photographs
DR2007:0086:004:001
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Documents the installation of a sculpture called "Le trésor de Trois-Rivières", part of the project "Une histoire... Scénarisation".
1977
The installation of Le trésor de Trois-Rivières
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DR2007:0086:004:001
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Documents the installation of a sculpture called "Le trésor de Trois-Rivières", part of the project "Une histoire... Scénarisation".
photographs
1977
PH1987:1193.08:026
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The Maison Arabe was located in the Histoire de l'habitation exhibit. The Eiffel Tower is visible in the background.
1889
View of group of people standing in front of Maison Arabe, Exposition universelle de 1889, Paris, France
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PH1987:1193.08:026
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The Maison Arabe was located in the Histoire de l'habitation exhibit. The Eiffel Tower is visible in the background.
2011 Visiting Scholar Penelope Dean examines the forms of architectural and design history that dominated the twentieth century and speculates on a world in which choice is only imaginable through the prior and pervasive saturation of design. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Penelope Dean
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2011 Visiting Scholar Penelope Dean examines the forms of architectural and design history that dominated the twentieth century and speculates on a world in which choice is only imaginable through the prior and pervasive saturation of design. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
Hall cases
7 May 1989 to 15 August 1989
Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal
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Hochelaga Depicta: Documenting Montréal traces the urban and architectural development of Montreal since its founding in 1642. Engravings of different scenes of Montreal, guide books, postcards, and other documents from the CCA collection present this history. Curated by Joshua Wolfe, Héritage Montréal, and Helen Malkin, CCA.
Hall cases
Series
Collection personnelle
AP001.S2
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Cette série contient les collections personnelles d'Ernest Cormier comprenant des livres, peintures, gravures, et cartes postales. La bibliothèque de Cormier illustre ses intérêts en art, décoration, musique, littérature, langues, histoire, et mathématiques. La bibliothèque comprend aussi la littérature technique relative à l'architecture et à l'ingénierie. La série inclut des notes écrites par Cormier relatives à sa bibliothèque, et des documents trouvés dans ses livres.
non daté, 1885-1977
Collection personnelle
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AP001.S2
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Cette série contient les collections personnelles d'Ernest Cormier comprenant des livres, peintures, gravures, et cartes postales. La bibliothèque de Cormier illustre ses intérêts en art, décoration, musique, littérature, langues, histoire, et mathématiques. La bibliothèque comprend aussi la littérature technique relative à l'architecture et à l'ingénierie. La série inclut des notes écrites par Cormier relatives à sa bibliothèque, et des documents trouvés dans ses livres.
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non daté, 1885-1977
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
Hall cases
17 March 1993 to 1 August 1993
Civic Visions, World's Fairs
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The dazzling energies of world’s fairs are well known —millions of visitors, encyclopaedic displays of goods and ideas, fantastic settings of pavilions and exhibition halls—but the sites that gather the exposition experience into a spatial unity are often overlooked. Civic Visions, World’s Fairs looks at the contribution of site planning to the history of international(...)
Hall cases
articles
Caption This
Critical Cataloguing, Photography Collection, China, Peking, Beijing, Lebanon, Beirut, Captions, Social Media
27 November 2023
Caption This
Shukri Sultan and Endriana Audisho, Julia Ramos, and Jacqueline Tran on the stories constructed by the collection, documentation, cataloguing, and sharing of photography
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British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
12 February 1992 to 19 April 1992
An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: Designs for Gardens and Garden Buildings in the Care of the National Trust with Selected Objects from the CCA Collections
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British gardens and garden buildings have held particular importance in British artistic and cultural life over the last four centuries, as well as influenced the development of the architectural and landscape ideas of the European and North American continents. An English Arcadia 1600–1990 documents the history of these gardens and buildings. The exhibition consists of(...)
Main galleries
This film, conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Shahab Mihandoust, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses that span the parkways of Long Island, New York. These bridges were commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges were designed to prevent(...)
August 2014
Misleading Innocence (tracing what a bridge can do)
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This film, conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Shahab Mihandoust, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses that span the parkways of Long Island, New York. These bridges were commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges were designed to prevent(...)
drawings, textual records
DR2012:0015:025:021
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File containing documents in French, including correspondence and printouts of the layouts of a hallway, related to the installation of the following pieces by Melvin Charney, in the offices of Hydro Québec: - Fragments d'une histoire du génie... la parade nos. 2 and 4. Original folder inscribed in graphite: HYDRO QUÉ / HISTOIRE DE GENIE / 2008
2008
Correspondence and printouts of the layouts of a hallway, related to the installation, Fragments d'une histoire de génie...
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DR2012:0015:025:021
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File containing documents in French, including correspondence and printouts of the layouts of a hallway, related to the installation of the following pieces by Melvin Charney, in the offices of Hydro Québec: - Fragments d'une histoire du génie... la parade nos. 2 and 4. Original folder inscribed in graphite: HYDRO QUÉ / HISTOIRE DE GENIE / 2008
drawings, textual records
2008