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Laboratories of the Future
Robert Kett, Robert J. Kett, Prospects Beyond Futures, Red Power Movement, counterculture, Alcatraz, 1970, CCA Singles
9 November 2020
Laboratories of the Future
Robert J. Kett introduces countercultural visions for Alcatraz during the occupation of the island by Indigenous activists
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Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
Johannes Grenzfurthner
12 April 2018
Come and Forget the Counterculture, with Johannes Grenzfurthner
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Individuals act as their own historians, suppressing some stories and emphasizing others. But at the scale of nations and cultures, and especially in this age of ubiquitous digital memory, it has become more difficult to forget. Building on questions about history and its uses, raised by exhibitions like Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton and Besides,(...)
Johannes Grenzfurthner
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
Shaughnessy House
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PHCON2002:0016:002:005
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Article on Charles Simonds. Simonds "shared a building at 131 Chrystie Street with artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Harriet Korman."
13 December 1981
Hilton Kramer, "An artist emerging from the 60s counterculture," New York Times (December 13, 1981) section D, pages 39, 43
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PHCON2002:0016:002:005
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Article on Charles Simonds. Simonds "shared a building at 131 Chrystie Street with artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Harriet Korman."
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13 December 1981
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xxv, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2011.
French encounters with the American counterculture, 1960-1980 / Caroline Maniaque-Benton.
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xxv, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
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Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2011.
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Counterculture green : the Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk.
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xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2007.
Counterculture green : the Whole earth catalog and American environmentalism / Andrew G. Kirk.
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xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©2007.
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x, 327 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism / Fred Turner.
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x, 327 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
[S.l.] : CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCH, 2020.
PROSPECTS BEYOND FUTURES : counterculture white meets red power.
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64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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[S.l.] : CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCH, 2020.
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xxvii, 389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
[Denver, Colo.] : Published in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ; Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
West of center : art and the counterculture experiment in America, 1965-1977 / Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, editors ; foreword by Lucy R. Lippard.
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xxvii, 389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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[Denver, Colo.] : Published in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ; Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
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247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
New York : Actar Publishers, 2021.
Mobile Theater : Architectural Counterculture on Stage / Fernando Quesada.
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247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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New York : Actar Publishers, 2021.