Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
12 May 2015 to 4 October 2015
The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76
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Born out of the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974, the Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local (Local Ambulatory Support Service) was a pioneering architectural and political experiment designed to address extreme housing shortages and poor living conditions in Portuguese cities. There was not only one SAAL: its initiatives and results varied widely depending on complex(...)
Main galleries
Learning from… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
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Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
24 September 2015 to 22 May 2016
Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities. Álvaro Siza in Berlin and The Hague
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Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
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Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
The exhibition is an introduction to the work and life of Ernest Isbell Barott, a Montréal architect who practised from 1912 to 1966. The drawings and photographs in the exhibition are largely drawn from the Ernest Isbell Barott Archive at the CCA. Ernest Barott’s career coincided with a period of profound physical and social change in Canada, a time of national and civic(...)
1440 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
5 June 1985 to 6 September 1985
Ernest Isbell Barott, architecte/architect : une introduction/an introduction
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The exhibition is an introduction to the work and life of Ernest Isbell Barott, a Montréal architect who practised from 1912 to 1966. The drawings and photographs in the exhibition are largely drawn from the Ernest Isbell Barott Archive at the CCA. Ernest Barott’s career coincided with a period of profound physical and social change in Canada, a time of national and civic(...)
1440 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Learning from... Ordos
The coal- and gas-rich city of Ordos in northern China boasts a new central district devoid of people. The contemporary city centre was built from scratch on the arid Mongolian steppe at a cost of over $161 billion, and was projected to house over 1 million people. Currently, the government claims that 28,000 reside in the new area. Despite the lack of residents, property(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
8 November 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Ordos
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The coal- and gas-rich city of Ordos in northern China boasts a new central district devoid of people. The contemporary city centre was built from scratch on the arid Mongolian steppe at a cost of over $161 billion, and was projected to house over 1 million people. Currently, the government claims that 28,000 reside in the new area. Despite the lack of residents, property(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
30 January 2014 to 25 May 2014
Photographing the Arab City in the Nineteenth Century
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By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
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
Mirrors / Miroirs
Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
Hall cases
22 June 2017 to 14 January 2018
Mirrors / Miroirs
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Mirrors/ Miroirs is conceived through an indirect dialogue with the exhibition Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, a project rooted in the shared references and resonances between the work of two contemporary practices in the presence of history. If Besides, History is premised on impressions of one office’s work registered through(...)
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books
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42 p. (some folded) : plans ; 28 cm.
[Montréal] : GIUM, 1985.
Étude de design urbain : ave McGill College / conception C. Caron ... [et al.].
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42 p. (some folded) : plans ; 28 cm.
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[Montréal] : GIUM, 1985.
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1 print (poster) : col. ; 90 x 59 cm.
Montréal : [Desseins sur Montréal?], 1988.
Biennale internationale de design urbain = : International biennial in urban design.
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1 print (poster) : col. ; 90 x 59 cm.
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Montréal : [Desseins sur Montréal?], 1988.