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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.
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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(...)
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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).
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).
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1987
Open House for Students
Join us on 24 September for an evening of conversation and discovery with our teams from Programs, Publications, Research, Digital, Public, and the Collection. Learn how we work, what we create, and most importantly, what the CCA can offer you.
24 September 2026, 6pm to 8:30pm
Open House for Students
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Join us on 24 September for an evening of conversation and discovery with our teams from Programs, Publications, Research, Digital, Public, and the Collection. Learn how we work, what we create, and most importantly, what the CCA can offer you.
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5,000 Species of Trees
forest, deforestation, ecosystem, coffee, plantation, colonialism, extraction, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
8 September 2025
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.
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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.
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Come help us add facts to Wikipedia around climate change. Free access to our galleries. Open to all.
The Study Room at the CCA
30 April 2025, 3pm to 7pm
Wiki Edit-a-thon no. 3: Editing for the Ecological Crisis
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Come help us add facts to Wikipedia around climate change. Free access to our galleries. Open to all.
The Study Room at the CCA
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
Sense of the City
Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
26 October 2005 to 10 September 2006
Sense of the City
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Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries