Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
13 June 2008
Urgency 2008: Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang
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Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
DR1998:0092:002:006
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Robert Butscher was the draughtsman of this presentation drawing. The drawing, along with the drawing DR1998:0092:002:006 in this file, were done as part of a Third Year Architecture analysis project at Cooper Union School of Architecture. As part of the project, he read a great many of the novels written by the authors represented by the five sets of structures. The drawings were based on measurements taken from the presentation model. They were completed in 1980 and gifted to John Hejduk by Butscher to use in his Masque of Medusa book.
1974-1979
Plans and elevations for The Silent Witnesses
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DR1998:0092:002:006
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Robert Butscher was the draughtsman of this presentation drawing. The drawing, along with the drawing DR1998:0092:002:006 in this file, were done as part of a Third Year Architecture analysis project at Cooper Union School of Architecture. As part of the project, he read a great many of the novels written by the authors represented by the five sets of structures. The drawings were based on measurements taken from the presentation model. They were completed in 1980 and gifted to John Hejduk by Butscher to use in his Masque of Medusa book.
DR1998:0092:002:007
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Robert Butscher was the draughtsman of this presentation drawing. The drawing, along with the drawing DR1998:0092:002:006 in this file, were done as part of a Third Year Architecture analysis project at Cooper Union School of Architecture. As part of the project, he read a great many of the novels written by the authors represented by the five sets of structures. The drawings were based on measurements taken from the presentation model. They were completed in 1980 and gifted to John Hejduk by Butscher to use in his Masque of Medusa book.
1974-1979
Presentation drawing for The Silent Witnesses
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DR1998:0092:002:007
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Robert Butscher was the draughtsman of this presentation drawing. The drawing, along with the drawing DR1998:0092:002:006 in this file, were done as part of a Third Year Architecture analysis project at Cooper Union School of Architecture. As part of the project, he read a great many of the novels written by the authors represented by the five sets of structures. The drawings were based on measurements taken from the presentation model. They were completed in 1980 and gifted to John Hejduk by Butscher to use in his Masque of Medusa book.
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Robert Duchesnay fonds
AP115
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Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
1985-1992
Robert Duchesnay fonds
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Le Fonds Robert Duchesnay consiste en une série de photographies montrant les divers structure (principalement des dômes géodésiques) conçus ou influencée par R. Buckminster Fuller. Les photographies, prises par l'artiste et photographe montréalais Robert Duchesnay, ont été créées entre 1985 et 1992.
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1985-1992
Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
Shaughnessy House
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
30 May 2013, 6pm
Friends and Enemies of Mies’s Mansion House Square
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Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Gianni Pettena fonds
AP207
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The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
1960-2019
Gianni Pettena fonds
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The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
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1960-2019
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
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DR2012:0012:082:025
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File containing documents in English including drafts and notes, related to Melvin Charney's article, The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture. Annotations in graphite present throughout. Original folder inscribed in graphite: A.R. PIECE / NOTES FOR '80 → MONTREALNESS OF MONTREAL
1980
Drafts and notes related to "The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture"
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DR2012:0012:082:025
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File containing documents in English including drafts and notes, related to Melvin Charney's article, The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture. Annotations in graphite present throughout. Original folder inscribed in graphite: A.R. PIECE / NOTES FOR '80 → MONTREALNESS OF MONTREAL
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1980