The CCA exhibition program forges links between architectural thinking and practice, addressing contemporary issues via historical perspectives and an engagement with social, environmental, and political themes.

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Archaeology of the Digital

7 May to 13 October 2013 Main galleries

The Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1985–1995), Peter Eisenman’s unrealized Biocentrum (1987), Chuck Hoberman’s Expanding Sphere (1992) and... read more

Seagram Plaza

Opens 1 May 2013 Hall Cases

The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open...read more

Dissections–

6 June to 11 August 2013 Octagonal Gallery

This exhibition presents four sculptures by Vancouver-based artist Geoffrey Smedley as well as the complex preparatory material that sustains...read more

selections from exhibitions

Chandigarh Casablanca

Tom Avermaete and Maristella Casciato curate an exhibition that suggests a new historiography of modern urbanism based on two major urban... read more

ABC : MTL

An Atlas. A Bricolage. A Compendium of different elements and strategies for understanding the city. ABC : MTL is an urban abecedary and open... read more

Proposals addressing the contemporary condition of Montreal

ABC : MTL is an experiment in the representation of contemporary Montréal built on an open call for submissions that was launched in summer... read more

First, the Forests

First, the Forests examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates... read more

Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling

Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterisation because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar... read more