Exhibitions - Canadian Center for Architecture

2025

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Function, Economy, and (When Possible) Beauty

Architecture of China 1949–1979

Oct 16–Dec 31, 2025

2024

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To Build Law

Dec 10, 2024–May 25, 2025

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Photo: Arthur Erickson. © Emily Erickson McCullum and Christopher Erickson

Being There

Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries

Nov 14, 2024–Mar 16, 2025

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madskills

Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media

Jun 7–Oct 27, 2024

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Groundwork

May 7, 2024–Jun 5, 2025

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Reading Landscapes

Mar 14–Nov 24, 2024

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Domestic Monument

Amancio Williams selected by Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Feb 22–May 12, 2024

2023

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ᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui /

Towards Home

Oct 25, 2023–Mar 22, 2024

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Far from Nostalgia

Oct 12, 2023–Jan 21, 2024

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On the Horizon

Amancio Williams selected by Studio Muoto

Jun 23–Sep 17, 2023

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File Under

Law and Policy

May 17–Nov 26, 2023

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Visit to the studio of Armin Linke. Photograph by Stefano Graziani.

The Lives of Documents

Photography as Project

May 3, 2023–Apr 8, 2024

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To Remain in the No Longer

Feb 10–May 28, 2023

2022

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Visibly Iroquoian

Dec 19, 2022–Dec 23, 2023

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Bibliography 3

Sep 6–Oct 1, 2022

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Nicole Luke, Arctic Buildings, Nunavut, 2021. Photomontage © Nicole Luke

ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home

Jun 7, 2022–Feb 12, 2023

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Au Bon marché interior of central space, Paris, France, ca. 1920, Unknown photographer. Gelatin silver print, 22.8 x 28.5cm. © CCA Collection

Retail Apocalypse

Apr 15, 2022–Jan 15, 2023

2021

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June-14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Sam Chermayeff, Triangular bed (2018) Photo © Oliver Helbig

A Section of Now

Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention

Nov 13, 2021–May 1, 2022

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Jamie Diamond, Cuddle Party, 2019. Photograph, 95.3 cm x 127 cm. © Jamie Diamond

A Section of Now

Social Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention

Nov 13, 2021–May 1, 2022

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Assaf Evron, Interior of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Atlanta, GA, 2019. Photograph. © Assaf Evron

The Design of Carpets That Design Us

How carpets perform in architecture today

Sep 16, 2021–Feb 20, 2022

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The Things Around Us

51N4E and Rural Urban Framework

Mar 16–Sep 19, 2021

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Stephen Shore, Main Street, Blackfoot, Métis, and Ogala Sioux Territory. Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York City © Stephen Shore

Middleground

Siting Dispossession

Feb 10, 2021–Feb 13, 2022

2020

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Eye Camera Window

Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier

Oct 29, 2020–Aug 15, 2021

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Gordon Matta-Clark in South America, 1972. © CCA Collection, gift of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark.

Line of Flight:

Gordon Matta-Clark selected by Kitty Scott

Feb 7–May 31, 2020

2019

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Building a new New World

Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture

Nov 12, 2019–Apr 5, 2020

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Out of the Box: Gordon Matta-Clark

selected by Hila Peleg

Sep 27, 2019–Jan 19, 2020

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World Happiness Report 2018, New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network © Stefano Graziani

Our Happy Life

Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism

May 8–Oct 13, 2019

2018

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© John Hejduk, Chronology of projects by John Hejduk: 1954–1974, c. 1974–1979

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodern Myths

Nov 7, 2018–Apr 6, 2019

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Scripts for a new world

film storyboards by Alessandro Poli

Sep 21, 2018–Jan 20, 2019

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Milton-Parc

How We Did It

Sep 13, 2018–Mar 17, 2019

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Milton-Parc Project: Demonstration and sit-in at rental offices of Concordia Estates, 3553 Parc Avenue, Montreal, 26 May 1972 © David Miller

Milton-Parc: How we did it

Sep 13, 2018–Feb 17, 2019

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Besides, History

Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen

Jun 28–Oct 15, 2018

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Alessandro Poli – Superstudio. Nuove architetture lunari, Architettura Interplanetaria, photomontage, 1970–1971. Alessandro Poli fonds © CCA

Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966–1976

May 1–Oct 7, 2018

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Cedric Price. Generator: Site model with key to cubes function, between 1976 and 1979. Cedric Price Fonds © CCA

Lab Cult: An unorthodox history of interchanges between science and architecture

Mar 22–Sep 2, 2018

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© James Stirling, architectural firm. Florey Building, Queen’s College, University of Oxford, England. Photograph by Richard Einzig, ca. 1971. James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds, CCA

Where’s Class?

Jan 31–Aug 26, 2018

2017

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The University Is Now on Air

Broadcasting Modern Architecture

Nov 15, 2017–Apr 1, 2018

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Phyllis Lambert and Richard Pare. Row housing, Square Saint-Louis, 1883. Photograph taken between 1973 and 1974. Phyllis Lambert Collection. © CCA

Greystone

Tools for Understanding the City

Oct 12, 2017–Mar 4, 2018

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Mirrors

Jun 22, 2017–Jan 14, 2018

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Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton

May 31–Sep 24, 2017

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© Stefano Graziani, photographer. House in Kyodo, Tokyo, 2017. Go Hasegawa and Associates, architects

Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen

May 10–Oct 15, 2017

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What About Happiness on the Building Site?

Feb 14–May 14, 2017

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Phyllis Lambert

75 Years At Work

Jan 18–Jun 4, 2017

2016

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Detail of the final design of Crematorium 2 at Auschwitz-Birkenau showing the basement and the modified door opening out from gas chamber, fall 1942

Architecture as Evidence at the CCA

Jun 16–Sep 11, 2016

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Vincenzo Scamozzi, Section and elevation of a design for Salzburg Cathedral. September 1607 © CCA

Nella mente di Vincenzo Scamozzi, Un intellettuale architetto al tramonto del Rinascimento

May 25–Nov 20, 2016

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Kolatan/Mac Donald Studio, O/K Apartment: Screen capture of bed/bath texture mapping lofted across construction lines, 1996 © KOL/MAC

Archaeology of the Digital

Complexity and Convention

May 11–Oct 16, 2016

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Sebastiano Serlio, Il terzo libro, Venice, Francesco Marcolino da Forlì, 1540 © CCA

The Anatomy of the Architectural Book

May 10–Oct 3, 2016

2015

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Shimbo Minami, an illustrator and cartoonist, and a member of ROJO, at work documenting the street. c. 1985. Courtesy of Tetsuo Matsuda © The ROJO Society

The Other Architect

Oct 28, 2015–Apr 11, 2016

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© Giovanni Chiaramonte, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin 1984

Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities Álvaro Siza in Berlin and The Hague

Sep 24, 2015–May 22, 2016

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Presentation panel "Education no. 4" © José António Paradela and Luís Gravata Filipe

The SAAL Process

Housing in Portugal 1974–76

May 12–Oct 4, 2015

2014

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NOX (Lars Spuybroek). H2Oexpo. 1997 - Lars Spuybroek fonds, CCA Collection. Gift of Lars Spuybroek. Copyright NOX

Archaeology of the Digital

Media and Machines

May 21–Oct 6, 2014

2013

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Casablanca Chandigarh

How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning

Nov 26, 2013–Apr 20, 2014

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Out of the Box

Amancio Williams

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