Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
2 November 2023, 6:30pm
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Le manuscrit traite des délais de construction à Chandigarh et des travaux considérables à faire. Il a pour sujet, entre autres, les jardins, la construction d'habitations et la Haute Cour ainsi que l'argent et l'économie. Le fonctionnement du bureau des architectes est aussi traité dans le manuscrit.
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Manuscrit traitant de la construction à Chandigarh, Inde
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Le manuscrit traite des délais de construction à Chandigarh et des travaux considérables à faire. Il a pour sujet, entre autres, les jardins, la construction d'habitations et la Haute Cour ainsi que l'argent et l'économie. Le fonctionnement du bureau des architectes est aussi traité dans le manuscrit.
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries
13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries
10 Minutes is a collection of twenty-four interviews with architects, designers, and artists about their relationship with materials and how this informs architectures and design’s place in society. Questions of economy, ecology, cooperation, and pedagogy are also at the heart of the conversations, revealing a variety of contemporary, exploratory, and constantly renewed(...)
2 May 2024, 6pm
10 minutes: Architects and Designers in Conversation
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10 Minutes is a collection of twenty-four interviews with architects, designers, and artists about their relationship with materials and how this informs architectures and design’s place in society. Questions of economy, ecology, cooperation, and pedagogy are also at the heart of the conversations, revealing a variety of contemporary, exploratory, and constantly renewed(...)
Starting From... The Suburbs
We are more likely today to consider suburbs formless, vacant, or unsustainable compared to the dense social and economic activity of cities. Starting from… The Suburbs looks at the past fifty years of suburban culture through the lens of the CCA Collection’s photography holdings, produced by photographers’ longstanding attraction and aversion to this urban form. The(...)
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16 February 2012 to 10 June 2012
Starting From... The Suburbs
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We are more likely today to consider suburbs formless, vacant, or unsustainable compared to the dense social and economic activity of cities. Starting from… The Suburbs looks at the past fifty years of suburban culture through the lens of the CCA Collection’s photography holdings, produced by photographers’ longstanding attraction and aversion to this urban form. The(...)
Hall cases
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
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La chemise contient : 1 exemplaire d'une brochure publiée par le Bureau d'expansion économique, Compagnie canadienne de l'Exposition universelle de 1967, sur le projet du Centre du commerce international, D'Astous et Pothier, architectes, 1963. 21 x 21 cm. 1 exemplaire d'un livre paru en octobre 1993, à l'occasion d'une cérémonie de consécration de l'église Saint-Maurice-de-Duvernay (Roger D'Astous, architecte, 1961), marquant le 35ième anniversaire de fondation de la paroisse. 13,5 x 23 cm.
1963, 1993
Brochure publiée par le Bureau d'expansion économique, livre de l'église Saint-Maurice-de-Duvernay
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La chemise contient : 1 exemplaire d'une brochure publiée par le Bureau d'expansion économique, Compagnie canadienne de l'Exposition universelle de 1967, sur le projet du Centre du commerce international, D'Astous et Pothier, architectes, 1963. 21 x 21 cm. 1 exemplaire d'un livre paru en octobre 1993, à l'occasion d'une cérémonie de consécration de l'église Saint-Maurice-de-Duvernay (Roger D'Astous, architecte, 1961), marquant le 35ième anniversaire de fondation de la paroisse. 13,5 x 23 cm.
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1963, 1993
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Madrid
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Madrid
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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre