When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 September 2016, 6pm
Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code
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When Gordon Matta-Clark assembled the titles to and documentation of a dozen-odd small, vacant parcels of New York property between 1974 and 1977 (later assembled and exhibited as Reality Properties: Fake Estates in 1992), it was with no well-formed agenda—other than his view that the availability of vacant and underutilized parcels [was] a direct reminder of the fallacy(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Main galleries
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
Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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
books
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25 p. ; 22 cm.
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture = Canadian Centre for Architecture, c1992.
Guide des archives d'architecture du CCA = CCA architectural archives--a guide.
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25 p. ; 22 cm.
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture = Canadian Centre for Architecture, c1992.
archives
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1 archived website.
Prix du CCA pour la conception des villes = CCA Competition for the Design of Cities, 1998-2001 (active), 2018 (captured).
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1 archived website.
archives
books
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xxvi leaves, 300 pages ; 29 cm
Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre canadien d'architecture, 1990.
Guide du fonds Pierre-Dionne / David Rose ; [textes liminaires traduits en français par Catherine Roberge].
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xxvi leaves, 300 pages ; 29 cm
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre canadien d'architecture, 1990.
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Guide du fonds Pierre-Dionne = Guide and inventory of the Pierre Dionne Archive / David Rose.
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xxiv leaves, 300 pages ; 29 cm
Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre canadien d'architecture, 1990.
Guide du fonds Pierre-Dionne = Guide and inventory of the Pierre Dionne Archive / David Rose.
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xxiv leaves, 300 pages ; 29 cm
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre canadien d'architecture, 1990.
archives
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2 items ; 28 cm.
Journées archives et architecture religieuse = Archives and religious architecture days : exhibition products, 2003.
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2 items ; 28 cm.
archives