At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Hall cases
12 June 1990 to 16 September 1990
Airport Origins: Three Projects by Lloyd Wright
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Hall cases
Inside the Sponge
Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 August 2006 to 19 November 2006
Inside the Sponge
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Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
*Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988* explores how American architect and writer Peter Eisenman questioned the concept of “site,” and demonstrates the importance of drawing and modelmaking in generating his ideas. The exhibition reveals the richness and complexity of the design process by looking carefully at Eisenman’s drawings and(...)
Main galleries
2 March 1994 to 19 June 1994
Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988
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*Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988* explores how American architect and writer Peter Eisenman questioned the concept of “site,” and demonstrates the importance of drawing and modelmaking in generating his ideas. The exhibition reveals the richness and complexity of the design process by looking carefully at Eisenman’s drawings and(...)
Main galleries
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 September 2010, 6pm
Robert Burley: The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
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Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
9 October 2008
Rebecca Solnit: The Ruins of Hope, Hope in the Ruins
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Rebecca Solnit, 2008 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, is an independent writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim, and the Western Writers of America Spur(...)
Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2003
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
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AP095
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Le fonds Concours Biennale de Venise 1996 comprend principalement les 16 projets sélectionnés dans le cadre du concours national d'idées devant proposer un projet conceptuel pour un pavillon canadien de l'architecture à Venise. Les 16 projets lauréats ont été présentés, avec des oeuvres architecturales de l'agence Patkau Architects de Vancouver, pour représenter le Canada à la VIe Exposition internationale d'architecture de la Biennale de Venise 1996.
1994-1996
Fonds Concours Biennale de Venise 1996
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AP095
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Le fonds Concours Biennale de Venise 1996 comprend principalement les 16 projets sélectionnés dans le cadre du concours national d'idées devant proposer un projet conceptuel pour un pavillon canadien de l'architecture à Venise. Les 16 projets lauréats ont été présentés, avec des oeuvres architecturales de l'agence Patkau Architects de Vancouver, pour représenter le Canada à la VIe Exposition internationale d'architecture de la Biennale de Venise 1996.
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1994-1996
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Projets de concours
AP066.S3
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Cette série regroupe des documents relatifs à quatorze concours d'architecture ayant été tenus au Québec, au Canada et à l'étranger entre 1984 et 1997. Puisque Jacques Rousseau a participé aux principaux concours d'architecture locaux, cette série documente une partie importante de la culture architecturale québécoise contemporaine. Ces projets de concours permettent de retracer le parcours de la pensée de Jacques Rousseau sur la ville et sa recherche d'un vocabulaire figuratif capable de symboliser la collectivité. Enfin le concours de l'OAQ (1984), pour lequel Jacques Rousseau a reçu un prix pour son projet de ponts habitables sur le Canal de Lachine, est documenté pour la première fois.
1984-1997
Projets de concours
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AP066.S3
Description:
Cette série regroupe des documents relatifs à quatorze concours d'architecture ayant été tenus au Québec, au Canada et à l'étranger entre 1984 et 1997. Puisque Jacques Rousseau a participé aux principaux concours d'architecture locaux, cette série documente une partie importante de la culture architecturale québécoise contemporaine. Ces projets de concours permettent de retracer le parcours de la pensée de Jacques Rousseau sur la ville et sa recherche d'un vocabulaire figuratif capable de symboliser la collectivité. Enfin le concours de l'OAQ (1984), pour lequel Jacques Rousseau a reçu un prix pour son projet de ponts habitables sur le Canal de Lachine, est documenté pour la première fois.
Série 3
1984-1997