Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
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Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
18 March 1998 to 24 May 1998
Montréal Métropole, 1880–1930
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This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
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AP156.S4.SS1.D3
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Le dossier contient des photographies d'Albert Jeanneret, le frère de Pierre Jeanneret. File contains photographs of Albert Jeanneret, Pierre Jeanneret's brother.
1950 or after
Portraits d'Albert Jeanneret = Albert Jeanneret's portraits
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AP156.S4.SS1.D3
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Le dossier contient des photographies d'Albert Jeanneret, le frère de Pierre Jeanneret. File contains photographs of Albert Jeanneret, Pierre Jeanneret's brother.
Dossier 3
1950 or after
drawings, textual records, photographs
DR1995:0280:656-656
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consultant reports and specifications, promotional material, design notes, office memoranda, postcards, map, photographs, including aerial photographs, sketches, notes, programme, draft research paper on computer modelling (John Frazer, et al), clippings, product information lists, drawings, invoice, brochure, and meeting notes
Consultant reports and specifications, promotional material
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DR1995:0280:656-656
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consultant reports and specifications, promotional material, design notes, office memoranda, postcards, map, photographs, including aerial photographs, sketches, notes, programme, draft research paper on computer modelling (John Frazer, et al), clippings, product information lists, drawings, invoice, brochure, and meeting notes
drawings, textual records, photographs
photographs
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2 file
ARCH242891
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Seaside Conference: 4 b&w photographs, contact sheet and negatives, and 14 slides of Any Event seminar Seaside Images (illustrations): 3 photographs, 26 negatives, 1 colour photoprint of views and plans of residential developments and Town of Seaside
1993
Seaside Conference Photographs, 1993
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Seaside Conference: 4 b&w photographs, contact sheet and negatives, and 14 slides of Any Event seminar Seaside Images (illustrations): 3 photographs, 26 negatives, 1 colour photoprint of views and plans of residential developments and Town of Seaside
photographs
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2 file
1993
photographs
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3 photograph(s)
ARCH187143
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David & Boulva, architectes - view of Banque Canadienne Nationale in Place d'Armes, Montreal (Jacques Varry, photographer), exterior detail of Theatre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts; by Dimitri Dimakopoulos - aerial photo of Le Concorde Hotel at Quebec City (SL graphics, photographer)
Photographs of Miscellaneous Projects
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ARCH187143
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David & Boulva, architectes - view of Banque Canadienne Nationale in Place d'Armes, Montreal (Jacques Varry, photographer), exterior detail of Theatre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts; by Dimitri Dimakopoulos - aerial photo of Le Concorde Hotel at Quebec City (SL graphics, photographer)
photographs
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3 photograph(s)
photographs
AP178.S1.1961.PR02.005.1
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Original file title: Piscina - Leca da Palmeira Stampe/digitalizado. Siza's office numbered photographs in this file PM 077-078, PM 102. Photographers marks A. Vieira and O. Charters Monteiro appear on the back of prints in this file.
circa 1961-1966
Panoramic photomontages and photograph of built project, Piscina de Marés, Leça da Palmeira (folder 1 of 2)
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AP178.S1.1961.PR02.005.1
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Original file title: Piscina - Leca da Palmeira Stampe/digitalizado. Siza's office numbered photographs in this file PM 077-078, PM 102. Photographers marks A. Vieira and O. Charters Monteiro appear on the back of prints in this file.
photographs
circa 1961-1966