29901 Results
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
Actions:
Description:
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
20 October 2004 to 11 September 2005
20 October 2004 to 11 September 2005
Title:
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
Actions:
Description:
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big
Actions:
Description:
During the 1960s, the massive scale of the changes that transformed Montréal made it an archetype of the great metropolises of the Western world. As host of Expo 67, Montréal asserted itself on the international scene as a city of the future. The 60s: Montréal Thinks Big illustrates the processes that brought about these changes. The exhibition’s original models,(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
20 October 2004 to
11 September 2005
20 October 2004 to
11 September 2005
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
Actions:
Description:
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
27 September 2007 to 3 February 2008
Title:
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
Actions:
Description:
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales
Actions:
Description:
The work of Japanese artist Naoya Hatakeyama is concerned largely with the relationship between nature and cities. Comissioned by the CCA, the three series of photographs comprising Scales capture existing architectural models of New York City and Tokyo in a way that challenges notions of scale and the perception of reality. Naoya Hatakeyama: Scales is the fourth and(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
27 September 2007 to
3 February 2008
27 September 2007 to
3 February 2008
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Architecture as Evidence
Architecture as Evidence
Actions:
Description:
Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
16 June 2016 to 11 September 2016
16 June 2016 to 11 September 2016
Title:
Architecture as Evidence
Actions:
Description:
Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Architecture as Evidence
Actions:
Description:
Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
16 June 2016 to
11 September 2016
16 June 2016 to
11 September 2016
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Actions:
Description:
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
26 March 1997 to 1 June 1997
26 March 1997 to 1 June 1997
Title:
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
Actions:
Description:
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
Actions:
Description:
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
26 March 1997 to
1 June 1997
26 March 1997 to
1 June 1997
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Form:
events
events
Title:
Siza Speaks
Siza Speaks
Actions:
Description:
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Date:
26 April 2012 , 7pm
26 April 2012 , 7pm
Title:
Siza Speaks
Actions:
Description:
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Siza Speaks
Actions:
Description:
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Form:
events
events
Date:
26 April 2012
7pm
26 April 2012
7pm
Location:
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Actions:
Description:
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Title:
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
Actions:
Description:
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
Actions:
Description:
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
16 May 2012 to
14 October 2012
16 May 2012 to
14 October 2012
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Title:
Old Books New Cities
Old Books New Cities
Actions:
Description:
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
Location:
Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
12 December 2013 to 15 June 2014
12 December 2013 to 15 June 2014
Title:
Old Books New Cities
Actions:
Description:
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
Old Books New Cities
Actions:
Description:
The pressing need to reconstruct cities after the Second World War and the sudden post-war rise in population led the public sector to assume an ever-increasing role in the design and construction of the urban environment. In different political contexts, large urban developments or the construction of entirely new towns were directed by municipal or state powers and(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
12 December 2013 to
15 June 2014
12 December 2013 to
15 June 2014
Location:
Hall cases
Hall cases
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Actions:
Description:
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
Title:
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
Actions:
Description:
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
Actions:
Description:
British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
12 February 1992 to
19 April 1992
12 February 1992 to
19 April 1992
Location:
Main galleries
Main galleries
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Actions:
Description:
The H-Block buildings of Maze Prison were a potent symbol of the often violent political struggles in Northern Ireland known today as the Troubles. The prison, opened in 1971 by the British government, was designed to keep apart warring loyalist and republican paramilitaries, the latter demanding to be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. As part of this(...)
The H-Block buildings of Maze Prison were a potent symbol of the often violent political struggles in Northern Ireland known today as the Troubles. The prison, opened in 1971 by the British government, was designed to keep apart warring loyalist and republican paramilitaries, the latter demanding to be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. As part of this(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
5 September 2013 to 12 January 2014
5 September 2013 to 12 January 2014
Title:
H-BLOCK: Prison Housing – Donovan Wylie
Actions:
Description:
The H-Block buildings of Maze Prison were a potent symbol of the often violent political struggles in Northern Ireland known today as the Troubles. The prison, opened in 1971 by the British government, was designed to keep apart warring loyalist and republican paramilitaries, the latter demanding to be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. As part of this(...)
H-BLOCK: Prison Housing – Donovan Wylie
Actions:
Description:
The H-Block buildings of Maze Prison were a potent symbol of the often violent political struggles in Northern Ireland known today as the Troubles. The prison, opened in 1971 by the British government, was designed to keep apart warring loyalist and republican paramilitaries, the latter demanding to be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. As part of this(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
5 September 2013 to
12 January 2014
5 September 2013 to
12 January 2014
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Actions:
Description:
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
Date:
10 May 2016 to 20 November 2016
10 May 2016 to 20 November 2016
Title:
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
Actions:
Description:
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
Actions:
Description:
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
Form:
exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
10 May 2016 to
20 November 2016
10 May 2016 to
20 November 2016
