Dream Houses, Toy Homes
Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
articles
Ideas of living
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Ideas of living
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Toys Shape Minds no. 3
Bumpalow Cottage, Bumpalow Home, Bumpalow Town, toys, games, Dream Houses, Toy Homes, Milton Bradley Company, Hasbro
16 April 2016
Starting From... Travel
Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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3 December 2008 to 1 May 2009
Starting From... Travel
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Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
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books
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, ©1995.
Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets = Dream houses, toy homes.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
books
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, ©1995.
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8 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller
Maisons de rêve, maisons jouets = Dream houses, toy homes : exhibition products, 1995.
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8 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller
archives
audio
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2 audio discs (96 min., 21 sec.) ; 12 cm consultation copy, 1 audiocassette (DAT) ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape. master
[1995]
Architecture, childhood and gender.
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2 audio discs (96 min., 21 sec.) ; 12 cm consultation copy, 1 audiocassette (DAT) ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape. master
audio
[1995]
artefacts
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1 model castle (725 pieces) : plastic, color ; in box 38 x 61 x 16 cm + 2 volumes + 4 sheets
[1994] (Montréal, Québec : Jouets Ritvik Toys)
Legend : lion's kingdom = Legend : royaume du lion.
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1 model castle (725 pieces) : plastic, color ; in box 38 x 61 x 16 cm + 2 volumes + 4 sheets
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[1994] (Montréal, Québec : Jouets Ritvik Toys)
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[Country house].
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1 model house : wood, glass, color ; in box 25 x 37 x 11 cm
[approximately 1800]
[Country house].
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1 model house : wood, glass, color ; in box 25 x 37 x 11 cm
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[approximately 1800]