PH1989:0140:004
architecture
ca. 1862
architecture
DR1986:0717
1983
Avenue McGill College, Cadillac Fairview, Montréal - section throughbridge/elevation through bridge
DR1986:0718
1983
Avenue McGill College, Cadillac Fairview, Montréal - section throughbridge/elevation through bridge
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DR1986:0718
Roof plan and section for addition to Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Québec
ARCH280040
1938
ARCH280041
1938
PH1980:1259
architecture
ca. 1885
architecture
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The planet is the client
autonomous house, McGill University, Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG), Stop the Five Gallon Flush, toilets
19 October 2015
The planet is the client
The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
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8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
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Description:
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
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exhibitions
Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
Hall cases
13 November 1991 to 16 February 1992
Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano: The Architecture of the Domestic Sanitation Movement, 1870-1914
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Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
exhibitions
13 November 1991 to
16 February 1992
Hall cases