This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 January 2026, 6pm to 7:30pm
Screening of film excerpts and live annotation: Antonioni’s Chung Kuo, Cina (1972)
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This talk revisits the contested visual legacy of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 documentary Chung Kuo, Cina by placing it within a broader network of Cold War–era encounters between Western filmmakers and a carefully stage-managed People’s Republic of China. Connecting Antonioni’s state-sanctioned visit with projects by Shirley MacLaine, Jean Painlevé, and Canadian(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2013, 6pm - 8pm
In conversation: Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller
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CCA Founding Director Phyllis Lambert and Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) present their 2013 publications Building Seagram and Lincoln Center Inside Out and discuss architecture and public space in New York.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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.
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(...)
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
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
Join Amina Lalor, Tin Ayala, and Ivana Molina Apaza as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2024-2025 Indigenous-led design Fellowship Program.
12 July 2025, 2pm to 3:30pm
Reciprocity: A conversation with Indigenous-led Design Fellows Ivana Molina Apaza, Tin Ayala, and Amina Lalor
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Join Amina Lalor, Tin Ayala, and Ivana Molina Apaza as they discuss the projects they have undertaken through the CCA’s 2024-2025 Indigenous-led design Fellowship Program.
13 March 2025 to 20 March 2025