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

Thomas Keith: Fragments of Edinburgh in the Olden Time

An album of 100 photographs, entitled Fragments of Edinburgh in the Olden Time is the largest known printed work of Thomas Keith (1827-1895... read more
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prints and drawings

Le Corbusier: Villa Chimanbhai

In 1951 the mayor of Ahmedabad, Chinubhai Chimanbhai, invited Le Corbusier to design a new house for the mayor on a site on the west bank... read more
about prints and drawings

archives

Hommage à Sandy van Ginkel

1920-2009

H.P.D. (Sandy) van Ginkel died on 6 July 2009 at the age of 89. Born in Amsterdam, Sandy was active in the Dutch Resistance during the Second... read more
about the archives

publications

Indian Engineering Periodical

The periodical Professional Papers on Indian Engineering was published in three separate series from 1863 to 1886 in Roorkee, India. Consisting... read more
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artefacts and media

Expo 67 Puzzle

The occasion of Montréal’s Expo 67 created a vast market for memorabilia, and many of the souvenir items created for the occasion reflect... read more
about artefacts and media

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