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Weaving Modernity and Tradition
Abigail Duke explores the architecture of Arc Frank Mbanefo
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How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
How Modern
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How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979 reconsiders architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime to illuminate specific social biographies of projects that challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
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Hotel Africa and the Crumbling of Modernity
Malkit Shoshan visits a Dom-Ino House, a UN Base, and an Irish Bar
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2 December 2025
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7 December 2025, 1pm to 4pm
Exhibition tours on the first Sunday of the month
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Join us every first Sunday of each month for a guided tour of our current exhibitions. Entry to the CCA and its exhibitions is on a pay-what-you-can basis.
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Agency, Industry, and Style
Agency, Industry, and Style
Shirley Surya on building socialist modernity in New China
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17 November 2025
Learning from... Cairo
Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
15 September 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Cairo
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Nasser Rabbat challenges the traditional framing strategies of East vs. West or traditional vs. modern, focusing instead on the dialectical relationship of modernity and history in the making of contemporary Cairo. Shaped by distinct waves of modernity from the colonial Napoleonic invasion of 1789 to the revolution and independence in 1952, the city responded with layers(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Lina Bo Bardi as Migrant: from Collector to Cohabitant
Ana María León on modernity, coloniality, and identity
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Of Migration