The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
27 April 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Peguis First Nation and the Netley-Libau Marsh: Documenting Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy at the Mouth of Lake Winnipeg
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The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
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AP171
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This fonds documents the professional practice and activities of the Foreign Office Architects between 1989 and 2011, with a primary focus on their architectural projects. The documents in the fonds include drawings and plans, photographic materials, presentation panels, models, textual records, and digital files relating to 192 projects and international exhibitions . Additionally, the fonds includes material relating to publications, office activities, and research.
circa 1983-2011
Foreign Office Architects fonds
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AP171
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This fonds documents the professional practice and activities of the Foreign Office Architects between 1989 and 2011, with a primary focus on their architectural projects. The documents in the fonds include drawings and plans, photographic materials, presentation panels, models, textual records, and digital files relating to 192 projects and international exhibitions . Additionally, the fonds includes material relating to publications, office activities, and research.
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circa 1983-2011
archives
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Fonds
Gene Summers fonds
AP114
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
1957 - 2004
Gene Summers fonds
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The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
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1957 - 2004
video
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1 streaming video file (14 min., 56 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2017]
No parks : a conversation on two benches to accompany the exhibition It's all happening so fast : a counter-history of the modern Canadian environment.
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1 streaming video file (14 min., 56 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2017]
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207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 x 28 cm.
São Paulo, SP, Brasil : EDUSP : Imprensa Oficial SP, ©2002.
Parques urbanos no Brasil = Brazilian urban parks / Silvio Soares Macedo, Francine Gramacho Sakata ; [versão para o inglês, Regina Alfarano].
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207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 x 28 cm.
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São Paulo, SP, Brasil : EDUSP : Imprensa Oficial SP, ©2002.
4 June 2023, 1pm to 4pm
maps
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17 maps on 1 sheet ; 26 x 58 cm
New York : H.R. Robinson, 1838.
Public squares, parks, and places in the City of New York : August 1838 / completed and surveyed by Francis Nicholson.
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17 maps on 1 sheet ; 26 x 58 cm
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New York : H.R. Robinson, 1838.
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x, 157 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23cm.
Halifax [Nova Scotia] : Fernwood Publishing, 2018., ©2018
On this patch of grass : city parks on occupied land / Daisy Couture, Sadie Couture, Selena Couture and Matt Hern ; with Denise Ferreira da Silva, Glen Coulthard, Erick Villagomez.
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x, 157 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23cm.
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Halifax [Nova Scotia] : Fernwood Publishing, 2018., ©2018
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xvi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.
Building San Francisco's parks, 1850-1930 / Terence Young.
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xvi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.