The exhibition focuses on one of Ernest Cormier’s masterworks—the Université de Montréal, built high on the northwest slope of Mount Royal between 1928 and 1943—and situates the Montréal architect and his work in the context of international thought where European and North American cultural and architectural ideas converged. The objects in the exhibition are drawn in(...)
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2 May 1990 to 21 October 1990
Ernest Cormier and the Université de Montréal
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The exhibition focuses on one of Ernest Cormier’s masterworks—the Université de Montréal, built high on the northwest slope of Mount Royal between 1928 and 1943—and situates the Montréal architect and his work in the context of international thought where European and North American cultural and architectural ideas converged. The objects in the exhibition are drawn in(...)
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archives
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Fonds
AP226
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The Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects fonds, 1970 – 2011, documents the studio’s architectural work and involvement in selected exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s. The records in this fonds represent 34 architectural projects, including built, unbuilt, and conceptual projects. The majority of the projects are located in Japan and are mostly documented through drawings as well as a limited number of videos, models, panels, textual records, and photographs. The fonds also contains records related to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects’ participation in three exhibitions in the USA and the UK in 1978 and 1986.
1970 - 2011
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects fonds
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AP226
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The Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects fonds, 1970 – 2011, documents the studio’s architectural work and involvement in selected exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s. The records in this fonds represent 34 architectural projects, including built, unbuilt, and conceptual projects. The majority of the projects are located in Japan and are mostly documented through drawings as well as a limited number of videos, models, panels, textual records, and photographs. The fonds also contains records related to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects’ participation in three exhibitions in the USA and the UK in 1978 and 1986.
archives
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Fonds
1970 - 2011
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(...)
American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
24 April 2014 , 6pm
Artist’s Talk: Amie Siegel, Provenance
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American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
drawings
AP178.S2.1996.005
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Docking pier for European Architects, as well as sketches of landscape drawings of Salonica. It also includes notes about the reconstruction for the Chiado and sketches of animals.
September 1996
Sketchbook 423: Lista Moveis - Salonica
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AP178.S2.1996.005
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Docking pier for European Architects, as well as sketches of landscape drawings of Salonica. It also includes notes about the reconstruction for the Chiado and sketches of animals.
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September 1996
articles
Photographic Pilgrimage
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Guido Guidi, conversation, oral history
27 June 2023
Photographic Pilgrimage
Guido Guidi in conversation with Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen
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During the eighteenth century, Rome was both an important centre for Italian art and the focal point for the studies of most European artists; all were drawn by the city’s antique art, architecture, and statuary, as well as its Renaissance, Baroque, and eighteenth-century masterpieces. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries is concerned with eighteenth-century(...)
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18 August 1993 to 2 January 1994
Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries
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During the eighteenth century, Rome was both an important centre for Italian art and the focal point for the studies of most European artists; all were drawn by the city’s antique art, architecture, and statuary, as well as its Renaissance, Baroque, and eighteenth-century masterpieces. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries is concerned with eighteenth-century(...)
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drawings
DR1988:0014
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- The Monument of Philopapus is shown at the crest of a hill, with distant hills and a body of water in the background. There are two groups of figures on either side of the monument: three men in European costume on the right and five men in Near Eastern costume on the left.
topographic
between 1782 and 1813
View of the monument to Antiochus Philopappus, Athens
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DR1988:0014
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- The Monument of Philopapus is shown at the crest of a hill, with distant hills and a body of water in the background. There are two groups of figures on either side of the monument: three men in European costume on the right and five men in Near Eastern costume on the left.
drawings
between 1782 and 1813
topographic
ARCH255898
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Front row (left): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba. Middle row (left to right): Ceylon Pavilion = Pavilion of Ceylon; Guyana and Barbados Pavilion; European Communities Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Pavilion of Judaism; Kaleidoscope; Pavilion of India = Indian Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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Front row (left): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba. Middle row (left to right): Ceylon Pavilion = Pavilion of Ceylon; Guyana and Barbados Pavilion; European Communities Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Pavilion of Judaism; Kaleidoscope; Pavilion of India = Indian Pavilion.
ARCH256555
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Front row (left): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba. Middle row (left to right): Ceylon Pavilion = Pavilion of Ceylon; Guyana and Barbados Pavilion; European Communities Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Pavilion of Judaism; Kaleidoscope; Pavilion of India = Indian Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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Front row (left): Cuban Pavilion = Pavilion of Cuba. Middle row (left to right): Ceylon Pavilion = Pavilion of Ceylon; Guyana and Barbados Pavilion; European Communities Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Pavilion of Judaism; Kaleidoscope; Pavilion of India = Indian Pavilion.