The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
Octagonal gallery
18 April 2002 to 29 September 2002
Lewis Baltz: The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
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The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
Octagonal gallery
Starting From... Pink
Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
Hall cases
11 September 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... Pink
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Architectural engagement with colour involves its physical materiality as well as its atmospheric and psychological aspects. This hall-case display features photographs, renderings, and colour tools from the CCA collection that represent, communicate, and imagine colour for architecture—with a particular emphasis on the hue of pink. Pink is a chromatic anomaly. As a(...)
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Take a Closer Look
The CCA’s collection of prints and drawings reveal ideas of architecture, the thinking process of architects, and the context they worked in.
Take a Closer Look
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The CCA’s collection of prints and drawings reveal ideas of architecture, the thinking process of architects, and the context they worked in.
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Soap
This Thursday the CCA teams up with Pecha Kucha Montréal to host Soap, a special edition exploring issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
soap, sense of the city, Jennifer Blair, Patrick Evans, Peter Fianu, Andrew Emond, Jason Prince, Nicholas Reeves
11 February 2010 , 6PM
Soap
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This Thursday the CCA teams up with Pecha Kucha Montréal to host Soap, a special edition exploring issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
soap, sense of the city, Jennifer Blair, Patrick Evans, Peter Fianu, Andrew Emond, Jason Prince, Nicholas Reeves
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(...)
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Captioning Milton-Parc
Francesca Russello Ammon, Milton-Parc, Clara Gutsche, David Miller, Milton-Park, captions, Mellon, photography, Montreal
20 October 2017
Captioning Milton-Parc
Text by Francesca Russello Ammon. Photographs by Clara Gutsche and David Miller
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Learning from the practice of DnA and architect Xu Tiantian, participants are invited to discover how various local materials from across the coastal ecosystem of Meizhou Island, are sourced, studied, and implemented into an architectural project. From bamboo to mangroves to oyster shells, this workshop is an invitation to explore how materials with diverse(...)
25 June 2024 to 17 November 2024
Material Workshop: In Low Tide
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Learning from the practice of DnA and architect Xu Tiantian, participants are invited to discover how various local materials from across the coastal ecosystem of Meizhou Island, are sourced, studied, and implemented into an architectural project. From bamboo to mangroves to oyster shells, this workshop is an invitation to explore how materials with diverse(...)
Gilles Clément
French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 October 2006
Gilles Clément
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French horticultural engineer and landscape architect Gilles Clément presents his projects and theories in the context of the CCA exhibition Environment: Approaches for Tomorrow (2006). The exhibition proposes a shift in perspective that takes the environment, and not human demands on the environment, as the starting point for reflection. Clément has designed numerous(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Although it has hosted concerts in the past, the Paul-Desmarais Theatre is better known for holding conferences and film screenings. Concerts traditionally held in the historic Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur will temporarily take place at the CCA and music will be reintroduced in the theatre, initiating new perceptions of sound, and of this space. Mindful of the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
CCA, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, concerts, chamber music, classical music, up-and-coming musicians.
31 January 2024 to 17 May 2024
Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur Concerts
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Although it has hosted concerts in the past, the Paul-Desmarais Theatre is better known for holding conferences and film screenings. Concerts traditionally held in the historic Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur will temporarily take place at the CCA and music will be reintroduced in the theatre, initiating new perceptions of sound, and of this space. Mindful of the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
CCA, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, concerts, chamber music, classical music, up-and-coming musicians.
Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 October 2009 , 7pm
Geoff Manaugh: Cities of the CDC
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre