The exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect explores the challenges of urban development through Álvaro Siza’s experiential approach to the city, characterized by respect for and an understanding of a place, its shape, its embodied history, and its life.
Main Galleries
25 August 2026, 6pm to 8pm
Guided tour for Friends of the CCA
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The exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect explores the challenges of urban development through Álvaro Siza’s experiential approach to the city, characterized by respect for and an understanding of a place, its shape, its embodied history, and its life.
Main Galleries
Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
August 2025, 1pm English, 2:30pm French
Guided Tours of the Sculpture Garden
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Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
September 2025, 1pm English, 2:30pm French
Guided Tours of the Sculpture Garden
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Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
Tour of the Sculpture Garden
Guided Tour of the Sculpture Garden
the Sculpture Garden
6 September 2026, 1pm and 2:30pm
the Sculpture Garden
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AP075.S1.2014.PR03
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as landscape architect for the restoration project of the Mountain View Jewish Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia. She worked on this project in 2014 with PECHET Studio for the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board and the City of Vancouver. The project included rebuilding to the entrance archway, clearing the original curbed pathways, adding a ritual washing bassin, benches, a pebble basin, an entry plaza and other features. The project series contains drawings of the restored landcaping and the new additions, press clippings and publications with articles on the project, a self-guided walking tour brochure, correspondence with architects, and documents related to the fundraiser campain for the restoration.
2014-2017
Mountain View Jewish Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia (2014)
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AP075.S1.2014.PR03
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as landscape architect for the restoration project of the Mountain View Jewish Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia. She worked on this project in 2014 with PECHET Studio for the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board and the City of Vancouver. The project included rebuilding to the entrance archway, clearing the original curbed pathways, adding a ritual washing bassin, benches, a pebble basin, an entry plaza and other features. The project series contains drawings of the restored landcaping and the new additions, press clippings and publications with articles on the project, a self-guided walking tour brochure, correspondence with architects, and documents related to the fundraiser campain for the restoration.
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2014-2017
Join us for a weekend of screenings, hands-on activities, and guided tours exploring Álvaro Siza’s approach to housing and the city.
26 September 2026 to 27 September 2026
A weekend with Álvaro Siza: Journées de la culture at the CCA
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Join us for a weekend of screenings, hands-on activities, and guided tours exploring Álvaro Siza’s approach to housing and the city.
textual records, born digital
AP075.S3.SS1.216
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Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation, Acrobat PDF 1.5 - Portable Document Format. Includes photographs of a guided tour of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape projects in Vancouver for the Vancouver Super Saturday.
2004 - 2006
Talks by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for the year 2006
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AP075.S3.SS1.216
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Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation, Acrobat PDF 1.5 - Portable Document Format. Includes photographs of a guided tour of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape projects in Vancouver for the Vancouver Super Saturday.
textual records, born digital
2004 - 2006
born digital, photographs
AP075.S4.SS2.067
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs taken by David Walker during a guided tour of Oberlander’s green roofs projects. Includes photographs of Robson Square (1974-1982), and Library Square (1992-1995).
2002
Photographs of various public landscape projects by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
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AP075.S4.SS2.067
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs taken by David Walker during a guided tour of Oberlander’s green roofs projects. Includes photographs of Robson Square (1974-1982), and Library Square (1992-1995).
born digital, photographs
2002
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
Living Land: Kids’ Day at the CCA
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)