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Ben Bradley presents how the automobile shaped how Canadians encountered their country during the 20th century. As thousands and then millions came to know Canada by motoring, their travel patterns, viewing habits, and tastes shaped and reshaped the places they passed through. Canada’s roads came to be festooned with scenic pullouts, viewpoints, and a constellation of(...)

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Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Canada, environment, Bradley, It's all happening so fast, roadside

Date:
23 February 2017, 6pm

Title:
Making Canada a Roadside Attraction
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Description:
Ben Bradley presents how the automobile shaped how Canadians encountered their country during the 20th century. As thousands and then millions came to know Canada by motoring, their travel patterns, viewing habits, and tastes shaped and reshaped the places they passed through. Canada’s roads came to be festooned with scenic pullouts, viewpoints, and a constellation of(...)

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events

Date:
23 February 2017
6pm

Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Canada, environment, Bradley, It's all happening so fast, roadside

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Title:
Projects

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AP144.S2

Description:
Series documents Cedric Price's projects from his early work in the late 1950s to work dating from the time he founded his own practice in 1960 until 2000. Material includes numerous competition entries, planning and building projects, transportation-related projects, exhibitions, conceptual projects, furniture and interior designs, and monuments, follies, and decorations. Some projects also reflect his teaching, research, lecture and publication activities. Price also worked on several competition juries (see projects Musique, Elephant). Many of Cedric Price's projects in the series are unexecuted. Significant unrealized projects from the 1960s and 1970s include Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Oxford Corner House (1965-1966), and Generator (1976-1980). Significant built projects from the same period include the New Aviary (1960-1966), his first major realized project (with Lord Snowdon and Frank Newby), and Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979). Other realized projects include an office building (BTDB Computer, 1968-1973) and restaurant (Blackpool Project, 1971-1975). Planning projects from the 1960s and 1970s include Potteries Thinkbelt, Detroit Think Grid (1969-1971) and Rice University's design charette, Atom (1967). In the 1980s and 1990s, Cedric Price worked on several building proposals including greenhouses (Serre, Serre (2)), museums, galleries, and pavilions (Trafalgar, Pertpavs, Snake), a railway station (Strate (2)), a cultural centre (Tiff), houses (Perthut, Castel), a bus station (Walsall), an aviary (CP Aviary) and office buildings (Domain, Berlin). Planning projects from the same time include parks and cultural complexes, (Parc, South Bank), urban areas, (Strate, Stratton, IFPRI, Haven, Mills), university campuses (Frankfurt, Unibad, Bedford), and rural areas (Stark, Arkage). Transportation-related projects include railways (Strate, Control, Rink), roadways (Stratton) and pedestrian links (Magnet, Halmag, South Bank). Only a few of his projects from that period were executed and those include the renovation projects Congress and SAS 29; a mobile market stall design for Westminster City Council (Westal) for which prototypes were built; a coffee cup design (Crowbar); and building conversion projects Gatard and Juke. Exhibition projects in the series include some devoted to Cedric Price's works (AA Exhibition, Aedes, AFX, Afella), some designed by him (Strike, Food for the Future, Topolski/Waterloo, Ashmole, Mean, AFX), as well as projects designed for exhibition (Citlin, Castel). The series also contains self-financed research and client-less projects, which form a significant part of Cedric Price's practice. Undertaken in anticipation of future clients or new planning needs, they include research into air structures and lightweight enclosures as well as integrated construction and transportation solutions (Trucksafe Air Portable Dock Ahoy), and housing research. South Bank, Magnet, and Duck Land represent a few of the client-less projects. The material in this series documents Cedric Price's work in the United Kingdom, in particular England (the Greater London area, and other areas) and Scotland, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States and other locations such as Canada, Nigeria, and Norway. Major clients include J. Lyons & Co. (Oxford Corner House), David Keddie (Two Tree Island, Southend Roof), Howard Gilman (Generator), British Railways (Strate and Strate (2), and others), the McAlpine family , particularly Alistair McAlpine, and their company Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd. (McAppy, Perthut, Trafalgar, Pertpavs, Ashmole, Perth, Obeliq, McVance); Établissement Public du Parc de la Villette (Parc, Serre, Serre (2), Musique) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (IFPRI, Mean). He collaborated with several architects and engineers during the course of his career, his closest association being with engineer Frank Newby and quantity surveyor Douglas Smith. Some of his other collaborators include engineer Max Fordham (Strate (2), Tiff, Berlin), engineering firms Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners (Stratton, Rink, Control), and Sir Frederick Snow & Partners (South Bank), cybernetician Gordon Pask (Kawasaki/Japnet), architectural firm YRM/Yorke Rosenberg Mardall (Unibad), and architect Richard Rogers (Marman). He also collaborated with members of Archigram on the Trondheim Competition, (1972-1974), and with John and Julia Frazer who provided the computer modelling for Generator. David Price, Cedric Price's brother was the model maker for several projects. The series contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, reference drawings and maps, presentation drawings (particularly for competitions), and working drawings. A significant amount of textual records are included, especially for projects involving a large amount of research or publicity (Air Structures, Lightweight Enclosures, South Bank, CP Aviary, Stratton), for executed projects, and for the larger unrealized projects like Fun Palace and Generator. Also includes photographic materials of project sites and models. Some models included in the series are made from durable materials (wood, metal, plastic), while others are in-office constructions made out of paper, cardboard and Fome-Cor (TM). Of particular note are the 11 models for Magnet, and a full-size prototype of a market stall for Westal. Series also contains publication layouts, including material for the "Cedric Price Supplement", 'Architectural Design' vols. 40- 42 (1970-1972). Changes in office practice are noted around 1971, evident in the Blackpool Project and later, including the adoption of the metric system, and the creation of working and detail drawings on A4 size paper and filed with textual records (e.g. approximately 300 such drawings are included in the textual records for Blackpool Project). At the same time fewer preamble drawings that relate to site sensing, progress and life-cycle graphs and tables are created for the projects (a common feature from the 1960s), although project progress tables are still used. Of particular interest is material in the Early Work and Miscellaneous Records file (AP144.S2.D1) that relates to office work methods and programmes.

