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Rachel Lee, Arnold Mkony, and Monika Motylinska interrogate the neocolonial origins of Bugando Medical Centre
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Foreign Bodies, Three Hills, and a Hospital
Rachel Lee, Arnold Mkony, and Monika Motylinska interrogate the neocolonial origins of Bugando Medical Centre
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Foreign Bodies, Three Hills, and a Hospital
Rachel Lee, Arnold Mkony, and Monika Motylinska interrogate the neocolonial origins of Bugando Medical Centre
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Aditya Prakash fonds
Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
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1947-2008
1947-2008
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Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
Aditya Prakash fonds
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AP206
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The Aditya Prakash fonds documents the professional practice of modernist Indian architect Aditya Prakash from his studies in London in 1947 to his death in 2008. His seminal work as a junior architect on the Chandigarh Capitol Project in the 1950s is recorded along with documentation from his solo career after 1960, including approximately 82 architectural projects. His professional work as an artist, photographer, writer, academic and theatre enthusiast are also well documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records.
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1947-2008
1947-2008
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Starting From... The Bubble
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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Hall cases
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26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
26 November 2009 to 17 January 2010
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Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
Starting From... The Bubble
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The bubble is a wonder of surface tension. In its architectural interpretation, the bubble can be understood as a feat of engineering or as a metaphor for an enclosed hermetic environment. As such, the bubble emerges, in the architect Cedric Price’s words, “in any shape or any size” as a powerful symbol of the future, or becomes synonymous with the condition of isolation(...)
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26 November 2009 to
17 January 2010
26 November 2009 to
17 January 2010
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Learning from... Bahrain
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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6 October 2011 , 7pm
6 October 2011 , 7pm
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Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
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6 October 2011
7pm
6 October 2011
7pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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12 June 1990 to 16 September 1990
12 June 1990 to 16 September 1990
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Airport Origins: Three Projects by Lloyd Wright
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
Airport Origins: Three Projects by Lloyd Wright
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At the beginning of powered flight, most airplanes required only a stretch of grassy plain 1,500 feet long for take-off and landing, and a converted barn served as both terminal and hangar. Only with the advent of a profitable commercial aviation industry in the late 1920s, some twenty-five years after Wilbur and Orville Wright’s historic flight, did the modern airport(...)
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12 June 1990 to
16 September 1990
12 June 1990 to
16 September 1990
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
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27 November 2013
27 November 2013
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In conversation: Yto Barrada & Takashi Homma
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On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
In conversation: Yto Barrada & Takashi Homma
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On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
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27 November 2013
27 November 2013
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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25 March 2017, 3pm
25 March 2017, 3pm
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Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
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25 March 2017
3pm
25 March 2017
3pm
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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Memory and Melt
Memory and Melt
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Rebecca Wickham reflects on a procession up the Aletsch Glacier
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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8 October 2014 to 15 February 2015
8 October 2014 to 15 February 2015
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson
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Found in Translation: Palladio – Jefferson presents recent work by the documentary and architecture photographer Filippo Romano on the villas conceived by Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) in the Veneto region and the buildings designed by the American president and architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). Curated by Guido Beltramini, Palladio Museum. Co-organized with the(...)
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8 October 2014 to
15 February 2015
8 October 2014 to
15 February 2015
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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29 September 2016 to 22 January 2017
29 September 2016 to 22 January 2017
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17 Volcanoes: Works by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Armin Linke, and Bas Princen
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
17 Volcanoes: Works by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Armin Linke, and Bas Princen
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Between 1836 and 1848, the German-Dutch explorer Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn made several expeditions in Java in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. He was among the first colonists to climb the island’s many volcanoes. His scientific works, books, maps, and lithographs made him the “Humboldt of Java.” This exhibition follows Junghuhn’s footsteps and explores(...)
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exhibitions
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29 September 2016 to
22 January 2017
29 September 2016 to
22 January 2017
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
