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On View> Modernism in Miniature at the Canadian Centre for Architecture

East | Thursday, October 27, 2011 | The Editors.

Model of San Remo Apartment, Carlo Mollino and Mario Roggero, 1946. (Courtesy CCA)

Modernism in Miniature: Points of View
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920, rue Baile
Montréal, Québec
Through January 8

Modernism in Miniature examines the relationship between architectural model-making and photography, spanning the years 1920 to 1960. It posits model photography as its own genre, exploring the evolution and visual methods used to capture these miniature architectural representations. Focusing on the encounter between media and architecture, the exhibition investigates the link between design and mass media with themes such as “Object and Image” and the “Art of Simulation.” Models by architects including Mies van der Rohe, Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, and Carlo Mollino (his model for a San Remo apartment, above) illustrate the changing architectural expression and visual representation of mid-century modernism.

: Model of San Remo Apartment, Carlo Mollino and Mario Roggero. Photo Carlo Mollino. Photo montage 1946 or after. (Courtesy CCA)

: View of a model for the Building of Industry, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union, designed by Daniil Fridman and Gleb Glushchenko, 1930 1931. Unknown photographer.

: Theo van Doesburg travaillant à la maquette d’une maison particulière, Paris, France, 1923. Unknown photographer.

: Detail of a paper exercise for Josef Albers’ preliminary Course at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, after 1928. Unknown photographer.

: Project for an exhibition building for an All Union Palace of the Arts, Moscow. Unknown photographer.

: Student model for an exercise in “Constructing a Cubical Form Based on Combination of Mass and Space”, Vkhutemas, Moscow, Soviet Union, 1920 – 1926. Unknown photographer.