Speed Limits
Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
20 May 2009 to 8 November 2009
Speed Limits
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Speed Limits addresses the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. It marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been(...)
Main galleries
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
26 May 1999 to 31 October 1999
Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
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The exhibition addresses a central and timely aspect of the work of Carlo Scarpa: its distinctive approach to contending with the layers of history that mark the fabric of a city and a building. In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into, and often out of, the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History begins to unravel(...)
Main galleries
research
Visiting Scholars 2010
Nicholas Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States Topic: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court Extension, Göteborg (1934-1938) Frederick Bohrer, Hood College, Frederick, United States Topic: Photography, Architecture, Archaeology: The Image as Object Enrico Chapel, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Topic: Le(...)
9 March 2010 to 15 August 2010
Visiting Scholars 2010
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Nicholas Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States Topic: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court Extension, Göteborg (1934-1938) Frederick Bohrer, Hood College, Frederick, United States Topic: Photography, Architecture, Archaeology: The Image as Object Enrico Chapel, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Topic: Le(...)
research
9 March 2010 to
15 August 2010
articles
Sounding Towers
The rest of your senses
20th century, 21st century, Carlotta Darò, Chabolovka, communism, communisme, El Lissitzky, Emily Thompson, Geoff Manaugh, Ilia Chashnik, Karin Bijsterveld, Lenin, Lénine, Lissitzky, photographie, photography, radio, Richard Pare, Sabine von Fischer, Sensations urbaines, Sense of the City, Shabolovka, Soviet Union, Susan Buck-Morss, technologie, technology, tour, tower, Union soviétique, Vitebsk, Vladimir Shukhov, XXe siècle, XXIe siècle
23 July 2012
The rest of your senses
Dieter Appelt: The Catastrophe of Things presents images of the attic of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fascinated by sites charged with history, German artist Dieter Appelt uses his examination of the attic to inquire into the invisible, mysterious, and indefinite forces of decay that lie beyond everyday experience. By concentrating on structural details, and by(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 April 1996 to 4 August 1996
Dieter Appelt: The Catastrophe of Things
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Dieter Appelt: The Catastrophe of Things presents images of the attic of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fascinated by sites charged with history, German artist Dieter Appelt uses his examination of the attic to inquire into the invisible, mysterious, and indefinite forces of decay that lie beyond everyday experience. By concentrating on structural details, and by(...)
Octagonal gallery
archives
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Collection
J.J.P. Oud Collection
CI005
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The J.J.P. Oud Collection, 1911-1973, documents J.J.P. Oud's work as an architect between 1911 and 1973. The collection is focussed on Oud’s architectural projects, including work on major exectued and unrealized buildings in the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. The collection also includes Oud's designs for diverse projects on public housing, war memorials and interior design.
1908-1966 (1911-1963 predominant)
J.J.P. Oud Collection
CI005
Synopsis:
The J.J.P. Oud Collection, 1911-1973, documents J.J.P. Oud's work as an architect between 1911 and 1973. The collection is focussed on Oud’s architectural projects, including work on major exectued and unrealized buildings in the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. The collection also includes Oud's designs for diverse projects on public housing, war memorials and interior design.
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Collection institutionnelle
1908-1966 (1911-1963 predominant)
photographs
DR2012:0012:090:003
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Box containing photographs, and a printout of an architectural drawing mounted on a panel, of the following projects: - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (2 photographs); - Edifice (2 photographs); - Chicago construction (1 photograph); - Kingston construction (2 photographs); - Toronto construction (2 photograph); - Room 202 (2 photographs); - Streetwork (2 photographs) - HEC Montréal (1 photograph, 1 panel); - CCA garden (2 photographs); - Unidentified (2 photographs). Further investigation is required regarding the projects represented.
1979, 1995-1996
Photographs of various projects by Melvin Charney
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DR2012:0012:090:003
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Box containing photographs, and a printout of an architectural drawing mounted on a panel, of the following projects: - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke (2 photographs); - Edifice (2 photographs); - Chicago construction (1 photograph); - Kingston construction (2 photographs); - Toronto construction (2 photograph); - Room 202 (2 photographs); - Streetwork (2 photographs) - HEC Montréal (1 photograph, 1 panel); - CCA garden (2 photographs); - Unidentified (2 photographs). Further investigation is required regarding the projects represented.
photographs
1979, 1995-1996
ARCH282814
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Il y a un timbre du studio photographique Ashley & Crippen au recto de l'épreuve photographique.
circa 1950
Portrait d'Ernest Cormier devant une reproduction du relief dit "d'Eleusis"
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ARCH282814
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Il y a un timbre du studio photographique Ashley & Crippen au recto de l'épreuve photographique.
photographs
DR2012:0015:023:004
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Ring binder containing the following photographs: - Fragments... la maison de Rivière-des-Prairies (1 photograph); - Memo series...planche 112 - Mies on his way to Los Angeles (1 photograph) - Old Montreal (3 photographs); - Entrance to the Lachine Canal (1 photograph); - Lachine Canal, 1956 (4 photographs); - Possibly additional photographs of Lachine Canal (3 photographs); - Unidentified columns (3 photographs); - Grain elevators (3 photographs); - Temple of Concordia (3 photographs); - Unidentified buildings (7 photographs); - A street in Montreal, 1964 (1 printout); - A house in the village of Casuvin (1 printout).
between 1956 and 1988
Photographs from Melvin Charney's early and middle career
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DR2012:0015:023:004
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Ring binder containing the following photographs: - Fragments... la maison de Rivière-des-Prairies (1 photograph); - Memo series...planche 112 - Mies on his way to Los Angeles (1 photograph) - Old Montreal (3 photographs); - Entrance to the Lachine Canal (1 photograph); - Lachine Canal, 1956 (4 photographs); - Possibly additional photographs of Lachine Canal (3 photographs); - Unidentified columns (3 photographs); - Grain elevators (3 photographs); - Temple of Concordia (3 photographs); - Unidentified buildings (7 photographs); - A street in Montreal, 1964 (1 printout); - A house in the village of Casuvin (1 printout).
photographs
between 1956 and 1988