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.
Culture Lab
Culture Lab was a multidisciplinary symposium series initiated and directed by Brian Boigon that ran from 1991 to 1994. The exhibition provides new clues about the many forms and channels through which architectural discourses are shaped and circulated.
26 February 2026 to 30 August 2026
Culture Lab
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Culture Lab was a multidisciplinary symposium series initiated and directed by Brian Boigon that ran from 1991 to 1994. The exhibition provides new clues about the many forms and channels through which architectural discourses are shaped and circulated.
How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization? Join us on Thursday 17(...)
17 July 2025, 6pm
Toolkit for Today: Defying Computational Cravings
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How are computational optics operating in and through the built environment? How have they become so ubiquitous and taken for granted, completing the desires of fulfillment centres and the legibility that computation craves? What computational logics, imaginaries, and frameworks lie outside of their dominant modes of perception and commoditization? Join us on Thursday 17(...)
The 2025 Toolkit for Today explores how computational optics are systems of perception powered by software, and is organized in collaboration with researcher, graphic designer, and new media artist Simone Niquille.
14 July 2025 to 18 July 2025
Toolkit for Today: Computation Is the New Optics
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The 2025 Toolkit for Today explores how computational optics are systems of perception powered by software, and is organized in collaboration with researcher, graphic designer, and new media artist Simone Niquille.
Into the Island
Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
2024
Into the Island
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Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
Into the Island
Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
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Meizhou, Xu Tiantian, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Into the island, groundwork, ecology, Carla Juaçaba, Joshua Frank, ecosystem
7 May 2024 to 17 November 2024
Into the Island
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Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian of DnA in her discovery of essential elements, pressure points, and issues on the destabilizing terrain that is the ocean and its delicate ecosystem of Meizhou Island. It is the first chapter in a three part film and exhibition series, Groundwork.
Main Galleries Keyword(s):
Meizhou, Xu Tiantian, Irene Chin, Francesco Garutti, Into the island, groundwork, ecology, Carla Juaçaba, Joshua Frank, ecosystem
Everlasting
A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
25 September 2025 to 23 August 2026
Everlasting
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A film from the CCA’s 2023-2024 Indigenous Land Restitution Research Creation Fellow, multidisciplinary Haudenosaunee artist Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers.
Shaughnessy House
Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, the work of Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future.
13 November 2025, 6pm to 7:30pm
Placekeeping with Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers
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Rooted in acts of reciprocity and land-based knowledge teachings, the work of Brooke Rice, Autumn Godwin, Marnie Jacobs, and Amanda Lickers resists erasure by honouring natural cycles and fostering continuity between past, present, and future.
The inaugural Architecture as Public Concern Lecture marks the launch of the CCA Research Network, an entity that brings together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture extends the theme of the Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, in 2023, “Who is the Work For?” It also aligns with the CCA Research Network’s(...)
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Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
26 September 2023, 2pm to 4pm
2023 Architecture as Public Concern Lecture: Who is the Work For?
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The inaugural Architecture as Public Concern Lecture marks the launch of the CCA Research Network, an entity that brings together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture extends the theme of the Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, in 2023, “Who is the Work For?” It also aligns with the CCA Research Network’s(...)
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Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
19 September 2024, 12pm to 2pm