The CCA holds one of the world’s foremost international research collections of publications, conceptual studies, drawings, plans, models, prints, photographs, related artefacts and ephemera, archives and oral histories of individual architects.

The Collection now comprises over half a million examples that testify to the diverse ways in which architecture has been imagined, conceived, observed, and transformed for the past six centuries.

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Library Catalogue (books and periodicals, vertical files, audiovisual items, artefacts , printed ephemera, archives and collections and their finding aids)

Collection Online (prints and drawings, photographs, models, artefacts, archives and collections and their finding aids)

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Researchers may consult the Collection in the Library Reading Room by contacting Collection Reference. For information about reproductions from the Collection, contact Rights and Reproductions.

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photographs

Forth Bridge, Scotland

Following the collapse of Scotland’s Tay suspension bridge in 1879, engineers John Fowler and Benjamin Baker reconceived the Forth Rail Bridge... read more
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prints and drawings

Cedric Price: Fun Palace

Cedric Price (1934 – 2003) was one of the most influential and visionary architects of the late-twentieth century, focusing on time-based... read more
about prints and drawings

archives

James Stirling/ Michael Wilford Archive

The work of the internationally acclaimed British architect James Stirling (1926-92) is rooted in the Modernism of Le Corbusier, liberally... read more
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publications

Architectural Competitions

Close to 500 briefs from international competitions for architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning form an area of the Collection... read more
about publications

artefacts and media

Hoffman Collection of Souvenir Models

To date, 983 souvenir models representing architectural structures and monuments and originally assembled by Barry Hoffman, are owned by the... read more
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selections from CCA collection

Alexander Rodchenko: View of the colonnade, Museum of the Revolution, Moscow

With its foreshortened perspective, this monumental image (1926-1927) is a testament to the experimentation of photographers in Soviet Russia... read more

Pamphlet Literature on Defense Housing

In 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Service and Training Act into law, the first peacetime draft. The United States... read more