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
This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
Nuit blanche 2018: On Air
On the occasion of the fifteenth Nuit blanche à Montréal, the CCA hosts a mini-festival of television inspired by its current exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
3 March 2018, 3pm to 1am
Nuit blanche 2018: On Air
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On the occasion of the fifteenth Nuit blanche à Montréal, the CCA hosts a mini-festival of television inspired by its current exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
Learning from... Detroit
Powered by powerful historical footage, including vivid images of the city’s zenith and its now derelict buildings, Julian Temple’s 2010 TV documentary Requiem for Detroit? charts the rise and fall of the “Big Three” in Detroit: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The film documents the impact that the decline of these giants has had on the city and its(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 April 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Detroit
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Powered by powerful historical footage, including vivid images of the city’s zenith and its now derelict buildings, Julian Temple’s 2010 TV documentary Requiem for Detroit? charts the rise and fall of the “Big Three” in Detroit: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The film documents the impact that the decline of these giants has had on the city and its(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
ARCH282084
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Contains four episode of the TV show "Greater.Vancouver" including an interview with Arthur Erickson and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on the second episode.
2001
Video recoding of interview of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for the TV show "Greater.Vancouver" at Shaw Television
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Contains four episode of the TV show "Greater.Vancouver" including an interview with Arthur Erickson and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on the second episode.
2001
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Pasadena Television Studios
AP163.S1.SS1.D16
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File documents Victor Prus's unrealized project for television studios at Pasadena, California. The project was a student project designed in collaboration with a group of students of the Polish University College in London, where Victor Prus was assistant professor. Material in this file was produced in 1949. Drawings in the file are mainly reprographic copies. File contains presentation drawings, chiefly reprographic copies, textual records and a roll.
1949
Pasadena Television Studios
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AP163.S1.SS1.D16
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File documents Victor Prus's unrealized project for television studios at Pasadena, California. The project was a student project designed in collaboration with a group of students of the Polish University College in London, where Victor Prus was assistant professor. Material in this file was produced in 1949. Drawings in the file are mainly reprographic copies. File contains presentation drawings, chiefly reprographic copies, textual records and a roll.
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1949
AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.6
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Episode of television program "Building sites". James Stirling presents the architecture of the Katherine Stephen Room, a room for rare books at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, designed by architects Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward. Presented by James Stirling. Camera, David Swan; sound, David Jewitt; stills photography, Hugh Palmer, Martin Charles; graphics, Rose James, Joel Greenberg; video editor, John Paroussi; production assistant, Mary McKernan; researcher, Ruth Rosenthal; producer, Clare Paterson; director, Geoff Dunlop.
1989
Building sights (Television program)
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AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.6
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Episode of television program "Building sites". James Stirling presents the architecture of the Katherine Stephen Room, a room for rare books at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, designed by architects Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward. Presented by James Stirling. Camera, David Swan; sound, David Jewitt; stills photography, Hugh Palmer, Martin Charles; graphics, Rose James, Joel Greenberg; video editor, John Paroussi; production assistant, Mary McKernan; researcher, Ruth Rosenthal; producer, Clare Paterson; director, Geoff Dunlop.
1989
textual records
AP206.S4.011
circa 1964
textual records
circa 1964
drawings
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16 conceptual drawing(s)
DR1995:0224:041-056
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schematic plans of projection screen, television monitor, and carrel arrangements, thumbnail sketches, plans of removable floors, conference areas, and circulation, diagrams of activities, some with annotations, and tables and plans of escalator groupings and removable floors
Schematic plans of projection screen, television monitor
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DR1995:0224:041-056
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schematic plans of projection screen, television monitor, and carrel arrangements, thumbnail sketches, plans of removable floors, conference areas, and circulation, diagrams of activities, some with annotations, and tables and plans of escalator groupings and removable floors
drawings
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16 conceptual drawing(s)
drawings
ARCH265623
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Perspective.
Perspective drawing for the Pasadena Television Studios
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Perspective.
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