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An Ever-Changing Landscape
What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
10 May 2017 to 15 October 2017
Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
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4 July 2007 to 30 September 2007
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
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3 October 2019, 6:30pm
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12 December 2019, 6:30pm
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31 January 2019, 6:30pm
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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
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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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
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AP149.S1.2004.PR02
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The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of a student exchange with universities in Mexico and in the United States to expose the urgent need in urban and sustainable housing in North America. The research project was undertaken in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The material in this project series was produced between 2004 and 2007 and includes textual records related to the planning of the project, including grant applications, correspondence and project applications.
2004-2007
North American Sustainability, Housing and Community Consortium Student Exchange
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AP149.S1.2004.PR02
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The project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project of a student exchange with universities in Mexico and in the United States to expose the urgent need in urban and sustainable housing in North America. The research project was undertaken in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The material in this project series was produced between 2004 and 2007 and includes textual records related to the planning of the project, including grant applications, correspondence and project applications.
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2004-2007