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Date:
1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000

Title:
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AP144.S2

Description:
Series documents Cedric Price's projects from his early work in the late 1950s to work dating from the time he founded his own practice in 1960 until 2000. Material includes numerous competition entries, planning and building projects, transportation-related projects, exhibitions, conceptual projects, furniture and interior designs, and monuments, follies, and decorations. Some projects also reflect his teaching, research, lecture and publication activities. Price also worked on several competition juries (see projects Musique, Elephant). Many of Cedric Price's projects in the series are unexecuted. Significant unrealized projects from the 1960s and 1970s include Fun Palace (1961-1974), Potteries Thinkbelt (1963-1967), Oxford Corner House (1965-1966), and Generator (1976-1980). Significant built projects from the same period include the New Aviary (1960-1966), his first major realized project (with Lord Snowdon and Frank Newby), and Inter-Action Centre (1971-1979). Other realized projects include an office building (BTDB Computer, 1968-1973) and restaurant (Blackpool Project, 1971-1975). Planning projects from the 1960s and 1970s include Potteries Thinkbelt, Detroit Think Grid (1969-1971) and Rice University's design charette, Atom (1967). In the 1980s and 1990s, Cedric Price worked on several building proposals including greenhouses (Serre, Serre (2)), museums, galleries, and pavilions (Trafalgar, Pertpavs, Snake), a railway station (Strate (2)), a cultural centre (Tiff), houses (Perthut, Castel), a bus station (Walsall), an aviary (CP Aviary) and office buildings (Domain, Berlin). Planning projects from the same time include parks and cultural complexes, (Parc, South Bank), urban areas, (Strate, Stratton, IFPRI, Haven, Mills), university campuses (Frankfurt, Unibad, Bedford), and rural areas (Stark, Arkage). Transportation-related projects include railways (Strate, Control, Rink), roadways (Stratton) and pedestrian links (Magnet, Halmag, South Bank). Only a few of his projects from that period were executed and those include the renovation projects Congress and SAS 29; a mobile market stall design for Westminster City Council (Westal) for which prototypes were built; a coffee cup design (Crowbar); and building conversion projects Gatard and Juke. Exhibition projects in the series include some devoted to Cedric Price's works (AA Exhibition, Aedes, AFX, Afella), some designed by him (Strike, Food for the Future, Topolski/Waterloo, Ashmole, Mean, AFX), as well as projects designed for exhibition (Citlin, Castel). The series also contains self-financed research and client-less projects, which form a significant part of Cedric Price's practice. Undertaken in anticipation of future clients or new planning needs, they include research into air structures and lightweight enclosures as well as integrated construction and transportation solutions (Trucksafe Air Portable Dock Ahoy), and housing research. South Bank, Magnet, and Duck Land represent a few of the client-less projects. The material in this series documents Cedric Price's work in the United Kingdom, in particular England (the Greater London area, and other areas) and Scotland, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States and other locations such as Canada, Nigeria, and Norway. Major clients include J. Lyons & Co. (Oxford Corner House), David Keddie (Two Tree Island, Southend Roof), Howard Gilman (Generator), British Railways (Strate and Strate (2), and others), the McAlpine family , particularly Alistair McAlpine, and their company Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd. (McAppy, Perthut, Trafalgar, Pertpavs, Ashmole, Perth, Obeliq, McVance); Établissement Public du Parc de la Villette (Parc, Serre, Serre (2), Musique) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (IFPRI, Mean). He collaborated with several architects and engineers during the course of his career, his closest association being with engineer Frank Newby and quantity surveyor Douglas Smith. Some of his other collaborators include engineer Max Fordham (Strate (2), Tiff, Berlin), engineering firms Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and Partners (Stratton, Rink, Control), and Sir Frederick Snow & Partners (South Bank), cybernetician Gordon Pask (Kawasaki/Japnet), architectural firm YRM/Yorke Rosenberg Mardall (Unibad), and architect Richard Rogers (Marman). He also collaborated with members of Archigram on the Trondheim Competition, (1972-1974), and with John and Julia Frazer who provided the computer modelling for Generator. David Price, Cedric Price's brother was the model maker for several projects. The series contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, reference drawings and maps, presentation drawings (particularly for competitions), and working drawings. A significant amount of textual records are included, especially for projects involving a large amount of research or publicity (Air Structures, Lightweight Enclosures, South Bank, CP Aviary, Stratton), for executed projects, and for the larger unrealized projects like Fun Palace and Generator. Also includes photographic materials of project sites and models. Some models included in the series are made from durable materials (wood, metal, plastic), while others are in-office constructions made out of paper, cardboard and Fome-Cor (TM). Of particular note are the 11 models for Magnet, and a full-size prototype of a market stall for Westal. Series also contains publication layouts, including material for the "Cedric Price Supplement", 'Architectural Design' vols. 40- 42 (1970-1972). Changes in office practice are noted around 1971, evident in the Blackpool Project and later, including the adoption of the metric system, and the creation of working and detail drawings on A4 size paper and filed with textual records (e.g. approximately 300 such drawings are included in the textual records for Blackpool Project). At the same time fewer preamble drawings that relate to site sensing, progress and life-cycle graphs and tables are created for the projects (a common feature from the 1960s), although project progress tables are still used. Of particular interest is material in the Early Work and Miscellaneous Records file (AP144.S2.D1) that relates to office work methods and programmes.

