Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
23 April 2009
Learning from... Niagara Falls
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Architectural historian Barbara Penner traces the evolution of Niagara Falls – from its 19th-century honeymoon tourism to its state of post-industrial kitsch to its recent rebirth as a honeymoon destination. The photographer Alec Soth, whose work is the starting point for this lecture, compellingly portrays a ruined post-industrial landscape of love in his series Niagara(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
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DR2012:0012:112:002
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Ring binder containing transparencies, related to the following projects from 1970 to 1989: - Une histoire, 1974-1977 (4 transparencies); - Fragments, 1975-1978 (1 transparency); - Streetwork, 1978 (3 transparencies); - Edifice, 1979 (2 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - A Chicago construction, 1981-1983 (4 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - A Toronto construction, 1982 (1 transparency); - A construction in Venice, 1985-1986 (2 transparencies); - Pliny on my mind, 1983 (1 transparency); - German series 1, 1980-1983 (6 transparencies, including 3 duplicates); - German series 2, 1981-1985 (2 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - German series 3, 1980-1990 (3 transparencies, including 2 duplicates); - German series 4, 1983-1987 (3 transparencies); - From Laugier to Popova, 1985 (3 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - A Lethbridge construction, 1985 (5 transparencies, including 2 duplicates); - CCA garden, 1987-1990 (40 transparencies, 1 negative, including 11 duplicates).
1975-1990
Photographs of various artworks from Melvin Charney's projects
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DR2012:0012:112:002
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Ring binder containing transparencies, related to the following projects from 1970 to 1989: - Une histoire, 1974-1977 (4 transparencies); - Fragments, 1975-1978 (1 transparency); - Streetwork, 1978 (3 transparencies); - Edifice, 1979 (2 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - A Chicago construction, 1981-1983 (4 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - A Toronto construction, 1982 (1 transparency); - A construction in Venice, 1985-1986 (2 transparencies); - Pliny on my mind, 1983 (1 transparency); - German series 1, 1980-1983 (6 transparencies, including 3 duplicates); - German series 2, 1981-1985 (2 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - German series 3, 1980-1990 (3 transparencies, including 2 duplicates); - German series 4, 1983-1987 (3 transparencies); - From Laugier to Popova, 1985 (3 transparencies, including 1 duplicate); - A Lethbridge construction, 1985 (5 transparencies, including 2 duplicates); - CCA garden, 1987-1990 (40 transparencies, 1 negative, including 11 duplicates).
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1975-1990
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
14 February 2010 , 3pm
Peter Galison: Waste-Wilderness
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
events
Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
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10 March 2011
7pm
Paul Desmarais Theater
Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003
Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind
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Herzog de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind presents an exhaustive display of materials from the architects’ archive and from related collections. Referencing a natural history, the exhibition includes study models, books, photographs, toys, fossils, Chinese scholars’ rocks, and significant works of contemporary art, all of which have informed the thinking of the Swiss(...)
Main galleries
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DR2012:0012:112:001
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Binder containing 522 duplicate slides related to the following projects: - Une histoire 1974-1977 (52 slides, 18 appear to be duplicates); - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke 1976 (40 slides, 25 appear to be duplicates); - Fragments 1975-1978 (21 slides, 7 appear to be duplicates); - Streetwork 1978 (62 slides, 28 appear to be duplicates); - Room 202 1979 (28 slides, 13 appear to be duplicates); - Front page constructions 1978-1979 (9 slides, 5 appear to be duplicates); - Edifice 1979 (34 slides, 18 appear to be duplicates); - A Chicago construction 1981-1983 (68 slides, 19 appear to be duplicates); - A Toronto construction 1982 (51 slides, 16 appear to be duplicates); - A Kingston construction 1983 (35 slides, 15 appear to be duplicates); - A construction in Calabria 1982-1984 (9 slides, 4 appear to be duplicates); - Pliny on my mind 1983 (7 slides, 3 appear to be duplicates); - German series 1 1980-1983 (69 slides, 44 appear to be duplicates).
1975-1983
Photographs of various projects by Melvin Charney
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DR2012:0012:112:001
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Binder containing 522 duplicate slides related to the following projects: - Une histoire 1974-1977 (52 slides, 18 appear to be duplicates); - Les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke 1976 (40 slides, 25 appear to be duplicates); - Fragments 1975-1978 (21 slides, 7 appear to be duplicates); - Streetwork 1978 (62 slides, 28 appear to be duplicates); - Room 202 1979 (28 slides, 13 appear to be duplicates); - Front page constructions 1978-1979 (9 slides, 5 appear to be duplicates); - Edifice 1979 (34 slides, 18 appear to be duplicates); - A Chicago construction 1981-1983 (68 slides, 19 appear to be duplicates); - A Toronto construction 1982 (51 slides, 16 appear to be duplicates); - A Kingston construction 1983 (35 slides, 15 appear to be duplicates); - A construction in Calabria 1982-1984 (9 slides, 4 appear to be duplicates); - Pliny on my mind 1983 (7 slides, 3 appear to be duplicates); - German series 1 1980-1983 (69 slides, 44 appear to be duplicates).
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1975-1983
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(...)