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Metaphors for the Nile
Figuring Territory
15 August 2022
Figuring Territory
The Greg Lynn Show
It’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation has been a big part of the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital program. Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological(...)
11 May 2016
The Greg Lynn Show
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It’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation has been a big part of the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital program. Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological(...)
The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
12 March 2015 to 17 May 2015
Industrial Architecture: Ábalos&Herreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
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The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
Yale and the City of Elms
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This album, intended chiefly as a guide for strangers visiting the University of Yale, New Haven (Connecticut, USA), is illustrated with 34 photogravures of several buildings of the campus. The title page reads : 'Yale and "The "City of Elms" by W.E. Decrow. It is illustrated with heliotypes of all the principal college buildings, a plan of the college grounds, and a map of the city of New Haven. Boston, W.E. Decrow, 238 Washington Street, 1882'. Yale University is portrayed through it's main buildings : South, South Middle, North-Middle, North, the Athenaeum, the old chapel, Lyceum, Battell Chapel, Yale School of Fine Arts, Peabody Museum, Treasury, Reading Room, Old Laboratory, Gymnasium, Library, Student's room in Durfee, West Divinity, Mason Library, Marquand Chapel, Yale Medical School, Yale Boat House, Hamilton Park, The New Haven House and Hopkins Grammar School as well as several halls : Berzelius, Farnam, Durfee, Alumni, North Sheffield, East Divinity, Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Psi Upsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Yale Law School City Hall.
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Yale and the City of Elms
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PH1979:0608
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This album, intended chiefly as a guide for strangers visiting the University of Yale, New Haven (Connecticut, USA), is illustrated with 34 photogravures of several buildings of the campus. The title page reads : 'Yale and "The "City of Elms" by W.E. Decrow. It is illustrated with heliotypes of all the principal college buildings, a plan of the college grounds, and a map of the city of New Haven. Boston, W.E. Decrow, 238 Washington Street, 1882'. Yale University is portrayed through it's main buildings : South, South Middle, North-Middle, North, the Athenaeum, the old chapel, Lyceum, Battell Chapel, Yale School of Fine Arts, Peabody Museum, Treasury, Reading Room, Old Laboratory, Gymnasium, Library, Student's room in Durfee, West Divinity, Mason Library, Marquand Chapel, Yale Medical School, Yale Boat House, Hamilton Park, The New Haven House and Hopkins Grammar School as well as several halls : Berzelius, Farnam, Durfee, Alumni, North Sheffield, East Divinity, Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Psi Upsilon, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Yale Law School City Hall.
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Find and Tell
The Find and Tell program promotes new readings of the CCA collection, highlighting its intellectual relevance today.
Find and Tell
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The Find and Tell program promotes new readings of the CCA collection, highlighting its intellectual relevance today.
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
30 January 2014 to 25 May 2014
Photographing the Arab City in the Nineteenth Century
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By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
Learning from... Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 April 2009
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre