Opening: Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries

Event, in English, Paul-Desmarais Theatre, 14 November 2024, 5pm to 9pm

Join us and curator David Covo on 14 November to celebrate the opening of Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries.

The exhibition examines Arthur Erickson’s formative travels to Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s as documented in his correspondence and photographs.

At 6pm in the Paul-Desmarais Theatre, David Covo will introduce the exhibition and present his research on Arthur Erickson’s early travels. The gallery will open to the public at 5pm, and the evening will conclude with a celebration from 7 to 9pm.

Being There is part of a longer, ongoing investigation at the CCA into the use of photography and new media as a means of studying the built environment. This new chapter explores how travel photography acts as a mode of note-taking and thinking in design practice.

David Covo is an Associate Professor and former Director (1996-2007) of the School of Architecture at McGill University, where he has taught since 1977. He currently teaches design, architectural drawing, and traditional architectural sketching. In the summer of 1976, he worked with John Schreiber/Eva Vecsei/Yasmeen Lari, Architects, in Pakistan, and he has since 1977 maintained a consulting practice. He was elected to the RAIC College of Fellows in 1998 and was appointed Professor Honoris Causa by Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest in 2015. He is the president of the Arthur Erickson Foundation.

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