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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
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Main galleries and hall cases
Main galleries and hall cases
Date:
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
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En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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24 November 1999 to
30 April 2000
24 November 1999 to
30 April 2000
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Main galleries and hall cases
Main galleries and hall cases
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AP066.S8
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Cette série contient les documents de Jacques Rousseau relatifs à sa formation d'architecte à l'Université de Montréal. On y retrouve la documentation sur les cours suivis et sur les projets réalisés dans le cadre de l'université ou bien, avant son inscription au baccalauréat en architecture, lorsque dans les années 1960 Jacques Rousseau ébauchait déjà des projets d'architecture. Le troisième dossier regroupe les documents relatifs à son engagement au sein de l'école d'architecture. L'ensemble de cette série documente la formation des architectes au Québec dans les années 1970.
AP066.S8
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Cette série contient les documents de Jacques Rousseau relatifs à sa formation d'architecte à l'Université de Montréal. On y retrouve la documentation sur les cours suivis et sur les projets réalisés dans le cadre de l'université ou bien, avant son inscription au baccalauréat en architecture, lorsque dans les années 1960 Jacques Rousseau ébauchait déjà des projets d'architecture. Le troisième dossier regroupe les documents relatifs à son engagement au sein de l'école d'architecture. L'ensemble de cette série documente la formation des architectes au Québec dans les années 1970.
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1968-1980
1968-1980
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AP066.S8
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Cette série contient les documents de Jacques Rousseau relatifs à sa formation d'architecte à l'Université de Montréal. On y retrouve la documentation sur les cours suivis et sur les projets réalisés dans le cadre de l'université ou bien, avant son inscription au baccalauréat en architecture, lorsque dans les années 1960 Jacques Rousseau ébauchait déjà des projets d'architecture. Le troisième dossier regroupe les documents relatifs à son engagement au sein de l'école d'architecture. L'ensemble de cette série documente la formation des architectes au Québec dans les années 1970.
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AP066.S8
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Cette série contient les documents de Jacques Rousseau relatifs à sa formation d'architecte à l'Université de Montréal. On y retrouve la documentation sur les cours suivis et sur les projets réalisés dans le cadre de l'université ou bien, avant son inscription au baccalauréat en architecture, lorsque dans les années 1960 Jacques Rousseau ébauchait déjà des projets d'architecture. Le troisième dossier regroupe les documents relatifs à son engagement au sein de l'école d'architecture. L'ensemble de cette série documente la formation des architectes au Québec dans les années 1970.
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Série 8
Série 8
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1968-1980
1968-1980
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Learning Architecture
Learning Architecture
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As architecture acquired its modern identity as both a liberal art and a regulated profession, and as architectural theories and forms underwent radical transformations, the training of architects did not fundamentally change. The core activities of architectural students remain “Authority,” the study of treatises and theoretical works, “Observation,” the study of the(...)
As architecture acquired its modern identity as both a liberal art and a regulated profession, and as architectural theories and forms underwent radical transformations, the training of architects did not fundamentally change. The core activities of architectural students remain “Authority,” the study of treatises and theoretical works, “Observation,” the study of the(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
5 July 1994 to 2 October 1994
5 July 1994 to 2 October 1994
Title:
Learning Architecture
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As architecture acquired its modern identity as both a liberal art and a regulated profession, and as architectural theories and forms underwent radical transformations, the training of architects did not fundamentally change. The core activities of architectural students remain “Authority,” the study of treatises and theoretical works, “Observation,” the study of the(...)
Learning Architecture
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As architecture acquired its modern identity as both a liberal art and a regulated profession, and as architectural theories and forms underwent radical transformations, the training of architects did not fundamentally change. The core activities of architectural students remain “Authority,” the study of treatises and theoretical works, “Observation,” the study of the(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
5 July 1994 to
2 October 1994
5 July 1994 to
2 October 1994
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Title:
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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4 December 1991 to
8 March 1992
4 December 1991 to
8 March 1992
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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events
events
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
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Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Date:
7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009
7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
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events
events
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7 March 2009 to
8 March 2009
7 March 2009 to
8 March 2009
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Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
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Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Date:
14 October 1983 to 11 December 1983
14 October 1983 to 11 December 1983
Title:
The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture in Montréal
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The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture in Montréal
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The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
14 October 1983 to
11 December 1983
14 October 1983 to
11 December 1983
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Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
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Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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7 May 1989 to
25 March 1990
7 May 1989 to
25 March 1990
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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events
events
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Luka Skansi
The Forms of Space: Teaching Architecture at the VKhUTEMAS
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Luka Skansi
The Forms of Space: Teaching Architecture at the VKhUTEMAS
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Luka Skansi, a current Visiting Scholar, presents on the teaching method at the VKhUTEMAS. Click here for the Facebook event.
Luka Skansi, a current Visiting Scholar, presents on the teaching method at the VKhUTEMAS. Click here for the Facebook event.
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Shaughnessy House
Presented in English
Shaughnessy House
Presented in English
Date:
26 July 2012, 6PM
26 July 2012, 6PM
Title:
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Luka Skansi
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Luka Skansi, a current Visiting Scholar, presents on the teaching method at the VKhUTEMAS. Click here for the Facebook event.
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Luka Skansi
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Luka Skansi, a current Visiting Scholar, presents on the teaching method at the VKhUTEMAS. Click here for the Facebook event.
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events
events
Date:
26 July 2012
6PM
26 July 2012
6PM
Location:
Shaughnessy House
Presented in English
Shaughnessy House
Presented in English
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archives
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Fonds
archives
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Fonds
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AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
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1996-2015
1996-2015
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RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
Synopsis:
The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
Synopsis:
The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
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archives
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Fonds
archives
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Fonds
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1996-2015
1996-2015
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articles
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Huda Tayob presents film as an embodied archive and critique of the modernizing city
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Huda Tayob, Centring Africa, La Noire de…, Ousmane Sembène, Frantz Fanon, Dakar, Antibes
Huda Tayob, Centring Africa, La Noire de…, Ousmane Sembène, Frantz Fanon, Dakar, Antibes
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22 March 2021
22 March 2021
Title:
Reading Architecture through La Noire de...
Huda Tayob presents film as an embodied archive and critique of the modernizing city
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Reading Architecture through La Noire de...
Huda Tayob presents film as an embodied archive and critique of the modernizing city
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