Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
24 November 2016, 6pm
Iceberg Alley, Climate Change, and Canada’s Grey Resources
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Iceberg Alley is an area that extends from the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and further south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Over the past two decades, its icebergs have become a sought after commodity in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley,(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
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
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, photography, photographs, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, Peter Sealy
14 October 2017, 4pm
Talking Pictures, a Circuit
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In an nine-part circuit of installations and interventions travelling throughout the spaces of the CCA, Francesca Ammon, Davide Deriu, Reto Geiser, Sara Goldsmith, Catalina Mejía Moreno, Bas Princen, Mika Savela, and Peter Sealy invite us to reflect on photography’s critical and creative relationship with architecture. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 March 2009 to 23 August 2009
Total Environment: Montréal, 1965-1975
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“Today everything is environment,” proclaimed a Montreal newspaper at the beginning of the 1970s. The word “environment” had dominated the discourses and practices of artists, architects, social activists and intellectuals during the previous decade. Visitors of Expo ‘67, the event that galvanized the world’s attention on Montreal, commented the phantasmagorical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from… Lagos
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
29 March 2007 , 6pm
Learning from… Lagos
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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2-year period as they research Lagos, Nigeria in Lagos Wide and Close (Netherlands, 2005), a documentary by Bregtje van der Haak. Lagos is home to an estimated 15 million people whose survival depends on improvisation, networking, and risk-taking. Despite extreme(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
drawings
Dessin préliminaires
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Dessin préliminaires : croquis de plans comparatifs d'hôpitaux et institutions d'enseignement montréalais. Dessins de développement du design : plan de creusage pour le grand perron de l'aile L; plan de l'entrée et élévation de la partie supérieure de l'aile D', 1929 et 1931; plan détaillé de l'étage E'4 et H'4; plans de finition d'un plancher; plan d'étage non-identifié comprenant un bureau de médecin; plan électrique non identifié. Dessins d'exécution préliminaires : détails de la couverture des gaines de ventilation ailes D et D'; modifications au plan des ailes K et L, 1928; détails de portes temporaires dans l'aile B' pour le compte de l'exposition de l'artisanat, 1941; plan et coupe de la salle de l'incinérateur et de la " sorting room ", détails de plinthes et marches pour des corridors et des escaliers, détails de portes intérieures en chêne. Détails des fenêtres à battants en acier, 11 mars 1931 / Cresswell Pomeroy Ltd., Montréal. Plan clef du pavillon principal (dessin 1) / Wallace Sandstone Quarries, Philipsburg, Québec. Lambrissage du mur postérieur de la salle des promotions, 20 avril 1934 /[M. Prévost?]. Nivellement de la terrasse no. 2 et des cours anglaises ailes A et A', plans du mur de soutènement et de la " maison de Monseigneur ", 1931 / M. Aubert.
1924 - 1947
Dessin préliminaires
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Dessin préliminaires : croquis de plans comparatifs d'hôpitaux et institutions d'enseignement montréalais. Dessins de développement du design : plan de creusage pour le grand perron de l'aile L; plan de l'entrée et élévation de la partie supérieure de l'aile D', 1929 et 1931; plan détaillé de l'étage E'4 et H'4; plans de finition d'un plancher; plan d'étage non-identifié comprenant un bureau de médecin; plan électrique non identifié. Dessins d'exécution préliminaires : détails de la couverture des gaines de ventilation ailes D et D'; modifications au plan des ailes K et L, 1928; détails de portes temporaires dans l'aile B' pour le compte de l'exposition de l'artisanat, 1941; plan et coupe de la salle de l'incinérateur et de la " sorting room ", détails de plinthes et marches pour des corridors et des escaliers, détails de portes intérieures en chêne. Détails des fenêtres à battants en acier, 11 mars 1931 / Cresswell Pomeroy Ltd., Montréal. Plan clef du pavillon principal (dessin 1) / Wallace Sandstone Quarries, Philipsburg, Québec. Lambrissage du mur postérieur de la salle des promotions, 20 avril 1934 /[M. Prévost?]. Nivellement de la terrasse no. 2 et des cours anglaises ailes A et A', plans du mur de soutènement et de la " maison de Monseigneur ", 1931 / M. Aubert.
drawings
1924 - 1947
Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery
21 September 2018 to 19 May 2019
Scripts for a new world
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Alongside a growth in decentralized, experimental, and underground cinema at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, many groups operating from inside the field of architecture such as Superstudio, Studio 9999, and Ant Farm explored the short film as a medium to expand architectural discourse, embed their projects with bold reflections and projections of society, and(...)
Octagonal gallery