Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 May 2006 to 30 July 2006
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes demonstrates Oberlanders pioneering vision of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable landscape design in Canada. The exhibition presents a selection of projects executed in Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Yellowknife, and Berlin over a period of more than 30 years. Drawings and writings from the CCA’s Oberlander(...)
Octagonal gallery
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
4 July 2007 to 30 September 2007
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
Main galleries
Arrivals
Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
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24 January 2008 to 23 March 2008
Arrivals
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Arrivals features gifts to the collection received in honour of Phyllis Lambert’s eightieth birthday. It includes original prints by acclaimed photographers and artists experimenting with the language of photography: Dieter Appelt, Robert Burley, Edward Burtynsky, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Thomas Florschuetz, John Gossage, Guido Guidi, Gordon Matta-Clark (donated by Jane(...)
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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis. One of the most important figures in late twentieth-century music, Xenakis is also known for his innovative work on Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and Philips Pavilion. Curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, The Drawing Center.(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 June 2010 to 17 October 2010
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis. One of the most important figures in late twentieth-century music, Xenakis is also known for his innovative work on Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and Philips Pavilion. Curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, The Drawing Center.(...)
Octagonal gallery
The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
11 November 2010 to 6 February 2011
404 ERROR: The object is not online
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The internet was invented as the ultimate standard; it is literally made of rules. Online content abides by some intentional and unintentional rules, and texture, smell, weight, flavour, and time are flattened together for the screen. Computers appear to instantaneously transform objects into images and meaning into information. 404 ERROR: The object is not online brings(...)
Octagonal gallery
After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 September 2011 to 8 January 2012
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View
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After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
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A super-library combining five national collections in one building, Paris’s National Library of France was the final Grands travaux of President François Mitterrand. Initially commissioned to house all French production of words, images, and sounds since 1945, its architectural competition captured the confusion and variety of architectural thinking in 1989. OMA’s(...)
Octagonal gallery
15 May 2012 to 9 September 2012
Très Grande Bibliothèque (Very Big Library)
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A super-library combining five national collections in one building, Paris’s National Library of France was the final Grands travaux of President François Mitterrand. Initially commissioned to house all French production of words, images, and sounds since 1945, its architectural competition captured the confusion and variety of architectural thinking in 1989. OMA’s(...)
Octagonal gallery
Seagram Plaza
The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis of calm, distant from the commotion and turbulence of the street. The way in which the plaza has been adopted by New Yorkers(...)
Hall cases
1 May 2013 to 18 August 2013
Seagram Plaza
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The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis of calm, distant from the commotion and turbulence of the street. The way in which the plaza has been adopted by New Yorkers(...)
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Miguel Robles-Durán discusses Cohabitation Strategies’s action research endeavours, which aim to facilitate transformative and progressive urban intervention projects in various cities across Europe and South and North America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect.
24 March 2016
Cohabitation Strategies: Studies and Projects on the Contemporary Urban Crisis
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Miguel Robles-Durán discusses Cohabitation Strategies’s action research endeavours, which aim to facilitate transformative and progressive urban intervention projects in various cities across Europe and South and North America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect.
Echosystems
This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)
5 March 2016
Echosystems
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This public workshop aims to identify and document the distinct politics of the neighbourhood around the Canadian Centre for Architecture through an alternative methodology. Moderated by Léopold Lambert of Archipelago, this day of intensive reflection and polyphonic creation will address issues of the city through sound recordings. In response to distinct modes of(...)