collection
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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Library Catalogue (books and periodicals, vertical files, audiovisual items, artefacts , printed ephemera, archives and collections and their finding aids)
Collection Online (prints and drawings, photographs, models, artefacts, archives and collections and their finding aids)
Search both the Library Catalogue and Collection Online to ensure that you identify documents relevant to your research.
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.
photographs
Personal Scrapbook of Constructivist Architect Solomon Lisagor
Solomon Abramovich Lisagor (1900-1937) was an important figure in the Russian constructivist movement and collaborated with Moisei Ginzburg...
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prints and drawings
André Bruyère & Fernand Léger: Village polychrome
The Village Polychrome project of 1952-1953, was developed by the architect André Bruyère (1912-1998) in collaboration with the artist Fernand...
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about prints and drawings
archives
Historic Theatres' Trust Collection
The CCA Collection comprises the Historic Theatres' Trust library and archives and includes reports, feasibility studies, monographs, periodicals...
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about the archives
publications
Festival Books
More than 75 printed books, circa 1500-1800, describe special events such as royal births, weddings, and funerals and illustrate the temporary...
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about publications
artefacts and media
Hotel Luggage Labels
The origins of hotel luggage labels can probably be traced to the trade-cards that hotels routinely ordered along with their other stationery...
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about artefacts and media
selections from CCA collection
With its foreshortened perspective, this monumental image (1926-1927) is a testament to the experimentation of photographers in Soviet Russia... read more
In 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Service and Training Act into law, the first peacetime draft. The United States... read more