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1982
ARCH199442
1984
That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
20 October 2016, 6pm
Sound Advice and Clear Drawings: Design and Computation in the Second Machine Age
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That digital tools have changed the very nature of designing and making buildings is unquestioned. Yet formal innovation and ingenuity—and the technical competence needed to achieve those ends—are not merely a function of the virtuosity of form-making. Rather, they also make evident the dramatic impact that digital capabilities have on the roles, responsibility, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
drawings, photographs
ARCH172497
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Photographies du site, d'installations et d'œuvres graphiques de Jacques Rousseau, dessins (plans, rendus) sur divers supports (films, acétates, papier, bristol), catalogue de l'exposition "Architecture du Musée", 1984
Photographies du site, d'installations et d'œuvres graphiques de Jacques Rousseau, dessins
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ARCH172497
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Photographies du site, d'installations et d'œuvres graphiques de Jacques Rousseau, dessins (plans, rendus) sur divers supports (films, acétates, papier, bristol), catalogue de l'exposition "Architecture du Musée", 1984
drawings, photographs
textual records
ARCH158202
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Chemise comprenant une correspondance relative à la participation de Roger D’Astous à l’Atelier international d’architecture et une série d’esquisses, de dessins, d'ébauches de plans et de notes.
Correspondance relative à la participation de Roger D’Astous à l’Atelier international d’architecture
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Chemise comprenant une correspondance relative à la participation de Roger D’Astous à l’Atelier international d’architecture et une série d’esquisses, de dessins, d'ébauches de plans et de notes.
textual records
Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
17 June 1997 to 28 September 1997
The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks
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Disneyland, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France, is a key symbol of contemporary American culture that has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, of simulation and pastiche, of the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme(...)
Main galleries
The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
14 October 1983 to 11 December 1983
The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture in Montréal
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The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
7 May 1989 to 7 August 1989
Architecture and Its Image
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Architecture and Its Image examines the complex relationships between drawings, photographs, prints, and other architectural representations and the buildings, landscapes, and cities they represent. The exhibition assembles images dating from the early sixteenth century to the late twentieth century from Tokyo and Rome to Mississauga and Montreal and includes maps, books,(...)
First Sunday of the month's family activity: Architecture playshop
Family and young public activity
Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
4 January 2026, 11am to 12pm
First Sunday of the month's family activity: Architecture playshop
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Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
Hall cases
11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
Hall cases