In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
Hall cases
5 September 2013 to 5 December 2013
H-BLOCK: Social Housing – Ilse Bing
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In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
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The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
Octagonal gallery
18 April 2002 to 29 September 2002
Lewis Baltz: The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
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The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
Octagonal gallery
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
Empire
The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
Octagonal gallery
8 December 2005 to 12 March 2006
Empire
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The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
Octagonal gallery
Building Knowledge
This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 April 2015 , 6pm
Building Knowledge
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This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009
Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II
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Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of(...)
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Nuit Blanche 2025: 38%
It is time for a systemic change in the way we design and value the built environment. The way we build is not ecologically sustainable. The building industry is responsible for 38% of the worlds annual production of greenhouse gases. During the Nuit Blanche at the CCA, we invite you to come and discuss, reflect and be inspired by the actions of the German architecture(...)
Nuit Blanche 2025
1 March 2025 to 2 March 2025, 7pm to 1am
Nuit Blanche 2025: 38%
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It is time for a systemic change in the way we design and value the built environment. The way we build is not ecologically sustainable. The building industry is responsible for 38% of the worlds annual production of greenhouse gases. During the Nuit Blanche at the CCA, we invite you to come and discuss, reflect and be inspired by the actions of the German architecture(...)
Nuit Blanche 2025
Starting From... Travel
Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
Hall cases
3 December 2008 to 1 May 2009
Starting From... Travel
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Interpreting the subject of travel to distant places, the exhibition charts an expanded notion of travel that spans imaginary journeys, strange sites, vanishing points, floating and portable houses, endless caves, swirling diamond domes, tombs, crypts and catacombs, tunnel adventures, formal studies, technical innovation, cultural imagination, and experimental(...)
Hall cases
First, the Forests
*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 October 2012 to 6 January 2013
First, the Forests
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*First, the Forests* examines some unexplored relationships between forestry, planning, and design. Reframing forestry as an activity that creates highly designed environments with unprecedented scale, ambition and precision, the exhibition proposes an expanded understanding of the connections between natural resources, production processes, and designed form. Curated(...)
Octagonal gallery