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Learning from... Nairobi
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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9 October 2014 , 6pm
9 October 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
Learning from... Nairobi
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Italian documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano presents his ongoing study of Nairobi’s exploding slums. The city is represented through the many portraits of residents, workers and communities he captured, giving evidence of the built environment that shapes local urban cultures. The Learning From… series takes its title from Learning From Las Vegas(...)
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events
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9 October 2014
6pm
9 October 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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events
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
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20 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
20 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
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Cages for non-humans: An architectural history of animal farming
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
Cages for non-humans: An architectural history of animal farming
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
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20 July 2023
6pm to 7:30pm
20 July 2023
6pm to 7:30pm
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events
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Learning from... Athens
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(...)
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(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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7 April 2016, 6pm
7 April 2016, 6pm
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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(...)
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(...)
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7 April 2016
6pm
7 April 2016
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
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7 March 2009
7 March 2009
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Exploring Urban Microclimates
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
Exploring Urban Microclimates
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Members of the Montréal collective SYN-atelier d’exploration urbaine present a workshop investigating urban microclimates in downtown Montréal. Caused by particular conditions in urban construction, microclimates are environments that have surprising temperature variations — a building courtyard that is several degrees warmer than the street or a windy alley many degrees(...)
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7 March 2009
7 March 2009
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events
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Freegans
Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
8 January 2009
8 January 2009
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Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
Freegans
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Hong Kong journalist Emily Rauhala speaks about the anticonsumerist philosophy of the “freegans” or “dumpster divers.” These individuals collect the tremendous quantities of still usable food and other goods that can be found in the trash containers of our cities, either to distribute to the needy or for their own personal use. Rauhala worked with Lorenzo Morales, a(...)
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8 January 2009
8 January 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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articles
articles
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River as Invitation
River as Invitation
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Jia Chen Mi, Marie-Ellen Houde-Hostland, and Hannah Thiessen rethink relationships with the Mitis River
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River as Invitation
Jia Chen Mi, Marie-Ellen Houde-Hostland, and Hannah Thiessen rethink relationships with the Mitis River
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River as Invitation
Jia Chen Mi, Marie-Ellen Houde-Hostland, and Hannah Thiessen rethink relationships with the Mitis River
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
4 December 1991 to 8 March 1992
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Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection
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Architecture, though constrained by boundaries of function and structure, is always ultimately an act of the imagination. Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection explores twenty-one construction toys, made in the hundred years from 1850 to 1950, that were designed to challenge a child’s creativity. The toys illustrate how children learn to invent(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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4 December 1991 to
8 March 1992
4 December 1991 to
8 March 1992
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
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24 February 2024, 2pm to 3:30pm
24 February 2024, 2pm to 3:30pm
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24 February 2024
2pm to 3:30pm
24 February 2024
2pm to 3:30pm
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Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
Shaughnessy House, CCA Keyword(s):
Indigenous-led design, place-based practices, place-based knowledges, pedagogy, environment, climate crisis, on-the-land learning
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Siza Speaks
Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theater
Paul-Desmarais Theater
Date:
26 April 2012 , 7pm
26 April 2012 , 7pm
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Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
Siza Speaks
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Portuguese architect and Pritzker prize-winner Álvaro Siza presents a rare lecture in North America on the design development of the Iberê Camargo Museum in Porto Alegre, a structure noted for its sculptural volumes and tight integration with a coastal escarpment. He discusses the key role of hand sketches in the design process, from massing studies to fine-tuning(...)
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26 April 2012
7pm
26 April 2012
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theater
Paul-Desmarais Theater
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textual records
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AP075.S3.SS2.150
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This box contains professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1994-2001. This correspondence contains chiefly letters related to participation to exhibitions and publishing in landscape architecture publications, correspondence related to nominations and awards received by Oberlander, requests to serve on juries, correspondence with schools of architecture and landscape architects associations, about membership or attendance to events. It also comprises correspondence related to research and involvement in sustainable development. It also contains correspondence with city planning committees or other governmental institutions related to projects or consultation in landscape design, and letters of reference or received job applications. This box also includes correspondence related to Oberlander's trip to Australia This correspondence also comprises a few letters related to Oberlander's projects, mainly letters of congratulations or comments for her design.
AP075.S3.SS2.150
Description:
This box contains professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1994-2001. This correspondence contains chiefly letters related to participation to exhibitions and publishing in landscape architecture publications, correspondence related to nominations and awards received by Oberlander, requests to serve on juries, correspondence with schools of architecture and landscape architects associations, about membership or attendance to events. It also comprises correspondence related to research and involvement in sustainable development. It also contains correspondence with city planning committees or other governmental institutions related to projects or consultation in landscape design, and letters of reference or received job applications. This box also includes correspondence related to Oberlander's trip to Australia This correspondence also comprises a few letters related to Oberlander's projects, mainly letters of congratulations or comments for her design.
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1994-2001
1994-2001
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Professional correspondence from 1994-2001
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AP075.S3.SS2.150
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This box contains professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1994-2001. This correspondence contains chiefly letters related to participation to exhibitions and publishing in landscape architecture publications, correspondence related to nominations and awards received by Oberlander, requests to serve on juries, correspondence with schools of architecture and landscape architects associations, about membership or attendance to events. It also comprises correspondence related to research and involvement in sustainable development. It also contains correspondence with city planning committees or other governmental institutions related to projects or consultation in landscape design, and letters of reference or received job applications. This box also includes correspondence related to Oberlander's trip to Australia This correspondence also comprises a few letters related to Oberlander's projects, mainly letters of congratulations or comments for her design.
Professional correspondence from 1994-2001
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AP075.S3.SS2.150
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This box contains professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1994-2001. This correspondence contains chiefly letters related to participation to exhibitions and publishing in landscape architecture publications, correspondence related to nominations and awards received by Oberlander, requests to serve on juries, correspondence with schools of architecture and landscape architects associations, about membership or attendance to events. It also comprises correspondence related to research and involvement in sustainable development. It also contains correspondence with city planning committees or other governmental institutions related to projects or consultation in landscape design, and letters of reference or received job applications. This box also includes correspondence related to Oberlander's trip to Australia This correspondence also comprises a few letters related to Oberlander's projects, mainly letters of congratulations or comments for her design.
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textual records
textual records
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1994-2001
1994-2001
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