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The Spirit of Cornelia
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Martien de Vletter, landscape, play, playground, restoration, Robson Square, green roofs, garden, environment
25 May 2021
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Toys Shape Minds no. 3
Bumpalow Cottage, Bumpalow Home, Bumpalow Town, toys, games, Dream Houses, Toy Homes, Milton Bradley Company, Hasbro
16 April 2016
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With and Within
Clara Simay, Marine Kerboua, Julia Turpin, Kim Courrèges, Felipe de Ferrari, Plan Común, With and Within
26 June 2021
Circular and Solidarity-based Construction
Kim Courrèges and Felipe de Ferrari of Plan Común speak with Clara Simay of Grand Huit about circular economy and redefining a project’s stakeholders
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With and Within
Super City
This installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) investigates the creative impact of the 1960s explosion of toy building kits, offering a reflection on the profound effect toys can have-not only on how children learn to perceive the world, but also in terms of the kinds of things they produce as adults. Named after Super City, a kit(...)
Octagonal gallery
9 June 2005 to 20 November 2005
Super City
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This installation by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland (Generation X) investigates the creative impact of the 1960s explosion of toy building kits, offering a reflection on the profound effect toys can have-not only on how children learn to perceive the world, but also in terms of the kinds of things they produce as adults. Named after Super City, a kit(...)
Octagonal gallery
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Dream Houses, Toy Homes
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Through selections from the CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, including 33 European and North American architectural toys dating from the early nineteenth century to 1995, Dream Houses, Toy Homes examines the notions of home, childhood, play, gender, and learning. The exhibition uncovers the potential of toys to embody images and ideas of domestic(...)
Kids Build
Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate. It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they(...)
Hall cases
9 December 2015 to 24 April 2016
Kids Build
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Pulling from the extensive collection of architectural toys and games at the CCA, Kids Build presents examples of the many ways that architectural space is rendered through toys, as well as playful explorations of the relationships between basic elements and the architectural worlds they generate. It also suggests that as toys represent architectural ideas, they(...)
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Toys that Teach
The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 December 1992 to 25 April 1993
Toys that Teach
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The architectural toy typically looks to the world of “real” buildings, reproducing columns, arches, and windows in miniature form. Toys That Teach, however, presents a range of construction toys based on the elementary forms of geometry found in nature: cubes and spheres, cones and cylinders, rods and prisms. The toys serve not only for building but also for mathematical(...)
Octagonal gallery
Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
31 March 1993 to 25 July 1993
Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880
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Centring on Eadweard Muybridge’s panoramas, this exhibition examines the representations of San Francisco from 1850 to 1880, a period of phenomenal growth and development for the city. Contextualizing Muybridge’s work, the exhibition includes multi-panel daguerreotype panoramas, photographic panoramas (including sets of stereocards), photographic-view books and albums,(...)
Main galleries
Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)
Toys and the Modernist Tradition
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Technological advances as well as the general social, political, and economic climate have always been of great interest to architects. Toys and the Modernist Tradition examines at how toy manufacturers responded to the exciting and rapidly changing ideas of modern architects. Many of the exhibited toys were designed by leading architects of the modern movement, including(...)