Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
Echosystems
This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
5 March 2016
Echosystems
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This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
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Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 April 2009
Michael Rakowitz and Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas
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Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
19 February 2015 , 6pm
Windows and Screens: Georges Teyssot
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Seeing, perceiving, viewing, envisioning: each is a form of framing that mediates between inside and outside, public and private, what’s evident and what’s hidden. Georges Teyssot, Professor at Université Laval’s School of Architecture in Quebec City and author of A Topology of Everyday Constellations (The MIT Press, 2013), analyzes how the notions of window, door, frame,(...)
Shaughnessy House
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ARCH255268
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correspondence file on the Ruck-A-Chucky Bridge, with press clippings, a Progressive Architecture Award (1979), drawings by T.Y. Lin International and a 7 page presentation document with an original sketch by Goldsmith
1962-1979
Correspondence file on the Ruck-A-Chucky Bridge, with press clippings
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ARCH255268
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correspondence file on the Ruck-A-Chucky Bridge, with press clippings, a Progressive Architecture Award (1979), drawings by T.Y. Lin International and a 7 page presentation document with an original sketch by Goldsmith
textual records
1962-1979
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
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AP129.S1.D1
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La série de projet est constituée d'une publication relative au concours d'architecture scolaire de 1964. La publication intitulée "14 projets primés au concours Architecture Scolaire 64" est publié par le ministère de l'Éducation du Québec. La projet de Ouellet, Reeves, Guité, Alain est présenté à la page 61.
1964
Projet pour le Concours d'architecture scolaire
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AP129.S1.D1
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La série de projet est constituée d'une publication relative au concours d'architecture scolaire de 1964. La publication intitulée "14 projets primés au concours Architecture Scolaire 64" est publié par le ministère de l'Éducation du Québec. La projet de Ouellet, Reeves, Guité, Alain est présenté à la page 61.
Dossier 1
1964
Project
Small house
AP012.S1.SS1.D5
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Le dossier est constitué de dessins de présentation reliés au projet d'une petite maison pour le compte de l'école d'architecture de l'Université McGill.
Small house
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AP012.S1.SS1.D5
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Le dossier est constitué de dessins de présentation reliés au projet d'une petite maison pour le compte de l'école d'architecture de l'Université McGill.
Dossier 5
In this talk, titled Design the place for people to meet, Manabu Chiba will explain his approach to design with an emphasis on realizing architecture as a facilitator for new place-to-place, person-to-person and people-to-place interactions. His work attempts to reveal the context of a site and create formal simplicity, in order to nurture relationships among(...)
11 February 2016
Manabu Chiba wants to speak with you
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In this talk, titled Design the place for people to meet, Manabu Chiba will explain his approach to design with an emphasis on realizing architecture as a facilitator for new place-to-place, person-to-person and people-to-place interactions. His work attempts to reveal the context of a site and create formal simplicity, in order to nurture relationships among(...)