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1 November 2020
Natural Disasters: The birth of Homo Dolarensis
Dino Buzzi’s coming of age tale about architecture, cash caves, and modern land development
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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(...)
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(...)
A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Main galleries
18 June 1996 to 29 September 1996
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
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A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Main galleries
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
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How modern : biographies of architecture in China 1949-1979 / edited by Shirley Surya and Li Hua.
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336 pages, 96 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Weimar : M BOOKS, [2025]
How modern : biographies of architecture in China 1949-1979 / edited by Shirley Surya and Li Hua.
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336 pages, 96 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm
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Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Weimar : M BOOKS, [2025]
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1 audiocassette (approximately 30 min.) : analog ; in plastic folder 17 x 13 cm + 24 slides (color)
London, England : Pidgeon Audio Visual, [1980]
How modern architecture came to England / Maxwell Fry.
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1 audiocassette (approximately 30 min.) : analog ; in plastic folder 17 x 13 cm + 24 slides (color)
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London, England : Pidgeon Audio Visual, [1980]
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208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 18 x 28 cm
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], ©2009, (Frankfurt am Main : Printed by Fachhochschuldruckerei)
Reworking the Modern Movement : on how to preserve Modern Movement monuments : Gunnar Asplund's State Bacteriological Laboratories in Solna, Sweden / edited by Wolfgang Jung [and others].
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208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 18 x 28 cm
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], ©2009, (Frankfurt am Main : Printed by Fachhochschuldruckerei)
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xii, 130 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Calcutta : Thacker's, 1931.
Modern Eastern bungalows and how to build them / by S. Douglas Meadows.
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xii, 130 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Calcutta : Thacker's, 1931.
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133 pages illustrations, diagrams 23 cm
San Francisco, Camera Craft Pub. Co. [1940]
How to build and equip a modern darkroom, by Nestor Barrett and Ralph Wyckoff.
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133 pages illustrations, diagrams 23 cm
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San Francisco, Camera Craft Pub. Co. [1940]
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164 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans, portraits ; 18 x 28 cm
Frankfurt am Main : [publisher not identified], [2008], Frankfurt am Main : Fachhochschuldruckerei
Reworking the Modern Movement : on how to preserve Modern Movement monuments : The "Pärnu KEK" in Pärnu, Estonia / edited by Wolfgang Jung, Mart Kalm and Stefan Heßling.
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164 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans, portraits ; 18 x 28 cm
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Frankfurt am Main : [publisher not identified], [2008], Frankfurt am Main : Fachhochschuldruckerei