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Visiting Scholars 2007
S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
May 2007 to September 2007
Visiting Scholars 2007
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S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
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May 2007 to
September 2007
Project
AP140.S2.SS1.D91
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File documents an executed project for a bookshop for the Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy. The scheme, located in the Giardini di Castello, was designed by the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford Associates in association with the architect Thomas Muirhead, and the firm Building Project. Material in this file was produced between 1989 and 1993. File contains some early conceptual drawings, and several design development and presentation drawings. Photographic materials include views of Italian vernacular architecture by architect Norbert Heyers, views of the completed building by photographer Dida Biggi and of the presentation model by John Donat Photography. Textual documents include correspondence with Francesco Dal Co, director of La Biennale di Venezia, Settore Architettura in 1991, and reprographic copies of working drawings. File also contains a presentation model.
1989-1993
Biennale Bookshop, Venice, Italy
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AP140.S2.SS1.D91
Description:
File documents an executed project for a bookshop for the Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy. The scheme, located in the Giardini di Castello, was designed by the office of James Stirling, Michael Wilford Associates in association with the architect Thomas Muirhead, and the firm Building Project. Material in this file was produced between 1989 and 1993. File contains some early conceptual drawings, and several design development and presentation drawings. Photographic materials include views of Italian vernacular architecture by architect Norbert Heyers, views of the completed building by photographer Dida Biggi and of the presentation model by John Donat Photography. Textual documents include correspondence with Francesco Dal Co, director of La Biennale di Venezia, Settore Architettura in 1991, and reprographic copies of working drawings. File also contains a presentation model.
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1989-1993
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Professional papers
AP206.S3
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The Professional papers series, circa 1950-2008, records the professional activities of Aditya Prakash throughout his career up until his death in 2008. His work in architecture, art, photography, academia and theatre are documented through textual records, drawings, photographic materials, ephemera, books, serials and sound recordings. The earliest materials in this series show Prakash’s interest in architectural photography early in his career through photographs, slides, and negatives taken by him. These materials, dating from before 1970, show most prominently his projects, people, villages and cityscapes. Materials dating from after 1968 show Prakash’s move into academia and his solo architectural career. During this time, the records document Prakash’s research interests on subjects such as urbanization, Chandigarh, the Modular and the environment, through drawings, newspaper articles, government and committee reports, correspondence and presentation materials. Likewise, his teaching is recorded through overhead transparencies, drawings and notes. The series also shows Prakash’s involvement in the professional community, including event photographs, correspondence and records documenting conferences, events and his discussion group Our Get Togethers. Correspondence with architect Charles Correa and frequent letters between Prakash and writer Mulk Raj Anand are of note here. Apart from his architectural career, Prakash’s work as a modern artist is well recorded through drawings, sketchbooks, and photographic reproductions of his art, mostly dating from after 1980. His interest in art as well as his community involvement are documented through exhibition ephemera, correspondence, and exhibition reviews and writings on his artwork. His role as the president of the Lalit Kala Akademi is also documented through publications, event photographs and correspondence. Finally, Prakash’s involvement in theatre, specifically with his amateur theatre troop Abhinet, is captured through scripts, photographs of performances and play reviews.
circa 1950-2008
Professional papers
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AP206.S3
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The Professional papers series, circa 1950-2008, records the professional activities of Aditya Prakash throughout his career up until his death in 2008. His work in architecture, art, photography, academia and theatre are documented through textual records, drawings, photographic materials, ephemera, books, serials and sound recordings. The earliest materials in this series show Prakash’s interest in architectural photography early in his career through photographs, slides, and negatives taken by him. These materials, dating from before 1970, show most prominently his projects, people, villages and cityscapes. Materials dating from after 1968 show Prakash’s move into academia and his solo architectural career. During this time, the records document Prakash’s research interests on subjects such as urbanization, Chandigarh, the Modular and the environment, through drawings, newspaper articles, government and committee reports, correspondence and presentation materials. Likewise, his teaching is recorded through overhead transparencies, drawings and notes. The series also shows Prakash’s involvement in the professional community, including event photographs, correspondence and records documenting conferences, events and his discussion group Our Get Togethers. Correspondence with architect Charles Correa and frequent letters between Prakash and writer Mulk Raj Anand are of note here. Apart from his architectural career, Prakash’s work as a modern artist is well recorded through drawings, sketchbooks, and photographic reproductions of his art, mostly dating from after 1980. His interest in art as well as his community involvement are documented through exhibition ephemera, correspondence, and exhibition reviews and writings on his artwork. His role as the president of the Lalit Kala Akademi is also documented through publications, event photographs and correspondence. Finally, Prakash’s involvement in theatre, specifically with his amateur theatre troop Abhinet, is captured through scripts, photographs of performances and play reviews.
