Sense of the City
Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
26 October 2005 to 10 September 2006
Sense of the City
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Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban(...)
Main galleries
Soap
This Thursday the CCA teams up with Pecha Kucha Montréal to host Soap, a special edition exploring issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
soap, sense of the city, Jennifer Blair, Patrick Evans, Peter Fianu, Andrew Emond, Jason Prince, Nicholas Reeves
11 February 2010 , 6PM
Soap
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This Thursday the CCA teams up with Pecha Kucha Montréal to host Soap, a special edition exploring issues of cleanliness within the context of Montréal.
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
soap, sense of the city, Jennifer Blair, Patrick Evans, Peter Fianu, Andrew Emond, Jason Prince, Nicholas Reeves
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
Shaping the Great City explores the role of city-building throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both before and after its dissolution, and expands architectural history by bringing to the fore a rich variety of modernisms. In the years surrounding World War I, these strains of modernism both reflected and shaped the many national and multinational identities of the(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
14 May 2000 to 15 October 2000
Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890–1937
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Shaping the Great City explores the role of city-building throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both before and after its dissolution, and expands architectural history by bringing to the fore a rich variety of modernisms. In the years surrounding World War I, these strains of modernism both reflected and shaped the many national and multinational identities of the(...)
Main galleries and hall cases
events
Publisher and graphic designer Lars Müller discusses his work and the implications of producing books in the digital age. The lecture also addresses collaborations between Lars Müller Publishers and the CCA, and is held on occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The book(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
18 September 2008 , 6pm
Lars Müller: If this was not the End, what is the Future of Print?
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Publisher and graphic designer Lars Müller discusses his work and the implications of producing books in the digital age. The lecture also addresses collaborations between Lars Müller Publishers and the CCA, and is held on occasion of the publication of the exhibition catalogue Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The book(...)
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18 September 2008
6pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Streetview
Organized in conjunction with the initiative ABC : MTL, Streetview presents the everyday, street-level experience of Montréal throughout the twentieth century. It captures political and cultural change on a human scale with a survey of the city’s commercial, residential, and industrial areas. This overview of Montréal pulled from the CCA collection presents the street as(...)
Octagonal gallery
31 January 2013 to 12 May 2013
Streetview
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Organized in conjunction with the initiative ABC : MTL, Streetview presents the everyday, street-level experience of Montréal throughout the twentieth century. It captures political and cultural change on a human scale with a survey of the city’s commercial, residential, and industrial areas. This overview of Montréal pulled from the CCA collection presents the street as(...)
Octagonal gallery
Inside the Sponge
Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
10 August 2006 to 19 November 2006
Inside the Sponge
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Simmons Hall is an award-winning university dormitory designed by architect Steven Holl on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge. Inspired by the sea sponge and the concept of porosity, the building is radical in structure and ambitious in its program to encourage social interaction. Inside the Sponge is an investigation of Simmons Hall from(...)
Octagonal gallery
David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Johannesburg
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
video
Sense of the city.
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1 streaming video file (16 sec.) : silent, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]
Sense of the city.
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1 streaming video file (16 sec.) : silent, colour
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2012]
books
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349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Montréal, QC : Canadian Centre for Architecture = Centre canadien d'architecture, 2005.
Sense of the city : an alternate approach to urbanism / edited by Mirko Zardini ; with essays by Wolfgang Schivelbusch [and others].
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349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Montréal, QC : Canadian Centre for Architecture = Centre canadien d'architecture, 2005.