PH1982:0378:022
architecture, interior design
after 1932
architecture, interior design
PH1984:1103
architecture, interior design
1927 or later
architecture, interior design
PH1983:0460
architecture, interior design
1927 or later
architecture, interior design
PH1984:0863
architecture, interior design
1927 or later
architecture, interior design
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
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(...)
Main galleries
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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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
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Open House
CP138.S6.D14
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File consists of film originals, film copies, and video transfers of Open House, made in New York City, New York. Materials were recorded in 1972 and some were transferred to videocassette in 1991 and 1992. File contains film reels and videocassettes.
1972
Open House
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CP138.S6.D14
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File consists of film originals, film copies, and video transfers of Open House, made in New York City, New York. Materials were recorded in 1972 and some were transferred to videocassette in 1991 and 1992. File contains film reels and videocassettes.
File 14
1972
PHCON2003:0005:084
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Videocassette contains the films "Tree Dance" and "Open House".
1971
Video recording of films Tree Dance and Open House
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PHCON2003:0005:084
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Videocassette contains the films "Tree Dance" and "Open House".
1971
PHCON2003:0005:080
1972