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Date:
1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000

People:

Cedric Price (archive creator)

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Title:
China's traditional rural architecture : a cultural geography of the common house / Ronald G. Knapp.

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xiii, 177 pages [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Author:

Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-

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Subject:

Architecture, Domestic China.,
Vernacular architecture China.,
Architecture, Domestic Taiwan.,
Vernacular architecture Taiwan.,
Arquitectura doméstica Taiwan.,
Arquitectura rústica China.,
Arquitectura rústica Taiwan.,
Arquitectura china.,
Architecture domestique Chine.,
Architecture vernaculaire Chine.,
Architecture domestique Taiwan.,
Architecture vernaculaire Taiwan.,
21.72 house-building.,
Architecture, Domestic,
Vernacular architecture,
Bauernhaus,
Geschichte,
Haus,
Ländlicher Raum,
Woningen.,
Platteland.,
China,
Taiwan,
History (form)

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Title:
China's traditional rural architecture : a cultural geography of the common house / Ronald G. Knapp.

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Library main 105844 | ID:86-B21147 | Available

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Description:
xiii, 177 pages [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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books

Author:

Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-

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Subject:

Architecture, Domestic China.,
Vernacular architecture China.,
Architecture, Domestic Taiwan.,
Vernacular architecture Taiwan.,
Arquitectura doméstica Taiwan.,
Arquitectura rústica China.,
Arquitectura rústica Taiwan.,
Arquitectura china.,
Architecture domestique Chine.,
Architecture vernaculaire Chine.,
Architecture domestique Taiwan.,
Architecture vernaculaire Taiwan.,
21.72 house-building.,
Architecture, Domestic,
Vernacular architecture,
Bauernhaus,
Geschichte,
Haus,
Ländlicher Raum,
Woningen.,
Platteland.,
China,
Taiwan,
History (form)

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Title:
Urban-Rural Assembly : A Handbook for Co-Visioning Interconnected Regions / ed. by Anke Hagemann, Sigrun Langner, Wolfgang Wende, Li Fan, Maria Frölich-Kulik, Ava Lynam, Gaoli Xiao, Laura Henneke, Lukas Pappert.

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1 online resource (320 p.)

