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Visiting Scholars 2017
Olumuyiwa Adegun, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Topic: Informal Urban Housing: from 19th century Europe to 21st century Africa Susanne Bauer, The London Consortium, London, United Kingdom / Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil Topic: Investigations Into Case: Peter Eisenman’s Dress Rehearsal For The Institute Of(...)
June 2017 to September 2017
Visiting Scholars 2017
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Olumuyiwa Adegun, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Topic: Informal Urban Housing: from 19th century Europe to 21st century Africa Susanne Bauer, The London Consortium, London, United Kingdom / Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil Topic: Investigations Into Case: Peter Eisenman’s Dress Rehearsal For The Institute Of(...)
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June 2017 to
September 2017
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Visiting Scholars 2016
Olumuyiwa Adegun, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Topic: Informal Urban Housing: from 19th century Europe to 21st century Africa Susanne Bauer, The London Consortium, London, United Kingdom / Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil Topic: Investigations Into Case: Peter Eisenman’s Dress Rehearsal For The Institute Of(...)
2 June 2016 to 2 September 2016
Visiting Scholars 2016
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Olumuyiwa Adegun, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Topic: Informal Urban Housing: from 19th century Europe to 21st century Africa Susanne Bauer, The London Consortium, London, United Kingdom / Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil Topic: Investigations Into Case: Peter Eisenman’s Dress Rehearsal For The Institute Of(...)
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2 June 2016 to
2 September 2016
Materiality of Parkour
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 February 2009
Materiality of Parkour
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Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Visiting Scholars 2007
S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
May 2007 to September 2007
Visiting Scholars 2007
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S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
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May 2007 to
September 2007
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Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
5 January 2003 to 31 August 2003
Visiting Scholars 2002–2003
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Chiara Baglione, IUAV-Istituto Universitario di Archittetura di Venezia, Venice, Italy Topic: Becoming an Architect in the Rome of Urban VIII: Architectural Training and Early Works of Pietro da Cortona Laurent Baridon, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France Topic: Dinocrate ou l’architecte en représentation Martin Bressani, McGill University, Montreal,(...)
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5 January 2003 to
31 August 2003
The H-Block buildings of Maze Prison were a potent symbol of the often violent political struggles in Northern Ireland known today as the Troubles. The prison, opened in 1971 by the British government, was designed to keep apart warring loyalist and republican paramilitaries, the latter demanding to be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. As part of this(...)
Octagonal gallery
5 September 2013 to 12 January 2014
H-BLOCK: Prison Housing – Donovan Wylie
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The H-Block buildings of Maze Prison were a potent symbol of the often violent political struggles in Northern Ireland known today as the Troubles. The prison, opened in 1971 by the British government, was designed to keep apart warring loyalist and republican paramilitaries, the latter demanding to be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. As part of this(...)
Octagonal gallery
In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
Hall cases
5 September 2013 to 5 December 2013
H-BLOCK: Social Housing – Ilse Bing
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In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Main galleries
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
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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
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
Cedric Price: Mean Time
British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery
19 October 1999 to 27 February 2000
Cedric Price: Mean Time
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British architect Cedric Price draws upon the collection of the CCA to develop the complex relationships between time, movement, and space in the built environment. Looking at structures and building elements through the ages, including some of Price’s own projects, Mean Time presents photographs of an ancient Aztec sun dial, a railroad switching yard, a shot tower, and a(...)
Octagonal gallery