The CCA celebrates the 20th anniversary of its opening to the public with an ambitious series of activities throughout 2009. During a press conference on 26 January 2009, Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees Phyllis Lambert and Director Mirko Zardini announced a series of programs and initiatives that underscore the CCA’s past achievements and ongoing role as a unique cultural institution.


"The CCA’s extraordinary collections, many programs, and thoughtful and provocative exhibitions are among the most interesting and important taking place anywhere in the world, and consistently set a standard for scholarship and imagination." – Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

Gilles Saucier, Saucier + Perrotte architectes. Introduction by Dinu Bumbaru, Policy Director, Héritage Montréal.

Peter Rose, architect of the CCA Building

Architect and CCA Board of Trustees member Bruce Kuwabara, KPMB Architects

Phyllis Lambert, CCA Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees

Mirko Zardini, CCA Director and Chief Curator

View of Shaughnessy House during renovation. © CCA Collection, Montréal.

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The 2009 program includes the major exhibition Speed Limits (20 May – 8 November 2009); 20 public Study Centre events presented throughout the year including seminars, lectures, and discussions with scholars in residence; 20 Years: 20 Hours, an open house celebration for the Montréal community, and the 10th annual edition of the highly successful CCA Soirée fundraising gala. In addition, ongoing programs including exhibition-related lecture and film series continue throughout the year.

“The goal of the CCA is to improve the quality of the built environment through knowledge and understanding,” said Phyllis Lambert. “We endeavour to shape current discussion in architecture and the city by raising unexpected questions and by giving resonance to big, small, and overlooked ideas. As a totality, our building, Collection, exhibitions, publications, and research programs interrelate ideas and the concrete world in which we live.”

In addition to Phyllis Lambert and Mirko Zardini, distinguished speakers at the press conference included the architect of the CCA building, Peter D. Rose (The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio, Harvard University Graduate School of Design), CCA Board member and architect Bruce Kuwabara (Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects), Dinu Bumbaru of Héritage Montréal, and architect Gilles Saucier (Saucier + Perrotte architects). They reflected on their engagement with the CCA, its role, and its continued relevance after twenty years and into the future.