The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
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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269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
New York, NY : Independent Curators International, ©2012.
Thinking contemporary curating / Terry Smith.
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269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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New York, NY : Independent Curators International, ©2012.
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90 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 18 cm.
London, United Kingdom : Sternberg Press, [2021], New York, NY : Distributed by The MIT Press ; [London?] : Art Data and ; [Dijon, France] : Les presses du réel, ©2021
Curating the complex & the open strike / Terry Smith ; edited by Steven Henry Madoff ; [foreword, Steven Henry Madoff].
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90 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 18 cm.
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London, United Kingdom : Sternberg Press, [2021], New York, NY : Distributed by The MIT Press ; [London?] : Art Data and ; [Dijon, France] : Les presses du réel, ©2021
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xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2012]
The culture of curating and the curating of culture(s) / Paul O'Neill.
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xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2012]
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143 pages : illustrations (color) ; 21 cm
Stockholm : Art and Theory Publishing, [2017], ©2017
Curating context : beyond the gallery and into other fields / edited by Magdalena Malm.
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143 pages : illustrations (color) ; 21 cm
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Stockholm : Art and Theory Publishing, [2017], ©2017
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viii, 180 pages ; 22 cm
London : Allen Lane, 2014.
Ways of curating / Hans Ulrich Obrist with Asad Raza.
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viii, 180 pages ; 22 cm
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London : Allen Lane, 2014.