articles
15 July 2024
Writing women into the history of architecture requires rethinking both archival practices and historiographical approaches. In this seminar Olga Touloumi will depart from her experience collecting and cataloguing the works of architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington (1936–2020) to discuss feminist praxis in the archive. Using weaving as a historical method,(...)
Study Room, CCA
3 July 2025, 6pm to 7:30pm
Common Threads: The Craft of a Woman’s Archive
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Writing women into the history of architecture requires rethinking both archival practices and historiographical approaches. In this seminar Olga Touloumi will depart from her experience collecting and cataloguing the works of architect and crocheter Christine Benglia-Bevington (1936–2020) to discuss feminist praxis in the archive. Using weaving as a historical method,(...)
Study Room, CCA
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3 March 2018
Devices of Design
A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004
Devices of Design
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A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
archives
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Fonds
AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
1995-2013
ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records
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AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
archives
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Fonds
1995-2013
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
Hall cases
7 May 1989 to 15 August 1989
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal
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Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
Hall cases
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14 December 2017
Eve Blau, Richard Pare, and Phyllis Lambert on Photographic Evidence
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Architects’ Books
This exhibition presents three phases in the history of the architect’s book: the mid-sixteenth century, when architects first proved themselves in the field; the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries, when architects turned to book design as a serious complement to their professional career; and contemporary times, when architectural firms, in league with their(...)
Octagonal gallery
24 June 2004 to 26 September 2004
Architects’ Books
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This exhibition presents three phases in the history of the architect’s book: the mid-sixteenth century, when architects first proved themselves in the field; the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries, when architects turned to book design as a serious complement to their professional career; and contemporary times, when architectural firms, in league with their(...)
Octagonal gallery
archives
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Fonds
AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
2003-2011
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
archives
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Fonds
2003-2011
research
Visiting Scholars 1998–1999
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Annalisa Avon, Independent researcher, Fiume Veneto, Italy Topic: Baroque in France Before Bernini’s Arrival Dirk De Meyer, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Topic: Johann Santini Aichel (1677-1723) Rochelle Ziskin, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States Topic: Lexicons of Feminity and(...)
September 1998 to August 1999
Visiting Scholars 1998–1999
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Annalisa Avon, Independent researcher, Fiume Veneto, Italy Topic: Baroque in France Before Bernini’s Arrival Dirk De Meyer, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Topic: Johann Santini Aichel (1677-1723) Rochelle Ziskin, Department of Art and Art History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States Topic: Lexicons of Feminity and(...)
research
September 1998 to
August 1999