Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City Exhibition, Montreal Buildings, Architecture Show, Images
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City Exhibition in Montreal
Architecture Show at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
26 Oct 2017
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City
Curated by Phyllis Lambert
Location: 1920, rue Baile H3H 2S6, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City Exhibition in Montreal

Brunet Building, Saint Laurent, 1891. Photograph taken between 1973 and 1974.

Photo: Phyllis Lambert Collection. © Phyllis Lambert and Richard Pare.
Until 4 March 2018, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents Greystone: Tools for Understanding the City, an exhibition curated by Phyllis Lambert that reveals her deep attachment to Greystone buildings. This interest gave rise to a vast research project initiated more than forty years ago. It is an in-depth study of the history of these buildings from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th centuries, through the Greystone photographic series. It reveals the influence of geology, topography, politics, culture, and ethnicity in shaping the city over time.
Mills Warehouse II, Old Montreal West, 1864. Photograph taken between 1973 and 1974.

Photo: Phyllis Lambert Collection. © Phyllis Lambert and Richard Pare.
Photographic Mission

Conceived as a photographic mission conducted by Phyllis Lambert and Richard Pare through the Montreal neighborhoods from 1973 to 1974, the Grey...