Philip Ursprung, guest curator of the 2002 CCA exhibition Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind, discusses the Swiss architects’ collaborative relationship with artists. The lecture is part a series exploring the boundary between art and architecture, presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary(...)
17 October 2002
Philip Ursprung: Close Encounters: Herzog & de Meuron en collaboration avec des artistes
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Philip Ursprung, guest curator of the 2002 CCA exhibition Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind, discusses the Swiss architects’ collaborative relationship with artists. The lecture is part a series exploring the boundary between art and architecture, presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary(...)
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This box includes various medals and awards that Kenneth Frampton has won during his professional career. Medals and awards include: the Javier Carvajal International Architecture Award (2012); Jean Tschumi Prize, XXIV UIA Congress (2011); Doctoris Honoris Causa, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru (2012); Docteur Honoris Causa, l`Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (2014); an Architectural Association pin; and the Medal of l`histoire de làrt, Academie d'architecture (1997).
circa 1990-2014
Kenneth Frampton awards and medals
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AP197.S4.001
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This box includes various medals and awards that Kenneth Frampton has won during his professional career. Medals and awards include: the Javier Carvajal International Architecture Award (2012); Jean Tschumi Prize, XXIV UIA Congress (2011); Doctoris Honoris Causa, Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Peru (2012); Docteur Honoris Causa, l`Universite de Bretagne Occidentale (2014); an Architectural Association pin; and the Medal of l`histoire de làrt, Academie d'architecture (1997).
circa 1990-2014
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
Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
Revolution on a Human Scale: Photography and Vkhutemas
Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
29 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
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Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant recipients: Jordan Kauffman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Julia Tischer (McGill University); Mariana Mogilevich (Harvard University); Elizabeth McFarland (Cornell University); Alexandra Quantrill (Columbia University); Enrique Ramirez (Princeton University); Yoonchun Jung (McGill University); Mark Clintberg (Concordia(...)
February 2011 to November 2011
Doctoral Students Program 2011
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant recipients: Jordan Kauffman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Julia Tischer (McGill University); Mariana Mogilevich (Harvard University); Elizabeth McFarland (Cornell University); Alexandra Quantrill (Columbia University); Enrique Ramirez (Princeton University); Yoonchun Jung (McGill University); Mark Clintberg (Concordia(...)
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February 2011 to
November 2011
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
30 May 2013, 6pm
Friends and Enemies of Mies’s Mansion House Square
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Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
Portugal: Architecture, Tendenza, Revolution
Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
3 August 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
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Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
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Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare
13 October 2017 to 4 March 2018
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City
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The greystone buildings standing in Montreal today are essential tools for understanding the city. A deep study of their material history from the late 17th century to the early 20th demonstrates how geology, topography, politics, ethnicity, culture, as well as changes in economy and technology, have shaped the city through the centuries. Conceived as a photographic(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Greystone, Phyllis Lambert, Montréal, photography, Richard Pare