12 July 2002
Join 2023 CCA-WRI Fellows Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, and Tomomi Miyata as they share their research on how the underground has evolved as a space of Cold War anxiety and resource extraction, to contemporary concerns around climate and other unnational disasters from which the earth can provide shelter.
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Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, Tomomi Miyata, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jungyoon Kim, WRI, light, planet
10 August 2023, 9 a.m. to noon
Underground Anxieties: 2023 CCA-WRI Research Symposium
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Join 2023 CCA-WRI Fellows Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, and Tomomi Miyata as they share their research on how the underground has evolved as a space of Cold War anxiety and resource extraction, to contemporary concerns around climate and other unnational disasters from which the earth can provide shelter.
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Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, Tomomi Miyata, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jungyoon Kim, WRI, light, planet
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The Good Cause
Journeys and translation
Archis, Architecture en uniforme, Architecture in Uniform, Cold War, Guerre froide, La bonne cause, NAi, paix, peace, reconstruction, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Second World War, The Good Cause
28 March 2011
Journeys and translation
research
Visiting Scholars 2001–2002
Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Brigitte Desrochers, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Topic: Au-delà du style. Naissance du classicisme structurel dans les ruines de Pompei Joseph Disponzio, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States Topic: Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape(...)
September 2001 to August 2002
Visiting Scholars 2001–2002
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Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Brigitte Desrochers, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Topic: Au-delà du style. Naissance du classicisme structurel dans les ruines de Pompei Joseph Disponzio, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States Topic: Jean-Marie Morel and the Invention of Landscape(...)
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September 2001 to
August 2002
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The Work of Counter-shot
Journeys and translation
This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Pedro Ignacio Alonso, CCA Visiting Scholar, professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile and Visiting Tutor at the Architectural Association, London, presents the process of donation and installation of Soviet concrete panel factories in Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Salvador Allende’s Chile during the Cold War. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
26 May 2011 , 6PM
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Pedro Ignacio Alonso
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Pedro Ignacio Alonso, CCA Visiting Scholar, professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile and Visiting Tutor at the Architectural Association, London, presents the process of donation and installation of Soviet concrete panel factories in Fidel Castro’s Cuba and Salvador Allende’s Chile during the Cold War. Click here for the Facebook event.
Shaughnessy House
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Nature reorganized
American Remediation
This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to U.S. American values.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
1 October 2026 to 3 January 2027
American Remediation
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This exhibition revisits a series of documentaries produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior in the 1950s that portray the transformational role of infrastructure in reshaping landscapes according to U.S. American values.
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
landscape, resources, nature, infrastructure, cold war, extractivism, propaganda, imaginary
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada