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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
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19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Oliver Botar
Raoul Heinrich Francé and the Weimar German Avant-garde
1 November 2000
Visiting Scholar, Hartmut Frank, From Avant-garde to Mainstream, Modern Architecture after 1945
24 March 2000
Visiting Scholar, Juliet Koss, "USSR in Construction" in Construction, USSR in Construction, Soviet avant-garde, Kasimir Malevich
10 July 2008
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis. One of the most important figures in late twentieth-century music, Xenakis is also known for his innovative work on Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and Philips Pavilion. Curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, The Drawing Center.(...)
Octagonal gallery
17 June 2010 to 17 October 2010
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
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Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary explores the fundamental role of drawing in the work avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis. One of the most important figures in late twentieth-century music, Xenakis is also known for his innovative work on Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and Philips Pavilion. Curated by Sharon Kanach and Carey Lovelace, The Drawing Center.(...)
Octagonal gallery
Combining enthusiasm for the radically new world view of cubist art with a desire to establish an autonomous aesthetic as well as political presence, the Czech cubists produced not only powerful visionary work, but also went beyond theory to practice. Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design, 1910–1925 brings together the work of a group of Czech artists, architects, and(...)
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10 June 1992 to 2 August 1992
Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design, 1910–1925
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Combining enthusiasm for the radically new world view of cubist art with a desire to establish an autonomous aesthetic as well as political presence, the Czech cubists produced not only powerful visionary work, but also went beyond theory to practice. Czech Cubism: Architecture and Design, 1910–1925 brings together the work of a group of Czech artists, architects, and(...)
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Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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Visiting Scholars 1999–2000
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome: Mark Dorrian, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Topic: Baroque Deformation Martina Frank, Department of History, Università degli studi di Udine, Italy Topic: Luca Danesi et le baroque vénitien Indra McEwen, National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Canada Subject: The State of(...)
January 2000 to August 2000
Visiting Scholars 1999–2000
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome: Mark Dorrian, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Topic: Baroque Deformation Martina Frank, Department of History, Università degli studi di Udine, Italy Topic: Luca Danesi et le baroque vénitien Indra McEwen, National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Canada Subject: The State of(...)
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January 2000 to
August 2000