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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
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Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
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16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
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16 June 1998 to
8 November 1998
16 June 1998 to
8 November 1998
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Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
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This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010
11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010
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Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
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This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
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This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
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11 September 2009 to
10 January 2010
11 September 2009 to
10 January 2010
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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23 July 2015 to 13 September 2015
23 July 2015 to 13 September 2015
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Landscapes of the Hyperreal: Ábalos&Herreros selected by SO – IL
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Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
Landscapes of the Hyperreal: Ábalos&Herreros selected by SO – IL
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Ábalos Herreros constructed landscapes—or, more precisely, assembled them—by crudely juxtaposing a cast of semi-familiar characters. Novel to Spanish architecture in the 1980s, this pragmatic method of appropriation was developed and consistently employed as part of their design process. Borrowing, incorporating and transforming allowed ÁbalosHerreros to absorb the(...)
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23 July 2015 to
13 September 2015
23 July 2015 to
13 September 2015
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
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Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
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14 June 1995 to
14 September 1995
14 June 1995 to
14 September 1995
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
26 March 1997 to 1 June 1997
26 March 1997 to 1 June 1997
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
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exhibitions
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26 March 1997 to
1 June 1997
26 March 1997 to
1 June 1997
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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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(...)
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(...)
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Octagonal gallery ante-room
Octagonal gallery ante-room
Date:
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
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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(...)
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(...)
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6 December 1989 to
11 February 1990
6 December 1989 to
11 February 1990
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Octagonal gallery ante-room
Octagonal gallery ante-room
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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14 May 2008
14 May 2008
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Ryue Nishizawa: Some Ideas on Living
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Ryue Nishizawa: Some Ideas on Living
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
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14 May 2008
14 May 2008
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
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The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
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19 July 1994 to
25 September 1994
19 July 1994 to
25 September 1994
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Old Books New Cities
Old Books New Cities
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The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
12 December 2013 to 15 June 2014
12 December 2013 to 15 June 2014
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Old Books New Cities
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The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
Old Books New Cities
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The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
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12 December 2013 to
15 June 2014
12 December 2013 to
15 June 2014
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
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Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
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13 March 1991 to
2 June 1991
13 March 1991 to
2 June 1991
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Main galleries
Main galleries
