''En 1979, le Centre Canadien d'Architecture est un nouveau type d'institution, à la fois musée et centre d'étude. Cette publication documente les cinq premières années d'activité du CCA, tout en décrivant son mandat, ses objectifs ainsi que certaines des pièces majeures de sa collection.''--

A close look at the widely accepted but little scrutinized belief that cubism forged a vital link between avant-garde practices in early twentieth-century painting and architecture.

«Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) est déjà une figure dominante de sa profession en Allemagne lorsqu’en 1938, dans la cinquantaine, il émigre aux États-Unis. Cette introduction à la carrière américaine de l’architecte juxtapose ses dessins et ses propres mots, la lecture critique que fait l’auteur de son œuvre et les interprétations qu’en ont proposées des photographes contemporains.La publication tente de capter l’essence des idées de l’architecte : sa longue et profonde recherche sur la structure, la matérialité et l’espace, ses efforts pour conférer un certain ordre à la « jungle urbaine » et son extraordinaire talent à donner l’illusion du mouvement dans ses œuvres bâties. Mies était convaincu que son nouvel art de bâtir ne pouvait être abordé « qu’à partir d’un centre spirituel » compris comme la « réalisation spatiale de décisions spirituelles ». Travaillant à partir d’une vision métaphysique du monde, il pratiquait l’art difficile d’être simple.»--

From the day it opened in July 1955, in an event given live TV coverage, Disneyland has been a key symbol of contemporary American culture. It has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, a harbinger of shopping-mall culture, a symbol of American hegemony in entertainment, the epitome of fantasy, simulation, pastiche, and the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. Yet for all the power of Disneyland as metaphor, almost no one has discussed the making of this unique place, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France. Written to accompany an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, "Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance" is the first book to look beyond the multiple myths of Disneyland. Uniting a roster of authors chosen from wide-ranging disciplines, this study is the first to examine the influence of Disneyland on both our built environment and our architectural imagination. Tracing the relationship of the Disney parks to their historical forbears, it charts Disneyland's evolution from one man's personal dream to a multinational enterprise, a process in which the Disney "magic" has moved ever closer to the real world. Editor Karal Ann Marling, Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, draws upon her pioneering work in the Disney archives to reconstruct and analyze the intentions and strategies behind the parks. She is joined by Marty Sklar, Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, historian Neil Harris, art historian Erika Doss, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, critic Greil Marcus, and architectFrank Gehry to provide a unique perspective on one of the great post-war American icons.

Tangente 1 is the first in a series of exhibitions that invites artists to create new work in response to a corpus of photographs selected from the Canadian Centre for Architectures collection. In a provocative installation, Quebec artist Alain Paiement juxtaposes a wide range of photographic subjects from the collection--buildings under construction, models of student work, architectural abstractions, different levels of transparency--with his own imagery of the new Palais des Congres de Montreal.

The catalog describes 350 examples, drawn from the CCA collections, of work by architects and architectural delineators, photographers, and cartographers. The book is illustrated by over 400 superbly reproduced duotone illustrations and 16 pages of color.