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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
Date:
11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
Title:
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
11 October 1989 to
31 December 1989
11 October 1989 to
31 December 1989
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
5 March 1997 to 25 May 1997
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938–1963 looks at key buildings and projects from an exhilarating epoch in Vancouver’s history through design drawings, period photographs, furniture, and decoration. In the years following the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a city with a particularly vital and progressive architectural culture, adapting the(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
5 March 1997 to
25 May 1997
5 March 1997 to
25 May 1997
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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articles
articles
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Architectures of Dissent
Architectures of Dissent
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Jola Idowu looks to Chicago and the infrastructure of protest
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Keep Safe
Keep Safe
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19 August 2024
19 August 2024
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Architectures of Dissent
Jola Idowu looks to Chicago and the infrastructure of protest
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Architectures of Dissent
Jola Idowu looks to Chicago and the infrastructure of protest
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Keep Safe
Keep Safe
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
18 May 1994 to 11 September 1994
18 May 1994 to 11 September 1994
Title:
The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec
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The architectural model offers a means by which architectural ideas can be shared among architects, builders, and interested laymen. The Use of Models: Nineteenth-Century Church Architecture in Québec demonstrates a certain variety in functions ascribed to wooden architectural models around 1850. Witness to an era that saw architectural practice developing a heightened(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
18 May 1994 to
11 September 1994
18 May 1994 to
11 September 1994
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
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Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
7 May 1989 to
25 March 1990
7 May 1989 to
25 March 1990
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
15 March 2000 to 7 May 2000
15 March 2000 to 7 May 2000
Title:
Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
Visions and Views: The Architecture of Borromini in the Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
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Visions and Views combines contemporary photography and engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to establish a dialogue between two different approaches to representing Francesco Borromini’s built work. The photographs, part of a larger commission acquired by the CCA, were taken in Rome by Toronto photographer Edward Burtynsky in 1999. They are presented(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
15 March 2000 to
7 May 2000
15 March 2000 to
7 May 2000
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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graphic materials
graphic materials
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Architecture
Architecture
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ARCH284374
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
ARCH284374
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
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Date:
circa 1966-1984
circa 1966-1984
Title:
Architecture
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ARCH284374
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
Architecture
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ARCH284374
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
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graphic materials
graphic materials
Date:
circa 1966-1984
circa 1966-1984
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graphic materials
graphic materials
Title:
Architecture
Architecture
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ARCH252113
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
ARCH252113
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
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Date:
circa 1966-1984
circa 1966-1984
Title:
Architecture
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ARCH252113
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
Architecture
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ARCH252113
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poster advertising IAUS' "Evening Program in Architecture and Planning"; first in an ongoing series of programs made up of 9-10 moderated sessions based around a single theme
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graphic materials
graphic materials
Date:
circa 1966-1984
circa 1966-1984
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events
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
8 May 2003
8 May 2003
Title:
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
Hubert Damisch: “Effacer l’architecture?”
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Hubert Damisch, 2003-2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines Blur – the cloud building created by New York architects Diller + Scofidio on lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, which is the most recent and radical expression of the desire for fluidity and evanescence in architecture – and the consequences that it might have on the future of structural thought. Damisch examines(...)
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events
events
Date:
8 May 2003
8 May 2003
Location:
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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exhibitions
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Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
28 November 1990 to 31 March 1991
28 November 1990 to 31 March 1991
Title:
Buildings in Boxes: Architectural Toys from the CCA
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Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
Buildings in Boxes: Architectural Toys from the CCA
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Not only do toys provide evidence of the social and economic life of their period, but architectural toys ranging from wooden building blocks to iron and steel construction sets reflect distinct stylistic predilections and technological advances. New industrial and building techniques were used not only to create the new building types transforming our cities, but were(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
28 November 1990 to
31 March 1991
28 November 1990 to
31 March 1991
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
