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The planet is the client
autonomous house, McGill University, Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG), Stop the Five Gallon Flush, toilets
19 October 2015
The planet is the client
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
In the Yesterday Today lecture series, Canadian architect and author Witold Rybczynski discusses the roots of Ecol House, a prototype for an autonomous dwelling for use in developing countries. The project was created in Montréal in 1972 by Ecol Operation, a group of architects and students of which he was a member that became an international point of reference for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
29 November 2007
Witold Rybczynski: Green Before Green
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In the Yesterday Today lecture series, Canadian architect and author Witold Rybczynski discusses the roots of Ecol House, a prototype for an autonomous dwelling for use in developing countries. The project was created in Montréal in 1972 by Ecol Operation, a group of architects and students of which he was a member that became an international point of reference for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
archives
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Fonds
AP149
Synopsis:
The Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds documents the publications related to the research projects for low-cost housing and energy conservation undertaken by the Minimum Cost Housing Group of the McGill School of Architecture from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. The documents in the fonds consist of textual records, photographs and artefacts relating to over 20 of the group's publications, theses, research papers, offices records and reference material.
1947, 1970-2012
Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds
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Synopsis:
The Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds documents the publications related to the research projects for low-cost housing and energy conservation undertaken by the Minimum Cost Housing Group of the McGill School of Architecture from the early 1970s to the early 2000s. The documents in the fonds consist of textual records, photographs and artefacts relating to over 20 of the group's publications, theses, research papers, offices records and reference material.
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Fonds
1947, 1970-2012
textual records
AP149.S3.SS1.043
1975-1976
textual records
1975-1976
textual records
AP149.S3.SS1.084
1990s
textual records
1990s
photographs
ARCH253694
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Photograph of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group at the Ecol House, including Vikram Bhatt and Alvaro Ortega.
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Group photographs of the Minimum Cost Housing Group members
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Photograph of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group at the Ecol House, including Vikram Bhatt and Alvaro Ortega.
photographs
n.d.
photographs
AP149.S1.1972.PR01.007
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Photograph of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group at the Ecol House, including Vikram Bhatt and Alvaro Ortega.
n.d.
Group photographs of the Minimum Cost Housing Group members
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AP149.S1.1972.PR01.007
Description:
Photograph of the members of the Minimum Cost Housing Group at the Ecol House, including Vikram Bhatt and Alvaro Ortega.
photographs
n.d.