Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
31 March 2016
Fucking with Interoperability: Culture Lab 1991–94
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Brian Boigon ran Culture Lab at the back of a rock club in Toronto from 1991 to 1994. Participants from architecture, art, film, video, music, comedy, science and fashion were asked to push their discipline through their assigned thematic field out into the wilds of unknown propagation. Boigon’s talk addresses the temporal and social ramifications that led up and into the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries
22 October 1997 to 15 February 1998
Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954-1997
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Other Soundings: Selected Works by John Hejduk, 1954–1997, the first major retrospective of Hejduk’s work, explores the themes that have always preoccupied him: architecture as a social act, the wall, the house, the church, passage and transformation, the experience of the city. The importance of John Hejduk rests on his teaching and on the originality of his vision of(...)
Main galleries
British architect Stephen Taylor speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 May 2008
Stephen Taylor: Some Ideas on Living
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British architect Stephen Taylor speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
15 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis
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Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
Bas Princen: Volcano Walks
In this artist’s talk, Bas Princen will discuss the current status of the 17 Volcanoes project and explore the resonances between the works of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, works by early-twentieth-century Dutch photographers in Java (like van Nieuwenhuis), and his own practice. Although discovering new places seems impossible today, the talk takes as a point of departure the(...)
15 October 2016, 3pm
Bas Princen: Volcano Walks
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In this artist’s talk, Bas Princen will discuss the current status of the 17 Volcanoes project and explore the resonances between the works of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, works by early-twentieth-century Dutch photographers in Java (like van Nieuwenhuis), and his own practice. Although discovering new places seems impossible today, the talk takes as a point of departure the(...)
Mapping Rural Montréal
On a tour of downtown Montréal, San Francisco-based artist Amy Franceschini shows participants ‘rural’ sites and activities and questions the dichotomy of country and city. Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, a collaborative and experimental studio that addresses ecological issues, as well as the online magazine, Atlas. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do(...)
4 April 2009
Mapping Rural Montréal
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On a tour of downtown Montréal, San Francisco-based artist Amy Franceschini shows participants ‘rural’ sites and activities and questions the dichotomy of country and city. Franceschini founded Futurefarmers, a collaborative and experimental studio that addresses ecological issues, as well as the online magazine, Atlas. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do(...)
Foraging in Montréal
Chicago-based artist and forager Nance Klehm leads a foraging and tea-making expedition. Foraging is the practice of collecting plants that grow wild in urban and rural areas. Participants identify and collect edible plants growing in Montreal and then make tea from the foraged ingredients. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA(...)
18 April 2009
Foraging in Montréal
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Chicago-based artist and forager Nance Klehm leads a foraging and tea-making expedition. Foraging is the practice of collecting plants that grow wild in urban and rural areas. Participants identify and collect edible plants growing in Montreal and then make tea from the foraged ingredients. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA(...)
