Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 March 2000 to 7 May 2000
Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
articles
Photography as Project
Stefano Graziani; Bas Princen; The Lives of Documents, CCA collection, architecture photography, photography as a project
24 April 2023
articles
On the Edge
Keep Safe
5 February 2024
Keep Safe
textual records
ARCH273814
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File contains photography invoices for Arthur Erickson's book, The Architecture of Arthur Erickson, published by Thames and Hudson (1988).
Invoices for "The Architecture of Arthur Erickson" by Erickson
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File contains photography invoices for Arthur Erickson's book, The Architecture of Arthur Erickson, published by Thames and Hudson (1988).
textual records
AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.5
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An episode of the British television series Omnibus in which Prince Charles presents a critique of modern British architecture. [London] : BBC, c1988. Written & narrated by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ; researcher, Cassie Braban ; rostrum cameraman, Malcolm Kipling ; dubbing mixer, Rob James ; dubbing editor, Debbie Pragnell ; film recordists, Michael Spencer, Tim Humphries ; photography, John Daly, Colin Munn, Chris Sadler, Martin Patmore ; filmeditor, Jeff Shaw ; director, Nicholas Rossiter ; producer, Christopher Martin ; Omnibus editor, Andrew Snell.
architecture
1988
A vision of Britain : a personal view of architecture
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AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.5
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An episode of the British television series Omnibus in which Prince Charles presents a critique of modern British architecture. [London] : BBC, c1988. Written & narrated by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ; researcher, Cassie Braban ; rostrum cameraman, Malcolm Kipling ; dubbing mixer, Rob James ; dubbing editor, Debbie Pragnell ; film recordists, Michael Spencer, Tim Humphries ; photography, John Daly, Colin Munn, Chris Sadler, Martin Patmore ; filmeditor, Jeff Shaw ; director, Nicholas Rossiter ; producer, Christopher Martin ; Omnibus editor, Andrew Snell.
1988
architecture
ARCH285480
1967
Parkin recieving Massey Foundation Award in Architecture from Paul Martin Sr.
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Project
AP066.S3.D2
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Le dossier documente la soumission pour le concours pour un projet d'ornementation contemporaine en maçonnerie à la Place des Arts de Montréal où Jacques Rousseau, ex-aequo, s'est mérité le premier prix. Le budget aloué pour ce projet était de 3 000$. Il s'agit d'un mur de maçonnerie armée réalisé dans le cadre de l'Archifête à la Place-des-arts en 1984. Le mur a été déménagé sur la rue St-Hubert, la rue de Bullion, au Bar Business sur la rue Saint-Laurent et sur le terrain à l'avant de la Maison Coloniale. Le dossier contient des dessins, des photographies, des panneaux, des documents textuels et des documents photographiques. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Chante pleure, tant en temps la larme est donnée À qui s'est tu!" Siglinde Spanihel [pseudonyme?], "Premier prix ex-aequo: Jacques Rousseau, architecte", ARQ vol. 21, nº 9.
1984
Concours "Architecture en relief " de l'archifête - Projet d'ornementation contemporaine en maçonnerie
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AP066.S3.D2
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Le dossier documente la soumission pour le concours pour un projet d'ornementation contemporaine en maçonnerie à la Place des Arts de Montréal où Jacques Rousseau, ex-aequo, s'est mérité le premier prix. Le budget aloué pour ce projet était de 3 000$. Il s'agit d'un mur de maçonnerie armée réalisé dans le cadre de l'Archifête à la Place-des-arts en 1984. Le mur a été déménagé sur la rue St-Hubert, la rue de Bullion, au Bar Business sur la rue Saint-Laurent et sur le terrain à l'avant de la Maison Coloniale. Le dossier contient des dessins, des photographies, des panneaux, des documents textuels et des documents photographiques. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Chante pleure, tant en temps la larme est donnée À qui s'est tu!" Siglinde Spanihel [pseudonyme?], "Premier prix ex-aequo: Jacques Rousseau, architecte", ARQ vol. 21, nº 9.
Dossier 2
1984
photographs
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82 photograph(s)
PH1996:0069:001-109
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Group of 109 Polaroid photographs made by Aldo Rossi with some presented in the exhibition 'Luigi Ghirri - Aldo Rossi. Things Which Are Only Themselves' held at the CCA in 1996. The photographs represent several scenes from Rossi's travels in different countries: building façades, sacred images, billboards, houses from a Shaker village, baroque façades of churches (in Lecce, Italy), shops, street scenes, lakes, ports, showcases and furniture. Rossi's photography shows the interest he shares with photographer Luigi Ghirri in the belief in the autonomous eye of the photographer and in the potential of that eye to reveal something new to the architect. Ghirri sees in Rossi's Polaroids a "concealed passion, the 'secret' images of the architect, [...] puzzles that are solved with the heart". And according to his definition of photography, "a tangle of monuments, lights, thoughts, objects, moments and metaphors forming the landscape we are searching for in our minds... as would the points of an imaginary compass, which indicates a possible direction".
architecture, engineering, sculpture
1980s-1990s
Group of views of architecture from Aldo Rossi's trips to Italy, France, Corsica, Greece, United States and unspecified countries
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PH1996:0069:001-109
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Group of 109 Polaroid photographs made by Aldo Rossi with some presented in the exhibition 'Luigi Ghirri - Aldo Rossi. Things Which Are Only Themselves' held at the CCA in 1996. The photographs represent several scenes from Rossi's travels in different countries: building façades, sacred images, billboards, houses from a Shaker village, baroque façades of churches (in Lecce, Italy), shops, street scenes, lakes, ports, showcases and furniture. Rossi's photography shows the interest he shares with photographer Luigi Ghirri in the belief in the autonomous eye of the photographer and in the potential of that eye to reveal something new to the architect. Ghirri sees in Rossi's Polaroids a "concealed passion, the 'secret' images of the architect, [...] puzzles that are solved with the heart". And according to his definition of photography, "a tangle of monuments, lights, thoughts, objects, moments and metaphors forming the landscape we are searching for in our minds... as would the points of an imaginary compass, which indicates a possible direction".
photographs
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82 photograph(s)
1980s-1990s
architecture, engineering, sculpture
photographs
ARCH259763
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de France, d'Italie, d'oeuvre d'arts, d'architecture et de travaux d'ingénierie. Contient les planches contact des originaux sur nitrates numéro 1 à numéro 149.
1910s-1950s
Planches contacts de diverses photographies personnelles et professionnelles
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Cette boîte contient des planches contacts de photographies personnelles d'Ernest Cormier, incluant des photographies de France, d'Italie, d'oeuvre d'arts, d'architecture et de travaux d'ingénierie. Contient les planches contact des originaux sur nitrates numéro 1 à numéro 149.
photographs
1910s-1950s