Will Alsop: Street Creatures
British architect Will Alsop discusses his projects, working methods, and influences. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Will Alsop: OCAD, an Urban Manifesto (2008), which reveals the architect’s design process through preparatory paintings, sketches, and models for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 October 2008
Will Alsop: Street Creatures
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British architect Will Alsop discusses his projects, working methods, and influences. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Will Alsop: OCAD, an Urban Manifesto (2008), which reveals the architect’s design process through preparatory paintings, sketches, and models for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
In this exhibition, a selection of contemporary publications and critical investigations lay the groundwork through which to explore the relationship between travel and design today, while selected items from the CCA collection offer a historiography of tourism.
12 December 2019 to 15 November 2020
Detour: Alternative Readings of Travel
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In this exhibition, a selection of contemporary publications and critical investigations lay the groundwork through which to explore the relationship between travel and design today, while selected items from the CCA collection offer a historiography of tourism.
This summer, we offer day camps providing children from ages 7 to 10 a wide range of activities that engage with architecture, the built environment, and design. Join us for this opportunity to discover the CCA through visits, workshops, and games that will engage and extend children’s creativity.
summer camp
June 2025 to August 2025
Summer Camp 2025
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This summer, we offer day camps providing children from ages 7 to 10 a wide range of activities that engage with architecture, the built environment, and design. Join us for this opportunity to discover the CCA through visits, workshops, and games that will engage and extend children’s creativity.
summer camp
This summer, we are offering a week-long day camp providing children from ages 7 to 11 a wide range of activities that engage with architecture, the built environment, and design. Join us for this opportunity to discover the CCA through visits, workshops, and games that will engage and extend children’s creativity.
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August 2024
Summer Camp 2024
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This summer, we are offering a week-long day camp providing children from ages 7 to 11 a wide range of activities that engage with architecture, the built environment, and design. Join us for this opportunity to discover the CCA through visits, workshops, and games that will engage and extend children’s creativity.
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To coincide with the opening of our exhibition To Build Law, we invite you to a roundtable on renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada. Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar (bplus.xyz), and Juliette Cook (Ha/f Climate Design) will discuss the economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada, roundtable, economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation
11 December 2024, 6pm
Tear Down or Repair
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To coincide with the opening of our exhibition To Build Law, we invite you to a roundtable on renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada. Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar (bplus.xyz), and Juliette Cook (Ha/f Climate Design) will discuss the economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada, roundtable, economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation
This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
13 November 2019 to 26 July 2020
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
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Fonds
Luc Laporte fonds
AP068
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Le Fond Luc Laporte documente les propositions et les réalisations issus de l'atelier de Luc Laporte pour le secteur est du Vieux-Port de Montréal.
1991-1993
Luc Laporte fonds
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Le Fond Luc Laporte documente les propositions et les réalisations issus de l'atelier de Luc Laporte pour le secteur est du Vieux-Port de Montréal.
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1991-1993
The Other Architect
For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
28 October 2015 to 10 April 2016
The Other Architect
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For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries
18 October 2006 to 10 June 2007
Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow
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Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow broaches issues such as energy consumption and natural resources, the question of limiting humanity’s control of the environment, the search for renewable resources, and the optimal means to employ them. Through the work of French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément and Swiss architect Philippe Rahm, the(...)
Main galleries