Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
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
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
PH1990:0324.01-.05
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- This set is comprised of 5 portfolios, each containing 31 photographs, except for volume 1, which contains 30 photographs, and volume 5, which contains 33 photographs. The portfolios consist of boxes made from brown cloth-covered boards with brown leather-covered spines. There are gold gilt inscriptions, the including volume numbers, on the spines of each portfolio. The interiors of the boxes are lined with grey paper. The photographs are mounted in mats made of white paper and cardboard. Most of the photographs have graphite inscriptions on the verso listing the name of the residence shown and sometimes the name of the architect or interior designer.
architecture, interior design
between ca. 1867 and 1890
Set of 5 portfolios, containing 155 photographs of residential architecture, by Bedford Lemere & Co., England, United Kingdom
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PH1990:0324.01-.05
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- This set is comprised of 5 portfolios, each containing 31 photographs, except for volume 1, which contains 30 photographs, and volume 5, which contains 33 photographs. The portfolios consist of boxes made from brown cloth-covered boards with brown leather-covered spines. There are gold gilt inscriptions, the including volume numbers, on the spines of each portfolio. The interiors of the boxes are lined with grey paper. The photographs are mounted in mats made of white paper and cardboard. Most of the photographs have graphite inscriptions on the verso listing the name of the residence shown and sometimes the name of the architect or interior designer.
between ca. 1867 and 1890
architecture, interior design
drawings, textual records, photographs
DR2004:0485
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fliers, brochures, trade catalogues, photographs, correspondence, fabric samples, clippings, reference drawings, report, and sketch
Fliers, brochures, trade catalogues, photographs, correspondence, fabric samples, clippings
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DR2004:0485
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fliers, brochures, trade catalogues, photographs, correspondence, fabric samples, clippings, reference drawings, report, and sketch
drawings, textual records, photographs
photographs
Photographs for Baroque Army
AP173.S1.1992.D3.003
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Group consists of 44 slides of photographs of models, design development drawings and renderings.
ca. 1992
Photographs for Baroque Army
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AP173.S1.1992.D3.003
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Group consists of 44 slides of photographs of models, design development drawings and renderings.
photographs
ca. 1992
photographs
DR2012:0012:061:003
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Aerial photograph of downtown Ottawa. Original folder inscribed in graphite: "UN DICTIONNAIRE..." SERIES 40-49.
circa 1960-2012
Aerial photograph of downtown Ottawa possibly used as reference, Un dictionnaire
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DR2012:0012:061:003
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Aerial photograph of downtown Ottawa. Original folder inscribed in graphite: "UN DICTIONNAIRE..." SERIES 40-49.
photographs
circa 1960-2012
textual records, photographs
AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1.025
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Original file title : Chiado area Siza's office numbered photographs in this file CHI050-CHI052
1988-1998
Historical photographs of the area, Reconstrução do Chiado, Lisbon
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AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1.025
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Original file title : Chiado area Siza's office numbered photographs in this file CHI050-CHI052
textual records, photographs
1988-1998
photographs
AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1.053
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Original file title : Chiado Siza's office numbered photographs in this file CHI100 to CHI116
1988-1998
Slides of the area, Reconstrução do Chiado, Lisbon
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AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1.053
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Original file title : Chiado Siza's office numbered photographs in this file CHI100 to CHI116
photographs
1988-1998