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Contient : - Soulie, Jean-Paul. "La vie noctune de Montréal trouvera un nouveau cadre dans le complexe Desjardins" (La Presse, 24 mars 1973) ; - "Dévoilement de la maquette de l'hôtel Méridien-Montréal" ([vers 1974]); - "Un hôtel à saveur québécoise" ([vers 1974]) ; - "A search for perfection - in project big..." (The Montreal Star, 17 août 1974) ; - Marsan, Jean-Claude. "Le Complexe Desjardins -2 : La première véritable place" (Le Devoir, 20 mars 1976) ; - "Pour fêter l'ouverture du Complexe" (La Presse, 25 mars 1976) : présentation du programme des activités socioculturelles marquant l'ouverture du Complexe, 3 au 18 avril 1976) ; - Nadeau, Michel. "Le Complexe Desjardins aura coûté deux fois plus que prévu : $206 millions" (Le Devoir, 2 avril 1976) ; - "Alfred Rouleau : Briser la frontière entre l'est et l'ouest" (La Presse, 5 avril 1976) ; - Ryan, Claude. "Le complexe Desjardins, et après" (Le Devoir, 5 avril 1976) ; - Ensemble! Journal d'information coopérative, 22 avril 1976 (numéro entièrement consacré au Complexe Desjardins peu après son inauguration) ; - "Le Complexe Desjardins", supplément, (Le Devoir, 14 mai 1976) ; - London, Mark. "Lessons to learn in giant Complexe" (The Montreal Star, 12 mars 1977) ; - Pomerantz, Richard. "Not all city plazas meet expectations" (The Montreal Star, 18 août 1979) ; - "Début des travaux au Palais des congrès" (Le Devoir, 19 octobre 1979) [Photographie avec le Complexe Desjardins en arrière-plan] ; - Beaudry, Pierre. "Le plus beau miracle du frère André" (Le Devoir, 13 novembre 1985) ; - Bonhomme, Jean-Pierre. "Après dix années, le Complexe Desjardins se porte très bien" (La Presse, 12 avril 1986) ; - Turcotte, Claude. "La coopération au milieu de la tourmente" (Le Devoir, 9-10 mars 1996) ; - Turcotte, Claude. "Tout commence à Lévis" (Le Devoir, 18-19 mars 2000) ; - Beaudry, Pierre. "Lettre ouverte au maire de Montréal (II)" (Le Devoir. n.d.) ; - Ouellet, Jean. "Le complexe de la place" (Source non identifiée, n.d.).
1973-2000
Coupures de journaux et cahiers spéciaux, Complexe Desjardins, Montréal, Québec
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Contient : - Soulie, Jean-Paul. "La vie noctune de Montréal trouvera un nouveau cadre dans le complexe Desjardins" (La Presse, 24 mars 1973) ; - "Dévoilement de la maquette de l'hôtel Méridien-Montréal" ([vers 1974]); - "Un hôtel à saveur québécoise" ([vers 1974]) ; - "A search for perfection - in project big..." (The Montreal Star, 17 août 1974) ; - Marsan, Jean-Claude. "Le Complexe Desjardins -2 : La première véritable place" (Le Devoir, 20 mars 1976) ; - "Pour fêter l'ouverture du Complexe" (La Presse, 25 mars 1976) : présentation du programme des activités socioculturelles marquant l'ouverture du Complexe, 3 au 18 avril 1976) ; - Nadeau, Michel. "Le Complexe Desjardins aura coûté deux fois plus que prévu : $206 millions" (Le Devoir, 2 avril 1976) ; - "Alfred Rouleau : Briser la frontière entre l'est et l'ouest" (La Presse, 5 avril 1976) ; - Ryan, Claude. "Le complexe Desjardins, et après" (Le Devoir, 5 avril 1976) ; - Ensemble! Journal d'information coopérative, 22 avril 1976 (numéro entièrement consacré au Complexe Desjardins peu après son inauguration) ; - "Le Complexe Desjardins", supplément, (Le Devoir, 14 mai 1976) ; - London, Mark. "Lessons to learn in giant Complexe" (The Montreal Star, 12 mars 1977) ; - Pomerantz, Richard. "Not all city plazas meet expectations" (The Montreal Star, 18 août 1979) ; - "Début des travaux au Palais des congrès" (Le Devoir, 19 octobre 1979) [Photographie avec le Complexe Desjardins en arrière-plan] ; - Beaudry, Pierre. "Le plus beau miracle du frère André" (Le Devoir, 13 novembre 1985) ; - Bonhomme, Jean-Pierre. "Après dix années, le Complexe Desjardins se porte très bien" (La Presse, 12 avril 1986) ; - Turcotte, Claude. "La coopération au milieu de la tourmente" (Le Devoir, 9-10 mars 1996) ; - Turcotte, Claude. "Tout commence à Lévis" (Le Devoir, 18-19 mars 2000) ; - Beaudry, Pierre. "Lettre ouverte au maire de Montréal (II)" (Le Devoir. n.d.) ; - Ouellet, Jean. "Le complexe de la place" (Source non identifiée, n.d.).
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1973-2000