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Zéphirin Perrault fonds
AP107
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The Zéphirin Perrault fonds, 1866-1885, documents architect Zéphirin Perrault’s design of approximately ten churches in rural Québec and the St. Michael Cathedral in Toronto, Ontario. A drawing by Victor Bourgneau (1809-1888) is also included in this fonds. Materials consist of approximately 42 drawings and 5 textual documents.
1866-1885
Zéphirin Perrault fonds
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AP107
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The Zéphirin Perrault fonds, 1866-1885, documents architect Zéphirin Perrault’s design of approximately ten churches in rural Québec and the St. Michael Cathedral in Toronto, Ontario. A drawing by Victor Bourgneau (1809-1888) is also included in this fonds. Materials consist of approximately 42 drawings and 5 textual documents.
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Bringing Projects to Life
Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, correspondence, letters, Jean Prouvé, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Max Bill, Kenneth Frampton
12 November 2023
Bringing Projects to Life
A selection of letters written by Amancio Williams, introduced by Claudia Shmidt
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Will Alsop: Street Creatures
British architect Will Alsop discusses his projects, working methods, and influences. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Will Alsop: OCAD, an Urban Manifesto (2008), which reveals the architect’s design process through preparatory paintings, sketches, and models for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 October 2008
Will Alsop: Street Creatures
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British architect Will Alsop discusses his projects, working methods, and influences. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Will Alsop: OCAD, an Urban Manifesto (2008), which reveals the architect’s design process through preparatory paintings, sketches, and models for the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art Design (OCAD) in(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
15 November 2024 to 30 March 2025
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries
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Being There examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and(...)
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Marius Dufresne fonds
AP081
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Le fonds documente la formation et la pratique professionnelle de Marius Dufresne. Il contient ses cahiers de notes de cours et ses album de croquis à l'École polytechnique, datant de 1900 à 1905, ainsi que des manuels scolaires. Il contient également des dessins pour des projets d'architecture, notamment la résidence Dufresne à Montréal. On y retrouve aussi des cahiers d'arpentage (1910-1913) et des documents professionnels relatifs à la ville de Maisonneuve.
1883-1945
Marius Dufresne fonds
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Le fonds documente la formation et la pratique professionnelle de Marius Dufresne. Il contient ses cahiers de notes de cours et ses album de croquis à l'École polytechnique, datant de 1900 à 1905, ainsi que des manuels scolaires. Il contient également des dessins pour des projets d'architecture, notamment la résidence Dufresne à Montréal. On y retrouve aussi des cahiers d'arpentage (1910-1913) et des documents professionnels relatifs à la ville de Maisonneuve.
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1883-1945
The third Architecture as Public Concern Lecture supports the CCA Research Network, an entity bringing together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture explores the theme of the 2025 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, how can we build relation? It also aligns with the ambition of the CCA Research Network to(...)
CCA Research Network
12 November 2025, 10am to 11:30am
2025 Architecture as Public Concern Lecture: How Can We Build Relation?
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The third Architecture as Public Concern Lecture supports the CCA Research Network, an entity bringing together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture explores the theme of the 2025 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, how can we build relation? It also aligns with the ambition of the CCA Research Network to(...)
CCA Research Network
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The Writing of One Continuous Line
Vikramaditya Prakash on the archive of Aditya Prakash
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PH1986:0257
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- Photographs PH1986:0148 - PH1986:0283 form a sequence of views. Accession numbers follow an order established by the photographer that is based on the temporal experience of walking through the grounds of Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa) (see acquisition file). - Yasuhiro Ishimoto returned to Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa) in 1982 and took another series of photographs, this time with many in colour, often using the same or very similar views to those of his 1953 photographs at the same location (Ishimoto, p. 266).
architecture, landscape architecture
1953
View of the north entrance of the Shoiken showing stepping-stones, Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa), Kyoto, Japan
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PH1986:0257
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- Photographs PH1986:0148 - PH1986:0283 form a sequence of views. Accession numbers follow an order established by the photographer that is based on the temporal experience of walking through the grounds of Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa) (see acquisition file). - Yasuhiro Ishimoto returned to Katsura Rikyu (also known as Katsura Imperial Villa) in 1982 and took another series of photographs, this time with many in colour, often using the same or very similar views to those of his 1953 photographs at the same location (Ishimoto, p. 266).
architecture, landscape architecture
With an Acre
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
19 June 2025 to 12 October 2025
With an Acre
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With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
DR1995:0263:032:004:001
1975