Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli

Name: Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli
Start: 2010-04-08T00:00:00
End: 2010-09-19T00:00:00
Location: Canadian Centre for Architecture

Exhibition, Main galleries, 8 April 2010 to 19 September 2010

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Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, Alessandro Poli. Installation view, 2010

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Other Space Odysseys presents three approaches to the idea of an adventurous journey that started forty years ago after the 1969 moon landing. Featuring the work of architects Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli, Other Space Odysseys comes at a time when space exploration is the subject of renewed enthusiasm, but also of debate which questions its justification. Scientific expeditions, satellite launches, and the emergence of space tourism are pushing us to reconsider our relationship with the planet. For these architects, space has provided not only a rich context for experimentation, but also an extreme condition in which to test new ideas for life on Earth.

Curator: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, CCA, with Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli
Graphic design: Alex DeArmond

Selected objects

<i>Jet Propulsion Laboratory</i>, model. © Michael Maltzan Architecture.<br/><i>Alessandro Poli, Autoritratto con riflessa autostrada Terra-Luna</i> (Self-portrait with reflection of Earth-moon highway), Photomontage, 1973. © Archivio Alessandro Poli. Photo: Antonio Quattrone.<br/><i>New City</i>, model. © Greg Lynn, Peter Frankfurt, Alex McDowell.

Alessandro Poli. Autoritratto con riflessa autostrada Terra-Luna (Self-portrait with reflection of Earth-moon highway), 1973

Greg Lynn. N.O.A.H. (New Outer Atmospheric Habitats) set for the film <i>Divide</i>.

Greg Lynn. N.O.A.H. (New Outer Atmospheric Habitats), set for the film Divide, 2006

New City, concept model for a virtual world.

Greg Lynn, Peter Frankfurt, and Alex McDowell. Concept model, New City, 2008

Greg Lynn, Peter Frankfurt, and Alex McDowell, architects. New City: conceptual model for a virtual world, 2008

Greg Lynn, Peter Frankfurt, and Alex McDowell, architects. New City: concept model for a virtual world, 2008

Michael Maltzan, architect. <i>New building for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California</i>, model. 2006- .

Michael Maltzan, architect. Model, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, 2006

Conversations with the curators

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Giovanna Borasi, Curator of Contemporary Architecture at CCA, and Karen Potje, Head, Conservation and Preservation, in conversation with architect Greg Lynn

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Giovanna Borasi and Karen Potje speak with architect Michael Maltzan

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Alessandro Poli. <i>Zeno incontra Aldrin a Riparbella</i> (Zeno and Aldrin meet in Riparbella). 2008.

Zeno and Aldrin Meet in Riparbella in the Summer of 2008

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