L’enseignement de… Chisasibi
Une échange entre l’artiste Thomas Kneubühler et le réalisateur Ernest Webb, qui explorent les questions liées à l’habitation et à la migration humaine dans une petite ville de la rive est de la baie James. L’échange est animé par Alessandra Ponte. À partir des installations hydroélectriques du Nord du Québec, Kneubühler montre comment la production d’électricité touche(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
25 octobre 2012 , 19h
L’enseignement de… Chisasibi
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Une échange entre l’artiste Thomas Kneubühler et le réalisateur Ernest Webb, qui explorent les questions liées à l’habitation et à la migration humaine dans une petite ville de la rive est de la baie James. L’échange est animé par Alessandra Ponte. À partir des installations hydroélectriques du Nord du Québec, Kneubühler montre comment la production d’électricité touche(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
La bulle constitue une merveille de tension superficielle. Dans son interprétation architecturale, elle peut être comprise comme une prouesse d’ingénierie ou comme la métaphore d’un environnement hermétiquement clos. En ce sens, la bulle apparaît, selon l’architecte Cedric Price, « quelles qu’en soient la forme ou la taille », comme un puissant symbole du futur, ou(...)
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26 novembre 2009 au 17 janvier 2010
Sur les traces de... la bulle
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La bulle constitue une merveille de tension superficielle. Dans son interprétation architecturale, elle peut être comprise comme une prouesse d’ingénierie ou comme la métaphore d’un environnement hermétiquement clos. En ce sens, la bulle apparaît, selon l’architecte Cedric Price, « quelles qu’en soient la forme ou la taille », comme un puissant symbole du futur, ou(...)
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Hubert Damisch, chercheur principal et boursier Mellon au CCA en 2003-2004, examine la conséquence qu’aura, pour l’avenir de la pensée structurale, l’édifice-nuage Blur. Créé par la firme d’architectes new-yorkais Diller + Scofidio sur le lac de Neuchâtel en Suisse, cet édifice est la plus récente et radicale expression d’un désir de fluidité et d’évanescence en(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
8 mai 2003
Hubert Damisch : Effacer l’architecture?
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Hubert Damisch, chercheur principal et boursier Mellon au CCA en 2003-2004, examine la conséquence qu’aura, pour l’avenir de la pensée structurale, l’édifice-nuage Blur. Créé par la firme d’architectes new-yorkais Diller + Scofidio sur le lac de Neuchâtel en Suisse, cet édifice est la plus récente et radicale expression d’un désir de fluidité et d’évanescence en(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
Deane Simpson présente l’Atlas of the Copenhagens, un projet de livre traitant d’un territoire urbain reconnu dans les médias et célébré par la municipalité même de Copenhague comme la ville la plus durable au monde et où la qualité de vie est la meilleure. De telles affirmations suggèrent que Copenhague est un site approprié pour une étude et un débat sur la durabilité(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
21 mai 2015 , 18h
L’enseignement de… Copenhague
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Deane Simpson présente l’Atlas of the Copenhagens, un projet de livre traitant d’un territoire urbain reconnu dans les médias et célébré par la municipalité même de Copenhague comme la ville la plus durable au monde et où la qualité de vie est la meilleure. De telles affirmations suggèrent que Copenhague est un site approprié pour une étude et un débat sur la durabilité(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
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Architectural projects
AP178.S1
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Series AP178.S1 is the largest series of the Álvaro Siza fonds and documents over 200 of Siza’s built and unbuilt architectural projects. The series is divided into project series which are arranged chronologically by project year. Presently, materials in this series range from 1958-2012. The CCA will also receive materials documenting Siza’s more recent work in future additions. Documenting the projects are conceptual, design, presentation, and working drawings, as well as photographic materials, textual documentation, and models. Although the drawings for each project have been identified, Siza often sketches or doodles on textual documentation, such as minutes of meetings or notes. When possible, folders that include textual documents with sketches or doodles have been identified. Amounts and types of materials vary from project to project. Project documentation is usually in Portuguese, with some exceptions including French, English, German, and Dutch. Most project series include sketches, studies, and working drawings. Other drawings included are site plans, floor plans, topographic surveys, elevations, sections, as well as technical and mechanical details. Also documenting the projects are photographic materials and textual documentation, such as correspondence, building programs, contracts, notes, and other working details. Photographic materials found within this archive are slides, negatives, photomontages and photographs of project sites and models.The photomontages were often used to study the function of the project site. To fully understand Siza’s methodology, sketchbooks (Series AP178.S2) should be viewed alongside the project drawings, when possible. Each project series description highlights sketchbooks in series AP178.S2 which contain related sketches. It is important to note that not all projects are represented in the sketchbooks in Series AP178.S2. Moreover, project series descriptions only list related sketchbooks when sketches have been positively identified as related to the corresponding project. The Siza fonds will be processed in four phases. The materials processed in the first, second, and third phases are architectural projects from the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s; urban planning projects; Reconstrução do Chiado; Berlin projects submitted to the IBA competition; cultural institutions; individual houses; and the Plano de urbanização Deelgebied 5 Schilderswijk-West in The Hague. Among The Hague and the Berlin projects are the Punt en Komma social housing, Bonjour Tristesse, and the Residential settlement in Schilderswijk. This series is better understood in the context of how the records for architectural projects were arranged by Siza’s office. Earlier projects were initially numbered by Siza’s office and then received new project numbers by the office archivist, who joined the office in the 1990s. Project files have been kept in the order in which they were received by the CCA, which is how they were