Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 September 2018 to 19 May 2019
Scripts for a new world
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Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
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*Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988* explores how American architect and writer Peter Eisenman questioned the concept of “site,” and demonstrates the importance of drawing and modelmaking in generating his ideas. The exhibition reveals the richness and complexity of the design process by looking carefully at Eisenman’s drawings and(...)
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2 March 1994 to 19 June 1994
Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988
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*Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988* explores how American architect and writer Peter Eisenman questioned the concept of “site,” and demonstrates the importance of drawing and modelmaking in generating his ideas. The exhibition reveals the richness and complexity of the design process by looking carefully at Eisenman’s drawings and(...)
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
Twenty-two colour photographs reveal Ernest Cormier’s central pavilion of the Université de Montréal as an integral part of the Montréal urban landscape and as a complex, varied spatial experience. The exhibition originated in a commission to Gabor Szilasi by the CCA when research into the Fonds Cormier revealed a major gap in the photographic documentation of the(...)
Octagonal gallery
2 May 1990 to 28 October 1990
Sighting the Université de Montréal: Photographs by Gabor Szilasi
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Twenty-two colour photographs reveal Ernest Cormier’s central pavilion of the Université de Montréal as an integral part of the Montréal urban landscape and as a complex, varied spatial experience. The exhibition originated in a commission to Gabor Szilasi by the CCA when research into the Fonds Cormier revealed a major gap in the photographic documentation of the(...)
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9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
Comment les architectes, les experts, les politiciens, les agences internationales et les citoyens négocient l'urbanisme moderne : Casablanca Chandigarh = How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh : exhibition products, 2013-2014.
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9 items : ill. ; 92 cm. or smaller.
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111 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm
Paris : Groupe Eyrolles, ©2010.
Comment représenter l'architecture : toutes les techniques / Rikuo Nishimori ; [translated by Marie-Pierre Teuler].
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111 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 30 cm
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Paris : Groupe Eyrolles, ©2010.
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1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
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1 streaming video file (4 min., 19 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2013]
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1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning : Casablanca Chandigarh.
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1 streaming video file (11 min., 13 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : Centre canadien d'architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
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367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Park Books, ©2014.
Casablanca Chandigarh : bilans d'une modernisation / Tom Avermaete, Maristella Casciato ; missions photographiques de Yto Barrada, Takashi Homma.
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367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Park Books, ©2014.