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ARCH259567
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Correspondance et vérification des dessins d'atelier de l'entrepreneur Bedard Girard Limités. Comprend aussi un cahier à anneaux avec des croquis, des devis descriptif.
1955-1957
Correspondance avec entrepreneurs, croquis et devis descriptifs
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ARCH259567
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Correspondance et vérification des dessins d'atelier de l'entrepreneur Bedard Girard Limités. Comprend aussi un cahier à anneaux avec des croquis, des devis descriptif.
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1955-1957
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
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Living Lands
Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
Living Lands
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Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
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Learning from... Copenhagen
Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
21 May 2015 , 6pm
Learning from... Copenhagen
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Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
10 October 2013
Thomas Demand: Models of Perception
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Thomas Demand gives a Mellon lecture describing the limitations but also the strange pre-eminence of models as artefacts. The artist, who has presented mid-career retrospectives at both MOMA and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, argues that whilst models describe a fragment of our surroundings, it is difficult to prove them wrong.
The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
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I could reinvent myself
institution, unlearning, curating, the museum is not enough, grant application, Giovanna Borasi, Albert Ferré, Francesco Garutti, Jayne Kelley, Mirko Zardini
1 May 2022
I could reinvent myself
An exercise in imagining new institutions marked by stringent limitations on their structures
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The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 November 2010 to 6 February 2011
404 ERROR: The object is not online
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The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Assurance de la propriété
ARCH259531
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Correspondance et reçus du Gérard Parizeau, Limitée.
1943-1968
Assurance de la propriété
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ARCH259531
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Correspondance et reçus du Gérard Parizeau, Limitée.
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1943-1968
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Carte "Cité de Montréal"
ARCH277118
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Carte produit par Millen & Frère limité.
Carte "Cité de Montréal"
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Carte produit par Millen & Frère limité.
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