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Ideas of living
When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
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22 April 2015 to 30 November 2015
The CCA in Photographs, 1987–2015
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When the Canadian Centre for Architecture building was conceived and designed as an addition to the nineteenth-century Shaughnessy House, it also became an addition to the CCA’s extensive collection. Accordingly, the inaugural exhibitions in the new building in 1989 included a display on the Building and Gardens. The CCA, which plays an influential role in furthering(...)
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Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens, and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common(...)
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4 November 2014 to 19 April 2015
Rooms You May Have Missed
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Rooms You May Have Missed reclaims the significance of inhabitation and is for that reason a collection of domestic spaces—entry porticos, kitchens, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms, courtyards, gardens, vestibules, living rooms, offices, dens, and washrooms—as reinvented in the work of two very different architects: Umberto Riva in Milan and Bijoy Jain in Mumbai. Common(...)
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Building Knowledge
This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
16 April 2015 , 6pm
Building Knowledge
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This lecture discusses a range of projects from Anupama Kundoo’s practice, research, and teaching. In these distinct but complementary areas of her work, she attempts to build collective knowledge in collaboration with engineers, masons, craftsmen, infrastructure providers, residents, material suppliers, and all other stakeholders involved in constructing and occupying(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Madrid
In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
4 December 2014 , 6pm
Learning from... Madrid
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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Spain is now paying for its lack of urban policy, particularly in the construction industry. The credit crunch curbed the frenzy of construction and left behind a vast territory of incomplete urban spaces. Architect, editor, and architectural curator Javier Arpa Fernández presents a lecture reflecting on how alternative(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Two lectures delivered by William Turnbull at the IAUS in New York both moderated by Robert A. Stern as part of the "Architecture 5" lectures series under the theme "New Modernism/Post Modernism." The lectures are entitled: "Opportunities for Inhabitation" and "Post Modernism: Towards a Definition."
1976-10-19, 1976-11-16
Audio recording of two lectures by William Turnbull for the series Architecture 5 New Modernism/Post Modernism entitled: "Opportunities for Inhabitation" and "Post Modernism: Towards a Definition"
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Two lectures delivered by William Turnbull at the IAUS in New York both moderated by Robert A. Stern as part of the "Architecture 5" lectures series under the theme "New Modernism/Post Modernism." The lectures are entitled: "Opportunities for Inhabitation" and "Post Modernism: Towards a Definition."
1976-10-19, 1976-11-16
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Two lectures delivered at the IAUS in New York, by Stuart Cohen ("The Fall From Grace: Moore, Hardy, Venture"), moderated by Robert A. Stern, and by William Turnbull ("Opportunities for Inhabitation"), as part of the IAUS lectures series "Architecture 5," under the theme "New Modernism/Post Modernism."
1976-10-12, 1976-10-19
Audio recording of two lectures by Stuart Cohen for the series Architecture 5 New Modernism/Post Modernism, entitled: "The Fall From Grace: Moore, Hardy, Venture" and "Opportunities for Inhabitation"
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Two lectures delivered at the IAUS in New York, by Stuart Cohen ("The Fall From Grace: Moore, Hardy, Venture"), moderated by Robert A. Stern, and by William Turnbull ("Opportunities for Inhabitation"), as part of the IAUS lectures series "Architecture 5," under the theme "New Modernism/Post Modernism."
1976-10-12, 1976-10-19
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156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
London : Artemis, 1994.
Changing the art of inhabitation : Mies' pieces, Eames' dreams, the Smithsons / Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson.
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156 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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London : Artemis, 1994.
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159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Winnipeg : Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 2009.
Dead on arrival : drawings, objects, inhabitation, landscapes, cities, atmosphere.
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159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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Winnipeg : Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba, 2009.