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Phyllis Lambert in conversation with Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen
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Fleeting Landscapes
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Fleeting Landscapes
Lara Almarcegui in conversation with Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen
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Adieu, Mel
In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
23 January 2013 , 6pm
Adieu, Mel
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In a conversation about the career of late artist-architect Melvin Charney, the CCA pays tribute to his work. Charney, who died on 17 September, 2012, was a close friend of the CCA, having developed and designed its sculpture garden. During this tribute, George Baird, Serge Carreau, Odile Decq, Alan J. Knight and Gwendolyn Owens explore his unique approach to the(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Major international architects Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman address topics they consider to be of vital importance and urgency in contemporary architectural practice. Their individual presentations are followed by a joint conversation with CCA Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees Phyllis Lambert. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration(...)
8 June 2007
Urgency 2007: Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman
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Major international architects Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman address topics they consider to be of vital importance and urgency in contemporary architectural practice. Their individual presentations are followed by a joint conversation with CCA Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees Phyllis Lambert. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration(...)
Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications(...)
10 March 2022, 7:30pm to 8:30pm
A Section of Now, book launch with Giovanna Borasi
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Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications(...)
Building Arguments present a selection of writings by Canadian architects on the built environment. Meredith Carruthers of Concordia University Press will be in conversation with Jane Mah Hutton (landscape architect and assistant professor at the University of Waterloo) and Melanie O’Brian (acting director, associate director and curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery).
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Arthur Erickson, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Concordia University Press, Sean Yendrys, Jane Mah Hutton, Melanie O’Brian, Building Arguments
16 November 2023, 6pm
Book launch: Building Arguments series
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Building Arguments present a selection of writings by Canadian architects on the built environment. Meredith Carruthers of Concordia University Press will be in conversation with Jane Mah Hutton (landscape architect and assistant professor at the University of Waterloo) and Melanie O’Brian (acting director, associate director and curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery).
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Arthur Erickson, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Concordia University Press, Sean Yendrys, Jane Mah Hutton, Melanie O’Brian, Building Arguments
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Cette chemise contient une copie du texte de Roger D'Astous sur ses souvenirs de Taliesin, dont une version, à peu près similaire, a été publiée dans la publication ARQ, numéro 60, avril 1991, avec la version anglaise de ce texte. Elle contient une note manuscrite de Roger D'Astous : une traduction d'une conversation de Frank Lloyd Wright avec un groupe d'apprentis à Taliesin en 1952. Elle contient également un exemplaire d'un travail d'étudiant sur Roger D'Astous, fait en décembre 1979, et un travail d'étudiant sur Frank Lloyd Wright, fait en décembre 1981.
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Texte de Roger D'Astous sur ses souvenirs de Taliesin
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ARCH157937
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Cette chemise contient une copie du texte de Roger D'Astous sur ses souvenirs de Taliesin, dont une version, à peu près similaire, a été publiée dans la publication ARQ, numéro 60, avril 1991, avec la version anglaise de ce texte. Elle contient une note manuscrite de Roger D'Astous : une traduction d'une conversation de Frank Lloyd Wright avec un groupe d'apprentis à Taliesin en 1952. Elle contient également un exemplaire d'un travail d'étudiant sur Roger D'Astous, fait en décembre 1979, et un travail d'étudiant sur Frank Lloyd Wright, fait en décembre 1981.
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28 December 2025
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Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers reflect on acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings
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queer, queer architecture, queer practice, Paris, conversation, future of architectural practice, Bui Quy Son, Paul-Antoine Lucas, Exutoire, Mahé Cordier-Jouanne, Jean Makhlouta
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Paris: Between Collective Practices and Searching for Queer Spatialities in the City
Bui Quy Son and Paul-Antoine Lucas of Exutoire speak with Mahé Cordier-Jouanne and Jean Makhlouta about queer methodologies and the notion of decentring in architecture
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