Where—and how—do we want to live as we grow older? Will our neighborhoods, our buildings, our cities be able to meet our needs? The evening begins with a screening of the documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min), which explores how architecture and urban planning can respond to the challenges of an aging population. The screening will be followed by a(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
5 February 2026, 6pm
Film and conversation: Where Will We Grow Older?
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Where—and how—do we want to live as we grow older? Will our neighborhoods, our buildings, our cities be able to meet our needs? The evening begins with a screening of the documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min), which explores how architecture and urban planning can respond to the challenges of an aging population. The screening will be followed by a(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
7 February 2019, 6:30pm
Meanwhile, in Frankfurt: With André Bideau
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Looking beyond North America, the series Meanwhile, in… considers the role of changed contexts in shaping postmodernisms elsewhere, by assembling case studies from other countries, with other cultural concerns and other contingencies.
Paul-Desmarais Theater
The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
Toolkit for Today: Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
articles
The planet is the client
events
Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
events
10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
research
The 2023 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program invited new directions, readings, and interactions with the photographic works held in our Collection with a view to charting how broader understandings of ‘vision’ may exceed what Vilém Flusser names the ‘technical image.’
March 2023 to April 2023
Virtual Research Fellows 2023
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The 2023 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program invited new directions, readings, and interactions with the photographic works held in our Collection with a view to charting how broader understandings of ‘vision’ may exceed what Vilém Flusser names the ‘technical image.’
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March 2023 to
April 2023
This critical reading of exemplary projects from the CCA Collection reveals everyday spatial and power dynamics that have created middlegrounds but that have not often been acknowledged. Beyond restitution, how can architects participate in imagining more just futures for sites of dispossession?
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
10 February 2021 to 13 March 2022
Middleground: Siting Dispossession
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This critical reading of exemplary projects from the CCA Collection reveals everyday spatial and power dynamics that have created middlegrounds but that have not often been acknowledged. Beyond restitution, how can architects participate in imagining more just futures for sites of dispossession?
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
First Sunday of the month's family activity: Architecture playshop
Family and young public activity
Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
4 January 2026, 11am to 12pm
First Sunday of the month's family activity: Architecture playshop
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Every first Sunday of the month, from 11am to 12pm, we invite you and your children to dive into the world of construction games—Kapla, Mega Bloks, Lego, and many more. Together, discover how spaces are designed, transformed, and inhabited, while drawing inspiration from the objects, models, and drawings in our Collection.
How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization? Join us on Thursday 17(...)
17 July 2025, 6pm
Toolkit for Today: Defying Computational Cravings
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How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization? Join us on Thursday 17(...)
drawings
AP018.S1.1977.PR08.048
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These drawings originally included a note that read "Progress set of architectural drawings as returned by B of M, dated June 29, 1978 with comments from O&S and Surridge."
1978
Progress set of architectural drawings for client, Bank of Montreal Computer Complex Two, Scarborough, Ontario
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AP018.S1.1977.PR08.048
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These drawings originally included a note that read "Progress set of architectural drawings as returned by B of M, dated June 29, 1978 with comments from O&S and Surridge."
drawings
1978