Clark collection
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CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
archives
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Collection
1914-2008
Arrivals
Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
Hall cases
24 January 2008 to 23 March 2008
Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
Hall cases
ARCH256427
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"The site of Expo, then and now. The inset shows Ile Sainte-Helene as of July 23, 1963, just before work began on enlarging the site. The main picture shows the Exhibition grounds today. / On voit ci-dessus le terrain de l'Exposition universelle et internationale de Montréal avant le début des travaux d'agrandissement, le 23 juillet 1963 en haut à gauche. Dans le reste de la photo, on voit sa configuration telle qu'elle est aujourd'hui."--Description.
1963-1965
Aerial views of the Île Sainte-Hélène and Île Notre-Dame sites prior and after their enlargement, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH256427
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"The site of Expo, then and now. The inset shows Ile Sainte-Helene as of July 23, 1963, just before work began on enlarging the site. The main picture shows the Exhibition grounds today. / On voit ci-dessus le terrain de l'Exposition universelle et internationale de Montréal avant le début des travaux d'agrandissement, le 23 juillet 1963 en haut à gauche. Dans le reste de la photo, on voit sa configuration telle qu'elle est aujourd'hui."--Description.
Main galleries
1 May 2018 to 7 October 2018
Main galleries
textual records
ARCH158566
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La chemise contient : 1 exemplaire d'une brochure publiée par le Bureau d'expansion économique, Compagnie canadienne de l'Exposition universelle de 1967, sur le projet du Centre du commerce international, D'Astous et Pothier, architectes, 1963. 21 x 21 cm. 1 exemplaire d'un livre paru en octobre 1993, à l'occasion d'une cérémonie de consécration de l'église Saint-Maurice-de-Duvernay (Roger D'Astous, architecte, 1961), marquant le 35ième anniversaire de fondation de la paroisse. 13,5 x 23 cm.
1963, 1993
Brochure publiée par le Bureau d'expansion économique, livre de l'église Saint-Maurice-de-Duvernay
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ARCH158566
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La chemise contient : 1 exemplaire d'une brochure publiée par le Bureau d'expansion économique, Compagnie canadienne de l'Exposition universelle de 1967, sur le projet du Centre du commerce international, D'Astous et Pothier, architectes, 1963. 21 x 21 cm. 1 exemplaire d'un livre paru en octobre 1993, à l'occasion d'une cérémonie de consécration de l'église Saint-Maurice-de-Duvernay (Roger D'Astous, architecte, 1961), marquant le 35ième anniversaire de fondation de la paroisse. 13,5 x 23 cm.
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1963, 1993
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