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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
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
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
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ECOL OPERATION
ARCH273313
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Group consists of photographs of the Ecol House for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol House: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" including photographs of the construction of the house, photographs of Arthur Echeson and his wife living in the house during the demonstration phase and photographs of various devices and modular components of Ecol House development by the Mininum Cost Housing Group.
1972 of before
ECOL OPERATION
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Group consists of photographs of the Ecol House for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol House: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" including photographs of the construction of the house, photographs of Arthur Echeson and his wife living in the house during the demonstration phase and photographs of various devices and modular components of Ecol House development by the Mininum Cost Housing Group.
photographs
1972 of before
textual records
ARCH273000
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Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house. The group includes a dummy of the french translation of the book.
1971 or before
The Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense
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Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house. The group includes a dummy of the french translation of the book.
textual records
1971 or before
textual records
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Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house.
1972 or before
Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense
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Group consists of a dummy for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house.
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1972 or before
books
ARCH272998
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Group consists of two copies of the book "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" by the Mininum Cost Housing Group.
1975
Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense
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Group consists of two copies of the book "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" by the Mininum Cost Housing Group.
books
1975
textual records
AP149.S1.1972.PR01.001
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Group includes plans (originals and reproduction) for the self-sufficient house to be built for demonstration at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, in Vancouver 1976.
1974-1975
Proposal for Ecol Operation demonstration in Vancouver
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AP149.S1.1972.PR01.001
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Group includes plans (originals and reproduction) for the self-sufficient house to be built for demonstration at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, in Vancouver 1976.
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1974-1975
photographs
ARCH253680
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Reproduction of an press article entitled "McGill Enters World Housing Research" about the Ecol Operation project for the publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" and the enveloppe that was containing the negative.
February 25, 1977
Negative of a press clipping on the Ecol Operation
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Reproduction of an press article entitled "McGill Enters World Housing Research" about the Ecol Operation project for the publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" and the enveloppe that was containing the negative.
photographs
February 25, 1977
textual records
AP149.S1.1972.PR01.020
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Group consists of the original layout for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" by Alvaro Ortega, Witold Rybcznki, Samir Ayad, Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson, about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1972
Original English Layout of the book. Ecol Operation
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AP149.S1.1972.PR01.020
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Group consists of the original layout for the Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common Sense" by Alvaro Ortega, Witold Rybcznki, Samir Ayad, Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson, about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
textual records
1972