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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In Suspicion of Evidence
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In Suspicion of Theory
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Dijana O. Apostolski, Jana Berankova, Amir Taheri, Vitório Leite
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Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
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Troubled Waters
Nature reorganized
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Troubled Waters
The Hudson River as Symbol of America’s Past and Harbinger of the Future
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Nature reorganized
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From Commodity to Community?
The planet is the client
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The planet is the client
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Pioneers of the Bijlmermeer
Bijlmermeer, Journeys: How Travelling Fruit, Ideas and Buildings Rearrange Our Environment
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Theme: Cold Environments Recipients: Tomek Bartczak, University of Toronto Shannon Harvey, McGill University Per Kefgen, McGill University
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Master’s Students Program: Cold Environments
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Theme: Cold Environments Recipients: Tomek Bartczak, University of Toronto Shannon Harvey, McGill University Per Kefgen, McGill University