textual records
AP197.S2.058
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The box contains various old publications including "Paris and environs" (1884) and "London and its environs" (1904) by K. Baedeker; Dot Zero 4 (1962); Architettura: Rivista del sindacato nazionale fascista architetti (1935); AA Notes, News Letter No. 38 (1974); and the Architecture Building (1964).
circa 1962-1980
Various journals, clippings and newspapers that relate to architecture, architects and other subjects
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AP197.S2.058
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The box contains various old publications including "Paris and environs" (1884) and "London and its environs" (1904) by K. Baedeker; Dot Zero 4 (1962); Architettura: Rivista del sindacato nazionale fascista architetti (1935); AA Notes, News Letter No. 38 (1974); and the Architecture Building (1964).
textual records
circa 1962-1980
Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
6 December 1989 to 11 February 1990
Mills and Factories of New England: Photographs by Serge Hambourg
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Commissioned by the CCA, for three years, French photographer Serge Hambourg recorded over four hundred historic mills and factories throughout New England. By capturing their surroundings as well as by focusing on the stark beauty of their interiors and exteriors, the images trace the evolution of this building type. The photographs included in the exhibition range from(...)
Octagonal gallery ante-room
photographs
ARCH1654
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Environ 650 cartes postales à sujets variés tels que : paysage et architecture français et italiens, reproductions d'oeuvres d'art (surtout peinture), estampes du dix-huitième siècle, ruines, etc.
[entre 1908 et 1918]
Collection de cartes postales Lot 150/A-3
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ARCH1654
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Environ 650 cartes postales à sujets variés tels que : paysage et architecture français et italiens, reproductions d'oeuvres d'art (surtout peinture), estampes du dix-huitième siècle, ruines, etc.
photographs
[entre 1908 et 1918]
Project
Quai 10, Québec, Québec
AP041.S1.2009.D2
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Project series documents Melvin Charney’s submitted sculpture proposal for the design competition "Concours national d'intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement" for the Promenade Samuel de Champlain. Charney's proposal was entitled "Quai 10". The project series includes textual records, architectural drawings, and sketches.
2008-2009
Quai 10, Québec, Québec
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AP041.S1.2009.D2
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Project series documents Melvin Charney’s submitted sculpture proposal for the design competition "Concours national d'intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement" for the Promenade Samuel de Champlain. Charney's proposal was entitled "Quai 10". The project series includes textual records, architectural drawings, and sketches.
Project
2008-2009
Learning from… São Paulo
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
22 April 2010
Learning from… São Paulo
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Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
Project
AP066.S3.D5
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Le dossier documente la soumission pour le concours parrainé par la SIMPA de la Ville de Montréal "Chaussegros-de-Léry", tenu en automne 1987, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies, des panneaux et une photographie. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Le projet de l'îlot comme système transitif formulerait une hypothèse d'unification des différents ordres en présence selon qu'ils soient issus de l'environnement ou du programme." Extrait du texte de présentation No 95336, (66-C005-002TG).
1987
Concours municipal "Chaussegros-de-Léry"
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AP066.S3.D5
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Le dossier documente la soumission pour le concours parrainé par la SIMPA de la Ville de Montréal "Chaussegros-de-Léry", tenu en automne 1987, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies, des panneaux et une photographie. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Le projet de l'îlot comme système transitif formulerait une hypothèse d'unification des différents ordres en présence selon qu'ils soient issus de l'environnement ou du programme." Extrait du texte de présentation No 95336, (66-C005-002TG).
Dossier 5
1987
Families explore the creative potential of a recycled material by building houses and other imagined structures in cardboard. Inspired by the exhibition 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas (2007), Cardboard Houses introduces innovative ways of building that have a reduced environmental impact.
27 April 2008
Cardboard Houses: Exploration of Do-It-Yourself
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Families explore the creative potential of a recycled material by building houses and other imagined structures in cardboard. Inspired by the exhibition 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas (2007), Cardboard Houses introduces innovative ways of building that have a reduced environmental impact.
webpages
Living Lands
Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
Living Lands
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Details of ongoing commitments and projects that share the aims of providing support and resources to Indigenous communities and researchers to interrogate the built environment, and of reshaping our own institutional understanding of the work we do as a settler institution intent on pushing architectural thinking forward.
webpages
A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Main galleries
18 June 1996 to 29 September 1996
Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932
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A revolutionary approach to the relationship between building and landscape, which shaped them together according to peculiarly American ideals, is the subject of Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922–1932. In this exhibition, the CCA reconstructs five unbuilt, visionary projects that imagined nothing less than a new American landscape, integrating(...)
Main galleries