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(...)
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
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AP066.S2.D34
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Le dossier documente une étude à compte d'auteur relative au Siège social pour les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, situé au coin Mont-Royal et Henri-Julien, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies, une maquette de publication et une maquette. Description du projet par l'architecte: "L'étude que nous avons préparée tente de reflèter notre compréhension du rôle que jouent les Jeunesses Musicales au sein de la communauté et cherche à illustrer par le projet architectural et urbain, sa présence physique à l'intérieur de l'édifice existant et au-delà de celui-ci, dans l'espace de la ville." Jacques Rousseau, extrait d'une lettre au directeur général des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, 66-B034-002M.
1993
Projet de siège social pour les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada
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AP066.S2.D34
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Le dossier documente une étude à compte d'auteur relative au Siège social pour les Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, situé au coin Mont-Royal et Henri-Julien, à Montréal, Québec. Le dossier contient des dessins, des reprographies, une maquette de publication et une maquette. Description du projet par l'architecte: "L'étude que nous avons préparée tente de reflèter notre compréhension du rôle que jouent les Jeunesses Musicales au sein de la communauté et cherche à illustrer par le projet architectural et urbain, sa présence physique à l'intérieur de l'édifice existant et au-delà de celui-ci, dans l'espace de la ville." Jacques Rousseau, extrait d'une lettre au directeur général des Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, 66-B034-002M.
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1993
The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
5 October 2017, 6:30pm
Guido Beltramini, what was history for patrons and architects in Bologna in 1579?
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The history of architecture addresses the relationships between spaces, buildings, urban geometries, and social practices—it tells us how an experience of space corresponds to an experience of the world. To this end, this lecture will analyze the sixteenth-century debate around the completion of the facade of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, partially built in the(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre Keyword(s):
Guido Beltramini, church of San Petronio, Bologna, Andrea Palladio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Giacomo da Vignola
Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications(...)
10 March 2022, 7:30pm to 8:30pm
A Section of Now, book launch with Giovanna Borasi
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Conceived as part of the one-year investigation Catching Up with Life, A Section of Now aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow for architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications(...)
The expanded role: SITU
Bradley Samuels presents recent SITU Research work and the role that research plays within the larger practice of SITU as a whole. A series of case studies will be presented which explore an expanded role for architectural and spatial practice across a range of fields—from human rights and public policy to earth science and workspace design. SITU Research’s past work(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 January 2016
The expanded role: SITU
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Bradley Samuels presents recent SITU Research work and the role that research plays within the larger practice of SITU as a whole. A series of case studies will be presented which explore an expanded role for architectural and spatial practice across a range of fields—from human rights and public policy to earth science and workspace design. SITU Research’s past work(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Talking Pictures
Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
13 October 2016, 6pm
Talking Pictures
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Sophie Dars and Carlo Menon, Stefano Graziani, and Yasufumi Nakamori present strategies for reimagining and employing visual formats such as the photo essay, the photo novel, and the photo exhibition. The event takes place in the framework of an ongoing CCA research project on the relationship between architecture and photography funded by The Andrew W. Mellon(...)
Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 May 2015 , 6pm
Architecture or Revolution? A Conversation with Nuno Portas and Nuno Grande
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Evoking a provocation famously framed by Le Corbusier, “Architecture ou Révolution,” this conversation will situate the SAAL process in Portugal within international debates during the 1960s and 1970s on social housing and the architect’s social responsibility. Nuno Portas, Secretary of State for Housing and Urbanism of the government established after the 1974 Portuguese(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
graphic materials
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1 print (poster) : b&w ; 60 x 40 cm.
[Paris : s.n., 1994]
Espace public : 1er colloque.
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1 print (poster) : b&w ; 60 x 40 cm.
graphic materials
[Paris : s.n., 1994]
books
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179 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm
Barcelone : Links Books, 2007.
Espace public : Promenades / [auteur, Jacobo Krauel ; contributions des architectes éditées et traduites par Jay Noden, William George et Marta Rojals].
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179 pages : illustrations, plans ; 31 cm
books
Barcelone : Links Books, 2007.