Learning from... Athens
Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
7 April 2016, 6pm
Learning from... Athens
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Konstantinos Pantazis, co-founder of Point Supreme, discusses the work of the Athens-based practice. The talk focuses on ways to challenge the current crisis condition, proactive proposals for improving the city, addressing the collective unconscious, and building without money. It presents the processes behind examples from the two opposite ends of Point Supreme’s(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
14 February 2010 , 3pm
Peter Galison: Waste-Wilderness
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
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4 June 1999
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4 June 1999
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Lauro Cavalcanti, Architecture of the Good Neighbors, Brazil and the United States, Visiting Scholar
17 June 1999
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17 June 1999
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Barcelona: Revisiting the Grids
March 2009 to April 2009
Joan Busquets: Barcelona: Revisiting the ”Grids”
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Shaughnessy House
16 July 2009
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16 July 2009
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Visiting Scholar Seminar: Davide Deriu
Photography and the Architectural Model, ca. 1919-1939
9 August 2007
Topic: Late 19th-century photography of Arab cities: perception and reception of Islamic architectural and urban features Presentation: Hidden perceptions of the “Islamic” city in early photography
4 July 2013
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Jorge Manuel Simão Alvez Correia
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Topic: Late 19th-century photography of Arab cities: perception and reception of Islamic architectural and urban features Presentation: Hidden perceptions of the “Islamic” city in early photography
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery