Learning from... Chisasibi
A conversation between artist Thomas Kneubühler and filmmaker Ernest Webb, who explore housing and human migration in a small town on the eastern shore of James Bay. The conversation will be moderated by Alessandra Ponte. Taking the hydroelectric installations in Northern Quebec as his cue, Kneubühler documents how the generation of power touches the land and by extension(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
25 October 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Chisasibi
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A conversation between artist Thomas Kneubühler and filmmaker Ernest Webb, who explore housing and human migration in a small town on the eastern shore of James Bay. The conversation will be moderated by Alessandra Ponte. Taking the hydroelectric installations in Northern Quebec as his cue, Kneubühler documents how the generation of power touches the land and by extension(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 May 1989 to 25 March 1990
Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens
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Celebrating the opening of the CCAs new building, Canadian Centre for Architecture: Building and Gardens reveals the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; and about architecture itself. Both the restoration of the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House(...)
Octagonal gallery
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
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311 pages : illustrations (some color), color portraits ; 31 cm
Montréal, Québec : Centre Canadien d'Architecture ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2024].
Les vies des documents : la photographie en tant que projet / Stefano Graziani et Bas Princen ; rédactrice attitrée, Victoria Addona.
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Montréal, Québec : Centre Canadien d'Architecture ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2024].
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8 items ; 97 cm or smaller
Les vies des documents : la photographie en tant que projet = The lives of documents : photography as project : exhibition products, 2023-2024
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8 items ; 97 cm or smaller
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311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2024], ©2024
The lives of documents : photography as project / Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen ; managing editor, Victoria Addona.
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311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm
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Montréal, Québec : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2024], ©2024
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289 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm.
Paris : J. Rouam, 1884.
Les Della Robbia, leur vie et leur oeuvre : d'après des documents inédits : suivi d'un catalogue de l'œuvre des Della Robbia en Italie et dans les principaux musées de l'Europe / par J. Cavallucci, Emile Molinier.
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289 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm.
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Paris : J. Rouam, 1884.
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312 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm.
Paris : J. Rouam, 1884.
Claude Lorrain, sa vie et ses œuvres : d'après des documents inédits / par Mme. Mark Pattison ; suivi d'un catalogue des œuvres de Claude Lorrain, conservées dans les musées et dans les collections particulières de l'Europe.
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312 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm.
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Paris : J. Rouam, 1884.
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volumes : folded plan ; 26 cm
Paris : A. Picard, 1924-
Une vie de cité : Paris de sa naissance à nos jours ...
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volumes : folded plan ; 26 cm
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Paris : A. Picard, 1924-