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AP066.S3.D3
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Le dossier documente la soumission pour le concour ouvert pour le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal qui s'est tenu à Montréal, Québec, pendant l'hiver 1984. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies, des panneaux, des artéfacts, des documents textuels et des documents photographiques. Objectifs du concours: "Dans le cadre de sa politique culturelle, le Québec posait récemment un geste attendu depuis longtemps: celui de relocaliser, au centre-ville de Montréal, le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal installé depuis 1967 sur l'ancien site de l'Exposition universelle." Odile Hénault, " Le concours du Musée d'art contemporain: un constat ", Section A, vol. 2, nº 2, p. 11. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Réaliser une architecture qui manifeste, fière, l'audace et la recherche, en explorant un thème qui apparaît être un centre du débat contemporain, soit la pertinence de la nature dans la culture et plus largement du naturel dans le culturel." Jacques Rousseau, "Du lieu, vu du lieu vu", Parachute, nº 36, septembre 1984, p. 29.
1984
Concours du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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AP066.S3.D3
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Le dossier documente la soumission pour le concour ouvert pour le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal qui s'est tenu à Montréal, Québec, pendant l'hiver 1984. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies, des panneaux, des artéfacts, des documents textuels et des documents photographiques. Objectifs du concours: "Dans le cadre de sa politique culturelle, le Québec posait récemment un geste attendu depuis longtemps: celui de relocaliser, au centre-ville de Montréal, le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal installé depuis 1967 sur l'ancien site de l'Exposition universelle." Odile Hénault, " Le concours du Musée d'art contemporain: un constat ", Section A, vol. 2, nº 2, p. 11. Description du projet par l'architecte: "Réaliser une architecture qui manifeste, fière, l'audace et la recherche, en explorant un thème qui apparaît être un centre du débat contemporain, soit la pertinence de la nature dans la culture et plus largement du naturel dans le culturel." Jacques Rousseau, "Du lieu, vu du lieu vu", Parachute, nº 36, septembre 1984, p. 29.
Dossier 3
1984
Into the Island
Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
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Meizhou, Xu Tiantian, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Into the island, groundwork, ecology, Carla Juaçaba, Joshua Frank, ecosystem
7 May 2024 to 17 November 2024
Into the Island
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Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Meizhou, Xu Tiantian, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Into the island, groundwork, ecology, Carla Juaçaba, Joshua Frank, ecosystem
Curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is the first of a trilogy of research and exhibition projects produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture on the medium of photography—between work of art, research tool, and document—as a means to investigate the built environment.
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Stefano Graziani, Bas Princen, Hester Keijser, photography, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
3 May 2023 to 7 April 2024
The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
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Curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project is the first of a trilogy of research and exhibition projects produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture on the medium of photography—between work of art, research tool, and document—as a means to investigate the built environment.
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Stefano Graziani, Bas Princen, Hester Keijser, photography, The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project
ARCH255963
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"Le Pavillon de l'Italie à l'Expo 67 ----- En terme d'architecture, le toit du pavillon est une voile couchée. Le Pavillon entier semble flotter dans l'air. Sur le toit, trois sculptures symbolisent les trois secteurs d'exposition du Pavillon: la Poésie, les Moeurs et le Progrès. / Italian pavilion at Expo....... the most outstanding architectural feature of the Italian pavilion is its sloping roof which soars independent of the underlying structures. Three symbolic sculptures which also summarize the whole interior exhibit stand in full view upton the roof."--Description.
1967?
Night view of the Pavilion of Italy with its scupltures on roof, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH255963
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"Le Pavillon de l'Italie à l'Expo 67 ----- En terme d'architecture, le toit du pavillon est une voile couchée. Le Pavillon entier semble flotter dans l'air. Sur le toit, trois sculptures symbolisent les trois secteurs d'exposition du Pavillon: la Poésie, les Moeurs et le Progrès. / Italian pavilion at Expo....... the most outstanding architectural feature of the Italian pavilion is its sloping roof which soars independent of the underlying structures. Three symbolic sculptures which also summarize the whole interior exhibit stand in full view upton the roof."--Description.
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
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We All Have Our Obsessions
22 April 2024
We All Have Our Obsessions
Yves Moreau, Claudia Shmidt, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, and Mauricio Pezo in conversation with Francesco Garutti
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Octagonal gallery
27 September 2019 to 19 January 2020
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
7 February 2020 to 4 October 2020
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
7 June 2019 to 8 September 2019
Octagonal gallery
To coincide with the opening of our exhibition To Build Law, we invite you to a roundtable on renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada. Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar (bplus.xyz), and Juliette Cook (Ha/f Climate Design) will discuss the economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada, roundtable, economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation
11 December 2024, 6pm
Tear Down or Repair
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To coincide with the opening of our exhibition To Build Law, we invite you to a roundtable on renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada. Olaf Grawert, Alina Kolar (bplus.xyz), and Juliette Cook (Ha/f Climate Design) will discuss the economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
renovation and rehabilitation policies in Canada, roundtable, economic, environmental, and legal challenges of renovation