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AP046.S1.1983.PR01.607
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This file includes interior progress and exterior aerial photographs of the construction of the CCA. Original file title: "CCA - CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS / NOVEMBER 1987 / Boîte #33-A". Contains interior and aerial photographs (8) during the construction of the CCA taken in November 19th, 1987.
November 19, 1987
Photographs of the construction of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR01.607
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This file includes interior progress and exterior aerial photographs of the construction of the CCA. Original file title: "CCA - CONSTRUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS / NOVEMBER 1987 / Boîte #33-A". Contains interior and aerial photographs (8) during the construction of the CCA taken in November 19th, 1987.
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November 19, 1987
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ARCH269099
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Épreuves commandées par Jacqueline Jeanneret. Prints commissioned by Jacqueline Jeanneret.
between 1950 and 1966
Photographs of gouvernement housings in Chandigarh, India
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ARCH269099
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Épreuves commandées par Jacqueline Jeanneret. Prints commissioned by Jacqueline Jeanneret.
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between 1950 and 1966
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ARCH280807
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Group consists of photographs religious buildings in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of the Gurdwara under construction in sector 19, photographs of the carmel convent in sector 9, unidentified temples in sector 23 and 24, and an unidentified church in sector 18.
1952-c.1970
Photographs of religious buildings in Chandigarh, India
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ARCH280807
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Group consists of photographs religious buildings in Chandigarh, India. There are photographs of the Gurdwara under construction in sector 19, photographs of the carmel convent in sector 9, unidentified temples in sector 23 and 24, and an unidentified church in sector 18.
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1952-c.1970
DR1988:0288
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- DR1988:0288 - DR1988:0290 are photographs of a CAD-generated image shown on a colour computer monitor. The CCA photographs are a duplicate set of that submitted to the Tokyo City Hall Competition.
architecture
negative exposed 1988
View of atrium for the Tokyo City Hall competition entry
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DR1988:0288
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- DR1988:0288 - DR1988:0290 are photographs of a CAD-generated image shown on a colour computer monitor. The CCA photographs are a duplicate set of that submitted to the Tokyo City Hall Competition.
architecture
DR1988:0289
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- DR1988:0288 - DR1988:0290 are photographs of a CAD-generated image shown on a colour computer monitor. The CCA photographs are a duplicate set of that submitted to the Tokyo City Hall Competition.
architecture
negative exposed 1988
Exterior view from the northwest for the Tokyo City Hall competition entry
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DR1988:0289
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- DR1988:0288 - DR1988:0290 are photographs of a CAD-generated image shown on a colour computer monitor. The CCA photographs are a duplicate set of that submitted to the Tokyo City Hall Competition.
architecture
DR1988:0290
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- DR1988:0288 - DR1988:0290 are photographs of a CAD-generated image shown on a colour computer monitor. The CCA photographs are a duplicate set of that submitted to the Tokyo City Hall Competition.
architecture
negative exposed 1988
Bird's-eye view from the northwest for the Tokyo City Hall competition entry
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DR1988:0290
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- DR1988:0288 - DR1988:0290 are photographs of a CAD-generated image shown on a colour computer monitor. The CCA photographs are a duplicate set of that submitted to the Tokyo City Hall Competition.
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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
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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