In the Yesterday Today lecture series, Canadian architect and author Witold Rybczynski discusses the roots of Ecol House, a prototype for an autonomous dwelling for use in developing countries. The project was created in Montréal in 1972 by Ecol Operation, a group of architects and students of which he was a member that became an international point of reference for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
29 November 2007
Witold Rybczynski: Green Before Green
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In the Yesterday Today lecture series, Canadian architect and author Witold Rybczynski discusses the roots of Ecol House, a prototype for an autonomous dwelling for use in developing countries. The project was created in Montréal in 1972 by Ecol Operation, a group of architects and students of which he was a member that became an international point of reference for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
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AP149.S4.SS2.002
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Group consists of sets of slides of visual material for lectures on research project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. The group includes: - a set on open spaces in urban environment, related to the fifth Human Settlement Training Packages by Mininum Cost Housing Group - a set of slides on sanitation and sanitation systems previsously stored in a folder entitled "Sanitation" - a set of slides on doors in India and Mexico previously stored in a folder entitled "Doors", - a set entitled ''People'' - and a set on technology for housing developement, low cost houses construction, including slides on the Minimum Cost Housing Group's housing project, such as Ecol Operation, Maison Lessard project and Saddle Lake project, previously stored in a folder entitled "Technology".
1970s-1990s
Visual material for lectures on subject researchs
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AP149.S4.SS2.002
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Group consists of sets of slides of visual material for lectures on research project of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. The group includes: - a set on open spaces in urban environment, related to the fifth Human Settlement Training Packages by Mininum Cost Housing Group - a set of slides on sanitation and sanitation systems previsously stored in a folder entitled "Sanitation" - a set of slides on doors in India and Mexico previously stored in a folder entitled "Doors", - a set entitled ''People'' - and a set on technology for housing developement, low cost houses construction, including slides on the Minimum Cost Housing Group's housing project, such as Ecol Operation, Maison Lessard project and Saddle Lake project, previously stored in a folder entitled "Technology".
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1970s-1990s
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Jean Michaud fonds
AP012
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Le Fonds Jean Michaud est constitué autour de 5 projets étudiants, 79 projets professionnels, 6 projets non identifiés, 13 projets réalisés par d'autres architectes, ainsi que divers documents visuels et textuels. Les projets de l'architecte sont répartis en 42 projets résidentiels, 4 pour les loisirs et l'animation sociale, 9 éducatifs, 7 commerciaux et administratifs, 3 industriels et manufacturiers, 1 pour le transport routier, 9 gouvernementales, 1 médical, 2 religieux et 1 projet d'aménagement urbain. Ces projets sont principalement concentrés dans quatre régions du Québec. Il y en a 29 dans la région de Montréal (incluant Laval et Vaudreuil-Dorion; dont 17 à Montréal), 20 dans la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent et Gaspésie (11 à Rimouski), 12 en Montérégie (8 à Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu) et 7 dans les Laurentides. Le fonds Jean Michaud comprend 1613 dessins, 959 reprographies, 271 documents photographiques, 43 documents graphiques, 1 maquette, ainsi que 2.805 m.l. de documents textuels. Ces documents ont été principalement produits entre 1950 et 1970.
1852, 1916, 1938-1981, surtout 1950-1974
Jean Michaud fonds
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Le Fonds Jean Michaud est constitué autour de 5 projets étudiants, 79 projets professionnels, 6 projets non identifiés, 13 projets réalisés par d'autres architectes, ainsi que divers documents visuels et textuels. Les projets de l'architecte sont répartis en 42 projets résidentiels, 4 pour les loisirs et l'animation sociale, 9 éducatifs, 7 commerciaux et administratifs, 3 industriels et manufacturiers, 1 pour le transport routier, 9 gouvernementales, 1 médical, 2 religieux et 1 projet d'aménagement urbain. Ces projets sont principalement concentrés dans quatre régions du Québec. Il y en a 29 dans la région de Montréal (incluant Laval et Vaudreuil-Dorion; dont 17 à Montréal), 20 dans la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent et Gaspésie (11 à Rimouski), 12 en Montérégie (8 à Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu) et 7 dans les Laurentides. Le fonds Jean Michaud comprend 1613 dessins, 959 reprographies, 271 documents photographiques, 43 documents graphiques, 1 maquette, ainsi que 2.805 m.l. de documents textuels. Ces documents ont été principalement produits entre 1950 et 1970.
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1852, 1916, 1938-1981, surtout 1950-1974
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Memorie [Memories] (2005)
AP207.S1.2005.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Memorie" presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Chateauroux, in 2005. The installation consists of classroom furniture, such as desks, chairs and window panels, emerging from walls and "represent things that only partly resurface in the memory of each of us in different ways when we come across objects whose use is common to all." [1] The project series contains photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-memories-2005/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
2005-2017
Memorie [Memories] (2005)
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AP207.S1.2005.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Memorie" presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Chateauroux, in 2005. The installation consists of classroom furniture, such as desks, chairs and window panels, emerging from walls and "represent things that only partly resurface in the memory of each of us in different ways when we come across objects whose use is common to all." [1] The project series contains photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-memories-2005/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
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2005-2017
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100 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Montreal : Minimum Cost Housing Studies, School of Architecture, McGill University, [1972], ©1972
The ECOL operation : ecology + building + common sense / by Alvaro Ortega, Witold Rybczynski, Samir Ayad, Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson.
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100 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Montreal : Minimum Cost Housing Studies, School of Architecture, McGill University, [1972], ©1972
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128 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.
Montreal : Minimum Cost Housing Group, School of Architecture, McGill University, 1975, c1972.
The Ecol operation : ecology + building + common sense / by Alvaro Ortega ... [et al.].
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128 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 28 cm.
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Montreal : Minimum Cost Housing Group, School of Architecture, McGill University, 1975, c1972.
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235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Montova, Italy : Corraini Edizioni, ©2007.
Sorry, out of gas : architecture's response to the 1973 oil crisis / edited by Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini ; with contributions by Adam Bobbette [and others] ; with an illustrated tale by Harriet Russell.
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235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Montova, Italy : Corraini Edizioni, ©2007.
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565 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Zürich : Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), ©2003.
Inchoate : an experiment in architectural education / Marc Angélil.
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565 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Zürich : Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), ©2003.
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Le chantier du Canal de Suez (1859-1869) : une histoire des pratiques techniques / Nathalie Montel.
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381 pages : illustrations, cartes = cartes ; 24 cm
Paris : Editions in forma : Presses de l'Ecole des ponts et chaussées, ©1998.
Le chantier du Canal de Suez (1859-1869) : une histoire des pratiques techniques / Nathalie Montel.
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381 pages : illustrations, cartes = cartes ; 24 cm
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Paris : Editions in forma : Presses de l'Ecole des ponts et chaussées, ©1998.