textual records
ARCH186504
Description:
“Residence Tait (Province de Québec)": p. 135-137, is by John Bird.
1957
Petites maisons en Amérique du Nord
Actions:
ARCH186504
Description:
“Residence Tait (Province de Québec)": p. 135-137, is by John Bird.
textual records
1957
Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
Actions:
Description:
Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
Actions:
Description:
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
Actions:
Description:
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
research
Visiting Scholars 2012
Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
2 April 2012 to 31 August 2012
Visiting Scholars 2012
Actions:
Description:
Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
research
2 April 2012 to
31 August 2012
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
14 March 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Warsaw: With Kuba Snopek
Actions:
Description:
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond the North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
21 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in London: With Léa-Catherine Szacka
Actions:
Description:
Looking beyond the North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
4 April 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Paris: With Pierre Chabard
Actions:
Description:
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
7 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Frankfurt: With André Bideau
Actions:
Description:
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Paul-Desmarais Theater