Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
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27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
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23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
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16 May 2022
In the Scale of... a reference number, a cabinet, a postbox
Savia Palate, Gerlinde Verhaeghe, and Ensar Temizel
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
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Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
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Feed is an independent graphic design studio founded in 1999 by Anouk Pennel and Raphaël Daudelin that specializes in branding, publishing and typeface design. In conjunction with the graphic design they created for the exhibition ABC: MTL, the studio invites university students to a typography drawing workshop. Each student will be assigned a letter of the alphabet and(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 February 2013, 3pm - 5pm
T pour Typographie
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Feed is an independent graphic design studio founded in 1999 by Anouk Pennel and Raphaël Daudelin that specializes in branding, publishing and typeface design. In conjunction with the graphic design they created for the exhibition ABC: MTL, the studio invites university students to a typography drawing workshop. Each student will be assigned a letter of the alphabet and(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Lettres (7 et 9 décembre 1937) à Monsieur Durand, Gustave Lanctôt, M. Paul Rousseau, M. Jules Derome, M. Ernest Denoncourt. Lettre de la Société Radio-Canada à Marcel Parizeau (19 juillet 1939).
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Lettres (7 et 9 décembre 1937) à Monsieur Durand, Gustave Lanctôt, M. Paul Rousseau, M. Jules Derome, M. Ernest Denoncourt. Lettre de la Société Radio-Canada à Marcel Parizeau (19 juillet 1939).
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Plan d'un aménagement, quadrilatère Ontario, Jeanne-Mance, Dorchester, Saint-Urbain; Liste de prix des vitraux; autres documents épars.
Lettres et documents, non datés
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Plan d'un aménagement, quadrilatère Ontario, Jeanne-Mance, Dorchester, Saint-Urbain; Liste de prix des vitraux; autres documents épars.
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ARCH157840
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Cette chemise contient les lettres de Roger D'Astous à ses parents, datées entre le 8 août 1952 et le 17 décembre 1952.
entre août et décembre 1952
Lettres de Roger D'Astous à ses parents
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Cette chemise contient les lettres de Roger D'Astous à ses parents, datées entre le 8 août 1952 et le 17 décembre 1952.
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entre août et décembre 1952
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ARCH157889
entre janvier et juillet 1953
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entre janvier et juillet 1953