Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 September 2010, 6pm
Robert Burley: The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
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Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
articles
7 July 2017
The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
Text and photographs by Robert Burley
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
Hall cases
11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
Hall cases
journals and magazines
Building Modernization Age
ARCH104383
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issue of May-June
1957
journals and magazines
1957
That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
20 October 2016, 6pm
Sound Advice and Clear Drawings: Design and Computation in the Second Machine Age
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
textual records
AP149.S3.SS2.087
1976
textual records
1976
textual records
ARCH218165
March 1961
textual records
March 1961
PH2006:0269
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The name "Stoumen" is inscribed on the front flyleaf.
published 1965
Architectural Principles: In the Age of Humanism
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PH2006:0269
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The name "Stoumen" is inscribed on the front flyleaf.
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AP116.S3.SS25
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Sub-series documents the planning and content of Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age, issue 23 of ANY magazine (December). Sub-series is arranged into four files, by object type. Material in sub-series was produced in 1998. Sub-series contains correspondence, article and author proposals, zip disks, articles, images, and copies of the issue.
1997-1998
Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age
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AP116.S3.SS25
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Sub-series documents the planning and content of Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age, issue 23 of ANY magazine (December). Sub-series is arranged into four files, by object type. Material in sub-series was produced in 1998. Sub-series contains correspondence, article and author proposals, zip disks, articles, images, and copies of the issue.
Sub-series 25
1997-1998