Civic Visions, World's Fairs
The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
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17 March 1993 to 1 August 1993
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
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The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
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15 files - District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York (1971); Orion Financial Group correspondence; blank forms; technical literature; research on concert halls/theatres; research on earth-sheltered architecture; letter from AEA expressing interest in submitting projects to Architectural Biennale Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria (1987); correspondence concerning computers; project status reports; 4 miscellaneous folders of correspondence concerning: talk with Dr. Hollenberg, office policies and memos, CCA exhibition catalogue (1987), requests for information, magazine clippings, minutes, Canadian Who's Who, King Abdulaziz University, Mundipharma, University of Arizona, Etisalat floor patterns, Town of Markham invoice, requests, press clippings, letters to AE, inter-office memos.
1971, 1987-1988
District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York
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15 files - District 4-5 Plan from Borough of North York (1971); Orion Financial Group correspondence; blank forms; technical literature; research on concert halls/theatres; research on earth-sheltered architecture; letter from AEA expressing interest in submitting projects to Architectural Biennale Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria (1987); correspondence concerning computers; project status reports; 4 miscellaneous folders of correspondence concerning: talk with Dr. Hollenberg, office policies and memos, CCA exhibition catalogue (1987), requests for information, magazine clippings, minutes, Canadian Who's Who, King Abdulaziz University, Mundipharma, University of Arizona, Etisalat floor patterns, Town of Markham invoice, requests, press clippings, letters to AE, inter-office memos.
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1971, 1987-1988
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 December 2006 to 25 March 2007
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
15 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis
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Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
Toys that Teach
The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 December 1992 to 25 April 1993
Toys that Teach
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The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Toys and the Modernist Tradition
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Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Arrivals
Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
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24 January 2008 to 23 March 2008
Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
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The Curatorial Internships Program is designed to share the CCA’s expertise with students and young professionals in architecture, the design disciplines, the arts, the humanities, and cultural studies who are interested in exploring editorial and curatorial work in architecture. Selected candidates will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the CCA’s curatorial approach—in particular its Collection, exhibitions, editorial projects, and research programs—through a nine-month internship in Montréal.
Curatorial Internships Program
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The Curatorial Internships Program is designed to share the CCA’s expertise with students and young professionals in architecture, the design disciplines, the arts, the humanities, and cultural studies who are interested in exploring editorial and curatorial work in architecture. Selected candidates will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the CCA’s curatorial approach—in particular its Collection, exhibitions, editorial projects, and research programs—through a nine-month internship in Montréal.
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Take Note
Take Note presents selected pivotal moments in the ongoing relationship between writing and architecture. This exhibition is the fifth in a series of CCA exhibitions developed in collaboration with universities. Curated by Sylvia Lavin, University of California, Los Angeles.
Octagonal gallery
4 February 2010 to 30 May 2010
Take Note
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Take Note presents selected pivotal moments in the ongoing relationship between writing and architecture. This exhibition is the fifth in a series of CCA exhibitions developed in collaboration with universities. Curated by Sylvia Lavin, University of California, Los Angeles.
Octagonal gallery