arranged by the office archivist. The project numbers and dates assigned by Siza’s office archivist are included in the descriptions for each project and form the basis for the arrangement of this series. The office archivist numbered projects consecutively by decade, for instance, 58/80 was the 58th project during the 1980s. Numbers which were included in square brackets, ex. [14]/75, show that the project was not a ‘full’ project and contains a small amount of documentation. When projects are followed by a letter (A, B, C) this signifies a project is connected to the first. When the project number is followed by a number (1, 2, 3) this signifies a separate building within a larger project. For the purposes of arrangement, project numbers that were assigned a letter or number are arranged as sub-series of the related project series. Exceptions to this numbering convention are projects 23/60, 25/60, 28/60, 33/60, 34/60 and 35/60. These projects were not in the office’s original project list and were not officially considered projects. The office archivist assembled documentation related to these projects and assigned them numbers. In the early 2000s a large number of photographic materials were gathered together by the office archivist from various correspondence files for a digitization project initiated by the office. These materials remained housed together as a photograph collection in the office. Not all of these materials were digitized by the office. Those that were digitized were assigned numbers which have been identified in the file descriptions. It is important to note that several photographic materials were left with the textual documentation or drawings. When this is the case they are identified in the file description. There are also several panoramic photomontages which were created by either gluing or taping several photographs together to make panoramas of project sites.
1948-2012
Architectural projects
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AP178.S1
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Series AP178.S1 is the largest series of the Álvaro Siza fonds and documents over 200 of Siza’s built and unbuilt architectural projects. The series is divided into project series which are arranged chronologically by project year. Presently, materials in this series range from 1958-2012. The CCA will also receive materials documenting Siza’s more recent work in future additions. Documenting the projects are conceptual, design, presentation, and working drawings, as well as photographic materials, textual documentation, and models. Although the drawings for each project have been identified, Siza often sketches or doodles on textual documentation, such as minutes of meetings or notes. When possible, folders that include textual documents with sketches or doodles have been identified. Amounts and types of materials vary from project to project. Project documentation is usually in Portuguese, with some exceptions including French, English, German, and Dutch. Most project series include sketches, studies, and working drawings. Other drawings included are site plans, floor plans, topographic surveys, elevations, sections, as well as technical and mechanical details. Also documenting the projects are photographic materials and textual documentation, such as correspondence, building programs, contracts, notes, and other working details. Photographic materials found within this archive are slides, negatives, photomontages and photographs of project sites and models.The photomontages were often used to study the function of the project site. To fully understand Siza’s methodology, sketchbooks (Series AP178.S2) should be viewed alongside the project drawings, when possible. Each project series description highlights sketchbooks in series AP178.S2 which contain related sketches. It is important to note that not all projects are represented in the sketchbooks in Series AP178.S2. Moreover, project series descriptions only list related sketchbooks when sketches have been positively identified as related to the corresponding project. The Siza fonds will be processed in four phases. The materials processed in the first, second, and third phases are architectural projects from the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s; urban planning projects; Reconstrução do Chiado; Berlin projects submitted to the IBA competition; cultural institutions; individual houses; and the Plano de urbanização Deelgebied 5 Schilderswijk-West in The Hague. Among The Hague and the Berlin projects are the Punt en Komma social housing, Bonjour Tristesse, and the Residential settlement in Schilderswijk. This series is better understood in the context of how the records for architectural projects were arranged by Siza’s office. Earlier projects were initially numbered by Siza’s office and then received new project numbers by the office archivist, who joined the office in the 1990s. Project files have been kept in the order in which they were received by the CCA, which is how they were arranged by the office archivist. The project numbers and dates assigned by Siza’s office archivist are included in the descriptions for each project and form the basis for the arrangement of this series. The office archivist numbered projects consecutively by decade, for instance, 58/80 was the 58th project during the 1980s. Numbers which were included in square brackets, ex. [14]/75, show that the project was not a ‘full’ project and contains a small amount of documentation. When projects are followed by a letter (A, B, C) this signifies a project is connected to the first. When the project number is followed by a number (1, 2, 3) this signifies a separate building within a larger project. For the purposes of arrangement, project numbers that were assigned a letter or number are arranged as sub-series of the related project series. Exceptions to this numbering convention are projects 23/60, 25/60, 28/60, 33/60, 34/60 and 35/60. These projects were not in the office’s original project list and were not officially considered projects. The office archivist assembled documentation related to these projects and assigned them numbers. In the early 2000s a large number of photographic materials were gathered together by the office archivist from various correspondence files for a digitization project initiated by the office. These materials remained housed together as a photograph collection in the office. Not all of these materials were digitized by the office. Those that were digitized were assigned numbers which have been identified in the file descriptions. It is important to note that several photographic materials were left with the textual documentation or drawings. When this is the case they are identified in the file description. There are also several panoramic photomontages which were created by either gluing or taping several photographs together to make panoramas of project sites.
