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(...)
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(...)
Main galleries
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
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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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is no doubt being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competences. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has emerged within the field of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
11 November 2010 to 13 November 2010
The CCA in an Expanding Curatorial Field
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Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is no doubt being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competences. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has emerged within the field of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
archives
- Library cage affiches cca 317912 | 2023-1 | 1 | exhibition poster | Available
- Library cage affiches cca 317914 | 2023-1 | 1 | film poster; image "Still image: To Remain in the No Longer" | Available
- Library cage affiches cca 317913 | 2023-1 | 2 | exhibition poster | Available
- Library cage affiches cca 317915 | 2023-1 | 2 | film poster; image "Still image: To Remain in the No Longer" | Available
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2 items : illustrations ; 97 cm or smaller
- Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907-2012.,
- Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli,
- Fairs Lebanon Tripoli.,
- Architecture Lebanon Tripoli.,
- Abandoned buildings Lebanon Tripoli.,
- Foires Liban Tripoli.,
- Architecture Liban Tripoli.,
- Constructions abandonnées Liban Tripoli.,
- Tripoli (Lebanon) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Exhibitions Canada Québec (Province) Montréal 2020-2030.,
- Exhibition posters.,
- posters.,
- Posters.,
- Affiches.
كیف لا نغرق في السراب = L’inertie du vide = To remain in the no longer :.
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- Library cage affiches cca 317912 | 2023-1 | 1 | exhibition poster | Available
- Library cage affiches cca 317914 | 2023-1 | 1 | film poster; image "Still image: To Remain in the No Longer" | Available
- Library cage affiches cca 317913 | 2023-1 | 2 | exhibition poster | Available
- Library cage affiches cca 317915 | 2023-1 | 2 | film poster; image "Still image: To Remain in the No Longer" | Available
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2 items : illustrations ; 97 cm or smaller
archives
- Niemeyer, Oscar, 1907-2012.,
- Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli,
- Fairs Lebanon Tripoli.,
- Architecture Lebanon Tripoli.,
- Abandoned buildings Lebanon Tripoli.,
- Foires Liban Tripoli.,
- Architecture Liban Tripoli.,
- Constructions abandonnées Liban Tripoli.,
- Tripoli (Lebanon) Buildings, structures, etc.,
- Exhibitions Canada Québec (Province) Montréal 2020-2030.,
- Exhibition posters.,
- posters.,
- Posters.,
- Affiches.
video
Curator talk : Lab cult.
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1 online resource (1 video file (38 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
Curator talk : Lab cult.
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1 online resource (1 video file (38 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
video
[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
books
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1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), audio file, color map, plan, video file
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.,
- Bridges Political aspects New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways New York (State) Long Island.,
- Highway planning New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.,
- Ponts Aspect politique New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes touristiques New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes Planification New York (État) Long Island Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Bridges Political aspects,
- Highway planning,
- Parkways,
- New York (State) Long Island,
- Bridges (built works) United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- e-books.,
- History,
- Livres numériques.
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2016]
Can design be devious? : the story of the Robert Moses bridges over the Long Island parkways, and other explorations of unexpected political consequences of design / Francesco Garutti ; contributors, Matthew Gandy, Stephen Graham, Antony Hudek, Albena Yaneva ; translation, Stephen Piccolo.
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1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color), audio file, color map, plan, video file
books
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2016]
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.,
- Bridges Political aspects New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways New York (State) Long Island.,
- Highway planning New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.,
- Ponts Aspect politique New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes touristiques New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes Planification New York (État) Long Island Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Bridges Political aspects,
- Highway planning,
- Parkways,
- New York (State) Long Island,
- Bridges (built works) United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- e-books.,
- History,
- Livres numériques.
video
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1 videodisc (49 min., 43 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in container 19 x 14 x 1 cm.
- Garutti, Francesco.,
- Mihandoust, Shahab.,
- Latour, Bruno.,
- Woolgar, Steve.,
- Winner, Langdon.,
- Koppelman, Lee.,
- Joerges, Bernward.,
- Kudla, Ron.,
- Bandiero, Frank.,
- Weisgerber, Erin.,
- Luu, Marguerite.,
- Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-,
- Azmin, Mehrdad.,
- Ahmadi, Fatemeh.,
- Centre canadien d'architecture.
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.,
- Bridges Political aspects New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways New York (State) Long Island.,
- Highway planning New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.,
- Architecture Historiography.,
- Ponts Aspect politique New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes touristiques New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes Planification New York (État) Long Island Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture Historiographie.,
- Bridges Political aspects,
- Highway planning,
- Parkways,
- New York (State) Long Island,
- Bridges (built works) United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- Video recordings (physical artifacts),
- Documentaries (motion picture genre),
- interviews.,
- optical disks.,
- DVDs.,
- History,
- Interviews.
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, c2014.
Misleading innocence [videorecording] : tracing what a bridge can do / a documentary film by Francesco Garutti ; directed by Shahab Mihandoust ; produced by Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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1 videodisc (49 min., 43 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in container 19 x 14 x 1 cm.
video
Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, c2014.
- Garutti, Francesco.,
- Mihandoust, Shahab.,
- Latour, Bruno.,
- Woolgar, Steve.,
- Winner, Langdon.,
- Koppelman, Lee.,
- Joerges, Bernward.,
- Kudla, Ron.,
- Bandiero, Frank.,
- Weisgerber, Erin.,
- Luu, Marguerite.,
- Borasi, Giovanna, 1971-,
- Azmin, Mehrdad.,
- Ahmadi, Fatemeh.,
- Centre canadien d'architecture.
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.,
- Bridges Political aspects New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways New York (State) Long Island.,
- Highway planning New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.,
- Architecture Historiography.,
- Ponts Aspect politique New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes touristiques New York (État) Long Island.,
- Routes Planification New York (État) Long Island Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Architecture Historiographie.,
- Bridges Political aspects,
- Highway planning,
- Parkways,
- New York (State) Long Island,
- Bridges (built works) United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- Parkways United States New York (State) Long Island.,
- Video recordings (physical artifacts),
- Documentaries (motion picture genre),
- interviews.,
- optical disks.,
- DVDs.,
- History,
- Interviews.