Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
Rotor Deconstruction
Maarten Gielen presents the work of Rotor, a group of architects, designers and other professionals interested in material flows in industry and construction, particularly in relation to resources, waste, use and reuse. Rotor disseminates creative strategies for salvage and waste reduction through workshops, publications, and exhibitions. Presented in conjunction with(...)
4 February 2016
Rotor Deconstruction
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Maarten Gielen presents the work of Rotor, a group of architects, designers and other professionals interested in material flows in industry and construction, particularly in relation to resources, waste, use and reuse. Rotor disseminates creative strategies for salvage and waste reduction through workshops, publications, and exhibitions. Presented in conjunction with(...)
Miguel Robles-Durán discusses Cohabitation Strategies’s action research endeavours, which aim to facilitate transformative and progressive urban intervention projects in various cities across Europe and South and North America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect.
24 March 2016
Cohabitation Strategies: Studies and Projects on the Contemporary Urban Crisis
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Miguel Robles-Durán discusses Cohabitation Strategies’s action research endeavours, which aim to facilitate transformative and progressive urban intervention projects in various cities across Europe and South and North America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect.
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Lateral Gaze
21 August 2023
Lateral Gaze
Stefano Boeri on Gabriele Basilico, in conversation with Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen
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Shaughnessy House
23 July 2009
Shaughnessy House
Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
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13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries
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What, if not the family?
A Social Reset
Soirée, gala, family, what if not the family?, Miranda July, Other Architects, Grace Mortlock, David Neustein, Elena Schütz, Julian Schubert, Leonard Streich, Something Fantastic, Edit Collective, Marisa Morán Jahn, Rafi Segal, Carehaus, Johanna Hurme, 5468796 Architecture, Nahira Gerster-Sim, Frida Escobedo, Kumiko Inui, Emanuel Admasu, AD-WO
7 June 2021
What, if not the family?
Guests from multidisciplinary perspectives discuss the spatial implications of ongoing shifts in ideas of the family
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A Social Reset
Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
24 February 2024, 2pm to 3:30pm
Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
ARCH272975
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A 2008 BD Architect of the Year Award, presented to the Foreign Office Architects in the category of Retail Architect.
2008
A 2008 BD Architect of the Year Award received by the Foreign Office Architects
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ARCH272975
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A 2008 BD Architect of the Year Award, presented to the Foreign Office Architects in the category of Retail Architect.
2008
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Research drawings
AP197.S2.061
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This box includes reprographic copies by the following architects: Le Corbusier; Juha Leiviska; Patkau Architects; Richard Meier; and Tadao Ando Architects.
circa 1980-2010
Research drawings
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AP197.S2.061
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This box includes reprographic copies by the following architects: Le Corbusier; Juha Leiviska; Patkau Architects; Richard Meier; and Tadao Ando Architects.
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circa 1980-2010