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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic(...)
Architecture in play: intimations of modernism in architectural toys
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Created for children but designed by adults with considerable ingenuity, architectural toys have long offered a window on a much larger world. In ''Architecture in Play'', Tamar Zinguer explores the nearly two-hundred-year period over which such playthings have reflected changing attitudes toward form, structure, and permanence, echoing modernist experiments and stylistic inclinations in fascinating ways while also incorporating technological advances in their systems of construction. Zinguer’s history of these toys reveals broader social and economic trends from their respective periods.
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Livret accompagnant la première exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. Texte de Witold Rybczynski et notes de Rosemary Haddad et Brooke Hodge. / Booklet accompanying the first exhibition from the CCA's toys collection. Text by Witold Rybczynski with notes by Rosemary Haddad and Brooke Hodge.
L'architecture en jeux : jeux de construction du CCA / Buildings in boxes: architectural toys from the CCA
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Livret accompagnant la première exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. Texte de Witold Rybczynski et notes de Rosemary Haddad et Brooke Hodge. / Booklet accompanying the first exhibition from the CCA's toys collection. Text by Witold Rybczynski with notes by Rosemary Haddad and Brooke Hodge.
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Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. / Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of architectural toys in the CCA collection.
Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets / Dream houses, toy homes
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Catalogue de la cinquième exposition de jouets tirés de la collection du CCA. / Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of architectural toys in the CCA collection.
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La ville en jeux / Toy town
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Publié à l'occasion de la sixième exposition tirée de la collection de jeux d'architecture du CCA. / Catalogue for the sixth in a series of exhibitions featuring architectural toys in the CCA's collection.
La ville en jeux / Toy town
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Publié à l'occasion de la sixième exposition tirée de la collection de jeux d'architecture du CCA. / Catalogue for the sixth in a series of exhibitions featuring architectural toys in the CCA's collection.
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This book documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author’s collection, from the mid-1800s to the present, from the U.S. and abroad. Each toy has an immersive two-page spread celebrating its unique features with photos of packaging graphics, component parts, assembly diagrams, and a built example designed and constructed by the author. Well-researched(...)
Building toys: An architect's collection
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This book documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author’s collection, from the mid-1800s to the present, from the U.S. and abroad. Each toy has an immersive two-page spread celebrating its unique features with photos of packaging graphics, component parts, assembly diagrams, and a built example designed and constructed by the author. Well-researched background information on designers and company histories provides intriguing facts which complete each toy’s description. When taken together, these stories reveal a microcosm of western commercial and industrial history, illustrating trends in design, advertising, and material production techniques.
Architectural Theory
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This book offers a novel view of the development of modern architecture through the prism of children’s construction toys. The authors discover a host of connections linking model-building sets with architectural movements, social history, and national identities. They investigate not only how model sets reflected building styles, but also whether they influenced the(...)
Architecture on the carpet : the curious tale of construction toys and the genesis of Modern buildings
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This book offers a novel view of the development of modern architecture through the prism of children’s construction toys. The authors discover a host of connections linking model-building sets with architectural movements, social history, and national identities. They investigate not only how model sets reflected building styles, but also whether they influenced the careers of children who grew up playing with them.
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Contemporary museums
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The volume presents the most varied forms of exhibition buildings of the last decade and reveals their spatial and architectural concepts: from the white cube idea that exists chiefly to display the exhibit itself, to a flamboyant freestanding structure, which enriches the image of the city and involves the works in its dynamic spatial configuration. A broad diversity of(...)
Contemporary museums
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The volume presents the most varied forms of exhibition buildings of the last decade and reveals their spatial and architectural concepts: from the white cube idea that exists chiefly to display the exhibit itself, to a flamboyant freestanding structure, which enriches the image of the city and involves the works in its dynamic spatial configuration. A broad diversity of museums is considered: museums of businesses and institutes, of technology and toys, of literature and architecture.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Ce deuxième livret consacré à la collection de jeux et jouets d'architecture du CCA présente des jouets qui sensibilisent l'enfant aux rapports entre la structure inventée et ses éléments. / Second in a series of booklets on the CCA's toy collection.
Architecture potentielle : jeux de construction de la collection du CCA / Potential architecture : construction toys from the CCA collection
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Ce deuxième livret consacré à la collection de jeux et jouets d'architecture du CCA présente des jouets qui sensibilisent l'enfant aux rapports entre la structure inventée et ses éléments. / Second in a series of booklets on the CCA's toy collection.
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. L’exposition, qui marque(...)
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November 1999, Montréal
En chantier : les collections du CCA, 1989-1999 / En chantier : the collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. L’exposition, qui marque le 10e anniversaire de l’inauguration du CCA au public, met en valeur et en interaction les acquisitions dans ses dix premières années. En chantier propose plus de 350 estampes, dessins, photographies, livres rares, manuscrits, jouets et maquettes qui démontrent comment l’architecture a été imaginée, conçue, observée et perçue pendant cinq siècles d’histoire de l’architecture.
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Tout nouveau moyen de transport ou toute modification apportée à un système existant de mobilité urbaine – l’élargissement des tranchées permettant aux voies ferrées de se relier à un terminus ou à une jonction, l’extension des gares de triage desservant les systèmes de transport métropolitains et de banlieue, la multiplication des(...)
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November 2000, Montréal
Villes en mouvement : jouets et transports / Cities in motion : toys and transport
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Tout nouveau moyen de transport ou toute modification apportée à un système existant de mobilité urbaine – l’élargissement des tranchées permettant aux voies ferrées de se relier à un terminus ou à une jonction, l’extension des gares de triage desservant les systèmes de transport métropolitains et de banlieue, la multiplication des bretelles des ponts, des autoroutes surélevées, des rampes d’accès, des parcs de stationnement et même des petites stations-services disséminées sur le territoire – entraîne des mutations dans le paysage urbain. "Jouets et transports" puise, à même la collection du CCA, plus de 75 jouets anciens, livres illustrés, photographies anciennes et brochures pour illustrer deux siècles de transformations urbaines étroitement liées au développement des moyens de transport. // Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even service stations. "Toys and Transport" draws from the CCA collection, presenting over 75 objects, among them historic toys, architectural photographs, illustrated books and pamphlets. It covers nearly 200 years of urban transformation brought about by the development of transportation systems.
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