This seminar focuses on the photographic album titled Le Mellah (taudis juif) à Casablanca en 1947.
the Study Room
9 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Elias Suraqui’s Le Mellah: Architecture, Philanthropy, and Photography in Casablanca
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This seminar focuses on the photographic album titled Le Mellah (taudis juif) à Casablanca en 1947.
the Study Room
Everlasting
A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
25 September 2025 to 8 November 2026
Everlasting
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A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
The CCA Research Network Summer Lecture, Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile, marks the opening of the summer research season at the CCA by welcoming the recipients of the 2023 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship to share the work they have been doing.
Online
27 June 2024, 2pm to 4pm, EDT
CCA Research Network Summer Lecture
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The CCA Research Network Summer Lecture, Spatial Justice between Wetland Communities and Data Infrastructure in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile, marks the opening of the summer research season at the CCA by welcoming the recipients of the 2023 Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship to share the work they have been doing.
Online
H.E.R.E (Homecoming Equity + Regenerative Encounters) and Back Again: Letters, Land, and Living Memory assembles research, storytelling, and community dialogue to explore how relationships to land are remembered, maintained, and reimagined across generations. Initiated in the context of the CCA-Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program (In the Hurricane, On the Land), the(...)
H.E.R.E. and Back Again: Letters, Land, and Living Memory
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H.E.R.E (Homecoming Equity + Regenerative Encounters) and Back Again: Letters, Land, and Living Memory assembles research, storytelling, and community dialogue to explore how relationships to land are remembered, maintained, and reimagined across generations. Initiated in the context of the CCA-Mellon Multidisciplinary Research Program (In the Hurricane, On the Land), the(...)
Main Galleries and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Álvaro Siza, Siza, Giovanna Borasi, The fortune of the city, adamo-faiden
21 May 2026, 5pm to 9pm
Main Galleries and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Álvaro Siza, Siza, Giovanna Borasi, The fortune of the city, adamo-faiden
Drawing on selected works from the CCA photography collection, Sarah Churchill examines how historic visual strategies of “othering” and “ruin lust” have been embedded in a broader canon of insecurity and environmental deprivation.
30 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
The Origins of Housing Crisis: Photography, Empire, and the Architecture of Precarity
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Drawing on selected works from the CCA photography collection, Sarah Churchill examines how historic visual strategies of “othering” and “ruin lust” have been embedded in a broader canon of insecurity and environmental deprivation.
Through selected objects from the CCA Collection and by using the case study of South African township Bophelong, Bongisa Msutu explores globally applicable strategies of building an “unarchivable” architectural archive as a decolonial project.
23 July 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Archiving "Unarchivable" Architectures
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Through selected objects from the CCA Collection and by using the case study of South African township Bophelong, Bongisa Msutu explores globally applicable strategies of building an “unarchivable” architectural archive as a decolonial project.
How can architecture meaningfully bridge inherited traditions and contemporary realities? Join us for a talk with architect Olayinka Dosekun Adjei, co-founder and creative director of Studio Contra.
11 June 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Reworking Material, Craft, and Form in Contemporary West Africa with Olayinka Dosekun Adjei
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How can architecture meaningfully bridge inherited traditions and contemporary realities? Join us for a talk with architect Olayinka Dosekun Adjei, co-founder and creative director of Studio Contra.
Screening of Amanda Lickers films at Shaughnessy House.
3 May 2026, 2pm to 4pm
Through a Lens of Placekeeping
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Screening of Amanda Lickers films at Shaughnessy House.
1st December 2022
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022, Punjab
1 December 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022, Punjab