Join us Wednesday November 20 from 4–7 pm to honour the women who planned and designed our built environment. This event is free and open to the public. 4pm: Welcome and editing Begins 6pm: Shaughnessy House for snacks, guided tours, and socializing until 7pm Register by emailing mailto:cspeirs@cca.qc.ca Study Room, CCA 1920 rue Baile Montréal, QC
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20 November 2024, 4pm-7pm
Foregrounding Canadian Women Architects
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Join us Wednesday November 20 from 4–7 pm to honour the women who planned and designed our built environment. This event is free and open to the public. 4pm: Welcome and editing Begins 6pm: Shaughnessy House for snacks, guided tours, and socializing until 7pm Register by emailing mailto:cspeirs@cca.qc.ca Study Room, CCA 1920 rue Baile Montréal, QC
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
21 September 2017, 6:30pm
David B. Stewart, what was history for Kazuo Shinohara?
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Kazuo Shinohara was a deeply influential figure in postwar architecture in Japan best known for his individual houses, but he remains little studied today, especially outside Japan. Shinohara connected traditional forms and an investigation of modernist tenets with the high-tech and information technology moments yet to come. What was his attitude toward history, and how(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
David B. Stewart, Kazuo Shinohara, What is/was history for…
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.
summer camp
Adieu, Mel
In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
23 January 2013 , 6pm
Adieu, Mel
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In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, applies a sensory studies approach to the analysis of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his anthropological and archival research. These range from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine(...)
Shaughnessy House
26 February 2015 , 6pm
The Sensory Interior
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David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, applies a sensory studies approach to the analysis of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his anthropological and archival research. These range from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine(...)
Shaughnessy House
The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
9 February 2017
An Afternoon with Cedric Price no. 2
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The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2001
James S. Ackerman: On the Origins of Architectural Photography
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Focusing on the beginnings of photography, James S. Ackerman, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow,explores what photography introduced to the conventions of architectural representation and what were the sources of this new system of vision. The subject of Ackerman’s lecture springs from his research on architectural photography and on the origins of the conventions of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Join us on Thursday 1 August as Ignacio G. Galan explores the activist designs developed within this context by disabled individuals in their own spaces of residence. Through select objects from the CCA Collection Ignacio G. Galán will situate the Center of Independent Living’s transformations of the household in relation to shifting discourses and paradigms of(...)
1 August 2024, 6pm
Research Fellow Seminar: Ignacio G. Galán
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Join us on Thursday 1 August as Ignacio G. Galan explores the activist designs developed within this context by disabled individuals in their own spaces of residence. Through select objects from the CCA Collection Ignacio G. Galán will situate the Center of Independent Living’s transformations of the household in relation to shifting discourses and paradigms of(...)
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
Reading the Archive Out Loud
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. On 12 July, 30 August, and 27 September, CCA staff and special guests read letters written by children, threatening lawyers, architects trying to manage disasters, as well as lectures that were never delivered, from the archives of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and James Stirling and Michael(...)
Parc Baile
12 July 2018, 6:30pm
Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. On 12 July, 30 August, and 27 September, CCA staff and special guests read letters written by children, threatening lawyers, architects trying to manage disasters, as well as lectures that were never delivered, from the archives of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and James Stirling and Michael(...)
Parc Baile