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What could a school in Montréal look like? During March Break, families are invited to come and explore how the design of school spaces can create a feeling of belonging and inspire learning. Work together to build a model that translates your dreams into reality.
8 March 2013
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What could a school in Montréal look like? During March Break, families are invited to come and explore how the design of school spaces can create a feeling of belonging and inspire learning. Work together to build a model that translates your dreams into reality.
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AP156.S4
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La série documente la vie personnelle et professionnelle de Pierre Jeanneret, en Europe et en Inde, ainsi que le projet de la nouvelle ville de Chandigarh, en Inde. La série inclut principalement des photographies de Chandigarh, mais aussi des photographies de familles, des photographies de quelques projets qu'il a réalisé en Europe dans les années 1940. Le matériel de cette série a été produit entre la fin des années 1800 jusqu'au années 1970. La série contient principalement des photographies, donc des épreuves contacts ou des photocollages, ainsi que des négatifs. Series documents the personnal and professional life of Pierre Jeanneret, in Europe and in India, and also the project for the new city of Chandigarh, in India. The series includes predominantly photographs of Chandigarh, but also family photographs and photographs of a few of his projects in Europe in the 1940s. The material in this series was produced between the end of the 1800s to the 1970s. The series contains predominantly photographs, including contact sheets and photocollages, and also negatives.
Photographies = Photographs
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AP156.S4
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La série documente la vie personnelle et professionnelle de Pierre Jeanneret, en Europe et en Inde, ainsi que le projet de la nouvelle ville de Chandigarh, en Inde. La série inclut principalement des photographies de Chandigarh, mais aussi des photographies de familles, des photographies de quelques projets qu'il a réalisé en Europe dans les années 1940. Le matériel de cette série a été produit entre la fin des années 1800 jusqu'au années 1970. La série contient principalement des photographies, donc des épreuves contacts ou des photocollages, ainsi que des négatifs. Series documents the personnal and professional life of Pierre Jeanneret, in Europe and in India, and also the project for the new city of Chandigarh, in India. The series includes predominantly photographs of Chandigarh, but also family photographs and photographs of a few of his projects in Europe in the 1940s. The material in this series was produced between the end of the 1800s to the 1970s. The series contains predominantly photographs, including contact sheets and photocollages, and also negatives.
Série 4
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 September 2009 to 10 January 2010
Carlo Scarpa's Tomba Brion: Photographs by Guido Guidi, 1997-2007
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This exhibition features Italian photographer Guido Guidis photographs of the Brion family mausoleum in Italy, considered to be architect Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece. The artist’s 54 colour photographs reveal the beauty of the funerary complex, its clean architectural lines, and the poetic nature of Scarpa’s work. By concentrating on particular architectural features,(...)
Octagonal gallery
archives
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Milton Parc fonds
AP025
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The Milton Parc fonds, 1969 – 1989, documents the Société du patrimoine urbaine de Montréal’s (SPUM) planning, design and renovation of Montreal’s historic Milton Parc neighbourhood. Recognized as one of the largest co-operative rehabilitation projects completed in Canada, the Milton Parc housing project (1979-1982) renovated over 135 historic buildings and 597 dwelling units within Milton Parc’s 6-block radius. The fonds consists of the following materials: approximately 600 drawings, 85 l.m. of textual records, 0.6 l.m. of slides, 0.6 l.m.of photographs, 8 posters, 3 seals, 2 models, 2 rubber stamps, and 2 audio cassettes.
1962-1989
Milton Parc fonds
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AP025
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The Milton Parc fonds, 1969 – 1989, documents the Société du patrimoine urbaine de Montréal’s (SPUM) planning, design and renovation of Montreal’s historic Milton Parc neighbourhood. Recognized as one of the largest co-operative rehabilitation projects completed in Canada, the Milton Parc housing project (1979-1982) renovated over 135 historic buildings and 597 dwelling units within Milton Parc’s 6-block radius. The fonds consists of the following materials: approximately 600 drawings, 85 l.m. of textual records, 0.6 l.m. of slides, 0.6 l.m.of photographs, 8 posters, 3 seals, 2 models, 2 rubber stamps, and 2 audio cassettes.
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1962-1989
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.
13 November 2021 to 1 May 2022
photographs
PH1986:0777:001-096
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First edition of an album containing 96 photographs of sculptural and ornamental details (mostly fragments) of the models made in stone, wood, bronze, iron cast and carton-pierre by sculptor Emile Knecht for the Palais des Tuileries and the Louvre, Paris, under the direction of Mr. H. Lefuel, architect of the Emperor. The photographs show details of ornamentation for the Palais des Tuileries: for the staircase of Sa Majesté l'Impératrice; the door to her apartments; the ceiling of the vestibule; the apartments of Sa Majesté le Prince Impérial; the Salle des Gardes; the Salon de famille and the dining room of the Minister of State; the Pavillon de la Bibliothèque of the Louvre; the door to the Pavillon Richelieu of the Louvre; the chimney for the Bibliothèque; the Daru, Denon, Nollieu and Lesdiguière Pavilions of the Louvre; the Ancienne Chapelle of the Louvre; the door of the Museum; the old Louvre and the Hôtel de Monsieur Fould. Two lithographs from "Les artistes industriels" show a table and a gun; other photographs show a barometer and thermometer on a sculpted panel, a sculpted Madonna and Child in a niche, a sculpted table and a small armoire by Tahan photographed by Franck.
architecture, ornament, sculpture
1853-1860
Le Palais des Tuileries and the Louvre, views of sculptural details cast for the buildings, Paris, France
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PH1986:0777:001-096
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First edition of an album containing 96 photographs of sculptural and ornamental details (mostly fragments) of the models made in stone, wood, bronze, iron cast and carton-pierre by sculptor Emile Knecht for the Palais des Tuileries and the Louvre, Paris, under the direction of Mr. H. Lefuel, architect of the Emperor. The photographs show details of ornamentation for the Palais des Tuileries: for the staircase of Sa Majesté l'Impératrice; the door to her apartments; the ceiling of the vestibule; the apartments of Sa Majesté le Prince Impérial; the Salle des Gardes; the Salon de famille and the dining room of the Minister of State; the Pavillon de la Bibliothèque of the Louvre; the door to the Pavillon Richelieu of the Louvre; the chimney for the Bibliothèque; the Daru, Denon, Nollieu and Lesdiguière Pavilions of the Louvre; the Ancienne Chapelle of the Louvre; the door of the Museum; the old Louvre and the Hôtel de Monsieur Fould. Two lithographs from "Les artistes industriels" show a table and a gun; other photographs show a barometer and thermometer on a sculpted panel, a sculpted Madonna and Child in a niche, a sculpted table and a small armoire by Tahan photographed by Franck.
photographs
1853-1860
architecture, ornament, sculpture
View of Habicht & Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Streets, New York, New York, United States
PH1980:1134
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Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee. Caption from NCLC caption card: "Deal in nuts only. Import them. Nuts are cracked and picked in the factory--are picked in the homes. 100 families in neighborhood working (35 families on list in / licensed houses.)".
December 1911
View of Habicht & Braun Nut Factory, Hudson and Laight Streets, New York, New York, United States
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PH1980:1134
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Photograph taken while Lewis Wickes Hine was working for the National Child Labor Committee. Caption from NCLC caption card: "Deal in nuts only. Import them. Nuts are cracked and picked in the factory--are picked in the homes. 100 families in neighborhood working (35 families on list in / licensed houses.)".