British architect Stephen Taylor 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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 May 2008
Stephen Taylor: Some Ideas on Living
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British architect Stephen Taylor 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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
Click, Cut, Paste
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
Get Out of Your House!
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
DR2006:0167
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Le lustre est composé de 105 éléments en forme de larme. Chaque larme est en acrylique et contient soit un spécimen organique soit un objet trouvé cueilli par Gilles Clément d'un "Tiers paysage" près du Jardin du CCA. Attaché au bout de chaque élément est un fil en plastique. Lors de l'exposition "Environ(ne)ment", les éléments furent supendus du plafond pour former le lustre. -- The chandelier is composed of 105 teardrop-shaped elements, each of which is attached to a plastic cord. Each "teardrop" is made of acrylic, and in each one is encased either an organic specimen or a found object collected by Gilles Clément from a "Third Landscape" near the CCA Garden. For the "Environ(ne)ment" exhibition, each teardrop was suspended from the ceiling to form the chandelier.
2006
Lustre installé au Centre canadien d'architecture dans le cadre de l'exposition "Environnement - manières d'agir pour demain"
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DR2006:0167
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Le lustre est composé de 105 éléments en forme de larme. Chaque larme est en acrylique et contient soit un spécimen organique soit un objet trouvé cueilli par Gilles Clément d'un "Tiers paysage" près du Jardin du CCA. Attaché au bout de chaque élément est un fil en plastique. Lors de l'exposition "Environ(ne)ment", les éléments furent supendus du plafond pour former le lustre. -- The chandelier is composed of 105 teardrop-shaped elements, each of which is attached to a plastic cord. Each "teardrop" is made of acrylic, and in each one is encased either an organic specimen or a found object collected by Gilles Clément from a "Third Landscape" near the CCA Garden. For the "Environ(ne)ment" exhibition, each teardrop was suspended from the ceiling to form the chandelier.
2006
Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Octagonal gallery
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
11 October 1995 to 4 February 1996
Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction
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Architects of the Image: Photography in the Heroic Age of Construction explores the relationships between camera images and the making of large-scale architectural and engineering structures that stirred public imagination in the first hundred years of photography. The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the photographer as architect, an analogy that suggests(...)
Édouard Baldus, more than any other photographer, defined the modern landscape and established the standard for architectural photography. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France chronicles the Golden Age of France as seen by the photographer. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus is organized by chronological sections to reveal the evolution of(...)
Main galleries
25 January 1995 to 23 April 1995
The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France
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Édouard Baldus, more than any other photographer, defined the modern landscape and established the standard for architectural photography. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France chronicles the Golden Age of France as seen by the photographer. The Photographs of Édouard Baldus is organized by chronological sections to reveal the evolution of(...)
Main galleries
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(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 July 2015 to 13 September 2015
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(...)
Octagonal gallery
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(...)
Main galleries
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
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(...)
Main galleries