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1948-2012
Sur les traces de... voyage
Interprétant de la manière la plus large le thème des voyages lointains, l’exposition cartographie et élargit la notion de voyage qui s’étend aux expéditions imaginaires, aux sites étranges, aux points de fuite, aux maisons transportables et flottantes, aux caves sans fond, aux dômes de verre convolutés, aux tombeaux, aux cryptes et catacombes, aux aventures dans des(...)
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3 décembre 2008 au 1 mai 2009
Sur les traces de... voyage
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Interprétant de la manière la plus large le thème des voyages lointains, l’exposition cartographie et élargit la notion de voyage qui s’étend aux expéditions imaginaires, aux sites étranges, aux points de fuite, aux maisons transportables et flottantes, aux caves sans fond, aux dômes de verre convolutés, aux tombeaux, aux cryptes et catacombes, aux aventures dans des(...)
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L’enseignement… d’Ordos
Dans le nord de la Chine, la ville d’Ordos, riche en ressources charbonnières et gazières, possède un nouveau quartier central dépourvu de résidants. On a dépensé plus de 161 milliards de dollars pour bâtir entièrement à neuf ce nouveau centre-ville sur l’aride steppe mongolienne, et on espère y accueillir plus d’un million d’habitants. Le gouvernement a déclaré qu’à(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
8 novembre 2012 , 19h
L’enseignement… d’Ordos
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Dans le nord de la Chine, la ville d’Ordos, riche en ressources charbonnières et gazières, possède un nouveau quartier central dépourvu de résidants. On a dépensé plus de 161 milliards de dollars pour bâtir entièrement à neuf ce nouveau centre-ville sur l’aride steppe mongolienne, et on espère y accueillir plus d’un million d’habitants. Le gouvernement a déclaré qu’à(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
L'enseignement de... Luanda
Comptant plus de cinq millions d’habitants, la métropole Luanda est la troisième plus grande ville lusophone au monde, après São Paulo et Rio de Janeiro. L’architecte et chercheur Paulo Moreira propose des approches urbanistiques différentes fondées sur la recherche en cours effectuée à Chicala, un quartier informel de Luanda directement relié aux secteurs commerciaux et(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
1 novembre 2012 , 19h
L'enseignement de... Luanda
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Comptant plus de cinq millions d’habitants, la métropole Luanda est la troisième plus grande ville lusophone au monde, après São Paulo et Rio de Janeiro. L’architecte et chercheur Paulo Moreira propose des approches urbanistiques différentes fondées sur la recherche en cours effectuée à Chicala, un quartier informel de Luanda directement relié aux secteurs commerciaux et(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
L'enseignement de… São Paulo
Angelo Bucci, architecte et professeur à l’Université de São Paulo au Brésil, aborde les questions de la violence et de l’environnement en évolution à São Paulo, en quête de nouvelles formes urbaines. À São Paulo, la violence peut être vue comme gâchant l’expérience de la ville et, par conséquent, sapant la raison d’être du travail de l’architecte. La conférence porte sur(...)
22 avril 2010
L'enseignement de… São Paulo
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Angelo Bucci, architecte et professeur à l’Université de São Paulo au Brésil, aborde les questions de la violence et de l’environnement en évolution à São Paulo, en quête de nouvelles formes urbaines. À São Paulo, la violence peut être vue comme gâchant l’expérience de la ville et, par conséquent, sapant la raison d’être du travail de l’architecte. La conférence porte sur(...)
L’enseignement de… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architecte, urbaniste et rédacteur en chef du magazine Canadian Architect, présente ses recherches sur la banlieue contemporaine, et sur les influences qu’exercent la diversité ethnique et le multiculturalisme sur l’architecture et l’esthétique urbaine dans les paysages suburbains de la région du Grand Toronto (RGT). Les banlieues d’aujourd’hui sont plus(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais
4 mars 2010 , 19h
L’enseignement de… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architecte, urbaniste et rédacteur en chef du magazine Canadian Architect, présente ses recherches sur la banlieue contemporaine, et sur les influences qu’exercent la diversité ethnique et le multiculturalisme sur l’architecture et l’esthétique urbaine dans les paysages suburbains de la région du Grand Toronto (RGT). Les banlieues d’aujourd’hui sont plus(...)
Théâtre Paul-Desmarais