Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 September 2014 , 6pm
Digital Media Archaeology: Archive, Museum and Sonicity
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Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
articles
Origins of the digital
Archaeology of the Digital, Archéologie du numérique, Environnements virtuels objets interactifs, Media and Machines, Wolfgang Ernst
14 July 2009
Origins of the digital
articles
20 November 2023
The Seamless Archive of Everything
Marianne Mueller on indexes, catalogues, and the visual poetics of unexpected comparisons
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Reading the Archive Out Loud
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. On 12 July, 30 August, and 27 September, CCA staff and special guests read letters written by children, threatening lawyers, architects trying to manage disasters, as well as lectures that were never delivered, from the archives of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and James Stirling and Michael(...)
Parc Baile
12 July 2018, 6:30pm
Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. On 12 July, 30 August, and 27 September, CCA staff and special guests read letters written by children, threatening lawyers, architects trying to manage disasters, as well as lectures that were never delivered, from the archives of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and James Stirling and Michael(...)
Parc Baile
Topic: Into the archive: three Canadian architects Recipients: Desirae Cronsberry, Carleton University Ila D’Cruz, McGill University Ian Lowrie, University of British Columbia
June 2015 to August 2015
Master’s Students Program: Into the Archive
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Topic: Into the archive: three Canadian architects Recipients: Desirae Cronsberry, Carleton University Ila D’Cruz, McGill University Ian Lowrie, University of British Columbia
drawings, photographs
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131 photograph(s) photomechanical print
V.S. Balikhin Archive
PH1998:0020:001-131
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- This archive which was collected by the Soviet architect, V.S. Balikhin (1893-1953), includes 129 views of cities, towns, and/or projects designed by various architects from 1923 through 1935, one photograph of a perspective drawing (PH11998:0020:112) and one magazine article by Balikhin (PH1998:0020:131). The photographer(s) of this archive have not been determined. -- There are 63 views of subjects in Moscow (PH1998:0020:001-028; PH1998:0020:033-067), mostly of housing, and these include: 20 views of the Dubrovka complex; 16 views of the Usachevka complex; 6 views of the Shabolovka complex; 3 views of the Dangauerovka complex; 2 views of the Serpukhovskii complex; 2 views of the Sharikopodshipnik [Bearing] plant complex; 1 view of the AMO plant complex; 2 views of the house-commune of the students of the Textile Institute; 2 views of the housing complex at 45/51 Bol'shaia Pirogovskaia Street; and 1 view of a student dormitory complex on Donskoi Val. Other subjects in Moscow include 3 views of the street decorations for the celebration of the 17th anniversary of the October Revolution, 2 views of Sverdlova Square, and one view of the Foto Insnab building, a market, and a park. -- There are 4 views of the village of Kozhukhovo near Moscow (PH1998:0020:029-032) including views of houses, barracks, a summer stage, and tents. -- The 18 views of Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg, Russia) (PH1998:0020:113-130) include 7 views of 1905 Goda Square showing the various buildings around the square; 3 views of the Second House of Soviets; 2 views of the monument to Iakov Sverdlov, one with the "Chekist City" housing complex in the background (now Hotel Iset'); 2 views of the water sports station Dinamo; and one view of the Verkhne-Isetskii metalworking plant, the District Trade Union Soviet garden, the Higher Communist Agricultural School in Narodnoi Mesti Square, and a collage of views of a city square in 1914 and 1933. -- The 17 views of Magnitogorsk (PH1998:0020:096-112) include the earth-made shack constructed by the first inhabitants of the area; a city view; 14 views of the First Block showing mostly housing; and one photograph of a perspective drawing for the Second Block. -- The 10 views of Novosibirsk (PH1998:0020:086-095) include housing, government office buildings, a multipurpose building, a Palace of Labor, and the Sibir' Hotel. -- There are 14 photographs of subjects in cities and towns in Kemerovskaia oblast', a subdivision of southern Russia in Asia, and these include: 6 views of Prokopyevsk (PH1998:0020:072-077) showing clubs or palaces of culture and housing; 4 views of Kemerovo (PH1998:0020:068-071) showing the Palace of Labor, housing, and general views of the city; 3 views of Leninsk-Kuznetskiy (PH1998:0020:078-080) showing a house, clubs, and a playground; 1 view of Kuznetsk (now Novokuznetsk) (PH1998:0020:081) showing housing; and 3 views of Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk) (PH1998:0020:082-085) showing housing and an hotel.
architecture, portrait, sculpture
published before 15 September 1936
V.S. Balikhin Archive
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PH1998:0020:001-131
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- This archive which was collected by the Soviet architect, V.S. Balikhin (1893-1953), includes 129 views of cities, towns, and/or projects designed by various architects from 1923 through 1935, one photograph of a perspective drawing (PH11998:0020:112) and one magazine article by Balikhin (PH1998:0020:131). The photographer(s) of this archive have not been determined. -- There are 63 views of subjects in Moscow (PH1998:0020:001-028; PH1998:0020:033-067), mostly of housing, and these include: 20 views of the Dubrovka complex; 16 views of the Usachevka complex; 6 views of the Shabolovka complex; 3 views of the Dangauerovka complex; 2 views of the Serpukhovskii complex; 2 views of the Sharikopodshipnik [Bearing] plant complex; 1 view of the AMO plant complex; 2 views of the house-commune of the students of the Textile Institute; 2 views of the housing complex at 45/51 Bol'shaia Pirogovskaia Street; and 1 view of a student dormitory complex on Donskoi Val. Other subjects in Moscow include 3 views of the street decorations for the celebration of the 17th anniversary of the October Revolution, 2 views of Sverdlova Square, and one view of the Foto Insnab building, a market, and a park. -- There are 4 views of the village of Kozhukhovo near Moscow (PH1998:0020:029-032) including views of houses, barracks, a summer stage, and tents. -- The 18 views of Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg, Russia) (PH1998:0020:113-130) include 7 views of 1905 Goda Square showing the various buildings around the square; 3 views of the Second House of Soviets; 2 views of the monument to Iakov Sverdlov, one with the "Chekist City" housing complex in the background (now Hotel Iset'); 2 views of the water sports station Dinamo; and one view of the Verkhne-Isetskii metalworking plant, the District Trade Union Soviet garden, the Higher Communist Agricultural School in Narodnoi Mesti Square, and a collage of views of a city square in 1914 and 1933. -- The 17 views of Magnitogorsk (PH1998:0020:096-112) include the earth-made shack constructed by the first inhabitants of the area; a city view; 14 views of the First Block showing mostly housing; and one photograph of a perspective drawing for the Second Block. -- The 10 views of Novosibirsk (PH1998:0020:086-095) include housing, government office buildings, a multipurpose building, a Palace of Labor, and the Sibir' Hotel. -- There are 14 photographs of subjects in cities and towns in Kemerovskaia oblast', a subdivision of southern Russia in Asia, and these include: 6 views of Prokopyevsk (PH1998:0020:072-077) showing clubs or palaces of culture and housing; 4 views of Kemerovo (PH1998:0020:068-071) showing the Palace of Labor, housing, and general views of the city; 3 views of Leninsk-Kuznetskiy (PH1998:0020:078-080) showing a house, clubs, and a playground; 1 view of Kuznetsk (now Novokuznetsk) (PH1998:0020:081) showing housing; and 3 views of Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk) (PH1998:0020:082-085) showing housing and an hotel.
drawings, photographs
Quantity:
131 photograph(s) photomechanical print
published before 15 September 1936
architecture, portrait, sculpture
textual records
textual records
June 1989
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
textual records
textual records
1971-1974