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The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
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During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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20 October 2004 to 11 September 2005
20 October 2004 to 11 September 2005
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The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
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During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
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During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
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exhibitions
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20 October 2004 to
11 September 2005
20 October 2004 to
11 September 2005
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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15 July 1992 to 22 November 1992
15 July 1992 to 22 November 1992
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An Industrial Landscape Observed: The Lachine Canal
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Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
An Industrial Landscape Observed: The Lachine Canal
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Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
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exhibitions
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15 July 1992 to
22 November 1992
15 July 1992 to
22 November 1992
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
12 May 2015 to 4 October 2015
12 May 2015 to 4 October 2015
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The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
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Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
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Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
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12 May 2015 to
4 October 2015
12 May 2015 to
4 October 2015
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Main galleries
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In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.(...)
In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.(...)
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16 November 2016 to 9 April 2017
16 November 2016 to 9 April 2017
Title:
It’s All Happening So Fast
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In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.(...)
It’s All Happening So Fast
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In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.(...)
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exhibitions
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16 November 2016 to
9 April 2017
16 November 2016 to
9 April 2017
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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exhibitions
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5 March 1997 to
25 May 1997
5 March 1997 to
25 May 1997
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
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New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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exhibitions
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15 November 2000 to
1 April 2001
15 November 2000 to
1 April 2001
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
11 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
11 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
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Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness
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The exhibition Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness presents a series of photographs by Canadian artist Robert Burley, documenting the decline of traditional photographic equipment manufacturing brought on by new technologies. Since 2005, digital photographic technology has increasingly displaced its analog predecessor, resulting in a plummeting demand for(...)
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exhibitions
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11 September 2009 to
15 November 2009
11 September 2009 to
15 November 2009
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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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(...)
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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
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7 May 1989 to
25 March 1990
7 May 1989 to
25 March 1990
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
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Mies in America
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
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Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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exhibitions
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17 October 2001 to
20 January 2002
17 October 2001 to
20 January 2002
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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research
research
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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April 2022
April 2022
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Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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research
research
Date:
April 2022
April 2022