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circa 1950-2008
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
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Rohault de Fleury collection
CI001
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The Rohault de Fleury collection documents the work of three generations of French architects, Hubert, his son Charles, and his grandson Georges, spanning from the early 18th to late 19th century. The collection is extremely varied encompassing both private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning, and student work from both the École des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique, and archaeological studies. Stylistically, the projects incorporate the two dominant contemporary directions in French architecture - functionalism as advocated by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and the classicism of the École des beaux-arts.
1717-[1884]
Rohault de Fleury collection
CI001
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The Rohault de Fleury collection documents the work of three generations of French architects, Hubert, his son Charles, and his grandson Georges, spanning from the early 18th to late 19th century. The collection is extremely varied encompassing both private and government commissions and including domestic work, institutional buildings, commercial buildings, urban planning, and student work from both the École des beaux-arts and the École polytechnique, and archaeological studies. Stylistically, the projects incorporate the two dominant contemporary directions in French architecture - functionalism as advocated by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and the classicism of the École des beaux-arts.
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1717-[1884]
research
Visiting Scholars 2010
Nicholas Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States Topic: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court Extension, Göteborg (1934-1938) Frederick Bohrer, Hood College, Frederick, United States Topic: Photography, Architecture, Archaeology: The Image as Object Enrico Chapel, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Topic: Le(...)
9 March 2010 to 15 August 2010
Visiting Scholars 2010
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Nicholas Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States Topic: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court Extension, Göteborg (1934-1938) Frederick Bohrer, Hood College, Frederick, United States Topic: Photography, Architecture, Archaeology: The Image as Object Enrico Chapel, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Topic: Le(...)
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9 March 2010 to
15 August 2010
research
Visiting Scholars 2013
Pierre Chabard, École nationale supérieure darchitecture de la ville et des territoires – ENSAVT, Marne-la-Vallée, France Topic: L’architecture en expositions. Contribution à une sociohistoire de la médiation architecturale. Les cas du CCA (Montréal) et du CCI (Paris) Jorge Manuel Simão Alvez Correia, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal Topic: Late 19th-century(...)
29 April 2013 to 15 August 2013
Visiting Scholars 2013
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Pierre Chabard, École nationale supérieure darchitecture de la ville et des territoires – ENSAVT, Marne-la-Vallée, France Topic: L’architecture en expositions. Contribution à une sociohistoire de la médiation architecturale. Les cas du CCA (Montréal) et du CCI (Paris) Jorge Manuel Simão Alvez Correia, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal Topic: Late 19th-century(...)
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29 April 2013 to
15 August 2013
AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.6
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Episode of television program "Building sites". James Stirling presents the architecture of the Katherine Stephen Room, a room for rare books at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, designed by architects Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward. Presented by James Stirling. Camera, David Swan; sound, David Jewitt; stills photography, Hugh Palmer, Martin Charles; graphics, Rose James, Joel Greenberg; video editor, John Paroussi; production assistant, Mary McKernan; researcher, Ruth Rosenthal; producer, Clare Paterson; director, Geoff Dunlop.
