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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Toy Town
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(...)
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(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Title:
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(...)
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(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
22 October 1997 to
31 May 1998
22 October 1997 to
31 May 1998
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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(...)
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(...)
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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(...)
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(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
8 November 1995 to
31 March 1996
8 November 1995 to
31 March 1996
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Sub-series
Sub-series
Title:
Toy
Toy
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AP165.S5.SS4
Description:
The Toy sub-series, circa 1990 – 2000, consists of 56 video recordings containing footage related to Hoberman’s line of toys products. Material consists of MiniDV cassettes, Betacam SP cassettes, Digital Betacam cassettes and Hi-8 cassettes. The majority of the records date from the mid to late 90’s to early 2000’s. Video recordings in this sub-series include footage from promotional video shoots for Hoberman’s toy products as well as publicity videos presented at toy fairs. Toy products represented include the Hoberman Sphere, Mini Sphere, Flight Ring, Orbiter, Expangadon Construction Set, Gro-bots and Twiddlesticks.
AP165.S5.SS4
Description:
The Toy sub-series, circa 1990 – 2000, consists of 56 video recordings containing footage related to Hoberman’s line of toys products. Material consists of MiniDV cassettes, Betacam SP cassettes, Digital Betacam cassettes and Hi-8 cassettes. The majority of the records date from the mid to late 90’s to early 2000’s. Video recordings in this sub-series include footage from promotional video shoots for Hoberman’s toy products as well as publicity videos presented at toy fairs. Toy products represented include the Hoberman Sphere, Mini Sphere, Flight Ring, Orbiter, Expangadon Construction Set, Gro-bots and Twiddlesticks.
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Date:
circa 1990-2002
circa 1990-2002
Title:
Toy
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AP165.S5.SS4
Description:
The Toy sub-series, circa 1990 – 2000, consists of 56 video recordings containing footage related to Hoberman’s line of toys products. Material consists of MiniDV cassettes, Betacam SP cassettes, Digital Betacam cassettes and Hi-8 cassettes. The majority of the records date from the mid to late 90’s to early 2000’s. Video recordings in this sub-series include footage from promotional video shoots for Hoberman’s toy products as well as publicity videos presented at toy fairs. Toy products represented include the Hoberman Sphere, Mini Sphere, Flight Ring, Orbiter, Expangadon Construction Set, Gro-bots and Twiddlesticks.
Toy
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AP165.S5.SS4
Description:
The Toy sub-series, circa 1990 – 2000, consists of 56 video recordings containing footage related to Hoberman’s line of toys products. Material consists of MiniDV cassettes, Betacam SP cassettes, Digital Betacam cassettes and Hi-8 cassettes. The majority of the records date from the mid to late 90’s to early 2000’s. Video recordings in this sub-series include footage from promotional video shoots for Hoberman’s toy products as well as publicity videos presented at toy fairs. Toy products represented include the Hoberman Sphere, Mini Sphere, Flight Ring, Orbiter, Expangadon Construction Set, Gro-bots and Twiddlesticks.
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Sub-series 4
Sub-series 4
Date:
circa 1990-2002
circa 1990-2002
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Toys that Teach
Toys that Teach
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The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
16 December 1992 to 25 April 1993
16 December 1992 to 25 April 1993
Title:
Toys that Teach
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The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Toys that Teach
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The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
16 December 1992 to
25 April 1993
16 December 1992 to
25 April 1993
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Toys and Transport
Toys and Transport
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Description:
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
Title:
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
15 November 2000 to
1 April 2001
15 November 2000 to
1 April 2001
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Title:
Toys and the Modernist Tradition
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Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Toys and the Modernist Tradition
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Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
16 December 1993 to
1 May 1994
16 December 1993 to
1 May 1994
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Reference number:
ARCH279918
ARCH279918
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Date:
2002
2002
Date:
2002
2002
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Reference number:
ARCH279832
Description:
Videocassette contains promotional footage for "Orbitor" toy.
ARCH279832
Description:
Videocassette contains promotional footage for "Orbitor" toy.
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Date:
2000
2000
Title:
Video recording of Orbiter toy
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ARCH279832
Description:
Videocassette contains promotional footage for "Orbitor" toy.
Video recording of Orbiter toy
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ARCH279832
Description:
Videocassette contains promotional footage for "Orbitor" toy.
Date:
2000
2000
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Form:
photographs
Quantity:
2 photograph(s)
photographs
Quantity:
2 photograph(s)
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Reference number:
ARCH268387
ARCH268387
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Date:
mid 1990s
mid 1990s
Form:
photographs
Quantity:
2 photograph(s)
photographs
Quantity:
2 photograph(s)
Date:
mid 1990s
mid 1990s
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Date:
2001
2001
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