Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 October 2009 , 7pm
Geoff Manaugh: Cities of the CDC
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The City Decoded
What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
7 February 2016 to 21 February 2016
The City Decoded
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What if we played to re-imagine Montreal? After decoding the spatial policies linked to the planning of your city, it is your turn to rethink the urban fabric by combining houses, stores, parks, factories and corner stores. Montreal is transformed into a board game and its buildings and roads turned into game pieces. Noise management, sunlight, pollution and mixed-use(...)
The Other Architect
Within the context of the exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect, join us for a dance tour in spaces reserved exclusively for this experience. Guided by an artist from the Quartier Danses festival program and a CCA program assistant, participants will discover the exhibition through movement. Dance games and simple exercises will invite you(...)
Main Galleries
11 July 2026, 10am to 11:15am
Guided Dance Tour of The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect
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Within the context of the exhibition The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect, join us for a dance tour in spaces reserved exclusively for this experience. Guided by an artist from the Quartier Danses festival program and a CCA program assistant, participants will discover the exhibition through movement. Dance games and simple exercises will invite you(...)
Main Galleries
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The rest of your senses
Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Main galleries
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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Origins of the digital
Panos Mantziaras, City Landscape, H. Thünen's Isolierte Staat, R. Schwarz, Von der Bebauung der Erde, Visiting Scholar
19 October 2001
Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
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Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
24 September 2015 to 22 May 2016
Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities. Álvaro Siza in Berlin and The Hague
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Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
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City
AP144.S2.D182
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File documents Cedric Price's involvement in a travelling exhibition entitled "Cities on the Move". Price exhibited in the exhibition, and was involved in its design. Material in this file deals primarily with the exhibitions held at the Hayward Gallery in London, England; at the Louisiana museum in Humlebæk, Denmark; at the Nykytaiteen museo in Helsinki, Finland; and at various locations in Bangkok, Thailand. Included in this file is material connected with Price's lecture and visit to the opening of the Helsinki exhibition (DR2004:0336). Also included in this file are views of a presentation panel entitled "City of the Future" which was exhibited in Helsinki and possibly elsewhere (DR2004:0337). Material in this file was produced between 1999 and 2000, but predominantly in 1999. File contains textual records and photographic materials.
1999-2000, predominant 1999
City
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AP144.S2.D182
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File documents Cedric Price's involvement in a travelling exhibition entitled "Cities on the Move". Price exhibited in the exhibition, and was involved in its design. Material in this file deals primarily with the exhibitions held at the Hayward Gallery in London, England; at the Louisiana museum in Humlebæk, Denmark; at the Nykytaiteen museo in Helsinki, Finland; and at various locations in Bangkok, Thailand. Included in this file is material connected with Price's lecture and visit to the opening of the Helsinki exhibition (DR2004:0336). Also included in this file are views of a presentation panel entitled "City of the Future" which was exhibited in Helsinki and possibly elsewhere (DR2004:0337). Material in this file was produced between 1999 and 2000, but predominantly in 1999. File contains textual records and photographic materials.
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1999-2000, predominant 1999
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