Miguel Robles-Durán discusses Cohabitation Strategies’s action research endeavours, which aim to facilitate transformative and progressive urban intervention projects in various cities across Europe and South and North America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect.
24 March 2016
Cohabitation Strategies: Studies and Projects on the Contemporary Urban Crisis
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Miguel Robles-Durán discusses Cohabitation Strategies’s action research endeavours, which aim to facilitate transformative and progressive urban intervention projects in various cities across Europe and South and North America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Other Architect.
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Joar Nango, Nicole Luke, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Rafico Ruiz, circumpolar North, Inuit, Inuit Nunangat, Sami, Sapmi, Towards Home
11 June 2022 to 26 March 2023
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Joar Nango, Nicole Luke, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Rafico Ruiz, circumpolar North, Inuit, Inuit Nunangat, Sami, Sapmi, Towards Home
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
Documents of Displacement proposes to explore the notion of displacement and its diverse meanings and effects in photographic and video works of artists through the subjects documented or through their methodologies and processes. The artists invited for this series all live in North America, but develop work from a sense of displacement, whether by their cultural or(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Victor Arroyo, Documents of Displacement, Hester Keijser, photography, Cherán, P’urhépecha
7 December 2023, 6:30pm
Documents of Displacement III
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Documents of Displacement proposes to explore the notion of displacement and its diverse meanings and effects in photographic and video works of artists through the subjects documented or through their methodologies and processes. The artists invited for this series all live in North America, but develop work from a sense of displacement, whether by their cultural or(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Victor Arroyo, Documents of Displacement, Hester Keijser, photography, Cherán, P’urhépecha
The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
9 February 2017
An Afternoon with Cedric Price no. 2
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The CCA hosts a second afternoon of discussion on the work of Cedric Price, with the participation of Samantha Hardingham, Whitney Moon, Molly Wright Steenson, Kathy Velikov, and Mark Wigley. As Price’s archive is one of the most consulted at the CCA, we have invited scholars, mostly from North America, to present their individual motivations and methodologies for(...)
Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
9 June 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Elisabeth Essaïan
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Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
British architect Stephen Taylor speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 May 2008
Stephen Taylor: Some Ideas on Living
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British architect Stephen Taylor speaks about his work and the CCA exhibition Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa (2008). The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa and reveals their distinctive solutions to the challenges of building homes in existing(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Toy Town
Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 October 1997 to 31 May 1998
Toy Town
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Toy Town explores how villages, towns, and cities have been represented in toys from Europe and North America. Drawn from CCA’s collection of architectural toys and games, the twenty-nine toys reflect shifting social values and different approaches to the design, organisation, and planning of communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toy Town is the sixth in(...)
Octagonal gallery
The Idea of the Penitentiary
This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
8 November 1995 to 31 May 1996
The Idea of the Penitentiary
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This exhibition explores the notion of penitentiary, which worked its way into the consciousness and across the landscape of Europe and North America during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon the growing rationalist tendencies in architecture and social theory during the eighteenth century, proponents of penitentiary emphasised a clear geometry of separation,(...)
Hall cases
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Portfiolio of projects
ARCH270973
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The book is in English and presents projects by the firm Abalos & Herreros from 1993 to 2002. It includes these projects: - Recualificación del espacio público de Ramos, Rio de Janeiro (AP164.S1.1997.D7); - Aula medioambiental y oficinas, Arico, Tenerife (AP164.S1.1998.D1); - Plaza y torre Woermann, Las Palmas (AP164.S1.2001.D7); - Casa Mora, Cádiz (AP164.S1.2000.D10); - El mirador: torre mixta en la bahía de Algeciras (AP164.S1.1999.D10); - Delegación de hacienda, Almería (AP164.S1.1997.D8); - Es Pil•larí, Palma de Mallorca (AP164.S1.2000.D5); - Parque litroral nord-est, Barcelona (AP164.S1.2000.D9.SD1); - Biblioteca Usera, Madrid (AP164.S1.1995.D1); - Planta de reciclaje de residuos urbanos de Valdemingómez, Madrid (AP164.S1.1996.D4); - La Casa verde, Pozuelo, Madrid (AP164.S1.1997.D4); - Estudio Gordillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid (AP164.S1.1999.D6); - Planta de biometanización y compostaje de residuos urbanos, Pinto, Madrid (AP164.S1.2000.D6); - Sala municipal y plaza en Colmenarejo, Madrid (AP164.S1.1997.D11); - Centro universitario en Mérida (AP164.S1.1999.D4); - Torres mixtas bioclimáticas en el Humedal de Salburua, Vitoria (AP164.S1.2002.D2); - Ordenación del área de Abandoibarra, Bilbao (AP164.S1.1993.D5).
circa 2002
Portfiolio of projects
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ARCH270973
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The book is in English and presents projects by the firm Abalos & Herreros from 1993 to 2002. It includes these projects: - Recualificación del espacio público de Ramos, Rio de Janeiro (AP164.S1.1997.D7); - Aula medioambiental y oficinas, Arico, Tenerife (AP164.S1.1998.D1); - Plaza y torre Woermann, Las Palmas (AP164.S1.2001.D7); - Casa Mora, Cádiz (AP164.S1.2000.D10); - El mirador: torre mixta en la bahía de Algeciras (AP164.S1.1999.D10); - Delegación de hacienda, Almería (AP164.S1.1997.D8); - Es Pil•larí, Palma de Mallorca (AP164.S1.2000.D5); - Parque litroral nord-est, Barcelona (AP164.S1.2000.D9.SD1); - Biblioteca Usera, Madrid (AP164.S1.1995.D1); - Planta de reciclaje de residuos urbanos de Valdemingómez, Madrid (AP164.S1.1996.D4); - La Casa verde, Pozuelo, Madrid (AP164.S1.1997.D4); - Estudio Gordillo, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid (AP164.S1.1999.D6); - Planta de biometanización y compostaje de residuos urbanos, Pinto, Madrid (AP164.S1.2000.D6); - Sala municipal y plaza en Colmenarejo, Madrid (AP164.S1.1997.D11); - Centro universitario en Mérida (AP164.S1.1999.D4); - Torres mixtas bioclimáticas en el Humedal de Salburua, Vitoria (AP164.S1.2002.D2); - Ordenación del área de Abandoibarra, Bilbao (AP164.S1.1993.D5).
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circa 2002