The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 November 2010 to 6 February 2011
404 ERROR: The object is not online
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The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
Mills and Factories of New England: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
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Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
Hall cases
17 January 1990 to 22 April 1990
Process as Interpretation: Photographs from the CCA
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Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
Hall cases
PH1990:0146
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- Photographs PH1990:0146, PH1990:0151, and PH1990:0153 show the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines (CCA: Building and Gardens, p. 94).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
1990
CCA Garden: Partial view of the Orchard and cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines with the Arcade and the Obelisk-Chimney Allegorical Column in the background, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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PH1990:0146
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- Photographs PH1990:0146, PH1990:0151, and PH1990:0153 show the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines (CCA: Building and Gardens, p. 94).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
PH1990:0151
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- Photographs PH1990:0146, PH1990:0151, and PH1990:0153 show the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines (CCA: Building and Gardens, p. 94).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
1990
View of a man sitting on one of the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines, CCA garden, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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PH1990:0151
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- Photographs PH1990:0146, PH1990:0151, and PH1990:0153 show the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines (CCA: Building and Gardens, p. 94).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
PH1990:0153
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Photographs PH1990:0146, PH1990:0151, and PH1990:0153 show the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines (CCA: Building and Gardens, p. 94).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
1990
View of one of the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines through an opening in the arcade, CCA garden, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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PH1990:0153
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Photographs PH1990:0146, PH1990:0151, and PH1990:0153 show the cadastral walls which represent rural "rangs" or property lines (CCA: Building and Gardens, p. 94).
architecture, landscape architecture, sculpture
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AP142.S1.D18
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File documents a partially executed project for a public piazza bordering the city hall of Segrate, Italy. The design emphasizes the play of shadows and the use of primary forms. The fountain represents a monument to the partisans of World War II. Material in this file was produced in approximately 1965. File contains design development drawings and presentation drawings.
[ca. 1965]
Piazza del municipio e fontana monumentale a Segrate
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AP142.S1.D18
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File documents a partially executed project for a public piazza bordering the city hall of Segrate, Italy. The design emphasizes the play of shadows and the use of primary forms. The fountain represents a monument to the partisans of World War II. Material in this file was produced in approximately 1965. File contains design development drawings and presentation drawings.
File 18
[ca. 1965]
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Everyday Safety: Beware of Falling Fruit
Sony Devabhaktuni and Joanna Mansbridge on performances of everyday safety in Hong Kong
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Mel Ziegler: Growing Concern
The front garden is a sign, a place both public and private, conveying the convictions and values of the households they frame. Growing Concern, a grass relief in Baile Park by American artist Mel Ziegler (b.1956), represents the North American obsession with the lawn. The artist considers the cultural obsession with the growth of our lawns to be symbolic of the taming(...)
Baile Park
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
Mel Ziegler: Growing Concern
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The front garden is a sign, a place both public and private, conveying the convictions and values of the households they frame. Growing Concern, a grass relief in Baile Park by American artist Mel Ziegler (b.1956), represents the North American obsession with the lawn. The artist considers the cultural obsession with the growth of our lawns to be symbolic of the taming(...)
Baile Park
DR1988:0437:023
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a triumphal arch, flanked on either side by representations of the smoking volcanoes Etna and Vesuvius.
temporary architecture
printed 1756
Etching of Posi's design for the "prima macchina" of 1756
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DR1988:0437:023
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a triumphal arch, flanked on either side by representations of the smoking volcanoes Etna and Vesuvius.
temporary architecture