1989
Building sights (Television program)
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AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.6
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Episode of television program "Building sites". James Stirling presents the architecture of the Katherine Stephen Room, a room for rare books at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, designed by architects Joanna van Heyningen and Birkin Haward. Presented by James Stirling. Camera, David Swan; sound, David Jewitt; stills photography, Hugh Palmer, Martin Charles; graphics, Rose James, Joel Greenberg; video editor, John Paroussi; production assistant, Mary McKernan; researcher, Ruth Rosenthal; producer, Clare Paterson; director, Geoff Dunlop.
1989
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Fonds
Robert Duchesnay fonds
AP115
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Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
1985-1992
Robert Duchesnay fonds
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AP115
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Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
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1985-1992
Sub-series
AP197.S1.SS9
Description:
This subseries is comprised of notes, drafts, research, and photographic materials that were organized by topic. Unlike Kenneth Frampton’s research files which are arranged in Series AP197.S2, these files were compiled for book projects, articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, conference addresses, and keynote speeches, and document over 300 of Frampton's published or unpublished texts. The materials include notes, contracts, drafts, correspondence, final copies of texts, photographic materials, and research materials. This subseries also includes Frampton’s curriculum vitaes, notebooks, and covers he designed for the journal Architectural Design (1962-1964). The files are organized alphabetically by the topic explored, namely architects. Some of these architects include: Alvar Aalto; Tadao Ando; Georges Baines; Luis Barragan; H.P. Berlage; Mario Botta; Alberto Campo Baeza; David Chipperfield; Alvaro Siza; Michael Kagan; Louis Kahn; Rem Koolhaas; Kengo Kuma; Kisho Kurakawa; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Raphael Moneo; Carlo Scarpa; O.M. Ungers; Raj Rewal; Rogelio Salmona; Frank Lloyd Wright; and Monica Pidgeon. Subjects explored in these texts include: photography; the predicament of environmental design; reciprocal regionalism; the British Library; China's sacred sites; reflections on the oppositions of architecture and building; reflections on Perspecta; and the role of education. Large portions of these boxes document the publications "World Architecture 1900-2000: a Critical Mosaic" (1999), "Le Corbusier" (1997 and 2002), "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House" (1995), and "American Masterworks" (2008). Some folders may include coloured tabs with the note "copied." These tabs were used to identify whether the particular writing/project in question had been added to Frampton's curriculum vitae.
circa 1952 -2016
Books, articles, reviews, lectures, and juries
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AP197.S1.SS9
Description:
This subseries is comprised of notes, drafts, research, and photographic materials that were organized by topic. Unlike Kenneth Frampton’s research files which are arranged in Series AP197.S2, these files were compiled for book projects, articles, book reviews, lectures, interviews, conference addresses, and keynote speeches, and document over 300 of Frampton's published or unpublished texts. The materials include notes, contracts, drafts, correspondence, final copies of texts, photographic materials, and research materials. This subseries also includes Frampton’s curriculum vitaes, notebooks, and covers he designed for the journal Architectural Design (1962-1964). The files are organized alphabetically by the topic explored, namely architects. Some of these architects include: Alvar Aalto; Tadao Ando; Georges Baines; Luis Barragan; H.P. Berlage; Mario Botta; Alberto Campo Baeza; David Chipperfield; Alvaro Siza; Michael Kagan; Louis Kahn; Rem Koolhaas; Kengo Kuma; Kisho Kurakawa; Adolf Loos; Le Corbusier; Raphael Moneo; Carlo Scarpa; O.M. Ungers; Raj Rewal; Rogelio Salmona; Frank Lloyd Wright; and Monica Pidgeon. Subjects explored in these texts include: photography; the predicament of environmental design; reciprocal regionalism; the British Library; China's sacred sites; reflections on the oppositions of architecture and building; reflections on Perspecta; and the role of education. Large portions of these boxes document the publications "World Architecture 1900-2000: a Critical Mosaic" (1999), "Le Corbusier" (1997 and 2002), "American Masterworks: the Twentieth Century House" (1995), and "American Masterworks" (2008). Some folders may include coloured tabs with the note "copied." These tabs were used to identify whether the particular writing/project in question had been added to Frampton's curriculum vitae.
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circa 1952 -2016