We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
Click, Cut, Paste
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
Get Out of Your House!
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the museum for a day of free activities at the CCA: workshops, animated activities and an interactive gallery tour will be on the agenda.
Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2008
Ryue Nishizawa: Some Ideas on Living
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Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Streetview
Organized in conjunction with the initiative ABC : MTL, Streetview presents the everyday, street-level experience of Montréal throughout the twentieth century. It captures political and cultural change on a human scale with a survey of the city’s commercial, residential, and industrial areas. This overview of Montréal pulled from the CCA collection presents the street as(...)
Octagonal gallery
31 January 2013 to 12 May 2013
Streetview
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Organized in conjunction with the initiative ABC : MTL, Streetview presents the everyday, street-level experience of Montréal throughout the twentieth century. It captures political and cultural change on a human scale with a survey of the city’s commercial, residential, and industrial areas. This overview of Montréal pulled from the CCA collection presents the street as(...)
Octagonal gallery
Trois Architectes, Trois Quartiers focuses on three Montréal-based architects whose work had a strong presence in a specific area of the city during the first half of the twentieth century: Ludger Lemieux (1872–1953) in St-Henri, Ernest lsbell Barott (1884–1966) in St-Antoine on the southern and western slopes of Mount Royal, and Ernest Cormier (1885–1980) at the(...)
1440 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
20 May 1983 to 19 August 1983
Trois architectes, trois quartiers : Ludger Lemieux (St. Henri), Ernest Cormier (Cité universitaire), Ernest Isbell Barott (St. Antoine)
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Trois Architectes, Trois Quartiers focuses on three Montréal-based architects whose work had a strong presence in a specific area of the city during the first half of the twentieth century: Ludger Lemieux (1872–1953) in St-Henri, Ernest lsbell Barott (1884–1966) in St-Antoine on the southern and western slopes of Mount Royal, and Ernest Cormier (1885–1980) at the(...)
1440 rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
17 October 2016, 6:30pm
What Comes After the Environment?
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
The exhibition focuses on one of Ernest Cormier’s masterworks—the Université de Montréal, built high on the northwest slope of Mount Royal between 1928 and 1943—and situates the Montréal architect and his work in the context of international thought where European and North American cultural and architectural ideas converged. The objects in the exhibition are drawn in(...)
Main galleries
2 May 1990 to 21 October 1990
Ernest Cormier and the Université de Montréal
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The exhibition focuses on one of Ernest Cormier’s masterworks—the Université de Montréal, built high on the northwest slope of Mount Royal between 1928 and 1943—and situates the Montréal architect and his work in the context of international thought where European and North American cultural and architectural ideas converged. The objects in the exhibition are drawn in(...)
Main galleries
Tangent - Alain Paiement
The first in a series of exhibitions that invites artists to create new work in response to a corpus of photographs selected from the CCA’s collection. In a provocative installation, Québec artist Alain Paiement juxtaposes a wide range of photographic subjects from the collection – buildings under construction, models of student work, architectural abstractions, different(...)
23 April 2003 to 23 November 2003
Tangent - Alain Paiement
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The first in a series of exhibitions that invites artists to create new work in response to a corpus of photographs selected from the CCA’s collection. In a provocative installation, Québec artist Alain Paiement juxtaposes a wide range of photographic subjects from the collection – buildings under construction, models of student work, architectural abstractions, different(...)
During the eighteenth century, Rome was both an important centre for Italian art and the focal point for the studies of most European artists; all were drawn by the city’s antique art, architecture, and statuary, as well as its Renaissance, Baroque, and eighteenth-century masterpieces. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries is concerned with eighteenth-century(...)
Main galleries
18 August 1993 to 2 January 1994
Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries
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During the eighteenth century, Rome was both an important centre for Italian art and the focal point for the studies of most European artists; all were drawn by the city’s antique art, architecture, and statuary, as well as its Renaissance, Baroque, and eighteenth-century masterpieces. Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries is concerned with eighteenth-century(...)
Main galleries
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 May 2006 to 30 July 2006
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery