Cedric Price. Tasmania beach party (AASA Convention of Creativity), Hobart, Australia: plan illustrating progress of activity on the beach at 12:05, 1968. Ink and coloured pencil on ruled translucent paper, 29.8 × 20.9 cm. DR2006:0156:001. Cedric Price fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. © Cedric Price

Join us this July and August for a research seminar, public presentations by scholars in residence and other guests, family programs, and activities in Parc Baile.

Exhibitions

Through 12 July
Jai Tech: Ábalos & Herreros selected by Juan José Castellón (Out of the Box: Ábalos & Herreros)

23 July, 5:30pm
Landscapes of the Hyperreal seminar (Out of the Box: Ábalos & Herreros)
Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO – IL, curators of the third exhibition in the Out of the Box: Ábalos & Herreros series, discuss the ideas and approaches developed during their research residency at the CCA. Free entry but limited spaces available; reservations required.

23 July–13 September
Landscapes of the Hyperreal: Ábalos & Herreros selected by SO – IL (Out of the Box: Ábalos & Herreros)

Through 4 October
The SAAL Process: Housing in Portugal 1974–76

Ongoing
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015

Public presentations

9 July, 6pm
Ijlal Muzaffar and Edward Eigen want to speak with you
Ijlal Muzaffar and Edward Eigen of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative present the group’s methodologies and discuss the need to rethink frequently used terms—"community" and “shelter,” for example—in humanitarian design.

16 July, 6pm
Andrew Witt, Harvard University
The Crystalline and The Hypercubic: Two Totems and Tactics of Design Mathematics

30 July, 6pm
Mary Woods, Cornell University
Art in the Time of Deindustrialization: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Interventions into Buffalo and New York City

6 August, 6pm
Lee Stickells, University of Sydney
Designing Life Off-the-Grid: The 1970s Autonomy Moment

13 August, 6pm
Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin University
Design for and from Society: Socio-political meanings of minimum size housing and the impact of Americanization in Japan after WWII

Family programs

28 June, 2:30–4:30pm
Chairs, lobster, horse skeleton, and armoires

12 July, 2:30–4:30pm
Constructing the Jai Tech Model

16 August and 30 August, 2:30–4:30pm
The Right to a Place

In Parc Baile

Tuesdays
Movies under the Stars

Wednesdays, 12:15–1pm
Active Lunch Break: Training with Amenzone Fitness

Thursdays, 12–1pm
Music in the Park (classical or jazz)

Fridays, 12pm
Fun Friday: Recreational games

7 July, 7pm
Shakespeare-in-the-Park: Twelfth Night
In case of rain, the performance will be held inside the theatre.

Through 7 September
Piano public


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