As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Sink or Swim
What would a city look like if its infrastructure was waterproof, buoyant and–why not!–amphibious? Given the anticipated rise of sea level at a global scale, the connection between the city and water in all its iterations–oceans, rivers, canals, waterways–is subject to change in the coming years. Montreal will be the playground of this creative laboratory of prototypes(...)
February 2017 to March 2017
Sink or Swim
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What would a city look like if its infrastructure was waterproof, buoyant and–why not!–amphibious? Given the anticipated rise of sea level at a global scale, the connection between the city and water in all its iterations–oceans, rivers, canals, waterways–is subject to change in the coming years. Montreal will be the playground of this creative laboratory of prototypes(...)
A conversation between Jean-Philippe Vassal of Lacaton Vassal architects, Paris, France, and Giancarlo Mazzanti of Mazzanti Arquitectos, Bogotá, Colombia, moderated by CCA Director and Chief Curator Mirko Zardini. The 2011 edition considers the role of architectural interventions that address social issues through projects of various scales and typologies. Urgency series(...)
17 November 2011
Urgency 2011: Jean-Philippe Vassal and Giancarlo Mazzanti
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A conversation between Jean-Philippe Vassal of Lacaton Vassal architects, Paris, France, and Giancarlo Mazzanti of Mazzanti Arquitectos, Bogotá, Colombia, moderated by CCA Director and Chief Curator Mirko Zardini. The 2011 edition considers the role of architectural interventions that address social issues through projects of various scales and typologies. Urgency series(...)
Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
drawings
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Motif en brique au-dessus des fenêtres de la nef avec une lettre d'envoi / Lafrance Construction Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Détails d'escaliers, d'échelles et de balustrades en fer (dessins 8101-B-1, 8101-B-2, 8101-C-3) / Richard French Iron Works, Millbury, Massachusetts. Détails des fenêtres en acier / atelier non identifié.
1926-1927
Détails de maçonnerie, escaliers et des fenêtres
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Motif en brique au-dessus des fenêtres de la nef avec une lettre d'envoi / Lafrance Construction Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Détails d'escaliers, d'échelles et de balustrades en fer (dessins 8101-B-1, 8101-B-2, 8101-C-3) / Richard French Iron Works, Millbury, Massachusetts. Détails des fenêtres en acier / atelier non identifié.
drawings
1926-1927
drawings
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Détails des cloisons d'acier pour la salle des toilettes (dessin II-B-964) / Geo. W. Reed & Co., Montréal. Détails des escaliers et de l'échelle du 4e étage au toit (dessins 551-1 à 551-4) / The Potter Smith Company, Montréal. Détails du cabinet du tuyau d'incendie / atelier non identifié.
circa 1931
Détails escaliers et salles de bain
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Détails des cloisons d'acier pour la salle des toilettes (dessin II-B-964) / Geo. W. Reed & Co., Montréal. Détails des escaliers et de l'échelle du 4e étage au toit (dessins 551-1 à 551-4) / The Potter Smith Company, Montréal. Détails du cabinet du tuyau d'incendie / atelier non identifié.
drawings
circa 1931
textual records
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Publications et rapports, dont certains à singé et donné à Cormier : « Journal de l'Institut Royal d'Architecture » (1966), « Les Ordres d'Insectes » signé Ovila Fournier, « Initiation à la Géologie » signé Léo Morin, 2 « Revues Trimestrielle Canadienne », « Emploi des Échelles Infinies dans les Constructions Graphiques » signé Jules Poivert, « Images de la France d'hier » signé Olivier Maurault, et coupures de presse.
1926-1966
Publications diverses sur l'architecture et la géologie
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Publications et rapports, dont certains à singé et donné à Cormier : « Journal de l'Institut Royal d'Architecture » (1966), « Les Ordres d'Insectes » signé Ovila Fournier, « Initiation à la Géologie » signé Léo Morin, 2 « Revues Trimestrielle Canadienne », « Emploi des Échelles Infinies dans les Constructions Graphiques » signé Jules Poivert, « Images de la France d'hier » signé Olivier Maurault, et coupures de presse.
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1926-1966
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
Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
Hall cases
17 January 1990 to 22 April 1990
Process as Interpretation: Photographs from the CCA
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Process as Interpretation seeks to sharpen the viewer’s awareness through consideration of nearly identical but subtly different images. The exhibition presents seven pairs of images from the CCA collection. Although these pairs are printed from the same negative, careful comparison of the subtleties of cropping, scale, tonal gradations, and medium reveal the printing and(...)
Hall cases
Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries
13 March 1991 to 2 June 1991
Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure
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Myron Goldsmith’s architectural works show how an economy of means and a modest approach can generate a profoundly poetic expression. Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure reveals how the architect’s methods and ideas are formed, developed, and disseminated by drawing upon the body of notes, sketchbooks, and study documents found in the collection of Goldsmith’s personal(...)
Main galleries