The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
Mark Lee discusses the influence of John Hejduk’s project Victims (1984) on the work of his firm, Johnston Marklee. 1:1 (1 architect, 1 building) is a series that presents an in-depth look at a building through a contemporary architects perspective. Rescheduled from 22 April 2016.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
8 September 2016, 6pm
1:1: Mark Lee on John Hejduk
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Mark Lee discusses the influence of John Hejduk’s project Victims (1984) on the work of his firm, Johnston Marklee. 1:1 (1 architect, 1 building) is a series that presents an in-depth look at a building through a contemporary architects perspective. Rescheduled from 22 April 2016.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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To remain in the no longer, Tripoli, Lebanon, housing crisis, urban planning, urban management, city government, Public Works Studio
5 September 2023
Tripoli: Who Took Away Our Land? (Part 2)
Public Works Studio presents the social and environmental repercussions of the city’s public management
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Mirrors / Miroirs
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
22 June 2017 to 14 January 2018
Mirrors / Miroirs
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Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
The Mound of Vendôme
The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 June 2014 to 28 September 2014
The Mound of Vendôme
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The mound of Vendôme is a seemingly simple yet provocative artifact: an earthwork that became a central part of a radical attempt to transform urban iconography during the two-month rule of the Paris Commune in 1871. This exhibition and research project recalls this lost structure and calls for its contemporary reconstruction and historicization. Curated by David Gissen,(...)
Octagonal gallery
On Experimental Writing: Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, David Howes, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis
Join us for an open discussion about different approaches to contemporary writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism, featuring architectural writers and editors from publications such as Actar, Quaderns, Beyond, and the Architectural Theory Review. Presented in English, with invited guests David Howes, Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 February 2011 , 6pm
On Experimental Writing: Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, David Howes, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis
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Join us for an open discussion about different approaches to contemporary writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism, featuring architectural writers and editors from publications such as Actar, Quaderns, Beyond, and the Architectural Theory Review. Presented in English, with invited guests David Howes, Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, Naomi Stead and Kazys Varnelis.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
DR2007:0020
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This consists of a boxed set of related pieces from L.W. Richards participation in "The Architecture Series" at the Power Plant contemporary art gallery in 1988-89. L.W. Richards renovated and drove a Pontiac Firebird, named "Power Plant". The project was the subject of Vikky Alexander's essay "Back to the Future" in the Power Plant Gallery's "The Architecture Series", 1989, pp.25-31. The project was reviewed by Adele Freedman (Globe and Mail, March 5, 1988, p.C12), Christopher Hume (Architect designs gallery on wheels, Toronto Star, Feb. 27, 1988, p. G15), and pictured and discussed in The Canadian Architect, Vol. 33, no. 4, April 1988, p.6. The set pf pieces includes: a) B&W photograph of the Power Plant car in an auto-body workshop, b) The Architecture Series, booklet with Alexander's essay, c)newspaper and magazine clippings/reviews, d)orangesteel brochure rack, that L.W. Richards designed, from the Power Plant car (~ 18" x 18" x 3"), e) nine B&W brochures titled "Cars by Architects" that fit into the red-orange rack, and f) ~ 20 colour slides of the Power Plant car in various locations in Toronto.
1988-1989
Power Plant (Cars by Architects), 1988-1989
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DR2007:0020
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This consists of a boxed set of related pieces from L.W. Richards participation in "The Architecture Series" at the Power Plant contemporary art gallery in 1988-89. L.W. Richards renovated and drove a Pontiac Firebird, named "Power Plant". The project was the subject of Vikky Alexander's essay "Back to the Future" in the Power Plant Gallery's "The Architecture Series", 1989, pp.25-31. The project was reviewed by Adele Freedman (Globe and Mail, March 5, 1988, p.C12), Christopher Hume (Architect designs gallery on wheels, Toronto Star, Feb. 27, 1988, p. G15), and pictured and discussed in The Canadian Architect, Vol. 33, no. 4, April 1988, p.6. The set pf pieces includes: a) B&W photograph of the Power Plant car in an auto-body workshop, b) The Architecture Series, booklet with Alexander's essay, c)newspaper and magazine clippings/reviews, d)orangesteel brochure rack, that L.W. Richards designed, from the Power Plant car (~ 18" x 18" x 3"), e) nine B&W brochures titled "Cars by Architects" that fit into the red-orange rack, and f) ~ 20 colour slides of the Power Plant car in various locations in Toronto.
Philip Ursprung, guest curator of the 2002 CCA exhibition Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind, discusses the Swiss architects’ collaborative relationship with artists. The lecture is part a series exploring the boundary between art and architecture, presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary(...)
17 October 2002
Philip Ursprung: Close Encounters: Herzog & de Meuron en collaboration avec des artistes
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Philip Ursprung, guest curator of the 2002 CCA exhibition Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind, discusses the Swiss architects’ collaborative relationship with artists. The lecture is part a series exploring the boundary between art and architecture, presented in conjunction with the exhibition. Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary(...)
exhibitions
As they fill their sketchbooks with both texts and images, architects capture initial reactions to sites; record impressions and make drawings as they travel; organise work to be done; articulate design concepts and pose solutions; draft essays, lectures, and letters; write research notes; and copy inspirational passages from their readings. The Architect’s Sketchbook:(...)
Hall cases
26 February 1992 to 24 May 1992
The Architect's Sketchbook: Current Practice
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As they fill their sketchbooks with both texts and images, architects capture initial reactions to sites; record impressions and make drawings as they travel; organise work to be done; articulate design concepts and pose solutions; draft essays, lectures, and letters; write research notes; and copy inspirational passages from their readings. The Architect’s Sketchbook:(...)
exhibitions
26 February 1992 to
24 May 1992
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Lionel March fonds
AP208
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
circa 1957-2017
Lionel March fonds
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AP208
Synopsis:
The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
archives
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circa 1957-2017