Architects are traditionally uncomfortable with acknowledging their dependence on other actors, so My Invisible Friend invites them to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
16 May 2019, 6:30pm
My Invisible Friend: Laurens Bekemans on “BC architects & studies” and a foreman
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Architects are traditionally uncomfortable with acknowledging their dependence on other actors, so My Invisible Friend invites them to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
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Other Architects' Projects
AP013.S3
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Series documents projects by Eugène Payette and the Design and Development Division of Wandlyn Motors-Inns. The projects were designed for Montréal, Québec, and Saint John, New Brunswick. Material in this series was produced between 1912 and 1982. Series contains 2 projects, including drawings, and photographic materials.
1912-1982
Other Architects' Projects
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AP013.S3
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Series documents projects by Eugène Payette and the Design and Development Division of Wandlyn Motors-Inns. The projects were designed for Montréal, Québec, and Saint John, New Brunswick. Material in this series was produced between 1912 and 1982. Series contains 2 projects, including drawings, and photographic materials.
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1912-1982
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Other Architects' Projects
AP143.S2
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Series documents projects by Pasanella + Klein (Renovations to Bentley School, New York City, New York) and John Hejduk (Texas House Series). Material in this series was created between 1954 and 1963 and 1978. Series contains design development drawings and presentation drawings.
[1954-1963], 1978
Other Architects' Projects
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AP143.S2
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Series documents projects by Pasanella + Klein (Renovations to Bentley School, New York City, New York) and John Hejduk (Texas House Series). Material in this series was created between 1954 and 1963 and 1978. Series contains design development drawings and presentation drawings.
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[1954-1963], 1978
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Projects by Other Architects
AP077.S2
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Series describes one perspecitve drawing for a house scheme by architect Ronald Thom. Material in the series was produced ca. 1958. Series contains one sketch.
[ca. 1958]
Projects by Other Architects
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AP077.S2
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Series describes one perspecitve drawing for a house scheme by architect Ronald Thom. Material in the series was produced ca. 1958. Series contains one sketch.
Series 2
[ca. 1958]
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Drawings by Other Architects
AP076.S3
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Series documents furniture, residential and commercial projects by A.J. Donahue, Harold N. Semmens, Donald S. Jackson and D.W.B. Material was produced between 1946 and 1954. Series contains drawings.
1946-1954
Drawings by Other Architects
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AP076.S3
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Series documents furniture, residential and commercial projects by A.J. Donahue, Harold N. Semmens, Donald S. Jackson and D.W.B. Material was produced between 1946 and 1954. Series contains drawings.
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1946-1954
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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ARCH277022
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File contains projects by other architects for Arthur Erickson's review, The Grovenor Estate: Strategy for Mayfair and Belgravia presentation booklet and the Official Regional Plan for the Lower Mainland Planning Area (1966).
ca. 1966-2000
Projects by other architects for Arthur Erickson's review
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ARCH277022
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File contains projects by other architects for Arthur Erickson's review, The Grovenor Estate: Strategy for Mayfair and Belgravia presentation booklet and the Official Regional Plan for the Lower Mainland Planning Area (1966).
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ca. 1966-2000
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
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22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
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Other Space Odysseys presents three approaches to the idea of an adventurous journey that started forty years ago after the 1969 moon landing. Featuring the work of architects Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli, Other Space Odysseys comes at a time when space exploration is the subject of renewed enthusiasm, but also of debate which questions its(...)
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8 April 2010 to 19 September 2010
Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli
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Other Space Odysseys presents three approaches to the idea of an adventurous journey that started forty years ago after the 1969 moon landing. Featuring the work of architects Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli, Other Space Odysseys comes at a time when space exploration is the subject of renewed enthusiasm, but also of debate which questions its(...)
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ARCH257074
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