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Khasi, Khasis, forest, Zomia, living root bridge, Tyrna, Pujita Guha, Meghalaya, ficus elastica, bamboo, Zomia Garden, Emerging Curator Residency Program, Yutong Lin
23 June 2025
Siej, Jri Bramon, and other plants
Pujita Guha on how Khasis build worlds in the forest
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Starting From... The Bubble
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
Hall cases
26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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The Other Architect
For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
28 October 2015 to 10 April 2016
The Other Architect
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For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
Main galleries
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
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Curator talk : Lab cult.
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1 online resource (1 video file (38 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
Curator talk : Lab cult.
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1 online resource (1 video file (38 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
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1 streaming video file (13 sec.) : sound, colour, 1 streaming video file (1 min., 23 sec.) : sound, colour, 1 streaming video file (1 min., 17 sec.) : sound, colour, 1...
[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]
What will be curator become?.
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1 streaming video file (13 sec.) : sound, colour, 1 streaming video file (1 min., 23 sec.) : sound, colour, 1 streaming video file (1 min., 17 sec.) : sound, colour, 1...
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]
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224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 31 cm
New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2023], ©2023
Emerging ecologies : architecture and the rise of environmentalism : a field guide / [edited by] Carson Chan, Matthew Wagstaffe ; [forward by Glenn D. Lowry].
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224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 31 cm
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New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2023], ©2023
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107 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans ; 21 x 28 cm
Helsinki : Museum of Finnish Architecture ; Frankfurt am Main : Deutsches Architekturmuseum, 2014.
Suomi seven : emerging architects from Finland = Junge architekten aus Finland / [editors, Juulia Kauste, Peter Cachola Schmal].
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107 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans ; 21 x 28 cm
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Helsinki : Museum of Finnish Architecture ; Frankfurt am Main : Deutsches Architekturmuseum, 2014.
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208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2001.
Art and artifact : the museum as medium / James Putnam.
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208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2001.