Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
In conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect, Todd Rouhe and Rachel Himmelfarb of common room present the groups collaborative working process: This question—what’s the problem?—is central to how common room works. The question defines a process of searching, experiencing, interacting, and communicating that not only informs how we understand architecture and(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
19 November 2015
common room: What's the Problem?
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In conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect, Todd Rouhe and Rachel Himmelfarb of common room present the groups collaborative working process: This question—what’s the problem?—is central to how common room works. The question defines a process of searching, experiencing, interacting, and communicating that not only informs how we understand architecture and(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 May 1993 to 29 August 1993
An Architectural Odyssey: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery
West 37th Street, Manhattan, photographed by John Veltri between 13 September and 18 September 1966
This exhibition highlights a work that the New York engineering firm Leonard S. Wegman Co. commissioned in 1966 from John Veltri. Veltri was to photograph every building, parking area, and shaftway on West 37th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, at the heart of Manhattan’s busy Garment District. The photographs Veltri made in connection with Wegman Co.’s redevelopment(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 December 2003 to 7 March 2004
West 37th Street, Manhattan, photographed by John Veltri between 13 September and 18 September 1966
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This exhibition highlights a work that the New York engineering firm Leonard S. Wegman Co. commissioned in 1966 from John Veltri. Veltri was to photograph every building, parking area, and shaftway on West 37th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, at the heart of Manhattan’s busy Garment District. The photographs Veltri made in connection with Wegman Co.’s redevelopment(...)
Octagonal gallery
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
While we wait for the climate crisis to convince us that it is real, what is the right attitude to take? Should we panic, start saving food, or just lie down and try to relax? Join us in a temporary tv studio for a live recording of diverse thinkers presenting their work and reflecting on how it suggests different ways forward. To mark the opening of It’s All Happening(...)
16 November 2016
Hostile or docile?
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While we wait for the climate crisis to convince us that it is real, what is the right attitude to take? Should we panic, start saving food, or just lie down and try to relax? Join us in a temporary tv studio for a live recording of diverse thinkers presenting their work and reflecting on how it suggests different ways forward. To mark the opening of It’s All Happening(...)
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
18 March 1998 to 24 May 1998
Montréal Métropole, 1880–1930
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This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries
22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries