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Pictorial Storytelling
Pictorial Storytelling
Warebi Gabriel Brisibe and Ramota Obagah-Stephen propose “other” research methods on colonial housing
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Where Was Not Modernism?
Where Was Not Modernism?
Ikem Stanley Okoye redefines the origins of African modernism
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DR1995:0168:003
1957 or 1958?
Perspective sketches for Bachelors' Quarters for Shell BP Co., Umukoroshe, Nigeria
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DR1995:0168:003
2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
Learning from… Lagos
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
29 March 2007 , 6pm
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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The Nigeria Exhibition
AP163.S2.SS1.D23
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File documents Victor Prus's work on the project for a proposed Aluminum Gate for the Nigeria Exhibition held in Lagos, in 1960. Material in this file was produced in 1961. The file contains drawings of the Aluminium Gate and a presentation document.
1961
The Nigeria Exhibition
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AP163.S2.SS1.D23
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File documents Victor Prus's work on the project for a proposed Aluminum Gate for the Nigeria Exhibition held in Lagos, in 1960. Material in this file was produced in 1961. The file contains drawings of the Aluminium Gate and a presentation document.
File 23
1961
drawings
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3 reprographic copy(ies)
DR1995:0168:001-003
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This group of drawings shows a preliminary design for a housing complex located in Umukoroshe, Nigeria, possibly for employees of Shell-B.P. Co. The design, a proto-typical two-wing building block, has dining and kitchen facilites and a courtyard between the two wings. Shaded access walkways and balconies connect various parts of the complex. A single storey wing of "boys quarters" is comprised of individual rooms and shared kitchen and bathroom facilities along a corridor. A two-storey "bachelor" wing is comprised of individual living quarters of approximately 400 sq. ft. with living, sleeping, and study areas, private washroom and balcony. Semi-private parking for the residents of the "bachelor" wing is located below the living quarters. Construction materials are not specified.
between 1957 and 1958
Bachelors' quarters, Nigeria: Schematic design drawings
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DR1995:0168:001-003
Description:
This group of drawings shows a preliminary design for a housing complex located in Umukoroshe, Nigeria, possibly for employees of Shell-B.P. Co. The design, a proto-typical two-wing building block, has dining and kitchen facilites and a courtyard between the two wings. Shaded access walkways and balconies connect various parts of the complex. A single storey wing of "boys quarters" is comprised of individual rooms and shared kitchen and bathroom facilities along a corridor. A two-storey "bachelor" wing is comprised of individual living quarters of approximately 400 sq. ft. with living, sleeping, and study areas, private washroom and balcony. Semi-private parking for the residents of the "bachelor" wing is located below the living quarters. Construction materials are not specified.
drawings
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3 reprographic copy(ies)
between 1957 and 1958
textual records
AP149.S3.SS2.041
1978-1980
textual records
1978-1980
textual records
ARCH255432
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research material - schematic design submission from Neish Owen Rowland & Roy Architects
1984
Canadian High Commission: Lagos, Nigeria, Diplomatic Complex
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ARCH255432
Description:
research material - schematic design submission from Neish Owen Rowland & Roy Architects
textual records
1984
textual records
AP149.S3.SS1.024
1982-1983
textual records
1982-1983