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
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(...)
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(...)
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Joseph Rykwert fonds
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The Joseph Rykwert fonds, 1928-2022, documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an architectural historian, author and professor. The fonds includes the records for over a dozen monographs written between the mid-1960s and the mid-2010s as well as edited works and articles, and details his teaching and lecturing activities from the 1960s onwards in universities in Europe and the United States. The records highlight Joseph Rykwert’s multidisciplinary approach, which involved archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis in his study of the history and theory of architecture and of the urban form. The fonds is composed of textual records, publications and ephemera, and of photographs including multiple albums and a large number of slides; the fonds also documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an independent designer through drawings realized between the late 1940s and the late 1970s.
1928-2022
Joseph Rykwert fonds
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The Joseph Rykwert fonds, 1928-2022, documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an architectural historian, author and professor. The fonds includes the records for over a dozen monographs written between the mid-1960s and the mid-2010s as well as edited works and articles, and details his teaching and lecturing activities from the 1960s onwards in universities in Europe and the United States. The records highlight Joseph Rykwert’s multidisciplinary approach, which involved archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis in his study of the history and theory of architecture and of the urban form. The fonds is composed of textual records, publications and ephemera, and of photographs including multiple albums and a large number of slides; the fonds also documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an independent designer through drawings realized between the late 1940s and the late 1970s.
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1928-2022
Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
Main galleries
20 October 2010 to 13 March 2011
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment
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Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
Main galleries
125 Kilos of Books
125 Kilos of Books presents a selection of printed architectural works from the CCA collection dating from the fifteenth century to the present in order to provoke thought about what seems, at first sight, the most banal fact of any book: its size. With dimensions ranging from 10 centimetres to 1 metre, the works are explored through such themes as Buildings are Bigger(...)
Octagonal gallery
23 March 2006 to 30 April 2006
125 Kilos of Books
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125 Kilos of Books presents a selection of printed architectural works from the CCA collection dating from the fifteenth century to the present in order to provoke thought about what seems, at first sight, the most banal fact of any book: its size. With dimensions ranging from 10 centimetres to 1 metre, the works are explored through such themes as Buildings are Bigger(...)
Octagonal gallery
Melvin Charney 1935–2012
The artist and theorist Melvin Charney, who died earlier this year, made significant contributions to the CCA and the city of Montreal as a whole. Throughout a long and varied career, Charney championed the public role of the architect in the wider built environment, enforcing the idea that the street is the primary resource of the city. The CCA is celebrating Charney’s(...)
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24 October 2012 to 14 April 2013
Melvin Charney 1935–2012
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The artist and theorist Melvin Charney, who died earlier this year, made significant contributions to the CCA and the city of Montreal as a whole. Throughout a long and varied career, Charney championed the public role of the architect in the wider built environment, enforcing the idea that the street is the primary resource of the city. The CCA is celebrating Charney’s(...)
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Documenting Inuit Life
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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.).
textual records
1973-2000