Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Main galleries
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
23 April 2009
Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
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(...)
Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
Shaughnessy House
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
Learning from... Copenhagen
Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
21 May 2015 , 6pm
Learning from... Copenhagen
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Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Visiting Scholars 1997–1998
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Barbara Arciszewska, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Topic: Continental Baroque and the Emergence of Palladianism in England Hugh Cullum, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Cullum and Nightingale Architects, London, United Kingdom Topic: On the Ducal Palace La Venaria Reale near Turin and(...)
September 1997 to August 1998
Visiting Scholars 1997–1998
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Barbara Arciszewska, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Topic: Continental Baroque and the Emergence of Palladianism in England Hugh Cullum, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Cullum and Nightingale Architects, London, United Kingdom Topic: On the Ducal Palace La Venaria Reale near Turin and(...)
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September 1997 to
August 1998
Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
Main galleries
Devices of Design
A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004
Devices of Design
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A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre