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Robert Moffatt: Building a Better Tomorrow: The Schools of the Toronto Board of Education 1950-1965

University of Toronto´s Health Sciences Building 610 - 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

Faced with growing hordes of Baby Boom children, the Toronto Board of Education undertook a massive construction program during the 1950s and early 1960s. Board architects Frederick Etherington and Peter Pennington, drawing upon Modernist design principles, created fresh, lively and inventive school buildings for the postwar generation. Today, many of these now-historic schools are in […]

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Annabel Vaughan – Perception Modern

University of Toronto´s Health Sciences Building 610 - 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

Framed through the lens of modernity, Annabel Vaughan will examine the profound influence that Peter Dickinson’s modern sensibility had on a number of Toronto architecture firms and will look at the conditions that precipitated the shift from the corner office onto the studio floor. A move that drove the creativity, epic martini fuelled parties and […]

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John Sewell: Beginnings of Post Modernism in Toronto

University of Toronto´s Health Sciences Building 610 - 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

John Sewell, former Mayor of Toronto, author of “How We Changed Toronto, 1969 – 1980,” will speak of the beginnings of post modernism, in Toronto. City Council’s Reform movement in in the 1970’s questioned modernist urban renewal and began the heritage movement in Toronto. Diamond and Myers’ York Square, currently at risk, was one of […]

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ACOTO Presents: Toronto 150+

Ontario Science Centre 770 Don Mills Road, Toronto, Onario, Canada

Update: Parking available at discounted rate of $5 per vehicle (be sure to state that you are attending the ACO event to get this discount). If you arrive before 9AM parking is free. If you wish to enter the Ontario Science Centre Exhibits or attend a movie at the theatre you can get a 20% […]

Bauhaus and the White City of Tel Aviv: The plan, the architects, the buildings (1920 – 1948)

Toronto Central Grosvenor Street YMCA Centre 20 Grosvenor Street, Toronto, ON, Canada

This talk will examine Bauhaus architecture and how it travelled to the rapidly growing city of Tel Aviv during the British Mandate in Palestine. We will learn why UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has declared the Tel Aviv: “… a synthesis of outstanding significance of the various trends of the Modern Movement in architecture and town […]