Melvin Charney 1935–2012
The artist and theorist Melvin Charney, who died earlier this year, made significant contributions to the CCA and the city of Montreal as a whole. Throughout a long and varied career, Charney championed the public role of the architect in the wider built environment, enforcing the idea that the street is the primary resource of the city. The CCA is celebrating Charney’s(...)
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24 October 2012 to 14 April 2013
Melvin Charney 1935–2012
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The artist and theorist Melvin Charney, who died earlier this year, made significant contributions to the CCA and the city of Montreal as a whole. Throughout a long and varied career, Charney championed the public role of the architect in the wider built environment, enforcing the idea that the street is the primary resource of the city. The CCA is celebrating Charney’s(...)
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Records of Protest
31 March 2025
Records of Protest
Irene Chin, Lisa Belabed, Auden Young Tura, Laura Aparicio Llorente, and Megan Marin demonstrate how architects engage with crises of their time
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Luca Danese was an architect and hydraulic engineer active in northeastern Italy in the first half of the 17th century. His career, while rooted in the peculiar geography of the Po River Delta, interacted with and was shaped by the broader hydropolitics of the papal government that was busy transforming Rome’s water infrastructure. Further, it was the period when, with(...)
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research fellow 2023, seminar, research, Andrea Bagnato, Luca Danese, Italy, 17th century, hydropolitics, water
6 July, 6 p.m.
Research Fellow Seminar: Andrea Bagnato
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Luca Danese was an architect and hydraulic engineer active in northeastern Italy in the first half of the 17th century. His career, while rooted in the peculiar geography of the Po River Delta, interacted with and was shaped by the broader hydropolitics of the papal government that was busy transforming Rome’s water infrastructure. Further, it was the period when, with(...)
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research fellow 2023, seminar, research, Andrea Bagnato, Luca Danese, Italy, 17th century, hydropolitics, water
textual records
ARCH258497
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2 classeurs à anneaux avec des documents officiels relatifs à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec, et à l’Ontario Association of Architects. Comprend aussi de la correspondance et des documents officiels relatifs à l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, et à la Corporation des ingénieurs du Québec.
1942-1972
Documents officiels relatifs à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec, et à l’Ontario Association of Architects
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ARCH258497
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2 classeurs à anneaux avec des documents officiels relatifs à l'Association des architectes de la province de Québec, et à l’Ontario Association of Architects. Comprend aussi de la correspondance et des documents officiels relatifs à l'Institut royal d'architecture du Canada, et à la Corporation des ingénieurs du Québec.
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1942-1972
ARCH286131
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drawing number: 2 Marani, Lawson & Morris and S.C. Davenport, Associated Architects
1937
First and second floor plans for Bank of Canada Building, Ottawa, Ontario
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ARCH286131
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drawing number: 2 Marani, Lawson & Morris and S.C. Davenport, Associated Architects
ARCH402469
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According to inscriptions, the architect is J.K. Chowhury. Further investigation is required.
between 1953 and 1965
Detail view of houses possibly for Panjab University's professors and teaching staff, Sector 14, Chandigarh, India
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ARCH402469
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According to inscriptions, the architect is J.K. Chowhury. Further investigation is required.
Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2008
Ryue Nishizawa: Some Ideas on Living
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
DR1991:0024:073
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Conversation between the client and the architect regarding the programme.
1977-1991
Audio recording of conversation between the client and the architect regarding the programme for the Hanks-Paré Residence, Tuxedo Park, New York
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DR1991:0024:073
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Conversation between the client and the architect regarding the programme.
1977-1991
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ARCH170086
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Fin du contrat: correspondance avec Piccoli et les architectes reprenant le dossier, règlement du problème des honoraires
Fin du contrat: correspondance avec Piccoli et les architectes reprenant le dossier
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ARCH170086
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Fin du contrat: correspondance avec Piccoli et les architectes reprenant le dossier, règlement du problème des honoraires
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photographs
Cloisters, Italy
PH1986:1437.10:001-019
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Album titled "Cloisters, Italy" collected by Ferruccio Vitale, landscape architect.
c. 1880s
Cloisters, Italy
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PH1986:1437.10:001-019
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Album titled "Cloisters, Italy" collected by Ferruccio Vitale, landscape architect.
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c. 1880s