Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
24 November 1999 to 30 April 2000
En chantier: The Collections of the CCA, 1989-1999
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Marking the 10th anniversary of the CCA’s public opening, the exhibition spotlights and juxtaposes acquisitions from its first decade. Over 350 prints, drawings, photographs, rare books, manuscripts, toys, and models spanning five centuries of architectural history reflect how the built world has been imagined, conceived, and reflected upon. Dedicated to the many donors(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
West 37th Street, Manhattan, photographed by John Veltri between 13 September and 18 September 1966
This exhibition highlights a work that the New York engineering firm Leonard S. Wegman Co. commissioned in 1966 from John Veltri. Veltri was to photograph every building, parking area, and shaftway on West 37th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, at the heart of Manhattan’s busy Garment District. The photographs Veltri made in connection with Wegman Co.’s redevelopment(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 December 2003 to 7 March 2004
West 37th Street, Manhattan, photographed by John Veltri between 13 September and 18 September 1966
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This exhibition highlights a work that the New York engineering firm Leonard S. Wegman Co. commissioned in 1966 from John Veltri. Veltri was to photograph every building, parking area, and shaftway on West 37th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, at the heart of Manhattan’s busy Garment District. The photographs Veltri made in connection with Wegman Co.’s redevelopment(...)
Octagonal gallery
PH1987:1070
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- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 75 views of steel mill blast furnaces and 11 views of mines. There are 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany, 15 in the United States, and five in each of France, Luxembourg and Belgium. There are five views of mines in Germany, two in Belgium, two in the United States, and one in each of France and Wales. - The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany including: 36 views of three blast furnaces of the Metallhüttenwerk in Lübeck-Herrenwyk (PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1031); three views of the Thyssen Hütte steel mill in Ruhrort, Duisburg (PH1987:1033, PH1987:1043 and PH1987:1050); two views of the Gute-Hoffnungs-Hütte steel mill in Oberhausen, Ruhr (PH1987:1044 and PH1987:1070); and one view each of the Klöckner Werke steel mill in Haspe (PH1987:1032), the Schalker Verein steel mill in Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr (PH1987:1042), the Ilseder Hütte steel mill in Ilsede (PH1987:1034) and the Hainer Hütte steel mill in Siegen (PH1987:1045). - The photographers have not indicated the exhibition layout for the group of eleven photographs PH1987:1060 - PH1987:1070 of views of blast furnace "landscapes" which are numbered from "P 1" through "P 11" (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).
architecture, engineering
1969
View of Gute-Hoffnungs-Hütte steel mill, Oberhausen, Ruhr, Germany
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PH1987:1070
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- The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 75 views of steel mill blast furnaces and 11 views of mines. There are 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany, 15 in the United States, and five in each of France, Luxembourg and Belgium. There are five views of mines in Germany, two in Belgium, two in the United States, and one in each of France and Wales. - The group of 86 photographs PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1081 by Bernd and Hilla Becher show 45 views of steel mill blast furnaces in Germany including: 36 views of three blast furnaces of the Metallhüttenwerk in Lübeck-Herrenwyk (PH1987:0996 - PH1987:1031); three views of the Thyssen Hütte steel mill in Ruhrort, Duisburg (PH1987:1033, PH1987:1043 and PH1987:1050); two views of the Gute-Hoffnungs-Hütte steel mill in Oberhausen, Ruhr (PH1987:1044 and PH1987:1070); and one view each of the Klöckner Werke steel mill in Haspe (PH1987:1032), the Schalker Verein steel mill in Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr (PH1987:1042), the Ilseder Hütte steel mill in Ilsede (PH1987:1034) and the Hainer Hütte steel mill in Siegen (PH1987:1045). - The photographers have not indicated the exhibition layout for the group of eleven photographs PH1987:1060 - PH1987:1070 of views of blast furnace "landscapes" which are numbered from "P 1" through "P 11" (Kicken Pauseback, 1987).
architecture, engineering
Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is no doubt being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competences. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has emerged within the field of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
11 November 2010 to 13 November 2010
The CCA in an Expanding Curatorial Field
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Curatorial practice as it emerged during the twentieth century is no doubt being extensively recast. The tremendous change in the status of the object, of culture, of the various disciplines, or information and education, implies an inevitable transformation of the curator’s role and competences. A renewed interest for curatorial practice has emerged within the field of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
31 March 2016
Fucking with Interoperability: Culture Lab 1991–94
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Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
While we wait for the climate crisis to convince us that it is real, what is the right attitude to take? Should we panic, start saving food, or just lie down and try to relax? Join us in a temporary tv studio for a live recording of diverse thinkers presenting their work and reflecting on how it suggests different ways forward. To mark the opening of It’s All Happening(...)
16 November 2016
Hostile or docile?
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While we wait for the climate crisis to convince us that it is real, what is the right attitude to take? Should we panic, start saving food, or just lie down and try to relax? Join us in a temporary tv studio for a live recording of diverse thinkers presenting their work and reflecting on how it suggests different ways forward. To mark the opening of It’s All Happening(...)
Echosystems
This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
5 March 2016
Echosystems
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This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
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Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
10 May 2017 to 15 October 2017
Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 May 1993 to 29 August 1993
An Architectural Odyssey: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
Octagonal gallery