The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
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This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
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Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
13 October 2017 to 4 March 2018
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City
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The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
Dirk De Meyer, Baroque, Johann Santini Aiche, Early 18th-Century Bohemian Culture, Visiting Scholar
2 October 1998
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 October 2008 to 15 February 2009
Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960
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Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 traces the evolution of skylights from their origins at the end of the eighteenth century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new Halle au blé (1763–1782), to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963–1968). The exhibition is organized around a series of case studies(...)
Octagonal gallery
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
1975-1997
Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds
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The Groupe de recherche sur Montréal fonds, 1975-1997, documents the Groupe de recherche sur Montréal’s (GRM) extensive research on the development of pre and post-industrial Montreal’s built environment. In addition to this extensive collection of research materials, the fonds also includes administrative files relating to the GRM’s everyday administration and management. Materials found in this fonds consist of approximately 40 l.m. of textual documentation, approximately 2000 maps and 1 model.
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1975-1997
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
State, King , Seventeenth-century, French Architecture, Indra McEwen, Architecture of Fortification, Mechanical Body, Invisible Modern State, Visiting Scholar
18 February 2000
2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
11 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
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
Starting from... People
One of the markers of modernity from the eighteenth century onwards is the emergence of “the people” as a respected political entity. In response, architects have advocated for the transformation of cities, explored new technologies, pioneered design discourses, and engaged in heated cultural conflicts—all in the name of the people. During this time, fictional, abstracted(...)
Hall cases
5 October 2011 to 22 January 2012
Starting from... People
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One of the markers of modernity from the eighteenth century onwards is the emergence of “the people” as a respected political entity. In response, architects have advocated for the transformation of cities, explored new technologies, pioneered design discourses, and engaged in heated cultural conflicts—all in the name of the people. During this time, fictional, abstracted(...)
Hall cases