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DR2012:0012:063:007
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Assorted newspaper clippings in English (predominant) and French, notes, and sketches. Includes the following original divisions: - Walking Harlem; Manhattan series; - Québec dictionnaire; Geometric ruins; Series #8; - Lenin’s tomb continued; - Parable series, 1990-1992; - Running/walking stiffs; - Monuments; - People/refugees carrying away cities; - Group photos as cities; - Displaced cities; Situationists updated; - [Untitled]; - Series: group photo in collective form; - Series: Walking stiffs; Factory stiffs; Laid off; Particular pieces of factories; - Dictionnaire series: Rust belt; Abandoned cities; - Dictionnaire, misc. Original folder inscribed in graphite: ARTWORK SERIES RUNNING STIFFS MISC. MONUMENTS.
1968-1984, 1991-2000
Assorted newspaper clippings, notes, and sketches, Walking stiffs
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DR2012:0012:063:007
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Assorted newspaper clippings in English (predominant) and French, notes, and sketches. Includes the following original divisions: - Walking Harlem; Manhattan series; - Québec dictionnaire; Geometric ruins; Series #8; - Lenin’s tomb continued; - Parable series, 1990-1992; - Running/walking stiffs; - Monuments; - People/refugees carrying away cities; - Group photos as cities; - Displaced cities; Situationists updated; - [Untitled]; - Series: group photo in collective form; - Series: Walking stiffs; Factory stiffs; Laid off; Particular pieces of factories; - Dictionnaire series: Rust belt; Abandoned cities; - Dictionnaire, misc. Original folder inscribed in graphite: ARTWORK SERIES RUNNING STIFFS MISC. MONUMENTS.
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1968-1984, 1991-2000
Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 July 1992 to 22 November 1992
An Industrial Landscape Observed: The Lachine Canal
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Photographers Clara Gutsche and David Miller offer their vision of the industrial landscape and architecture surrounding the urban historical site of Lachine Canal in Montréal. The Canal, which is over one hundred years old, suffered a long period of neglect after having played a key role in the development of Canadian industry. Fifteen years after the waterway closed,(...)
Octagonal gallery
*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
Main galleries
8 September 1992 to 28 February 1993
Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal
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*Opening the Gates of Eighteenth-Century Montréal* explores the development of the city during the eighteenth century, when Montréal was a fortified town. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to consider the building of the eighteenth-century military and commercial town, the nucleus from which Montréal grew. The product of nearly fifteen years of research and(...)
Main galleries
Urban Diversity
Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2009
Urban Diversity
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Two members of the French collective Coloco, architect Nicolas Bonnenfant and landscape architect Miguel Georgieff, present their project “Habiter les Squelettes,” which aims to recover and renovate unfinished, abandoned structures or “urban skeletons”, giving rise to a new dimension in self-building: lifespan management, including that of everyday objects such as(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Visiting Scholar Tamar Zinguer presents her research: This talk explores the attraction that the quantitatively precise literary term “degree zero” holds. Through a selection of historic references to the zero degree in and about architecture, the talk articulates a plurality of zeroes and different modalities of nothingness as they apply to the discipline of(...)
Shaughnessy House
10 July 2014, 6PM
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Tamar Zinguer
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Visiting Scholar Tamar Zinguer presents her research: This talk explores the attraction that the quantitatively precise literary term “degree zero” holds. Through a selection of historic references to the zero degree in and about architecture, the talk articulates a plurality of zeroes and different modalities of nothingness as they apply to the discipline of(...)
Shaughnessy House
The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
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AP046.S1.1983.PR02.208
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This box contains documents related to research conducted for the Old Port of Montreal redevelopment project including articles on other port cities.
1983-1992
Research documents, Old Port of Montreal Master Plan, Montréal, Québec
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AP046.S1.1983.PR02.208
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This box contains documents related to research conducted for the Old Port of Montreal redevelopment project including articles on other port cities.
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1983-1992
photographs
AP149.S4.SS2.005
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Group consists of slides predominantly of housing in various regions and cities in America, including in Artics, in Montréal, in the United States, in Mexico and in Medellin.
1970s
Housing installation visual material for lectures
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AP149.S4.SS2.005
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Group consists of slides predominantly of housing in various regions and cities in America, including in Artics, in Montréal, in the United States, in Mexico and in Medellin.
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1970s
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
2003-2011
Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records
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AP196
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Studio Gang Ford Calumet Environmental Center project records, 2003-2012, documents the design process for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center in Chicago, United-States. The records represent both phases during the competition and the full-term design, after the firm won the project. The records consist of born-digital material, sketches and drawings, textual records, photographs and seven models.
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2003-2011