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Une exposition de dons à la collection reçus à l’occasion du 80e anniversaire de son directeur fondateur, Phyllis Lambert, Nouvelles entrées comprend des oeuvres originales de photographes et artistes réputés, maniant le langage de la photographie, tels Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Gordon(...)
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24 janvier 2008 au 23 mars 2008
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Une exposition de dons à la collection reçus à l’occasion du 80e anniversaire de son directeur fondateur, Phyllis Lambert, Nouvelles entrées comprend des oeuvres originales de photographes et artistes réputés, maniant le langage de la photographie, tels Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Gordon(...)
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27 juillet 2026
Toujours la question du logement
Joaquim Moreno examine un des épisodes du cours de l’Open University A305 consacré à l’histoire de l’architecture et du design de 1890 à 1939
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AP144.S2
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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.
1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000
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AP144.S2
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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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1903-2003, predominant 1960-2000
Pendant trois ans, Serge Hambourg a pris plus de 400 photographies de manufactures historiques de la Nouvelle-Angleterre commandées par le CCA. Ces formes architecturales, représentées dans leur environnement, mettent en valeur la beauté austère des intérieurs et des extérieurs. Les photos tracent l’évolution de ce type de bâtiment. Ces images montrent des structures de(...)
Antichambre de la salle octogonale
6 décembre 1989 au 11 février 1990
Manufactures de la Nouvelle-Angleterre : photographies de Serge Hambourg
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Pendant trois ans, Serge Hambourg a pris plus de 400 photographies de manufactures historiques de la Nouvelle-Angleterre commandées par le CCA. Ces formes architecturales, représentées dans leur environnement, mettent en valeur la beauté austère des intérieurs et des extérieurs. Les photos tracent l’évolution de ce type de bâtiment. Ces images montrent des structures de(...)
Antichambre de la salle octogonale
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ARCH256925
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15 files - District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York (1971); Orion Financial Group correspondence; blank forms; technical literature; research on concert halls/theatres; research on earth-sheltered architecture; letter from AEA expressing interest in submitting projects to Architectural Biennale Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria (1987); correspondence concerning computers; project status reports; 4 miscellaneous folders of correspondence concerning: talk with Dr. Hollenberg, office policies and memos, CCA exhibition catalogue (1987), requests for information, magazine clippings, minutes, Canadian Who's Who, King Abdulaziz University, Mundipharma, University of Arizona, Etisalat floor patterns, Town of Markham invoice, requests, press clippings, letters to AE, inter-office memos.
1971, 1987-1988
District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York
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15 files - District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York (1971); Orion Financial Group correspondence; blank forms; technical literature; research on concert halls/theatres; research on earth-sheltered architecture; letter from AEA expressing interest in submitting projects to Architectural Biennale Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria (1987); correspondence concerning computers; project status reports; 4 miscellaneous folders of correspondence concerning: talk with Dr. Hollenberg, office policies and memos, CCA exhibition catalogue (1987), requests for information, magazine clippings, minutes, Canadian Who's Who, King Abdulaziz University, Mundipharma, University of Arizona, Etisalat floor patterns, Town of Markham invoice, requests, press clippings, letters to AE, inter-office memos.
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1971, 1987-1988
À une époque où l’empreinte de l’homme sur la planète atteint un niveau inégalé, certains pays se distinguent par leur situation enviable et la complexité de leur relation au territoire. Les histoires entourant le Canada sont intimement liées à la découverte et à l’appropriation de ressources naturelles à la fois importantes et diversifiées, ainsi qu’à des points de vue(...)
16 novembre 2016 au 9 avril 2017
Le temps presse
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À une époque où l’empreinte de l’homme sur la planète atteint un niveau inégalé, certains pays se distinguent par leur situation enviable et la complexité de leur relation au territoire. Les histoires entourant le Canada sont intimement liées à la découverte et à l’appropriation de ressources naturelles à la fois importantes et diversifiées, ainsi qu’à des points de vue(...)
Inspirée de la thématique du voyage à l’étranger, l’exposition présente la vision personnelle de quatre photographes – Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding et Tadashi Kawamata – ayant voyagé au Québec entre les années 20 et aujourd’hui. Ces artistes de l’extérieur posent un regard particulier sur l’architecture et l’environnement et livrent leur perception d’une(...)
Salle octogonale
10 mai 1995 au 15 octobre 1995
Parcours de photographes visiteurs au Québec: Sipprell, Moser, Volkerding et Kawamata
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Inspirée de la thématique du voyage à l’étranger, l’exposition présente la vision personnelle de quatre photographes – Clara Sipprell, Lida Moser, Laura Volkerding et Tadashi Kawamata – ayant voyagé au Québec entre les années 20 et aujourd’hui. Ces artistes de l’extérieur posent un regard particulier sur l’architecture et l’environnement et livrent leur perception d’une(...)
Salle octogonale
L’exposition témoigne de l’œuvre maîtresse de Cormier, l’Université de Montréal, construite sur le versant nord-ouest du mont Royal entre 1928 et 1943. Elle permet de situer l’architecte montréalais ainsi que son œuvre dans un courant international de pensée où convergent les influences nord-américaines et européennes. Les documents qu’on y présente proviennent en grande(...)
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2 mai 1990 au 21 octobre 1990
Ernest Cormier et l'Université de Montréal
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L’exposition témoigne de l’œuvre maîtresse de Cormier, l’Université de Montréal, construite sur le versant nord-ouest du mont Royal entre 1928 et 1943. Elle permet de situer l’architecte montréalais ainsi que son œuvre dans un courant international de pensée où convergent les influences nord-américaines et européennes. Les documents qu’on y présente proviennent en grande(...)
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Centrée sur les panoramas photographiques d’Eadweard Muybridge, l’exposition examine les images du San Francisco des années 1850 à 1880, époque où la ville a connu une croissance phénoménale. L’exposition met l’oeuvre de Muybridge en contexte à l’aide des panoramas constitués de plusieurs daguerréotypes, des panoramas photographiques (y compris des jeux d’images(...)
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31 mars 1993 au 25 juillet 1993
Eadweard Muybridge et le panorama photographique de San Francisco, 1850-1880
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Centrée sur les panoramas photographiques d’Eadweard Muybridge, l’exposition examine les images du San Francisco des années 1850 à 1880, époque où la ville a connu une croissance phénoménale. L’exposition met l’oeuvre de Muybridge en contexte à l’aide des panoramas constitués de plusieurs daguerréotypes, des panoramas photographiques (y compris des jeux d’images(...)
Salles principales