Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 October 2009 , 7pm
Geoff Manaugh: Cities of the CDC
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Visiting Scholars 2006
Jean Attali, École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France Topic: Figures d’énonciation de la pensée architecturale et spatiale: manifestes et oppositions dans les oeuvres d’Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman et Rem Koolhaas Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States Topic: Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and(...)
10 January 2006 to 15 September 2006
Visiting Scholars 2006
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Jean Attali, École Nationale Supérieure dArchitecture de Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France Topic: Figures d’énonciation de la pensée architecturale et spatiale: manifestes et oppositions dans les oeuvres d’Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman et Rem Koolhaas Cammy Brothers, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States Topic: Drawing from Memory: Giuliano da Sangallo and(...)
research
10 January 2006 to
15 September 2006
Ephemeral landscapes and pop-up settlements are continually increasing in scale and challenging the concept of the city as a stable and permanent entity. For this lecture Rahul Mehrotra, principal of architecture firm RMA Architects and Chair of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, presents his research on a pop-up settlement called the(...)
Shaughnessy House
13 February 2013 to 12 February 2013
Rahul Mehrota: The Case of the Kumbh Mela in India
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Ephemeral landscapes and pop-up settlements are continually increasing in scale and challenging the concept of the city as a stable and permanent entity. For this lecture Rahul Mehrotra, principal of architecture firm RMA Architects and Chair of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, presents his research on a pop-up settlement called the(...)
Shaughnessy House
Bas Princen: Volcano Walks
In this artist’s talk, Bas Princen will discuss the current status of the 17 Volcanoes project and explore the resonances between the works of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, works by early-twentieth-century Dutch photographers in Java (like van Nieuwenhuis), and his own practice. Although discovering new places seems impossible today, the talk takes as a point of departure the(...)
15 October 2016, 3pm
Bas Princen: Volcano Walks
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In this artist’s talk, Bas Princen will discuss the current status of the 17 Volcanoes project and explore the resonances between the works of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, works by early-twentieth-century Dutch photographers in Java (like van Nieuwenhuis), and his own practice. Although discovering new places seems impossible today, the talk takes as a point of departure the(...)
Learning from... Bahrain
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
9 October 2008
Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
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ARCH266079
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Review of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Magazine, Spring 1978 issue, about the proposals for the National Gallery of Canada competition, including the Victor Prus project.
Review of architecture and landscape architecture
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ARCH266079
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Review of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Magazine, Spring 1978 issue, about the proposals for the National Gallery of Canada competition, including the Victor Prus project.
journals and magazines
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AP058.S3
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This series documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s employment at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture of the University of Toronto, where she was professor and later on its dean. The series is subdivided in three subseries documenting the faculty’s programme, reports, and alumni news, the exhibitions organized and/or held at the university, and finally some general correspondence related to the faculty and university. The series contains correspondence, alumni publications, reports, brochures, posters, notes, postcards, reports, papers, and invitation cards, dating from 1977 to 1992.
1977-1992
Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto
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AP058.S3
Description:
This series documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s employment at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture of the University of Toronto, where she was professor and later on its dean. The series is subdivided in three subseries documenting the faculty’s programme, reports, and alumni news, the exhibitions organized and/or held at the university, and finally some general correspondence related to the faculty and university. The series contains correspondence, alumni publications, reports, brochures, posters, notes, postcards, reports, papers, and invitation cards, dating from 1977 to 1992.
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1977-1992
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AP058
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The Blanche Lemco van Ginkel fonds consists of textual records documenting her participation in professional societies and committees, conferences and lectures, and her administrative and teaching activities at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto, including material relating to the programme and exhibitions. The fonds contains correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, information packages, papers, presentation panels, etc., dating from 1970 to 1992.
1970-1992
Blanche Lemco van Ginkel fonds
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AP058
Synopsis:
The Blanche Lemco van Ginkel fonds consists of textual records documenting her participation in professional societies and committees, conferences and lectures, and her administrative and teaching activities at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto, including material relating to the programme and exhibitions. The fonds contains correspondence, reports, minutes, notes, information packages, papers, presentation panels, etc., dating from 1970 to 1992.
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1970-1992
photographs
PH1980:0810:001-117
1865-1890
photographs
1865-1890