Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
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A series of files (labelled "Photo-Prints") containing mostly photographs of projects, drawings and models: Bank of Canada; Massey Hall (site study); Markham Fairgrounds; Prime Miniser's Office; Prime Minister's Residence; UBC Faculty Club interiors; Lethbridge University; MacMillan Bloedel Building; Canadian National Exhibition (monorail model); Royal Bank Ottawa project; Imperial Oil (Don Mills); TTC Spadina Line - Eglinton West Station; Hassard Residence; Hall Residence; Hilborn Residence; Heller Residence; Theme pavilion Expo 1967 (Canadian Pavilion); Osaka Pavilion; Simon Fraser University; Sikh Temple, Vancouver; Shanon Estates; Nelson Towers; Village Lake Louise; East End Lake, Vancouver; Point Grey Townhouses; Whistler Condominiums; Port Moody Condominiums, F.P.19 Vancouver; X. Kaly Mini-Village; M-3 Montreal (Cite des terraces); False Creek (Fisherman's Quay); Winnipeg Studies; Metro Centre (Toronto); TTC Yorkdale station; Blocks 51, 61, and 71; Museum of Anthropology; Expo 1967 Pavilion, Eaton's (Toronto original building); Fuldaver Residence; Grouse Mountain project; Filberg Residence; Danto Residence; Bank of Canada (mock up)
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A series of files (labelled "Photo-Prints") containing mostly photographs of projects, drawings and models: Bank of Canada; Massey Hall (site study); Markham Fairgrounds; Prime Miniser's Office; Prime Minister's Residence; UBC Faculty Club interiors; Lethbridge University; MacMillan Bloedel Building; Canadian National Exhibition (monorail model); Royal Bank Ottawa project; Imperial Oil (Don Mills); TTC Spadina Line - Eglinton West Station; Hassard Residence; Hall Residence; Hilborn Residence; Heller Residence; Theme pavilion Expo 1967 (Canadian Pavilion); Osaka Pavilion; Simon Fraser University; Sikh Temple, Vancouver; Shanon Estates; Nelson Towers; Village Lake Louise; East End Lake, Vancouver; Point Grey Townhouses; Whistler Condominiums; Port Moody Condominiums, F.P.19 Vancouver; X. Kaly Mini-Village; M-3 Montreal (Cite des terraces); False Creek (Fisherman's Quay); Winnipeg Studies; Metro Centre (Toronto); TTC Yorkdale station; Blocks 51, 61, and 71; Museum of Anthropology; Expo 1967 Pavilion, Eaton's (Toronto original building); Fuldaver Residence; Grouse Mountain project; Filberg Residence; Danto Residence; Bank of Canada (mock up)
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For the third and last installment in this series, Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen of Pezo von Ellrichshausen explore domestic monumentality in Williamss work. The exhibition presents technical drawings of monumental elements incorporated in two key projects—Casa Sobre el Arroyo [House on the river] and Casa Demarás [Desmarás house]—alongside an array of(...)
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Amancio Williams, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Buenos Aires, Out of the box, Argentina, Casa sobre el arroyo, Casa Desmarás, bridge house
22 February 2024 to 19 May 2024
Domestic Monument: Amancio Williams selected by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
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For the third and last installment in this series, Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen of Pezo von Ellrichshausen explore domestic monumentality in Williamss work. The exhibition presents technical drawings of monumental elements incorporated in two key projects—Casa Sobre el Arroyo [House on the river] and Casa Demarás [Desmarás house]—alongside an array of(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Amancio Williams, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Buenos Aires, Out of the box, Argentina, Casa sobre el arroyo, Casa Desmarás, bridge house
First, the Forests
*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 October 2012 to 6 January 2013
First, the Forests
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*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2003 to 6 September 2004
out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
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This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
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11 December 1996 to 9 March 1997
Uncovering Geometry: Ben Nicholson at the Laurentian Library
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This exhibition presents American architect Ben Nicholson’s search for order, meaning, and logic in a world of art, science, and mystery. The Laurentian Library in Florence, a masterwork by Michelangelo designed in 1524–25, contains fifteen pairs of terra cotta panels bearing complex geometric patterns that have been long hidden from view. Nicholson studied the panels at(...)
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
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22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
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