Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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(...)
Main galleries
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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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(...)
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Bernard Tschumi fonds
AP214
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
circa 1964-2015
Bernard Tschumi fonds
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
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circa 1964-2015
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ix, 106 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Ottawa : Musées nationaux du Canada, 1978.
La maquette de Québec / Bernard Pothier.
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ix, 106 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Ottawa : Musées nationaux du Canada, 1978.
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xxiii, 329 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm
Paris : Éditions des Cendres, ©2015.
La maquette : un outil au service du projet architectural : actes du colloque qui s'est tenu les 20-21 mai 2011 à la Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine.
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xxiii, 329 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm
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Paris : Éditions des Cendres, ©2015.
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Maquettes d'architecture.
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48, [4] pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 x 30 cm
Beyrouth : École d'architecture, Académie libanaise des beaux-arts, Université de Balamand, 1996.
Maquettes d'architecture.
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48, [4] pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 x 30 cm
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Beyrouth : École d'architecture, Académie libanaise des beaux-arts, Université de Balamand, 1996.
graphic materials
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1 portfolio ([8] p., [4] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 x 32 cm.
Chamalières, France : Galimard : Tomis Sarl, c[1987?]
Temple romain : livre-maquette prédécoupé.
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1 portfolio ([8] p., [4] leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 x 32 cm.
graphic materials
Chamalières, France : Galimard : Tomis Sarl, c[1987?]
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[14] p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 32 cm.
Chamalières, France : Tomis Sarl, 1986.
Abbaye cistercienne : livre-maquette prédécoupé.
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[14] p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 32 cm.
graphic materials
Chamalières, France : Tomis Sarl, 1986.
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86 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
[Dijon] : [Editions Faton], 1999.
Maquettes antiques : architecturales réelles ou symboliques.
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86 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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[Dijon] : [Editions Faton], 1999.