The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
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
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
Devices of Design
A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004
Devices of Design
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A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
books
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25 p. ; 22 cm.
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture = Canadian Centre for Architecture, c1992.
Guide des archives d'architecture du CCA = CCA architectural archives--a guide.
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25 p. ; 22 cm.
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture = Canadian Centre for Architecture, c1992.
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1 folded sheet ([8] pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm
[Montréal] : [Canadian Centre for Architecture], [2015]
A visitor's guide from the CCA archive to Roger D'Astous religious architecture, Montreal 1950s & 1960s.
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1 folded sheet ([8] pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm
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[Montréal] : [Canadian Centre for Architecture], [2015]
archives
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1 archived website.
Prix du CCA pour la conception des villes = CCA Competition for the Design of Cities, 1998-2001 (active), 2018 (captured).
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1 archived website.
archives
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Guide du fonds Pierre-Dionne = Guide and inventory of the Pierre Dionne Archive / David Rose.
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xxiv leaves, 300 pages ; 29 cm
Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre canadien d'architecture, 1990.
Guide du fonds Pierre-Dionne = Guide and inventory of the Pierre Dionne Archive / David Rose.
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xxiv leaves, 300 pages ; 29 cm
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre canadien d'architecture, 1990.
video
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1 streaming video file (60 min., 21 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]
Anthony Vidler presents Notes from the archive.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]