Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 June 2016, 6pm
Amy Kulper: Architecture’s Digital Turn and the Advent of Photoshop
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In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
7 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Frankfurt: With André Bideau
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Peter Rose fonds
AP046
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The Peter Rose fonds, documents the design and construction of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1989) and a design for the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montréal, Master Plan (1992) by architect Peter Rose. Both projects include drawings, textual records, models and photographs.
1983-1989
Peter Rose fonds
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The Peter Rose fonds, documents the design and construction of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1989) and a design for the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montréal, Master Plan (1992) by architect Peter Rose. Both projects include drawings, textual records, models and photographs.
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1983-1989
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153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York : Rizzoli, 1983, ©1982.
Postmodern, the architecture of the post-industrial society / Paolo Portoghesi ; [translated into English by Ellen Shapiro].
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153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York : Rizzoli, 1983, ©1982.
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175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 34 cm
Salenstein : Niggli, ein Imprint der Braun Publishing AG, 2019.
Postmodern Berlin : Wohnbauten der 80er Jahre = residential buildings of the 80s / Claudia Kromrei ; fotografiert von Thomas Bomm + Manfred Hamm ; Übersetzung: Cosima Talhouni.
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175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 34 cm
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Salenstein : Niggli, ein Imprint der Braun Publishing AG, 2019.
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1 volume : illustrations ; 28 cm
[S.l.] : NIGGLI VERLAG, 2022.
POSTMODERN NON-RESIDENTIAL BERLIN.
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1 volume : illustrations ; 28 cm
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[S.l.] : NIGGLI VERLAG, 2022.
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357 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York : Abbeville Press, 1985.
Postmodern visions : drawings, paintings, and models by postmodern architects / edited by Heinrich Klotz ; contributing writers, Volker Fischer [and others].
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357 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York : Abbeville Press, 1985.