Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
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Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
24 September 2015 to 22 May 2016
Corner, Block, Neighbourhood, Cities. Álvaro Siza in Berlin and The Hague
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Wohnhaus Schlesisches Tor—also known as Bonjour Tristesse—in Berlin and Punt en Komma in The Hague are Álvaro Siza’s first built works outside his native Portugal. The two projects resemble one another in size, scale, program, and ambition: both were built in the 1980s, both are results of a distinct attitude towards the city, and both were social housing projects(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Álvaro Siza, Punt en Komma, The Hague, Bonjour Tristesse, Berlin
Scouting Skateboard Sites
Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
11 April 2009
Scouting Skateboard Sites
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Skateboarder and landscape architect Mathieu Robichaud takes participants on a guided walk, analysing the skateboarding potential of urban spaces. Robichaud, of the firm Bloom Paysage, specialises in the design of skate parks. Inspired by the exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City (2008), the CCA hosts a series of workshops devoted to public actions in urban(...)
During the Second World War, exhibitions and publications played a critical role in the war effort. They were organized internationally as moments of reflection and propaganda, productions of a disciplinary approach to architecture and urban design. This display springs from Jean-Louis Cohen’s research for Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second(...)
Hall cases
13 April 2011 to 18 September 2011
A Paper War: Pictures and words, 1939-1945
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During the Second World War, exhibitions and publications played a critical role in the war effort. They were organized internationally as moments of reflection and propaganda, productions of a disciplinary approach to architecture and urban design. This display springs from Jean-Louis Cohen’s research for Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second(...)
Hall cases
research
TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients: Esther Choi (Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture); Meredith Gaglio (Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); Lori Gibbs (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Matthew Gin (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Elizabeth Knazook (Queen’s(...)
June 2015 to September 2015
Doctoral Students Program 2015
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TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grant Recipients: Esther Choi (Princeton University, Graduate School of Architecture); Meredith Gaglio (Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation); Lori Gibbs (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Matthew Gin (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Elizabeth Knazook (Queen’s(...)
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June 2015 to
September 2015
research
Subventions de recherche Groupe Banque TD dans la collection du CCA : Matthew Allen (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Christianna Bonin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture); Rui Brochado de Morais e Castro (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Gökhan Kodalak (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning);(...)
June 2017 to August 2017
Doctoral Students Program 2017
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Subventions de recherche Groupe Banque TD dans la collection du CCA : Matthew Allen (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Christianna Bonin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture); Rui Brochado de Morais e Castro (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Gökhan Kodalak (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning);(...)
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June 2017 to
August 2017
Subventions de recherche Groupe Banque TD dans la collection du CCA : Matthew Allen (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Christianna Bonin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture); Rui Brochado de Morais e Castro (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Gökhan Kodalak (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning);(...)
June 2017 to August 2017
Master’s Students Program: About Africa
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Subventions de recherche Groupe Banque TD dans la collection du CCA : Matthew Allen (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Christianna Bonin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture); Rui Brochado de Morais e Castro (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Gökhan Kodalak (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning);(...)
research
Subventions de recherche Groupe Banque TD dans la collection du CCA : Matthew Allen (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Christianna Bonin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture); Rui Brochado de Morais e Castro (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Gökhan Kodalak (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning);(...)
June 2016 to August 2016
Doctoral Students Program 2016
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Subventions de recherche Groupe Banque TD dans la collection du CCA : Matthew Allen (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design); Christianna Bonin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture); Rui Brochado de Morais e Castro (University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign); Gökhan Kodalak (Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning);(...)
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June 2016 to
August 2016
Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
Main galleries
23 October 2003 to 6 September 2004
out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark
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Starting from diverse premises and points of view, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark each engaged in a radical rethinking of the status, history, and purpose of architecture. out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark brings the ideas of these four pivotal figures of the 1970s into dialogue through a group of archives that recently(...)
Main galleries
Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
14 July 2016, 6pm
Antoni Folkers: Modern Architecture in Africa
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Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
events
Speed and its Limits
Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
21 June 2008, 9am - 5pm
Speed and its Limits
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Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the(...)
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21 June 2008
9am - 5pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre