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1956: House of the Future
What the future looked like
27 February 2016
What the future looked like
Paul Desmarais Theatre
31 May 2007
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
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ARCH153654
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essay by Robert L. Hartwig rejected for publication by editorial board of Oppositions magazine
1976
Relativity and Simultaneity: The Smithsons, James Stirling and Le Corbusier
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essay by Robert L. Hartwig rejected for publication by editorial board of Oppositions magazine
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1976
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AP160
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The Erik Gunnar Asplund collection documents eight architectural projects undertaken by Erik Gunnar Asplund between 1913 and 1940. The collection includes projects completed in Sweden, more precisely in Stockholm (4), Goteborg (2), Solvesborg (1) and Sorunda (1). These projects are illustrated through original drawings, period photographs and more recent photographic images. They include competitions, urban planning and furniture design. The collection contains 165 photographs, 119 drawings and 1 journal.
1913-2000, predominant 1915-1940
Erik Gunnar Asplund collection
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AP160
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The Erik Gunnar Asplund collection documents eight architectural projects undertaken by Erik Gunnar Asplund between 1913 and 1940. The collection includes projects completed in Sweden, more precisely in Stockholm (4), Goteborg (2), Solvesborg (1) and Sorunda (1). These projects are illustrated through original drawings, period photographs and more recent photographic images. They include competitions, urban planning and furniture design. The collection contains 165 photographs, 119 drawings and 1 journal.
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1913-2000, predominant 1915-1940
books
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156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
London : Artemis, 1994.
Changing the art of inhabitation : Mies' pieces, Eames' dreams, the Smithsons / Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson.
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156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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London : Artemis, 1994.
books
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599 pages ; 28 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.
The charged void--architecture / Alison and Peter Smithson.
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599 pages ; 28 cm
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New York : Monacelli Press, 2000.
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351 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, ports. ; 27 cm.
New York : Monacelli Press, c2005.
The charged void : urbanism / Alison and Peter Smithson.
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351 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, ports. ; 27 cm.
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New York : Monacelli Press, c2005.