Incoming exhibition
Records of Protest
from Mar 19, 2025 to Nov 30, 2025
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
Posters, fliers, periodicals, reports, and news clippings from watershed moments reveal peripheral positions and grassroots opposition in face of capitalism, colonialism, oppression, and war. The selected objects evidence how actors from the fields of design and construction have applied their skills to raise awareness of social injustices, used their influence as public intellectuals to critique abuse of authority and technology, or demonstrated their agency by withholding their labour and industry ties. The collective efforts of practitioners, students, and educators of the past are carried on in the resistances to systemic issues that persist today.
While the CCA Collection includes significant architectural drawings and models, the ephemera on display in Records of Protest highlights the weight of the profession’s responsibility and the force the discipline holds in shaping society.
Curatorial research: Irene Chin, Auden Young Tura, Lisa Belabed, with Laura Aparicio Llorente and Megan Marin
Conservation: David Stevenson and Anne Gauthier
Design development: Sébastien Larivière and 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, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
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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.
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from Dec 11, 2024 to May 25, 2025
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Incoming exhibition
from Apr 25, 2025 to Oct 26, 2025
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Incoming exhibition
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