Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
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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,(...)
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,(...)
As part of the first phase of the CCA’s Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program, Nick Beech, Timothy Ivison, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting discuss their ongoing research into cultural transformation and architecture in postwar Britain:
Shaughnessy House
10 September 2015 , 6PM
British Architecture and the Contestation of Postwar Cultural Consensus
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As part of the first phase of the CCA’s Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program, Nick Beech, Timothy Ivison, Simon Sadler and Ben Sweeting discuss their ongoing research into cultural transformation and architecture in postwar Britain:
Shaughnessy House
Shaughnessy House
15 August 2018 to 21 August 2018
Shaughnessy House
Main galleries Keyword(s):
postmodernism, postmodern, architecture itself, sylvia lavin, peter eisenman
7 November 2018 to 7 April 2019
Main galleries Keyword(s):
postmodernism, postmodern, architecture itself, sylvia lavin, peter eisenman
Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 September 2010, 6pm
Robert Burley: The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
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Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s collaborative and multidisciplinary research project on architecture’s complex developments in sub-Saharan African countries after independence.
Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture
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The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s collaborative and multidisciplinary research project on architecture’s complex developments in sub-Saharan African countries after independence.
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Paul Desmarais Theatre
17 April 2003
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Architects are traditionally uncomfortable with acknowledging their dependence on other actors, so My Invisible Friend invites them to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
11 April 2019, 6:30pm
My Invisible Friend: Michiel van Iersel on "Failed Architecture" and a DJ
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Architects are traditionally uncomfortable with acknowledging their dependence on other actors, so My Invisible Friend invites them to present projects made with non-architects and to reveal the invisible friends without whom their work would be impossible.
Paul-Desmarais Theater