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
Domestic Monument
Domestic Monument
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen reflect on the Amancio Williams archive
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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
To celebrate the launch of our publication AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive, we invite you to join us for a lecture by Argentinian historian Luis Müller on Amancio William’s innovations through an analysis of his creative process, proposals, and investigations.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Bookstore Keyword(s):
Out of the box, archive, Amancio Williams
28 November 2024, 6pm to 9pm
Lecture by Luis Müller and Book Launch: AP205 Amancio Williams
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To celebrate the launch of our publication AP205 Amancio Williams: Readings of the Archive, we invite you to join us for a lecture by Argentinian historian Luis Müller on Amancio William’s innovations through an analysis of his creative process, proposals, and investigations.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Bookstore Keyword(s):
Out of the box, archive, Amancio Williams
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
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(...)
PH1982:0363:135
architecture, landscape architecture
between 1862 and 1879
architecture, landscape architecture
PH1980:0941
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- This photograph was taken from the bottom of Longevity Hill.
architecture, sculpture
1871
View of the Temple of the Sea of Wisdom [Zhihui Hai] and the Revolving Archive [Zhuanlun Cang], with a statue of a lion in the left foreground, Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1980:0941
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- This photograph was taken from the bottom of Longevity Hill.
architecture, sculpture