Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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7 July 2017
The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
Text and photographs by Robert Burley
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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(...)
Main galleries
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(...)
Main galleries
This Thursday at the CCA, in collaboration with the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics, 2010-2011 James Stirling Memorial Lecturer on the City Gerald Frug speaks on the design of urban governance systems and its effects on the work of urbanists and architects. Click here for the Facebook event.
21 October 2010
Gerald Frug: The Architecture of Governance
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This Thursday at the CCA, in collaboration with the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics, 2010-2011 James Stirling Memorial Lecturer on the City Gerald Frug speaks on the design of urban governance systems and its effects on the work of urbanists and architects. Click here for the Facebook event.
Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
22 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: First Office
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Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi present a lecture on Kuehn Malvezzis recent work, including their winning proposal for the Insectarium in Montreal. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
8 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: Kuehn Malvezzi
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Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi present a lecture on Kuehn Malvezzis recent work, including their winning proposal for the Insectarium in Montreal. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
15 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis
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Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
Mass-produced objects are often overlooked in favour of more sophisticated and more scholarly sources as the basis for understanding architecture as it is perceived and interpreted for popular assimilation. Focusing on the United States between the 1890s and the 1960s Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A. highlights ephemeral items that have created public awareness of(...)
Hall cases
14 June 1995 to 29 October 1995
Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A.
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Mass-produced objects are often overlooked in favour of more sophisticated and more scholarly sources as the basis for understanding architecture as it is perceived and interpreted for popular assimilation. Focusing on the United States between the 1890s and the 1960s Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A. highlights ephemeral items that have created public awareness of(...)
Hall cases
Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Octagonal gallery
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Octagonal gallery