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(...)
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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(...)
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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Dieter Appelt: The Catastrophe of Things presents images of the attic of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fascinated by sites charged with history, German artist Dieter Appelt uses his examination of the attic to inquire into the invisible, mysterious, and indefinite forces of decay that lie beyond everyday experience. By concentrating on structural details, and by(...)
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17 April 1996 to 4 August 1996
Dieter Appelt: The Catastrophe of Things
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Dieter Appelt: The Catastrophe of Things presents images of the attic of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fascinated by sites charged with history, German artist Dieter Appelt uses his examination of the attic to inquire into the invisible, mysterious, and indefinite forces of decay that lie beyond everyday experience. By concentrating on structural details, and by(...)
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First, the Forests
*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
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4 October 2012 to 6 January 2013
First, the Forests
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*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
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Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
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13 November 1991 to 16 February 1992
Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano: The Architecture of the Domestic Sanitation Movement, 1870-1914
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Victorian medical experts insisted that houses were like bodies—that buildings could be sick—and that healthy architecture entailed a “systematic” approach to domestic sanitation, drawing from the burgeoning field of physiology. *Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano—“a healthy body in a healthy house”—explores the spatial, professional, and gender implications of the(...)
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13 November 1991 to
16 February 1992
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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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To Build Law
To Build Law, the forthcoming documentary directed by Joshua Frank and exhibition curated by Francesco Garutti, will follow bplus.xyz (b+) as they establish a policy lab, HouseEurope.eu, to propose industry reforms and shift cultural norms. To Build Law will closely observe the b+ team during various phases of conceptualization and development of a European Citizens’(...)
10 December 2024 to 25 May 2025
To Build Law
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To Build Law, the forthcoming documentary directed by Joshua Frank and exhibition curated by Francesco Garutti, will follow bplus.xyz (b+) as they establish a policy lab, HouseEurope.eu, to propose industry reforms and shift cultural norms. To Build Law will closely observe the b+ team during various phases of conceptualization and development of a European Citizens’(...)
The drawings presented in this exhibition are annotated to show the Italian Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio as a draughtsman considering a blank sheet of paper. Palladio at Work considers a life sustained by drawing, the process by which Palladio’s design was developed, argued, and communicated. Curated by Guido Beltramini and Charles Hind. Co-organized with(...)
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3 March 2011 to 22 May 2011
Palladio at Work: An annotated exhibition
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The drawings presented in this exhibition are annotated to show the Italian Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio as a draughtsman considering a blank sheet of paper. Palladio at Work considers a life sustained by drawing, the process by which Palladio’s design was developed, argued, and communicated. Curated by Guido Beltramini and Charles Hind. Co-organized with(...)
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Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
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22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
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18 May 1994 to 11 September 1994
The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
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