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The River and the Risk
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Keep Safe, photography, landscape, river landscape, floods, Germany, Ahr Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, landscape conservation, landscape protection, AfD, Heimat
2 July 2024
The River and the Risk
Leonie Hartung asks what it means to legally protect a (river-)landscape when the concept of landscape itself is no longer tangible
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textual records
textual records
1987
textual records
AP018.S1.1984.PR04.001
1984
Project proposal and risk and cost analysis sheets, RCMP Relocation, Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Mississauga, Ontario
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AP018.S1.1984.PR04.001
textual records
1984
PHCON2002:0016:002:086
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Confirms receipt of four Photoglyphes and states that Becker will take them to Aachen at his own risk.
27 January 1974
Receipt confirmation of seven Photoglyphs
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PHCON2002:0016:002:086
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Confirms receipt of four Photoglyphes and states that Becker will take them to Aachen at his own risk.
27 January 1974
Sub-series
AP058.S2.SS2
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This subseries documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement, participation, and attendance in various conferences and lectures, like the XIII World Congress of International Union of Architects in Mexico City, Mexico (1978), the National Endowment for the Arts, an urban design educators retreat in San Juan, Porto Rico (1981), the Colloquy on Rural Development and Design, in Washington, D.C. (1987), and the Construct Canada Conference, in Toronto, Ontario (1988). The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, agendas, reports, lists of participants, papers, programmes and scheduled activities, and notes, dating from 1977 to 1990. Among the papers, there are draughts and final versions of text entitled ‘An Education in architecture’ and ‘To Critical Risk-Quality Care’.
1977-1990
Other conferences and lectures
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AP058.S2.SS2
Description:
This subseries documents Blanche Lemco van Ginkel’s involvement, participation, and attendance in various conferences and lectures, like the XIII World Congress of International Union of Architects in Mexico City, Mexico (1978), the National Endowment for the Arts, an urban design educators retreat in San Juan, Porto Rico (1981), the Colloquy on Rural Development and Design, in Washington, D.C. (1987), and the Construct Canada Conference, in Toronto, Ontario (1988). The subseries contains correspondence, brochures, agendas, reports, lists of participants, papers, programmes and scheduled activities, and notes, dating from 1977 to 1990. Among the papers, there are draughts and final versions of text entitled ‘An Education in architecture’ and ‘To Critical Risk-Quality Care’.
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1977-1990
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Playing it Safe
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Keep Safe, playgrounds, safety, risk, regulation, public space, control, contemporary playground design,
8 July 2024
Playing it Safe
Delara Rahim, Francisco Brown, Jimmy Pan, and Angie Door on the creation of play subjects and playgrounds
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Project
Dreaming Architecture (2016)
AP207.S1.2016.PR01
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The project series documents "Dreaming Architecture", a digitally created performance by Pettena in 2016. The performance consists of a photograph of a long baroque art gallery. Added to the photograph is an image of Pettena seated with legs crossed draped in a robe. Pettena appears to be floating in the middle of room. The project is a reference to "Il Mestiere Dell'Architetto" (2002) that represents the difficulties and possible impasses in architecture. However here "the symbolic interpretation of architecture is here ideally transformed by overcoming, in the dream, the difficulties and restrictions of choices and paths, as well as the risks of mistakes and downfalls." [1] The project series contains a photograph of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-dreaming-architecture-2016-1/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
circa 2016
Dreaming Architecture (2016)
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AP207.S1.2016.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Dreaming Architecture", a digitally created performance by Pettena in 2016. The performance consists of a photograph of a long baroque art gallery. Added to the photograph is an image of Pettena seated with legs crossed draped in a robe. Pettena appears to be floating in the middle of room. The project is a reference to "Il Mestiere Dell'Architetto" (2002) that represents the difficulties and possible impasses in architecture. However here "the symbolic interpretation of architecture is here ideally transformed by overcoming, in the dream, the difficulties and restrictions of choices and paths, as well as the risks of mistakes and downfalls." [1] The project series contains a photograph of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-dreaming-architecture-2016-1/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
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circa 2016
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AP018.S1.1984.PR04
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This project series documents a study to determine the location of the RCMP building at the Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario in 1984. The office identified the project number as 8406. Since the early 1960s, John B. Parkin Associates, and later John C. Parkin's new firm Parkin Architects Planners, had been commissioned by the government Department of Transport Air Services (now Transport Canada) to complete more than a dozen projects at the Toronto International Airport, including terminals one and two. This project consisted of a study to determine the best location for the RCMP at the airport. At the time of the study, the RCMP were located in terminal one, but the growing needs of other airport departments had pushed them into a temporary location. This study investigated two possible options, the construction of a new police building or the renovation of the central workshop facility. The report suggested the latter option, which could house the RCMP offices, technical and exhibit spaces, holding cells, storage and support facilities. The project is recorded through textual records dating from 1984, which consist of the project proposal and risk and cost analysis sheets.
1984
RCMP Relocation, Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Mississauga, Ontario (1984)
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AP018.S1.1984.PR04
Description:
This project series documents a study to determine the location of the RCMP building at the Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario in 1984. The office identified the project number as 8406. Since the early 1960s, John B. Parkin Associates, and later John C. Parkin's new firm Parkin Architects Planners, had been commissioned by the government Department of Transport Air Services (now Transport Canada) to complete more than a dozen projects at the Toronto International Airport, including terminals one and two. This project consisted of a study to determine the best location for the RCMP at the airport. At the time of the study, the RCMP were located in terminal one, but the growing needs of other airport departments had pushed them into a temporary location. This study investigated two possible options, the construction of a new police building or the renovation of the central workshop facility. The report suggested the latter option, which could house the RCMP offices, technical and exhibit spaces, holding cells, storage and support facilities. The project is recorded through textual records dating from 1984, which consist of the project proposal and risk and cost analysis sheets.
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1984
How can construction be an instrument of peace? Post-conflict cities share many problems such as spontaneous construction and a lack of strong civil governance, thus even well-intended projects under these conditions risk fixing inequalities permanently or introducing new ones in the built environment. Can architecture, beyond solving a direct need or problem, add to(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 June 2011 to 4 September 2011
The Good Cause: Architecture of Peace
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How can construction be an instrument of peace? Post-conflict cities share many problems such as spontaneous construction and a lack of strong civil governance, thus even well-intended projects under these conditions risk fixing inequalities permanently or introducing new ones in the built environment. Can architecture, beyond solving a direct need or problem, add to(...)
Octagonal gallery
Kids Build
Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate. It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they(...)
Hall cases
9 December 2015 to 24 April 2016
Kids Build
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Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate. It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they(...)
Hall cases