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AP058.S4.009
1944
A Study in urban planning: standard symbols and methods of representation
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1944
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Vendôme, mound of Vendôme, Commune de Paris, Paris, revolution, landscape, dirt, column, Napoleon, destruction, urban symbols, urban imaginary
28 February 2016
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Blackboard Outline, October 2 1970, with handwritten notes on Susan's and Stan's outlines Duarte Cabral de Mello, September 23 1970 Peter Wolf, September 2, 1970 Czarnowski, October 1 1970 S. Anderson, October 2 1970 G.A. Gale, October 2 1970 Meeting, September 18 1970 October 6 : a) Uses of street; b) Street as symbol; c) Public-Private; d) Stress; e) Physical properties
1970
HUD team reports (IAUS “Street” project), 1970
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Blackboard Outline, October 2 1970, with handwritten notes on Susan's and Stan's outlines Duarte Cabral de Mello, September 23 1970 Peter Wolf, September 2, 1970 Czarnowski, October 1 1970 S. Anderson, October 2 1970 G.A. Gale, October 2 1970 Meeting, September 18 1970 October 6 : a) Uses of street; b) Street as symbol; c) Public-Private; d) Stress; e) Physical properties
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1970
Learning from... Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 April 2009
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Visiting Scholars 2012
Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
2 April 2012 to 31 August 2012
Visiting Scholars 2012
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Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
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2 April 2012 to
31 August 2012
Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
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1 volume (unpaged) : plans (some color) ; 42 x 51 cm
Ottawa, Canada : Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1944.
A study in urban planning : standard symbols and methods of representation / Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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1 volume (unpaged) : plans (some color) ; 42 x 51 cm
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Ottawa, Canada : Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1944.
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303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Leiden, Netherlands : Leiden University Press, 2011.
Cities full of symbols : a theory of urban space and culture / edited by Peter J.M. Nas.
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303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Leiden, Netherlands : Leiden University Press, 2011.