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
archives
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Hazen Sise fonds
AP112
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The Hazen Sise fonds contains negatives, drawings, and other documents dating from 1933 to 1959. The negatives, taken in the early 1930s, mostly depict participants of the conferences CIAM IV and CIRPAC, including Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Alvar Aalto and Fernand Léger. The drawings document the design of Beaver Lake Pavilion, built for the City of Montréal between 1955 and 1959 as part of the redevelopment of Mount Royal Park. Le fonds Hazen Sise est composé de négatifs, dessins, et autres documents datés entre 1933 et 1959. Les négatifs, pris au début des années 30s, présentent des participants des congres IVe CIAM et CIRPAC, incluant Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Alvar Aalto et Fernand Léger. Les dessins documentent la conception du pavillon du Lac aux Castors, construit pour la Ville de Montréal entre 1955 et 1959 dans le cadre du réaménagement du Parc du Mont-Royal.
1933-1959
Hazen Sise fonds
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AP112
Synopsis:
The Hazen Sise fonds contains negatives, drawings, and other documents dating from 1933 to 1959. The negatives, taken in the early 1930s, mostly depict participants of the conferences CIAM IV and CIRPAC, including Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Alvar Aalto and Fernand Léger. The drawings document the design of Beaver Lake Pavilion, built for the City of Montréal between 1955 and 1959 as part of the redevelopment of Mount Royal Park. Le fonds Hazen Sise est composé de négatifs, dessins, et autres documents datés entre 1933 et 1959. Les négatifs, pris au début des années 30s, présentent des participants des congres IVe CIAM et CIRPAC, incluant Le Corbusier, László Moholy-Nagy, Alvar Aalto et Fernand Léger. Les dessins documentent la conception du pavillon du Lac aux Castors, construit pour la Ville de Montréal entre 1955 et 1959 dans le cadre du réaménagement du Parc du Mont-Royal.
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1933-1959
Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 September 2014 , 6pm
Digital Media Archaeology: Archive, Museum and Sonicity
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Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 December 2006 to 25 March 2007
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
books
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629 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Louvain-La-Neuve : Presses universitaires de Louvain, [2017]
L'espace architectonique. Entre création et expérience / Thierry Delcommune, Roland Matthu.
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629 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
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Louvain-La-Neuve : Presses universitaires de Louvain, [2017]
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270 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 22 cm + 1 videodisc (117 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Orléans : HYX, [2018]
Plateforme de la création architecturale. 1, Dix architectes face à face dans l'espace européen / ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Francis Rambert, Martine Colombet, Christine Carboni.
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270 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 22 cm + 1 videodisc (117 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
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Orléans : HYX, [2018]
books
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383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
New York : Monacelli Press, 2003.
A life of creation : an autobiography / Charlotte Perriand.
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383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : Monacelli Press, 2003.
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79 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
[Paris] : Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, ©1983.
Réhabiliter les écoles? : transformations d'espaces, enjeux sociaux et politiques locales / étude sous la responsabilité de Jacques Limousin ; menée par Jacqueline Cottez [and others].
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79 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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[Paris] : Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, ©1983.
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111 pages illustrations 24 x 29 cm
[Washington] American Institute of Architects [1971?]
Open space for people: acquisition, conservation, creation and design; an illustrated anthology of papers presented at the 1970 international conference of the Commission on Town Planning of the Union internationale des architectes. Edited by Mildred F. Schmertz.
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111 pages illustrations 24 x 29 cm
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[Washington] American Institute of Architects [1971?]
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441 pages : color illustrations, color plans ; 33 cm
Paris : ICI Interface, ©2007.
Expression paysagère : création française = French landscape design / [direction éditoriale: Chia-Ling Chien ; préface de Bernard Welcomme].
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441 pages : color illustrations, color plans ; 33 cm
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Paris : ICI Interface, ©2007.