Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
10 May 2016 to 20 November 2016
The Anatomy of the Architectural Book
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The Anatomy of the Architectural Book, an exhibition presented in conjunction with the publication of a book of the same title by André Tavares, examines the relationships between book culture and building culture, making visible the axes along which architectural knowledge circulates through books into buildings and back. Through seven themes—Texture, Spread, Sequence,(...)
In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2016, 6pm
Unravelling the Digital Landscape
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In this lecture, Christophe Girot discusses digital landscape models: A quiet revolution has taken place in digital landscape design and analysis over the past decade, caused by the introduction of digital point-cloud models. The scope and precision of these digital landscape models, created with terrestrial laser scanners and mobile and airborne lidar, lead to new(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
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L'échelle des marées.
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48 pages
Nantes : Coiffard Editions 2017.
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Nantes : Coiffard Editions 2017.
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3 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 color plan ; 24 cm
Paris : Typ. Vinchon, [ca 1850]
Description du modèle à l'échelle de 5 millimètres par mètre représentant l'achèvement du Louvre / par M. Visconti.
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3 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 color plan ; 24 cm
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Paris : Typ. Vinchon, [ca 1850]
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42 unnumbered leaves : maps ; 68 cm
[Paris] : [Imp.re V. Janson], MD CCCLXVI [1866]
Plan général de la ville de Paris et de ses environs, comprenant les Bois de Boulogne et de Vincennes dressé à l'échelle de 1/5000 / par les géomètres du Service municipal du plan de Paris d'après les ordres de M. le baron G.E. Haussmann ...
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42 unnumbered leaves : maps ; 68 cm
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[Paris] : [Imp.re V. Janson], MD CCCLXVI [1866]
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95 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm
Paris : D. Vincent, [1974]
Éléments analytiques de l'espace urbain : essai de définition du paysage de la ville a l'échelle de l'homme / Frederic H. Szczot.
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95 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm
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Paris : D. Vincent, [1974]
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2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 15 cm
Paris : Architecture d'aujourd'hui, ©1983.
Le Modulor : essai sur une mesure harmonique à l'échelle humaine applicable universellement à l'architecture et à la mécanique ; Modulor 2, 1955 (la parole est aux usagers) : suite de "Le Modulor", "1948" / Le Corbusier.
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2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 15 cm
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Paris : Architecture d'aujourd'hui, ©1983.