19 March 1999
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Visiting Scholars 1998–1999
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Annalisa Avon, Independent researcher, Fiume Veneto, Italy Topic: Baroque in France Before Bernini’s Arrival Dirk De Meyer, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Topic: Johann Santini Aichel (1677-1723) Rochelle Ziskin, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States Topic: Lexicons of Feminity and(...)
September 1998 to August 1999
Visiting Scholars 1998–1999
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Annalisa Avon, Independent researcher, Fiume Veneto, Italy Topic: Baroque in France Before Bernini’s Arrival Dirk De Meyer, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Topic: Johann Santini Aichel (1677-1723) Rochelle Ziskin, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States Topic: Lexicons of Feminity and(...)
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September 1998 to
August 1999
When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
Hall cases
22 April 2015 to 30 November 2015
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
Hall cases
Seagram Plaza
The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis of calm, distant from the commotion and turbulence of the street. The way in which the plaza has been adopted by New Yorkers(...)
Hall cases
1 May 2013 to 18 August 2013
Seagram Plaza
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The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis of calm, distant from the commotion and turbulence of the street. The way in which the plaza has been adopted by New Yorkers(...)
Hall cases
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
2012 Visiting Scholar Manfredo di Robilant examines dropped ceilings through the rise, the decline, and the rethinking of Modern architecture. Click here for the Facebook event.
31 May 2012 , 6PM
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Manfredo di Robilant
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2012 Visiting Scholar Manfredo di Robilant examines dropped ceilings through the rise, the decline, and the rethinking of Modern architecture. Click here for the Facebook event.
This Thursday at 6 pm, 2011 Visiting Scholar Łukasz Stanek presents the first public talk of his book Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
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Łukasz Stanek, visiting scholar seminar, Lukasz Stanek, Henri Lefebvre on Space, Henri Lefebvre
4 August 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Łukasz Stanek
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This Thursday at 6 pm, 2011 Visiting Scholar Łukasz Stanek presents the first public talk of his book Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
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Łukasz Stanek, visiting scholar seminar, Lukasz Stanek, Henri Lefebvre on Space, Henri Lefebvre
Michelangelo Sabatino, 2011 Visiting Scholar, offers an overview of Arthur Erickson’s contribution to shaping the city of the 20th century, drawn from his forthcoming book Arthur Erickson : Architectural Environments. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
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Michelangelo Sabatino, visiting scholar seminar
11 August 2011, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Michelangelo Sabatino
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Michelangelo Sabatino, 2011 Visiting Scholar, offers an overview of Arthur Erickson’s contribution to shaping the city of the 20th century, drawn from his forthcoming book Arthur Erickson : Architectural Environments. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
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Michelangelo Sabatino, visiting scholar seminar
2011 Visiting Scholar Penelope Dean examines the forms of architectural and design history that dominated the twentieth century and speculates on a world in which choice is only imaginable through the prior and pervasive saturation of design. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Penelope Dean
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2011 Visiting Scholar Penelope Dean examines the forms of architectural and design history that dominated the twentieth century and speculates on a world in which choice is only imaginable through the prior and pervasive saturation of design. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House