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Michelangelo Paper, 1974
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''The Latent Energies of Michelangelo's Secret Library,'' unpublished paper on Michelangelo's unrealized addition proposed for the Laurentian Library in Florence; completed for Professors Charles Seymour, Jr. and George L. Hersey, Yale University, dated April 20, 1974; 39 loose original typed sheets with some original sketches; hand-bound copy with cover that L.W. Richards designed; two small sheets of hamd-written comments by Charles Seymours, Jr., Yale's noted Michelangelo scholar.
1974
Michelangelo Paper, 1974
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DR2007:0010:001-002
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''The Latent Energies of Michelangelo's Secret Library,'' unpublished paper on Michelangelo's unrealized addition proposed for the Laurentian Library in Florence; completed for Professors Charles Seymour, Jr. and George L. Hersey, Yale University, dated April 20, 1974; 39 loose original typed sheets with some original sketches; hand-bound copy with cover that L.W. Richards designed; two small sheets of hamd-written comments by Charles Seymours, Jr., Yale's noted Michelangelo scholar.
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1974
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A history of references
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Records of Protest
31 March 2025
Records of Protest
Irene Chin, Lisa Belabed, Auden Young Tura, Laura Aparicio Llorente, and Megan Marin demonstrate how architects engage with crises of their time
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CCA Mellon Scholar Rahul Mehrotra speaks about his work in Mumbai and describes how he came to make several critical choices in his work in order to express the vivid pluralism of India.
5 December 2013
Rahul Mehrotra: Working in Mumbai
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CCA Mellon Scholar Rahul Mehrotra speaks about his work in Mumbai and describes how he came to make several critical choices in his work in order to express the vivid pluralism of India.
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The Microscopic and the Planetary
Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe of Cooking Sections speak with Alexandra Pereira-Edwards and Anna Tonkin about agency, intimacy, and building connections
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Forces of Friction
Empire
The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
Octagonal gallery
8 December 2005 to 12 March 2006
Empire
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The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
Octagonal gallery
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"Cités Universitaires"
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"Cités Universitaires" Dialogue commenté par Luc Durand et Jean Duret École d'architecture, Université de Genève, 21 janvier 1957
"Cités Universitaires"
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ARCH197866
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"Cités Universitaires" Dialogue commenté par Luc Durand et Jean Duret École d'architecture, Université de Genève, 21 janvier 1957
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre