Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
August 2025 to September 2025, 1pm English, 2:30pm French
Guided Tours of the Sculpture Garden
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Join us for a dialogue between nature, architecture, and the urban fabric, and discover the CCAs sculpture garden with guided tours.
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AP075.S1.2014.PR03
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as landscape architect for the restoration project of the Mountain View Jewish Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia. She worked on this project in 2014 with PECHET Studio for the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board and the City of Vancouver. The project included rebuilding to the entrance archway, clearing the original curbed pathways, adding a ritual washing bassin, benches, a pebble basin, an entry plaza and other features. The project series contains drawings of the restored landcaping and the new additions, press clippings and publications with articles on the project, a self-guided walking tour brochure, correspondence with architects, and documents related to the fundraiser campain for the restoration.
2014-2017
Mountain View Jewish Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia (2014)
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AP075.S1.2014.PR03
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as landscape architect for the restoration project of the Mountain View Jewish Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia. She worked on this project in 2014 with PECHET Studio for the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board and the City of Vancouver. The project included rebuilding to the entrance archway, clearing the original curbed pathways, adding a ritual washing bassin, benches, a pebble basin, an entry plaza and other features. The project series contains drawings of the restored landcaping and the new additions, press clippings and publications with articles on the project, a self-guided walking tour brochure, correspondence with architects, and documents related to the fundraiser campain for the restoration.
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2014-2017
textual records, born digital
AP075.S3.SS1.216
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Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation, Acrobat PDF 1.5 - Portable Document Format. Includes photographs of a guided tour of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape projects in Vancouver for the Vancouver Super Saturday.
2004 - 2006
Talks by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for the year 2006
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AP075.S3.SS1.216
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Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation, Acrobat PDF 1.5 - Portable Document Format. Includes photographs of a guided tour of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s landscape projects in Vancouver for the Vancouver Super Saturday.
textual records, born digital
2004 - 2006
born digital, photographs
AP075.S4.SS2.067
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs taken by David Walker during a guided tour of Oberlander’s green roofs projects. Includes photographs of Robson Square (1974-1982), and Library Square (1992-1995).
2002
Photographs of various public landscape projects by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
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AP075.S4.SS2.067
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Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed). Contains photographs taken by David Walker during a guided tour of Oberlander’s green roofs projects. Includes photographs of Robson Square (1974-1982), and Library Square (1992-1995).
born digital, photographs
2002
Learning from... Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
28 May 2009
Learning from... Los Angeles
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Los Angeles-based historian and tour guide Richard Schave examines developments in Los Angeles in the 35 years since the landmark urban tour film Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (UK,1972). Schave, a former student of Banham, elaborates on his professor’s research by showing excerpts of the film in comparison with his own documentary photography. In particular, he explores(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
Living Land: Kids’ Day at the CCA
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We invite kids to get out of the house and into the CCA for a day of free activities inspired by Ange Loft’s installation Visibly Iroquoian . In addition to a guided tour of the installation, participants will take part in the Carrying Patterns: Making Visible an Iroquoian Montréal workshop , which will invite them to familiarize themselves with Iroquoian aesthetics,(...)
Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
21 February 2009
Discovering the Unmonitored Underground City
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Bill Brown leads participants on a guided tour through Montréal’s underground city, pointing out the locations of surveillance cameras and discussing the role of surveillance in public space. Brown is a member of Surveillance Camera Players, a New York City-based group that maps surveillance cameras in urban spaces. In conjunction with the exhibition Actions: What You Can(...)
Complexe Desjardins
textual records
ARCH252330
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- various texts concerning historical buildings in Palm Beach, Florida assembled by Donald W. Curl for the CCA Founder's Circle trip to Palm Beach, 24-27 February 1997 - schedule for the Palm Beach trip - guide for the F. Burrall Hoffman Archive at the CCA - correspondence between Phyllis Lambert and Donald W. Curl re: engaging Curl as a tour guide for the trip
1993-1994
Cercle du Fondateur Palm Beach Trip Feb. 94, Donald W. Curl
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ARCH252330
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- various texts concerning historical buildings in Palm Beach, Florida assembled by Donald W. Curl for the CCA Founder's Circle trip to Palm Beach, 24-27 February 1997 - schedule for the Palm Beach trip - guide for the F. Burrall Hoffman Archive at the CCA - correspondence between Phyllis Lambert and Donald W. Curl re: engaging Curl as a tour guide for the trip
textual records
1993-1994
archives
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Futurecasting collection
CD048
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This collection documents the activities of the “Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic” group formed by Jenni Hakovirta, Naomi Ratte, Nicole Luke, Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Andrea McIntosh, Robyn Adams, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Johanna Minde, and Reanna Merasty. It contains materials related to the planning of seminars and workshops, and the creative process and projects created by its participants in 2022-2023 that were later presented in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition and related publication “ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards home” (2022-2023).
2008-2023
Futurecasting collection
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CD048
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This collection documents the activities of the “Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic” group formed by Jenni Hakovirta, Naomi Ratte, Nicole Luke, Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Andrea McIntosh, Robyn Adams, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Johanna Minde, and Reanna Merasty. It contains materials related to the planning of seminars and workshops, and the creative process and projects created by its participants in 2022-2023 that were later presented in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition and related publication “ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards home” (2022-2023).
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2008-2023
video
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1 streaming video file (25 min., 49 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]
Guided tour : First, the forests = Visite guidée : D'abord, les forêts.
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1 streaming video file (25 min., 49 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]