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When I Think of Home
3 March 2024
When I Think of Home
Reanna Merasty, Johanna Minde, and Robyn Adams recollect childhood memories
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Towards Inuit Futures
20 June 2022
Towards Inuit Futures
Jocelyn Piirainen speaks with Rafico Ruiz about Inuit futurism, institutions, and being an urban Inuk
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13 June 2022
The Presence of Sámi Knowledges
Joar Nango speaks with Rafico Ruiz on Sámi cosmologies, the practice of architecture, and generosity
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A Guide Towards Home
ᐊᖏᕐᕋᒧᑦ / Ruovttu Guvlui / Towards Home, Inuit, Sami, audio guide, Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Tiffany Shaw, Rafico Ruiz, Ella den Elzen, Asinnajaq, Carola Grahn, Geronimo Inutiq, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Nicole Luke,
6 March 2023
A Guide Towards Home
Excerpts of an audioguide by Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Jocelyn Piirainen, Asinnajaq, Carola Grahn, Geronimo Inutiq, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Nicole Luke, and Tiffany Shaw.
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16 February 2023, 6pm
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture surveys the history and cultural significance of bank architecture, focusing on bank architecture as a building typology rather than in the context of a single architect or architectural firm. Challenging the standard notion that bank buildings are repetitive, dull and conservative, the exhibition reveals banks as(...)
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14 November 1990 to 24 February 1991
Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture
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Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture surveys the history and cultural significance of bank architecture, focusing on bank architecture as a building typology rather than in the context of a single architect or architectural firm. Challenging the standard notion that bank buildings are repetitive, dull and conservative, the exhibition reveals banks as(...)
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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