With an Acre
With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
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Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
19 June 2025 to 12 October 2025
With an Acre
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With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking(...)
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Brazil, Carla Juacaba, Groundwork, coffee, Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Joshua Frank
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Álvaro Siza, Siza, Giovanna Borasi, adamo-faiden, city, neighbourhood
21 May 2026 to 10 January 2027
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Álvaro Siza, Siza, Giovanna Borasi, adamo-faiden, city, neighbourhood
Marking the conclusion of the 2026 CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program research period, join Kent Mundle and Yusuke Yabutani as they discuss how vacancy can be actively engaged with through the tools available to architects working in the distinct but related contexts of rural Japan and the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
Self-Renovating and Frameworking Vacancy
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Marking the conclusion of the 2026 CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program research period, join Kent Mundle and Yusuke Yabutani as they discuss how vacancy can be actively engaged with through the tools available to architects working in the distinct but related contexts of rural Japan and the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
This presentation by Amanda Zhang looks at toys, as both didactic instruments and historical artifacts, to explore how toysthey—much like architecture—are a typekind of world-building technology that can offer valuable insights into the ideals and imaginaries of the people who make, play with, and collect them.
4 September 2026, 2pm to 3:30pm
Toys at the CCA, with Amanda Zhang
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This presentation by Amanda Zhang looks at toys, as both didactic instruments and historical artifacts, to explore how toysthey—much like architecture—are a typekind of world-building technology that can offer valuable insights into the ideals and imaginaries of the people who make, play with, and collect them.
Emerging from the 2026 and inaugural edition of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program, join Rayshad Dorsey, Hi’ilei Hobart, and Jake Hobart as they discuss their approaches to the complex social and legal processes that determine contemporary conditions of vacancy in St. Louis and Honolulu.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
27 August 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Vacancy as Return and Renewal
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Emerging from the 2026 and inaugural edition of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program, join Rayshad Dorsey, Hi’ilei Hobart, and Jake Hobart as they discuss their approaches to the complex social and legal processes that determine contemporary conditions of vacancy in St. Louis and Honolulu.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program sought to gauge what research questions matter most to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals under the surface of the day to day. We were looking for persistent questions—those that resonate with practitioners navigating various pressures including those of time, cost, and skewed(...)
September 2025 to December 2025
Virtual Research Fellows 2025
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The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program sought to gauge what research questions matter most to architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals under the surface of the day to day. We were looking for persistent questions—those that resonate with practitioners navigating various pressures including those of time, cost, and skewed(...)
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September 2025 to
December 2025
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April 2022 to
August 2022
Through selected objects from the CCA Collection and by using the case study of South African township Bophelong, Bongisa Msutu explores globally applicable strategies of building an “unarchivable” architectural archive as a decolonial project.
23 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Archiving "Unarchivable" Architectures
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Through selected objects from the CCA Collection and by using the case study of South African township Bophelong, Bongisa Msutu explores globally applicable strategies of building an “unarchivable” architectural archive as a decolonial project.
This workshop allows youth, aged 15–18 years-old, to further develop their interest in design, architecture, and art. By connecting youth with professional mentors and resources, participants will develop a collective research project with the support and knowledge of the CCA team.
the CCA
20 July to 21 September
The Urban Unknown—CCA Youth Collective
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This workshop allows youth, aged 15–18 years-old, to further develop their interest in design, architecture, and art. By connecting youth with professional mentors and resources, participants will develop a collective research project with the support and knowledge of the CCA team.
the CCA