Incoming exhibition
Oscillating Spaces
from Apr 25, 2025 to Oct 26, 2025
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Oscillating Spaces looks to the Rhône Glacier—undergoing fast melting and transformation processes—as a case study to reflect on environmental challenges in a constantly oscillating site. Juxtaposing glacier cartography, photography, film, ecclesiastical documents, tourist souvenirs, and architectural archives, the exhibition questions the role of architecture when confronted with a shifting climate, an unstable landscape, and a site that possesses a life of its own. The research also incorporates the work of contemporary art and architecture practices whose works document the Alpine landscape, responding to and raising awareness about the complex consequences of glacier recession for plant, animal, and human life.
Curator: Anneke Abhelakh
Curatorial team: Laura Aparicio Llorente with Ella Eßlinger
Graphic design: Joris Kritis
Design development: Sébastien Larivière, Anh Truong
The CCA gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Exhibition
Incoming
Prices
Adult : $10.00
Seniors : $7.00
Students, children, Friends of the CCA : Free
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
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1920, Baile street,
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Regular Schedule
From Jan 1 to Dec 31
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
11:00 - 18:00
Thursday
11:00 - 21:00
Friday
11:00 - 18:00
Saturday
11:00 - 18:00
Sunday
11:00 - 18:00
Holidays Schedule
Holidays follow the regular schedule
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Temporary exhibition
from Nov 15, 2024 to Mar 23, 2025
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson's Early Travel Diaries
The exhibition examines Arthur Erickson’s exchanges with people, places, landscapes, buildings, rituals, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia in 1961. Drawing on a prescient understanding of site and environment, Erickson was convinced that architecture must be experienced to be understood. He knew that travel and the privilege of being present in different places would be a lifelong preoccupation and crucial to his continuing growth as an architect and thinker.
Temporary exhibition
from Dec 11, 2024 to May 25, 2025
To Build Law
According to a 2020 report by the UN Environment Programme, the construction industry accounts for at least 38 per cent of carbon emissions globally, operating with narrow methods geared toward profit. Buildings are held as assets, torn down, and redeveloped, with limited consideration of community and environmental impacts. Meanwhile, housing crises escalate. Evidently, a systemic shift in the way we build and value our built environment is urgently needed.
Incoming exhibition
from Mar 19, 2025 to Nov 30, 2025
Records of Protest
Architecture is a political medium. Buildings define social relations and reify power dynamics. In turn, the profession has an immense capacity to either maintain hegemonic value systems or propose new orders.
The Groundwork series, currently on display in our Main Galleries, features the ongoing political endeavours of contemporary architects. Their stories demonstrate approaches to advocacy and activism in face of ecological collapses and social crises. While their processes are represented in this series through documentary film and research fragments, Records of Protest is a display of archival material from the CCA Collection exploring how architects in the past engaged with crises of their time.
Incoming exhibition
from Oct 16, 2025 to Mar 15, 2026
How Modern : Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979
Between the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the implementation of Reform and Opening policies in 1979, architecture was a key part of the country’s vision for socialist modernity. While this political focus shaped a variety of formal and spatial strategies in the built environment, driven by shifting policies throughout these three decades, modern Chinese architecture has largely been perceived as stunted and not progressive. Many misconceptions of this history persist even today: that nationalization and collectivism denied architects creative freedom, that projects were more focused on industrial productivity than design quality, and that the state’s emphasis on a “national style” limited the diversity of modern architecture.