Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is no doubt being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competences. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has emerged within the field of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
11 November 2010 to 13 November 2010
The CCA in an Expanding Curatorial Field
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Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is no doubt being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competences. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has emerged within the field of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
virtual fellowship program, Nokubekezela Mchunu, Wafa Ali, Papers that Remain, post-custodial archives, Africa
1 March 2022 to 23 December 2022
CCA Virtual Fellowship Program 2022
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
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1 March 2022 to
23 December 2022
Reading the Archive Out Loud
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. On 12 July, 30 August, and 27 September, CCA staff and special guests read letters written by children, threatening lawyers, architects trying to manage disasters, as well as lectures that were never delivered, from the archives of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and James Stirling and Michael(...)
Parc Baile
12 July 2018, 6:30pm
Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. On 12 July, 30 August, and 27 September, CCA staff and special guests read letters written by children, threatening lawyers, architects trying to manage disasters, as well as lectures that were never delivered, from the archives of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and James Stirling and Michael(...)
Parc Baile
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
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ARCH273704
2004-2005
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2004-2005
PH1989:0092
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December 1988
architecture
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PH1989:0100
architecture
December 1988
photographs
December 1988
architecture
photographs
PH1989:0108
architecture
December 1988
photographs
December 1988
architecture
textual records
CCA leaflet for exhibition "Designing the Disney Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance"
DR2004:1525
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CCA leaflet for exhibition "Designing the Disney Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance", CCA correspondence and list of drawings from CP Archive to be published
1997-2001
CCA leaflet for exhibition "Designing the Disney Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance"
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DR2004:1525
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CCA leaflet for exhibition "Designing the Disney Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance", CCA correspondence and list of drawings from CP Archive to be published
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1997-2001
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A Matter of Terms
Critical Cataloguing, Pierre Jeanneret, CCA archive, United Africa Company, terminology, archival descriptions, changing terms, peon, Chandigarh, India
23 May 2023
A Matter of Terms
Jennifer Préfontaine, Michele Tenzon, Ewan Harrison, Iain Jackson, Claire Tunstall, and Rixt Woudstra discuss changing terms in archival descriptions
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