Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from… São Paulo
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
22 April 2010
Learning from… São Paulo
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Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 September 2016, 6pm
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
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72 pages, 37 pages of plates : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 31 cm
Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, ©1995.
Elio Ciol, Venise / texte, Carlo della Corte.
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72 pages, 37 pages of plates : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 x 31 cm
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Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, ©1995.
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344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Seyssel : Champ Vallon, ©1997.
Venise : une invention de la ville (XIIIe-XVe siècle) / Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan.
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344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Seyssel : Champ Vallon, ©1997.
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155 pages illustrations 27 cm
Paris, Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, 1907.
Venise, par Pierre Gusman; ouvrage illustré de 130 gravures.
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Paris, Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, 1907.
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Venise / Victor Burgin.
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68 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
[Place of publication not identified] : Black Dog Press, 1997.
Venise / Victor Burgin.
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68 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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[Place of publication not identified] : Black Dog Press, 1997.
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299 pages : illustrations ; 15 x 21 cm.
Begedis [Belgium] : Editions universitaires, ©1987.
16 promenades dans Venise / Léon de Coster et Georges Vranckx.
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299 pages : illustrations ; 15 x 21 cm.
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Begedis [Belgium] : Editions universitaires, ©1987.
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Sauver Venise / UNESCO.
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366 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Paris : R. Laffont, 1971.
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Paris : R. Laffont, 1971.