With an Acre
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
19 June 2025 to 14 September 2025
With an Acre
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With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
First, the Forests
*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 October 2012 to 6 January 2013
First, the Forests
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*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
Opening: With an Acre
Join us on 19 June for the opening of our new exhibition and film With an Acre. The event launches the third and final chapter of our three-part Groundwork series, curated by Francesco Garutti and exploring the field research of contemporary architects.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House
19 June 2025, 6pm to 9pm
Opening: With an Acre
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Join us on 19 June for the opening of our new exhibition and film With an Acre. The event launches the third and final chapter of our three-part Groundwork series, curated by Francesco Garutti and exploring the field research of contemporary architects.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House
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Corrrespondance avec client
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Correspondance avec P. Dugas & Fils, le Département des terres et forêts, incluant des photocopies de photographies aériennes de la région de Matane.
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Corrrespondance avec client
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Correspondance avec P. Dugas & Fils, le Département des terres et forêts, incluant des photocopies de photographies aériennes de la région de Matane.
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1933
Join us on 8 May at 6pm for a lecture by Noelia Monteiro on her work at Estudio Flume. The studio, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, aiming to protect traditional communities that preserve the Amazon rainforest. Monteiro’s work poses a key question: in the face of resource scarcity, how can we build with almost nothing?(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
8 May 2025, 6pm
Groundwork with Noelia Monteiro
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Join us on 8 May at 6pm for a lecture by Noelia Monteiro on her work at Estudio Flume. The studio, based in São Paulo, develops socio-environmental projects in remote areas of Brazil, aiming to protect traditional communities that preserve the Amazon rainforest. Monteiro’s work poses a key question: in the face of resource scarcity, how can we build with almost nothing?(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Dimensions of an Idea
Forces of Friction
16 June 2025
Forces of Friction
Wednesday Night Tours
Every Wednesday evening from 2 July to 10 September, we invite you to discover our exhibitions Oscillating Spaces, With an Acre, and Records of Protest, with a tour of our galleries organized by our public program assistants at 5pm.
2 July 2025 to 10 September 2025, 5pm
Wednesday Night Tours
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Every Wednesday evening from 2 July to 10 September, we invite you to discover our exhibitions Oscillating Spaces, With an Acre, and Records of Protest, with a tour of our galleries organized by our public program assistants at 5pm.
Do Not Come Any Closer
Since 1997 Czech artist Barbora Šlapetová has made several expeditions to remote settlements in the jungles of Papua New Guinea with her colleague Lukáš Rittstein. The documentation of such visits and the dialogues they have prompted, including one with Czech premier Vaclav Havel, yielded books such as Why the Night is Black and Do Not Come Any Closer and several(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
29 November 2012 , 7pm
Do Not Come Any Closer
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Since 1997 Czech artist Barbora Šlapetová has made several expeditions to remote settlements in the jungles of Papua New Guinea with her colleague Lukáš Rittstein. The documentation of such visits and the dialogues they have prompted, including one with Czech premier Vaclav Havel, yielded books such as Why the Night is Black and Do Not Come Any Closer and several(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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33, 113 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 color map, plan ; 22 cm
Fontainebleau : Chez l'auteur, 1840.
Guide du voyageur dans le palais et la forêt de Fontainebleau, ou : Histoire et description abrégées de ces lieux remarquables et pittoresques : avec cartes topographiques.
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33, 113 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 color map, plan ; 22 cm
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Fontainebleau : Chez l'auteur, 1840.
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24 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plan ; 12 x 18 cm
Versailles : Brunox, 1859.
Saint-Germain : le château, la ville et la forêt / dessinés d'après nature, par Jaine ; avec un texte historique et descriptif et indication des moyens de transport, chemins de fer et voitures publiques.
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24 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, plan ; 12 x 18 cm
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Versailles : Brunox, 1859.