articles
Contested Territories of Prayer
Shukri Sultan on appropriating individual sacred territory in the city
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Figuring Territory
As part of the first phase of the CCA’s Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program, Nick Beech, Timothy Ivison, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting discuss their ongoing research into cultural transformation and architecture in postwar Britain:
Shaughnessy House
10 September 2015 , 6PM
British Architecture and the Contestation of Postwar Cultural Consensus
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As part of the first phase of the CCA’s Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program, Nick Beech, Timothy Ivison, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting discuss their ongoing research into cultural transformation and architecture in postwar Britain:
Shaughnessy House
textual records
DR1980:0014:001-025
19th century
textual records
19th century
textual records
ARCH221058
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papers
National bridge building contest, student competition
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ARCH221058
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papers
textual records
photographs
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33 slide(s)
ARCH221059
photographs
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33 slide(s)
drawings
DR2007:0085:005
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Presentation posters submitted for a contest named "Art and the City", concerning the urban renewal of the Esplanade Frontenac, Sherbrooke, Québec.
2003
Presentation posters submitted for a contest named "Art and the City"
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DR2007:0085:005
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Presentation posters submitted for a contest named "Art and the City", concerning the urban renewal of the Esplanade Frontenac, Sherbrooke, Québec.
drawings
2003
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AP041.S1.2010.D2
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Project series documents Melvin Charney’s unexecuted submission for a public art design contest for the Glen Site of the McGill University Health Centre. It includes textual records.
2010-2012
McGill University Health Centre, Glen Site, Montréal, Québec
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AP041.S1.2010.D2
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Project series documents Melvin Charney’s unexecuted submission for a public art design contest for the Glen Site of the McGill University Health Centre. It includes textual records.
Project
2010-2012
How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization? Join us on Thursday 17(...)
17 July 2025, 6pm
Toolkit for Today: Defying Computational Cravings
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How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization? Join us on Thursday 17(...)
archives
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Fonds
AP190
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The Preston Scott Cohen Eyebeam project records, 2001-2016, consist of 281 digital files that document the architect’s competition entry for the Eyebeam Atelier Museum in New York City, developed in 2001. The archive includes 154 digital models in Rhinoceros, 30 digital models in STL, approximately 90 digital images, one video, and a number of Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, and Microsoft Word files.
2001-2016
Preston Scott Cohen Eyebeam project records
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AP190
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The Preston Scott Cohen Eyebeam project records, 2001-2016, consist of 281 digital files that document the architect’s competition entry for the Eyebeam Atelier Museum in New York City, developed in 2001. The archive includes 154 digital models in Rhinoceros, 30 digital models in STL, approximately 90 digital images, one video, and a number of Illustrator, Photoshop, PDF, and Microsoft Word files.
archives
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Fonds
2001-2016
This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre