The CCA holds one of the world’s foremost international research collections of publications, conceptual studies, drawings, plans, models, prints, photographs, related artefacts and ephemera, archives and oral histories of individual architects.

The Collection now comprises over half a million examples that testify to the diverse ways in which architecture has been imagined, conceived, observed, and transformed for the past six centuries.

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Researchers may consult the Collection in the Library Reading Room by contacting Collection Reference. For information about reproductions from the Collection, contact Rights and Reproductions.

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photographs

Jeff Wall: Dominus Winery

In the winter of 1999 Canadian artist Jeff Wall photographed the Dominus winery in Yountville, California, built by Swiss architects Herzog... read more
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prints and drawings

Cedric Price: Designs for Inflatable Architecture and Air Structures

Cedric Price began exploring ideas for pneumatic structures as early as 1964 when he produced a series of air-inflated furniture designs... read more
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archives

James Stirling : Conversations with Himself

It is possible to discover within the CCA Collection individual drawings that represent an intimate exchange of ideas. In the case of a sheet... read more
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publications

Voyages a Peking, Manille et l'Île de France

Europe first became aware of Chinese civilization with Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century account of his visit to China, but the Age of Enlightenment... read more
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artefacts and media

Scrapbook from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915

In 1985 the CCA received 13 boxes containing a corpus of 810 objects produced between 1910 and 1920 documenting the Panama-Pacific International... read more
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selections from CCA collection

Ammar Eloueini: CoReFab #71 Chair

The architect, designer, and teacher Ammar Eloueini is deeply invested in digital media. His creative process is based on the use of the computer... read more

Gordon Matta-Clark Archive

While the work of Gordon Matta-Clark defies easy categorization, his ideas have exerted increasing influence on architects and visual artists... read more