research
The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program sought to gauge what research questions matter most to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals under the surface of the day to day. We were looking for persistent questions—those that resonate with practitioners navigating various pressures including those of time, cost, and skewed(...)
September 2025 to December 2025
Virtual Research Fellows 2025
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The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program sought to gauge what research questions matter most to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals under the surface of the day to day. We were looking for persistent questions—those that resonate with practitioners navigating various pressures including those of time, cost, and skewed(...)
research
September 2025 to
December 2025
archives
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Fonds
AP106
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The Faubourg Québec project records, 1989-1994, document the redevelopment of Faubourg Québec, a 30 acre site east of the Old Port of Montréal, into an urban residential neighbourhood. Materials in these project records consist of approximately 253 drawings (including reprographic copies) and 0.33 of l.m. textual materials.
1989-1994
Faubourg Québec project records
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AP106
Synopsis:
The Faubourg Québec project records, 1989-1994, document the redevelopment of Faubourg Québec, a 30 acre site east of the Old Port of Montréal, into an urban residential neighbourhood. Materials in these project records consist of approximately 253 drawings (including reprographic copies) and 0.33 of l.m. textual materials.
archives
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Fonds
1989-1994
research
The 2024 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program invited applicants to put forward proposals as to what constitutes urgent architectural media today.
September 2024 to December 2024
Virtual Research Fellows 2024
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The 2024 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program invited applicants to put forward proposals as to what constitutes urgent architectural media today.
research
September 2024 to
December 2024
Everlasting
A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
25 September 2025 to 8 November 2026
Everlasting
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A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
Audible Archives
Audible Archives presents samples of digitized recordings alongside silent artefacts from the CCA Collection, highlighting sound as a significant medium for research while drawing attention to the challenges of preservation and stewardship.
Audible Archives
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Audible Archives presents samples of digitized recordings alongside silent artefacts from the CCA Collection, highlighting sound as a significant medium for research while drawing attention to the challenges of preservation and stewardship.
In response to the economic turbulence of the 1970s, British architects employed primarily by the welfare state became increasingly autonomous.
the Study Room Keyword(s):
1970s, welfare state, autonomous, postwar, flexibility, British architects
6 August 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
An Architecture of Flexibility
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In response to the economic turbulence of the 1970s, British architects employed primarily by the welfare state became increasingly autonomous.
the Study Room Keyword(s):
1970s, welfare state, autonomous, postwar, flexibility, British architects
Writing women into the history of architecture requires rethinking both archival practices and historiographical approaches. In this seminar Olga Touloumi will depart from her experience collecting and cataloguing the works of architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington (1936–2020) to discuss feminist praxis in the archive. Using weaving as a historical method,(...)
Study Room, CCA
3 July 2025, 6pm to 7:30pm
Common Threads: The Craft of a Woman’s Archive
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Writing women into the history of architecture requires rethinking both archival practices and historiographical approaches. In this seminar Olga Touloumi will depart from her experience collecting and cataloguing the works of architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington (1936–2020) to discuss feminist praxis in the archive. Using weaving as a historical method,(...)
Study Room, CCA
articles
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Desirée Valadares, infrastructure, railway, highway, colonial history
10 November 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Desirée Valadares, infrastructure, railway, highway, colonial history
Join Amina Lalor, Tin Ayala, and Ivana Molina Apaza as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2024-2025 Indigenous-led design Fellowship Program.
12 July 2025, 2pm to 3:30pm
Reciprocity: A conversation with Indigenous-led Design Fellows Ivana Molina Apaza, Tin Ayala, and Amina Lalor
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Join Amina Lalor, Tin Ayala, and Ivana Molina Apaza as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2024-2025 Indigenous-led design Fellowship Program.