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
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
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
textual records
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Correspondance avec Edgar Brandt concernant les portes bronze, avec le Gazette, incluant des dessins, des devis descriptif et estimatif des fournisseurs, des procès-verbaux, des commandes de travaux.
1923-1926
Correspondance avec des fournisseurs
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Correspondance avec Edgar Brandt concernant les portes bronze, avec le Gazette, incluant des dessins, des devis descriptif et estimatif des fournisseurs, des procès-verbaux, des commandes de travaux.
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1923-1926
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Notes et calculs, incluant des dessins, des devis estimatif, relatifs au béton armé, au réfectoire, au programme de la construction, à l'ensoleillement, et un dossier « Notes pour études en cours ».
1951-1959
Notes, devis, calculs, et estimés
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Notes et calculs, incluant des dessins, des devis estimatif, relatifs au béton armé, au réfectoire, au programme de la construction, à l'ensoleillement, et un dossier « Notes pour études en cours ».
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1951-1959
textual records
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Soumissions, incluant des dessins d'atelier, de la correspondance générale, la contrat de démolition, des calculs et notes, des devis estimatif, des devis descriptif, des certificats, de la documentation photographique.
1936-1938
Soumissions, correspondance générale, notes, devis et documentation photographique
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Soumissions, incluant des dessins d'atelier, de la correspondance générale, la contrat de démolition, des calculs et notes, des devis estimatif, des devis descriptif, des certificats, de la documentation photographique.
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1936-1938
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Passation des marchés
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Correspondance avec le Département des travaux publics et du travail, le client, incluant des estimés, des listes de quantités, des calculs, des bleus pliés, la feuille de renseignements généraux, des dessins.
1918
Passation des marchés
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Correspondance avec le Département des travaux publics et du travail, le client, incluant des estimés, des listes de quantités, des calculs, des bleus pliés, la feuille de renseignements généraux, des dessins.
textual records
1918
textual records
ARCH259200
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Un essai envoyé a Cormier de Ernest Rolland, « Memorandum on double-wedge type hull forms », incluant 2 dessins techniques de Rolland.
1949
Correspondance avec Ernest Rolland
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Un essai envoyé a Cormier de Ernest Rolland, « Memorandum on double-wedge type hull forms », incluant 2 dessins techniques de Rolland.
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1949