31 January to 4 February
Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
26 November 2008 to 19 April 2009
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
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Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their actions push against accepted norms of behaviour in cities, at times even challenging legal limitations. The individuals and groups employ a range of approaches(...)
Main galleries
Architecture as Evidence
Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Octagonal gallery
16 June 2016 to 11 September 2016
Architecture as Evidence
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Architecture as Evidence presents a set of materials gathered during a forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. It assembles plaster casts of blueprints, letters, contractor bills, and photographs, as well as two reconstructed monuments (a gas column and a gas-tight hatch), which together provide tangible evidence that Auschwitz was designed by its architects(...)
Octagonal gallery
Join 2022 CCA-WRI Fellows Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, and Jessica Vaughn as they share their research on contemporary light conditions across scales, geographies, arts practices, and legal regimes.
Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, Jessica Vaughn, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Gökçe Günel, WRI, light, planet
24 August 2022, 9am to noon
Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet
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Join 2022 CCA-WRI Fellows Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, and Jessica Vaughn as they share their research on contemporary light conditions across scales, geographies, arts practices, and legal regimes.
Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Alina Nazmeeva, Jessica Vaughn, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Gökçe Günel, WRI, light, planet
Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 April 2009
Michael Rakowitz and Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas
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Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Sub-series
Legal records
AP140.S2.SS9.D2
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File documents the legal agreement entered into by the partners of the firm of Stirling and Gowan. Material in this file was produced in 1964. File contains textual records.
1964
Legal records
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AP140.S2.SS9.D2
Description:
File documents the legal agreement entered into by the partners of the firm of Stirling and Gowan. Material in this file was produced in 1964. File contains textual records.
File 2
1964
textual records
Arctic Gas - Legal
ARCH254023
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correspondence
1974-1976
textual records
1974-1976
textual records
Legal - St-Basile-le-Grand
ARCH254048
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deed of sale, correspondence, schedules
1974-1977
Legal - St-Basile-le-Grand
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ARCH254048
Description:
deed of sale, correspondence, schedules
textual records
1974-1977
textual records
ARCH256891
1969-1975
textual records
1969-1975