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

Entering an Oxford college

The St Scholastica Day riot on this day in 1355 began as an altercation in a pub between two students of the University of Oxford and the... read more
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prints and drawings

John Hejduk: The House of the Suicide and The House of the Mother of the Suicide

The House of the Suicide and the House of the Mother of the Suicide are the only surviving examples of a series of twenty-six large-scale... read more
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archives

Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg Architects Archive

The Toronto-based firm of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) was founded in 1987 by four partners who had been colleagues in... read more
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publications

Albrecht Dürer: The siege of a fortress

In 1527 Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) published a treatise on fortifications, Etliche underricht zu Befestigung der Stett, Schloss und Flecken... read more
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artefacts and media

Ephemera

Over 3,500 pieces of architectural printed ephemera range from engraved letterheads to admission tickets and date primarily from the 19th... read more
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selections from CCA collection

Alexander Rodchenko: View of the colonnade, Museum of the Revolution, Moscow

With its foreshortened perspective, this monumental image (1926-1927) is a testament to the experimentation of photographers in Soviet Russia... read more

Gordon Matta-Clark: A W-Hole House

In November 1973 Gordon Matta-Clark was invited by curator Paolo Minetti of Galleriaforma to exhibit in Genoa, Italy. Minetti offered him... read more