When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
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22 April 2015 to 30 November 2015
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
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Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
9 June 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Elisabeth Essaïan
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Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
Shaughnessy House
15 August 2018 to 21 August 2018
Shaughnessy House
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients: Alma Mikulinsky (University of Toronto); Inhye Kang (McGill University); Nicholas Roquet (McGill University); Leila Farah (McGill University); Deborah J. Watt (University of British Columbia); Nancy Cuthbert (University of Victoria); Dana Broadbent (McGill University); Carole Lévesque (Université de Montréal);(...)
January 2007 to November 2007
Doctoral Students Program 2007
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients: Alma Mikulinsky (University of Toronto); Inhye Kang (McGill University); Nicholas Roquet (McGill University); Leila Farah (McGill University); Deborah J. Watt (University of British Columbia); Nancy Cuthbert (University of Victoria); Dana Broadbent (McGill University); Carole Lévesque (Université de Montréal);(...)
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January 2007 to
November 2007
11 November 2021 to 19 November 2021, 6:30pm
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant recipients: José Aragüez (Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture); Britt Eversole (Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture); Michael Kubo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Peter Minosh (Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); Bryan Norwood (Harvard(...)
June 2013 to August 2013
Doctoral Students Program 2013
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant recipients: José Aragüez (Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture); Britt Eversole (Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture); Michael Kubo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Peter Minosh (Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); Bryan Norwood (Harvard(...)
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June 2013 to
August 2013
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Domestic Monument
Domestic Monument
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen reflect on the Amancio Williams archive
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
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Détails divers
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Détails divers : diagramme de localisation des robinets d'incendie extérieurs, détails des citernes à cadavres. Aile D : enchevalement du plancher de la salle D115 pour supporter les équipements du Conseil national de recherches (CNR), plan de la chambre de radium du CNR. Aile G : détail du comptoir de la cafétéria, 4e étage. Aile I : enchevalement du plancher de la salle I107. Ailes K et L : plans du dépôt de livres, plan clef du mobilier de la bibliothèque. Ailes L et H' : détails des canalisations principales d'urgence. Aile F' : emplacement des casiers dans la salle F'504 (dessins 71 à 81, 81A).
1942-1944
Détails divers
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Détails divers : diagramme de localisation des robinets d'incendie extérieurs, détails des citernes à cadavres. Aile D : enchevalement du plancher de la salle D115 pour supporter les équipements du Conseil national de recherches (CNR), plan de la chambre de radium du CNR. Aile G : détail du comptoir de la cafétéria, 4e étage. Aile I : enchevalement du plancher de la salle I107. Ailes K et L : plans du dépôt de livres, plan clef du mobilier de la bibliothèque. Ailes L et H' : détails des canalisations principales d'urgence. Aile F' : emplacement des casiers dans la salle F'504 (dessins 71 à 81, 81A).
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1942-1944