In 1982, the CCA organized its first exhibition, Photography and Architecture: 1839–1939, prior to the construction of the CCA’s current building. The exhibition was shown in Galerie Lempertz Contempora in Cologne (1982), the Art Institute of Chicago (1983), the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York (1983), Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1984), and the(...)
15 September 1982 to 16 October 1982
Photography and Architecture: 1839–1939
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In 1982, the CCA organized its first exhibition, Photography and Architecture: 1839–1939, prior to the construction of the CCA’s current building. The exhibition was shown in Galerie Lempertz Contempora in Cologne (1982), the Art Institute of Chicago (1983), the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York (1983), Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1984), and the(...)
articles
7 July 2017
The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
Text and photographs by Robert Burley
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Through objects drawn from the CCA collection, Photography and French Architectural Practice, 1839–1870 examines how photography became an integral and indispensable part of the processes of architectural design, construction, restoration, and publishing in the second half of the nineteenth century. Curated by David Harris, CCA, and Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University.
Hall cases
25 January 1995 to 4 June 1995
Photography and French Architectural Practice, 1839-1870
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Through objects drawn from the CCA collection, Photography and French Architectural Practice, 1839–1870 examines how photography became an integral and indispensable part of the processes of architectural design, construction, restoration, and publishing in the second half of the nineteenth century. Curated by David Harris, CCA, and Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University.
Hall cases
Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
Drawing on selected works from the CCA photography collection, Sarah Churchill examines how historic visual strategies of “othering” and “ruin lust” have been embedded in a broader canon of insecurity and environmental deprivation.
30 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
The Origins of Housing Crisis: Photography, Empire, and the Architecture of Precarity
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Drawing on selected works from the CCA photography collection, Sarah Churchill examines how historic visual strategies of “othering” and “ruin lust” have been embedded in a broader canon of insecurity and environmental deprivation.
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ARCH284142
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Inclus des photographies de la Cour suprême du Canada et de la maquette de la Cour suprême du Canada. Contient les négatifs sur nitrate numérotés 357 à 389 et 408, 409, 415 et 416.
1920s-1940s
Photographies de détails d'architecture, photographie de divers projects par Cormier, et photographies de famille et d'amis
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ARCH284142
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Inclus des photographies de la Cour suprême du Canada et de la maquette de la Cour suprême du Canada. Contient les négatifs sur nitrate numérotés 357 à 389 et 408, 409, 415 et 416.
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1920s-1940s
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Projets d'architecture
AP081.S2
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La série contient des dessins et reprographies pour le projet du Château Dufresne à Montréal datant de 1915 à 1916. Elle contient aussi des dessins pour 6 autres projets, dont 3 projets résidentiels à Laval, Québec. Elle contient aussi une photographie.
1899-1938
Projets d'architecture
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AP081.S2
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La série contient des dessins et reprographies pour le projet du Château Dufresne à Montréal datant de 1915 à 1916. Elle contient aussi des dessins pour 6 autres projets, dont 3 projets résidentiels à Laval, Québec. Elle contient aussi une photographie.
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1899-1938
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Projets d'architecture
AP060.S3
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Cette série se compose des documents de projets que l'architecte Roger D'Astous a élaborés au cours de sa carrière architecturale. On y retrouve des projets qu'il a réalisés seul, et d'autres qu'il a réalisés en association ou en collaboration avec des architectes et urbanistes. Cette série contient essentiellement des dessins, des reproductions et des documents photographiques, mais aussi quelques maquettes, panneaux et documents textuels relatifs à 182 projets pour la période de 1954 à 1998.
1955-1998
Projets d'architecture
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AP060.S3
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Cette série se compose des documents de projets que l'architecte Roger D'Astous a élaborés au cours de sa carrière architecturale. On y retrouve des projets qu'il a réalisés seul, et d'autres qu'il a réalisés en association ou en collaboration avec des architectes et urbanistes. Cette série contient essentiellement des dessins, des reproductions et des documents photographiques, mais aussi quelques maquettes, panneaux et documents textuels relatifs à 182 projets pour la période de 1954 à 1998.
Série 3
1955-1998
Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 March 2000 to 7 May 2000
Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Octagonal gallery
How did the colonial photographic gaze shape the ways Indian architecture and cultural heritage were documented, understood, and preserved?
the Study Room
25 September 2026, 2pm to 4pm
Photography, Cultural Heritage, and Conservation in Colonial India with Sarah Carter
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How did the colonial photographic gaze shape the ways Indian architecture and cultural heritage were documented, understood, and preserved?
the Study Room