This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
18 March 1998 to 24 May 1998
Montréal Métropole, 1880–1930
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This exhibition looks at the transformation of Montréal from a nineteenth century merchant city to the metropolis of Canada. It examines the elements that made Montréal a political, social, and economic centre and explores the unique character of its architecture. The exhibition brings together some 350 objects, including drawings from the CCA collection by Montréal(...)
Main galleries
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
Arrivals
Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
Hall cases
24 January 2008 to 23 March 2008
Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
Hall cases
The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
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This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
drawings
Plans de structure
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Plan de l'armature des poutres O (dessin 109). Copies annotées : plan d'armature pour le rez-de-chaussée, détails de pierre et brique de la façade principale, coupes des murs, linteau en béton au medusa, entrées latérales, élévation intérieure du mur de l'escalier dans la salle de recréation, chaufferie, tuyaux de ventilation, drains de toiture, placards (dessins 101, 301 à 303, 307, 308, 310).
1929
Plans de structure
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Plan de l'armature des poutres O (dessin 109). Copies annotées : plan d'armature pour le rez-de-chaussée, détails de pierre et brique de la façade principale, coupes des murs, linteau en béton au medusa, entrées latérales, élévation intérieure du mur de l'escalier dans la salle de recréation, chaufferie, tuyaux de ventilation, drains de toiture, placards (dessins 101, 301 à 303, 307, 308, 310).
drawings
1929
drawings
Détails des escaliers
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Escaliers de fer : plans, coupes et détails (projet 4155, dessins no 1, 2, 3, sans numéro) / Montreal Architectural Iron Works.
1925
Détails des escaliers
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Escaliers de fer : plans, coupes et détails (projet 4155, dessins no 1, 2, 3, sans numéro) / Montreal Architectural Iron Works.
drawings
1925
drawings
ARCH4555
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Programme no 5 - Monastère sur la rue Saint-Hubert : copie d'un détail du porche de l'entrée principale marquée " détail préliminaire " (dessin 301).
1928
Détail du porche de l'entrée principale pour proposition
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Programme no 5 - Monastère sur la rue Saint-Hubert : copie d'un détail du porche de l'entrée principale marquée " détail préliminaire " (dessin 301).
drawings
1928
drawings
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Détails divers : pierre et béton pour le campanile, finition du toit principal de l'église, armoires et moulures en bois pour le presbytère (dessins 538 à 542, 547).
1925
Détails divers de boiserie et maçonnerie
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Détails divers : pierre et béton pour le campanile, finition du toit principal de l'église, armoires et moulures en bois pour le presbytère (dessins 538 à 542, 547).
drawings
1925
drawings
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Plans des étages et de la toiture, élévation extérieures, coupes du bâtiment, détails des changements au premier étage et à la galerie (dessins 1, 2, 3, 307).
1927-1928
Plans d'étage, élévations et coupes
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Plans des étages et de la toiture, élévation extérieures, coupes du bâtiment, détails des changements au premier étage et à la galerie (dessins 1, 2, 3, 307).
drawings
1927-1928
drawings
Ventilation
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Ventilation : détails de ventilation naturelle pour l'université, aile D' (dessins V-111 à V-113, V-114A, V-116 à V-120).
1931
Ventilation
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Ventilation : détails de ventilation naturelle pour l'université, aile D' (dessins V-111 à V-113, V-114A, V-116 à V-120).
drawings
1931