Ben Bradley presents how the automobile shaped how Canadians encountered their country during the 20th century. As thousands and then millions came to know Canada by motoring, their travel patterns, viewing habits, and tastes shaped and reshaped the places they passed through. Canada’s roads came to be festooned with scenic pullouts, viewpoints, and a constellation of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Canada, environment, Bradley, It's all happening so fast, roadside
23 February 2017, 6pm
Making Canada a Roadside Attraction
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Ben Bradley presents how the automobile shaped how Canadians encountered their country during the 20th century. As thousands and then millions came to know Canada by motoring, their travel patterns, viewing habits, and tastes shaped and reshaped the places they passed through. Canada’s roads came to be festooned with scenic pullouts, viewpoints, and a constellation of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Canada, environment, Bradley, It's all happening so fast, roadside
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
14 October 2017, 4pm
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
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In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
photographs
photographs
1950-1953
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C.P. Travel
AP144.S3.D23
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File contains material related to Cedric Price's travels. Material was produced between 1966 and 1995.
1966-1995
C.P. Travel
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AP144.S3.D23
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File contains material related to Cedric Price's travels. Material was produced between 1966 and 1995.
File 23
1966-1995
Sub-series
Travel photographs
AP173.S4.D2
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's travel in Japan, organized by the Architecture Fund, in 1991. Material in this series was produced in 1991. The series contains slides.
Travel photographs
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AP173.S4.D2
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Series documents Lars Spuybroek's travel in Japan, organized by the Architecture Fund, in 1991. Material in this series was produced in 1991. The series contains slides.
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Sub-series
Travel Records
AP032.S1.SS4.D3
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Files ARCH219035-ARCH219042 are documents from travels in Europe from 1962-1963, and combined business and family travels in Europe, Japan, Central America and the United States between 1968 and 1980. Papers include a travel journal, invoices and receipts, postcards, travel guides and brochures, maps, itineraries, correspondence, and documents on Danish architecture. FIles ARCH21945-ARCH219061 are documents mostly concerning Goldsmith's vacation trips in the United States. Material includes travel brochures, guide books, maps, postcards and various ephemera. Travel journals from visits to Fripp Island, Harvard, Newport R.I., New York and Washington in 1982 include sketches and calculations of bridges. Some files include colour photographs - a trip to Washington D.C. has large prints of SOM buildings, and a file on the artist Christo includes information and photos of his Umbrella Project in Bakersfield, California. Other destinations include Vermont, Delaware, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Two files document a 1993 trip to Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland and include correspondence and itineraries.
1962-1993
Travel Records
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AP032.S1.SS4.D3
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Files ARCH219035-ARCH219042 are documents from travels in Europe from 1962-1963, and combined business and family travels in Europe, Japan, Central America and the United States between 1968 and 1980. Papers include a travel journal, invoices and receipts, postcards, travel guides and brochures, maps, itineraries, correspondence, and documents on Danish architecture. FIles ARCH21945-ARCH219061 are documents mostly concerning Goldsmith's vacation trips in the United States. Material includes travel brochures, guide books, maps, postcards and various ephemera. Travel journals from visits to Fripp Island, Harvard, Newport R.I., New York and Washington in 1982 include sketches and calculations of bridges. Some files include colour photographs - a trip to Washington D.C. has large prints of SOM buildings, and a file on the artist Christo includes information and photos of his Umbrella Project in Bakersfield, California. Other destinations include Vermont, Delaware, New Mexico, Michigan and Wisconsin. Two files document a 1993 trip to Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland and include correspondence and itineraries.
File 3
1962-1993
textual records
textual records
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Travel Records
AP032.S1.SS3.D1
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Journals, photographs and documentation material of Goldsmith's European travels to Great Britain, continental Europe and parts of the Middle East before returning to the United States in 1955. Includes student papers from the University of Rome, and drawings and photographs of Goldsmith's unbuilt architecture/engineering projects in Italy.
1951-1955
Travel Records
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AP032.S1.SS3.D1
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Journals, photographs and documentation material of Goldsmith's European travels to Great Britain, continental Europe and parts of the Middle East before returning to the United States in 1955. Includes student papers from the University of Rome, and drawings and photographs of Goldsmith's unbuilt architecture/engineering projects in Italy.
File 1
1951-1955
textual records
textual records