Author:

Abels, Sigrun,,
Angelo, Hillary,,
Doehler-Behzadi, Marta,,
Elzenbaumer, Bianca,,
Fan, Li,,
Frölich-Kulik, Maria,,
Githiri, Grace,,
Hagemann, Anke,,
Henneke, Laura,,
Kögel, Eduard,,
Langguth, Hannes,,
Langner, Sigrun,,
Li, Hongqing,,
Liu, Jian,,
Lynam, Ava,,
Marečková, Kateřina,,
Meulder, Bruno de,,
Meyer-Clement, Elena,,
Misselwitz, Philipp,,
Nijhuis, Steffen,,
Nolf, Christian,,
Palmioli, Andrea,,
Pappert, Lukas,,
Ping Wang, Ya,,
Schmidt, Anke,,
Schultz, Henrik,,
Shannon, Kelly,,
Sietchiping, Remy,,
Wang, Jue,,
Wang, Yiwen,,
Wende, Wolfgang,,
Xiao, Gaoli,,
Xiao, Suili,,
Xie, Yuting,,
Yang, Guiqing,,
Yang, Zheng,,
Zhang, Yulin,,
Zhang, Yuqi,

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Subject:

Rural-urban relations.,
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.,
Huangyan-Taizhou.,
IBA Thüringen.,
Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung.,
Nachhaltige Stadtplanung.,
Nachhaltigkeit.,
Nordhausen.,
Reallabor.,
Regionale Kreislaufwirtschaft.,
Ressourceneffizienz.,
Ressourcenmanagement.,
Shanghai University.,
Songyang.,
Stadt-Land-Regionen.,
Technische Universität Berlin.,
Tongji University Shanghai.,
Translokale Interdependenzen.,
Yangtze Flussdelta.,
Zhejiang Province.,
Zhejiang University.,
gemeinschaftsorientierte Entwicklung.,
sozialökologische Transformation.,
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.,
Kongcun.,
Urban-rural regions.,
Yangtze River Delta.,
community-oriented development.,
living labs.,
regional circular economy.,
resource efficiency.,
resource management.,
socio-ecological transformation.,
sustainability.,
sustainable urban planning.,
sustainable urban transformation.,
translocal interdependencies.,
Discursive works.,
Collections

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Title:
Urban-Rural Assembly : A Handbook for Co-Visioning Interconnected Regions / ed. by Anke Hagemann, Sigrun Langner, Wolfgang Wende, Li Fan, Maria Frölich-Kulik, Ava Lynam, Gaoli Xiao, Laura Henneke, Lukas Pappert.

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Description:
1 online resource (320 p.)

Form:
books

Author:

Abels, Sigrun,,
Angelo, Hillary,,
Doehler-Behzadi, Marta,,
Elzenbaumer, Bianca,,
Fan, Li,,
Frölich-Kulik, Maria,,
Githiri, Grace,,
Hagemann, Anke,,
Henneke, Laura,,
Kögel, Eduard,,
Langguth, Hannes,,
Langner, Sigrun,,
Li, Hongqing,,
Liu, Jian,,
Lynam, Ava,,
Marečková, Kateřina,,
Meulder, Bruno de,,
Meyer-Clement, Elena,,
Misselwitz, Philipp,,
Nijhuis, Steffen,,
Nolf, Christian,,
Palmioli, Andrea,,
Pappert, Lukas,,
Ping Wang, Ya,,
Schmidt, Anke,,
Schultz, Henrik,,
Shannon, Kelly,,
Sietchiping, Remy,,
Wang, Jue,,
Wang, Yiwen,,
Wende, Wolfgang,,
Xiao, Gaoli,,
Xiao, Suili,,
Xie, Yuting,,
Yang, Guiqing,,
Yang, Zheng,,
Zhang, Yulin,,
Zhang, Yuqi,

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Subject:

Rural-urban relations.,
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.,
Huangyan-Taizhou.,
IBA Thüringen.,
Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung.,
Nachhaltige Stadtplanung.,
Nachhaltigkeit.,
Nordhausen.,
Reallabor.,
Regionale Kreislaufwirtschaft.,
Ressourceneffizienz.,
Ressourcenmanagement.,
Shanghai University.,
Songyang.,
Stadt-Land-Regionen.,
Technische Universität Berlin.,
Tongji University Shanghai.,
Translokale Interdependenzen.,
Yangtze Flussdelta.,
Zhejiang Province.,
Zhejiang University.,
gemeinschaftsorientierte Entwicklung.,
sozialökologische Transformation.,
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.,
Kongcun.,
Urban-rural regions.,
Yangtze River Delta.,
community-oriented development.,
living labs.,
regional circular economy.,
resource efficiency.,
resource management.,
socio-ecological transformation.,
sustainability.,
sustainable urban planning.,
sustainable urban transformation.,
translocal interdependencies.,
Discursive works.,
Collections

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