Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
6 May 2004 to 6 September 2004
Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970)
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Absent Wall: Recalling Gordon Matta-Clark’s Garbage Wall (1970), an installation in the CCA’s Baile Park, is a symbolic structure that evokes Matta-Clark’s interest in recycling, leftover spaces, and alternatives to architectural design. On the occasion of the first Earth Day, Gordon Matta-Clark orchestrated an event at Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Church that took place from(...)
Baile Park
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
4 February 2017, 3pm
The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut
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In a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs, Lorraine Gilbert presents her work: The documentation of landscapes I have lived and worked in has resulted in a body of work that questions our place within nature and within our built environments. The seemingly objective nature of the way I have pictured these natural and urban spaces, has given way(...)
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The Dark Edge of a Clear-cut, Canada, It's all happening so fast, conversation
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
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Futurecasting collection
CD048
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This collection documents the activities of the “Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic” group formed by Jenni Hakovirta, Naomi Ratte, Nicole Luke, Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Andrea McIntosh, Robyn Adams, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Johanna Minde, and Reanna Merasty. It contains materials related to the planning of seminars and workshops, and the creative process and projects created by its participants in 2022-2023 that were later presented in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition and related publication “ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards home” (2022-2023).
2008-2023
Futurecasting collection
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CD048
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This collection documents the activities of the “Futurecasting: Indigenous-led Architecture and Design in the Arctic” group formed by Jenni Hakovirta, Naomi Ratte, Nicole Luke, Magnus Antaris Tuolja, Andrea McIntosh, Robyn Adams, Berit Kristine Andersen Guvsám, Laila Susanna Kuhmunen, Johanna Minde, and Reanna Merasty. It contains materials related to the planning of seminars and workshops, and the creative process and projects created by its participants in 2022-2023 that were later presented in the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition and related publication “ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards home” (2022-2023).
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2008-2023
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xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1996.
Design of urban space : an inquiry into a socio-spatial process / Ali Madanipour.
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xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1996.
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174 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 1979.
Urban space = Stadtraum / Rob Krier ; foreword by Colin Rowe ; [translated by Christine Czechowski and George Black].
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174 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 1979.
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xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., ©1983.
Urban space : a brief history of the city square / Jere Stuart French ; illustrations by Michael Doty.
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xiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
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Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., ©1983.
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approximately 100 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Tehran : Urban Planning and Architecture, Research Center of Iran, [1992]
Urban space design 1 / Mahmoud Tavassoli, Naser Bonyadi.
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approximately 100 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
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Tehran : Urban Planning and Architecture, Research Center of Iran, [1992]
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xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Londond, England : MIT Press, [1975]
Urban space for pedestrians : a report of the Regional Plan Association / by Boris Pushkarev, with Jeffrey M. Zupan.
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xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; Londond, England : MIT Press, [1975]
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volumes (loose-leaf) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm
Carmel, Calif. : IMCL, ©1990.
Documentation on urban space design : selected from presentations at the International Making Cities Livable conferences.
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volumes (loose-leaf) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm
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Carmel, Calif. : IMCL, ©1990.