Super City
This installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) investigates the creative impact of the 1960s explosion of toy building kits, offering a reflection on the profound effect toys can have-not only on how children learn to perceive the world, but also in terms of the kinds of things they produce as adults. Named after Super City, a kit(...)
Octagonal gallery
9 June 2005 to 20 November 2005
Super City
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This installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) investigates the creative impact of the 1960s explosion of toy building kits, offering a reflection on the profound effect toys can have-not only on how children learn to perceive the world, but also in terms of the kinds of things they produce as adults. Named after Super City, a kit(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Ideas of living
12 July 2012
Sense of the City
Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
26 October 2005 to 10 September 2006
Sense of the City
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Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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What the future looked like
Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
21 February 2009
Discovering the Unmonitored Underground City
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Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
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17th century, 18th century, BLDGBLOG, feral city, fortifications, Geoff@CCA, Geoff Manaugh, Giacomo Fusto Castriotto, Girolamo Maggi, traités, treatises, ville sauvage, XVIe siècle, XVIIe siècle
22 June 2010
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
30 January 2014 to 25 May 2014
Photographing the Arab City in the Nineteenth Century
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By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries