Learning from... Brussels
Rotor members Michael Ghyoot and Maarten Gielen investigate the processes and practices of material management in Brussels and its suburbs. The concept of waste played a key role in their research and was informed by hundreds of visits to businesses, work sites, and recycling plants. The examination of discarded, unfinished products or those considered of inferior quality(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Brussels
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Rotor members Michael Ghyoot and Maarten Gielen investigate the processes and practices of material management in Brussels and its suburbs. The concept of waste played a key role in their research and was informed by hundreds of visits to businesses, work sites, and recycling plants. The examination of discarded, unfinished products or those considered of inferior quality(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Trois Architectes, Trois Quartiers focuses on three Montréal-based architects whose work had a strong presence in a specific area of the city during the first half of the twentieth century: Ludger Lemieux (1872–1953) in St-Henri, Ernest lsbell Barott (1884–1966) in St-Antoine on the southern and western slopes of Mount Royal, and Ernest Cormier (1885–1980) at the(...)
1440 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
20 May 1983 to 19 August 1983
Trois architectes, trois quartiers : Ludger Lemieux (St. Henri), Ernest Cormier (Cité universitaire), Ernest Isbell Barott (St. Antoine)
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Trois Architectes, Trois Quartiers focuses on three Montréal-based architects whose work had a strong presence in a specific area of the city during the first half of the twentieth century: Ludger Lemieux (1872–1953) in St-Henri, Ernest lsbell Barott (1884–1966) in St-Antoine on the southern and western slopes of Mount Royal, and Ernest Cormier (1885–1980) at the(...)
1440 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
Mirrors / Miroirs
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
22 June 2017 to 14 January 2018
Mirrors / Miroirs
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Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
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10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
DR1999:0025
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- La trace de l'étampe aux initiales LC permet d'attribuer ce dessin avec certitude à Le Corbusier. Le donateur du dessin, Pierre Jampen, qui a travaillé dans l'atelier Le Corbusier au début des années 60, identifie le projet comme 'Place des communications'. Aucun projet de ce nom n'a été trouvé dans l'oeuvre de Le Corbusier. Cependant, le dessin montre certaines similitudes avec le projet du Capitol à Chandigârh en Inde, où une place pourvue d'un obélisque a été projeté (Le Corbusier 1983). Le dessin daté du 5 décembre1952 concorde avec la période d'activité de Le Corbusier à Chandigârh, tel que le suggère ses 'Carnets' (Carnets 1981-1982).
architecture
5 December 1952
Bird's-eye sketch perspective for a plaza with an obelisk
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DR1999:0025
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- La trace de l'étampe aux initiales LC permet d'attribuer ce dessin avec certitude à Le Corbusier. Le donateur du dessin, Pierre Jampen, qui a travaillé dans l'atelier Le Corbusier au début des années 60, identifie le projet comme 'Place des communications'. Aucun projet de ce nom n'a été trouvé dans l'oeuvre de Le Corbusier. Cependant, le dessin montre certaines similitudes avec le projet du Capitol à Chandigârh en Inde, où une place pourvue d'un obélisque a été projeté (Le Corbusier 1983). Le dessin daté du 5 décembre1952 concorde avec la période d'activité de Le Corbusier à Chandigârh, tel que le suggère ses 'Carnets' (Carnets 1981-1982).
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archives
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Zdzislaw Przygoda fonds
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Le Fonds Zdzislaw Przygoda (Sir Casimir Gzowski Memorial) est composé de deux dessins, d'une photographie et de documents textuels, principalement de la correspondance, relatifs au projet de construire un monument commémoratif à Toronto à la mémoire de l'ingénieur polonais Sir Casimir Gzowski (1813-1898). Les documents produits et colligés par Zdzislaw Przygoda, vice-président exécutif du Sir Casimir Gzowski Memorial Centennial Committee, nous renseignent sur l'évolution du projet.
1963-1967
Zdzislaw Przygoda fonds
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Le Fonds Zdzislaw Przygoda (Sir Casimir Gzowski Memorial) est composé de deux dessins, d'une photographie et de documents textuels, principalement de la correspondance, relatifs au projet de construire un monument commémoratif à Toronto à la mémoire de l'ingénieur polonais Sir Casimir Gzowski (1813-1898). Les documents produits et colligés par Zdzislaw Przygoda, vice-président exécutif du Sir Casimir Gzowski Memorial Centennial Committee, nous renseignent sur l'évolution du projet.
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1963-1967