Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
14 November 2024 to 16 March 2025
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries, 1950–1961
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Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
Toys and Transport
Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
Toys and Transport
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Every new transportation link and every change in systems of urban mobility introduces new infrastructure to the urban landscape: massive cuts enabling railway tracks to converge at a terminal or junction; wide railyards that service suburban and metropolitan transit systems; the proliferation of bridges, ramps, elevated highways, freeway cuts, parking lots, and even(...)
Octagonal gallery
Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2016, 6pm
Unravelling the Digital Landscape
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In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
27 June 2016 to 30 June 2016
Toolkit for Today: Keywords for the Environment
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The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Visiting Scholars 1997–1998
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Barbara Arciszewska, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Topic: Continental Baroque and the Emergence of Palladianism in England Hugh Cullum, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Cullum and Nightingale Architects, London, United Kingdom Topic: On the Ducal Palace La Venaria Reale near Turin and(...)
September 1997 to August 1998
Visiting Scholars 1997–1998
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Barbara Arciszewska, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Topic: Continental Baroque and the Emergence of Palladianism in England Hugh Cullum, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Cullum and Nightingale Architects, London, United Kingdom Topic: On the Ducal Palace La Venaria Reale near Turin and(...)
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September 1997 to
August 1998
The first biography of one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Cornelia Oberlander and her collaborators. Author Susan Herrington joins Oberlander in conversation about her works and career. The series They want(...)
14 September 2014 , 3pm
Cornelia Oberlander and Susan Herrington want to speak with you
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The first biography of one of the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape draws upon archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Cornelia Oberlander and her collaborators. Author Susan Herrington joins Oberlander in conversation about her works and career. The series They want(...)
Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
17 October 2016, 6:30pm
What Comes After the Environment?
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
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Visiting Scholars 2004
Jean-Pierre Chupin, École darchitecture, Université de Montréal, Canada Topic: Théories du projet et paradoxes de la pensée analogique au tournant des années 70 Samuel D. Abert, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Topic: And was Jerusalem builded here… Maarten Delbeke, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium Topic: The Sacred History of(...)
January 2004 to August 2004
Visiting Scholars 2004
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Jean-Pierre Chupin, École darchitecture, Université de Montréal, Canada Topic: Théories du projet et paradoxes de la pensée analogique au tournant des années 70 Samuel D. Abert, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Topic: And was Jerusalem builded here… Maarten Delbeke, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium Topic: The Sacred History of(...)
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January 2004 to
August 2004