Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
20 July 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
Cages for non-humans: An architectural history of animal farming
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Meat and dairy products are ubiquitous ingredients in the globe’s diet. However, the buildings that transform living beings into commodities are usually hidden from the public eye. The architecture of factory farming may seem anonymous and banal, and yet it is made possible by sophisticated technologies and practices of biosecurity. How was the design of intensive animal(...)
Join us on Thursday, 17 September for a talk by architect Nana Biamah-Ofosu. As founder and director of YAA Projects, she presents the work of the practice, which explores counter-histories and material cultures of diasporic communities through making, writing, and speaking architecture.
17 September 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Exploring Counter-Histories with Nana Biamah-Ofosu
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Join us on Thursday, 17 September for a talk by architect Nana Biamah-Ofosu. As founder and director of YAA Projects, she presents the work of the practice, which explores counter-histories and material cultures of diasporic communities through making, writing, and speaking architecture.
Shaughnessy House
30 July 2009 , 6PM
Shaughnessy House
Of Migration
23 August 2021
On Diffractions: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee introduce our latest web issue
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23 August 2021
Of Migration
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Environmental Histories
To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
15 December 2016, 6pm
Environmental Histories
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To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” —the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence”(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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