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
This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
27 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
UFA, Université des Futurs Africains 2. It Matters What Stories We Tell to Tell Other Stories of the Future
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This seminar presented by Oulimata Gueye looks at projects that were to be developed in the middle of the twentieth century, using the African continent as a laboratory for architectural and urban research and innovation. It also considers African initiatives aimed at giving Africans back control over their vision of housing, technology, and economic and social(...)
The CCA Youth Collective is a ten-week program for young people to explore and understand architecture and the city through a critical lens, culminating in the making of a publication. Beginning on 25 September and concluding on 27 November 2025, the sessions will take place every Thursday.
September 2025 to November 2025, 5pm to 6:30pm
The Urban Unknown—CCA Youth Collective
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The CCA Youth Collective is a ten-week program for young people to explore and understand architecture and the city through a critical lens, culminating in the making of a publication. Beginning on 25 September and concluding on 27 November 2025, the sessions will take place every Thursday.
The seminar will share research that documents and analyzes changes that took place inside rural homes since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, combining both fieldwork in Ukraine and select objects from the CCA Collection. Kateryna Malaia will shine a light on Ukrainian rural architecture at this critical moment, both for its ongoing survival and future development.
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Research Fellowships Program, Research Fellow Seminar, mass-built rural housing, Ukraine
11 July 2024, 6pm to 7.30pm
Research Fellow Seminar: Rural Mass Housing in Ukraine
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The seminar will share research that documents and analyzes changes that took place inside rural homes since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, combining both fieldwork in Ukraine and select objects from the CCA Collection. Kateryna Malaia will shine a light on Ukrainian rural architecture at this critical moment, both for its ongoing survival and future development.
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Research Fellowships Program, Research Fellow Seminar, mass-built rural housing, Ukraine
Nuit blanche 2018: On Air
On the occasion of the fifteenth Nuit blanche à Montréal, the CCA hosts a mini-festival of television inspired by its current exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
3 March 2018, 3pm to 1am
Nuit blanche 2018: On Air
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On the occasion of the fifteenth Nuit blanche à Montréal, the CCA hosts a mini-festival of television inspired by its current exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
The conversation will move between cinematography, research for film, and film as research—tracing how the stories told through the medium of film both rely on and exceed everyday architectures.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Toolkit for Today: Unmaking Filmmaking
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The conversation will move between cinematography, research for film, and film as research—tracing how the stories told through the medium of film both rely on and exceed everyday architectures.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Speaking of Tomorrow
A biweekly program running from 24 January to 28 March 2027 in the CCA’s Octagonal Gallery, Speaking of Tomorrow celebrates Phyllis Lambert’s 100th birthday by convening figures situated across the fields of architecture, art, and urbanism to discuss ways in which practice and research can be designed in dialogue for the future.
Octagonal Gallery
24 January 2027 to 28 March 2027
Speaking of Tomorrow
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A biweekly program running from 24 January to 28 March 2027 in the CCA’s Octagonal Gallery, Speaking of Tomorrow celebrates Phyllis Lambert’s 100th birthday by convening figures situated across the fields of architecture, art, and urbanism to discuss ways in which practice and research can be designed in dialogue for the future.
Octagonal Gallery
The CCA Research Network Summer Lecture, Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile, marks the opening of the summer research season at the CCA by welcoming the recipients of the 2023 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship to share the work they have been doing.
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27 June 2024, 2pm to 4pm, EDT
CCA Research Network Summer Lecture
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The CCA Research Network Summer Lecture, Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile, marks the opening of the summer research season at the CCA by welcoming the recipients of the 2023 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship to share the work they have been doing.
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Mrinalini Rajagopalan traces the history of the Red Fort in Delhi from its destruction by the British in 1857 to their later efforts to preserve and protect the same structure. Click here for a listing of the rest of this summer’s seminars.
Shaughnessy House
8 July 2010
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
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Mrinalini Rajagopalan traces the history of the Red Fort in Delhi from its destruction by the British in 1857 to their later efforts to preserve and protect the same structure. Click here for a listing of the rest of this summer’s seminars.
Shaughnessy House
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Controlling Comfort
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20th century, advertisement, air conditioning, American Iron and Steel Institute, Amérique du Nord, Architectural Forum, Architectural Review, Chrysler, climatisation, Committee on Steel Pipe Research, États-Unis, House Beautiful, Manfredo di Robilant, National Electric Products, North America, Progressive Architecture, publication, publicité, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Second World War, technologie, technology, United States, XXe siècle
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