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First, the Forests
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Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
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7 May 1989 to 15 August 1989
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal
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Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
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Mass-produced objects are often overlooked in favour of more sophisticated and more scholarly sources as the basis for understanding architecture as it is perceived and interpreted for popular assimilation. Focusing on the United States between the 1890s and the 1960s Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A. highlights ephemeral items that have created public awareness of(...)
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14 June 1995 to 29 October 1995
Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A.
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Mass-produced objects are often overlooked in favour of more sophisticated and more scholarly sources as the basis for understanding architecture as it is perceived and interpreted for popular assimilation. Focusing on the United States between the 1890s and the 1960s Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A. highlights ephemeral items that have created public awareness of(...)
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*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
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8 September 1992 to 28 February 1993
Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal
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*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
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Civic Visions, World's Fairs
The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
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17 March 1993 to 1 August 1993
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
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The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
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Old Books New Cities
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
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12 December 2013 to 15 June 2014
Old Books New Cities
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The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
Octagonal gallery
29 September 2016 to 22 January 2017
17 Volcanoes: Works by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Armin Linke, and Bas Princen
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
The decay and neglect of polluted industrial sites on the edges of cities became a worldwide phenomenon by the end of the twentieth century. The industrial site of Marghera lies on the waterfront overlooking the historical city of Venice, confronting La Serenissima as its titanic alter ego. This exhibition presents the complex and changing reality of Marghera through the(...)
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9 December 1998 to 25 April 1999
Photography and Transformations of the Contemporary City: Venezia – Marghera
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The decay and neglect of polluted industrial sites on the edges of cities became a worldwide phenomenon by the end of the twentieth century. The industrial site of Marghera lies on the waterfront overlooking the historical city of Venice, confronting La Serenissima as its titanic alter ego. This exhibition presents the complex and changing reality of Marghera through the(...)
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