The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
Materiality of Parkour
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 February 2009
Materiality of Parkour
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Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Learning from the practice of DnA and architect Xu Tiantian, participants are invited to discover how various local materials from across the coastal ecosystem of Meizhou Island, are sourced, studied, and implemented into an architectural project. From bamboo to mangroves to oyster shells, this workshop is an invitation to explore how materials with diverse(...)
25 June 2024 to 17 November 2024
Material Workshop: In Low Tide
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Learning from the practice of DnA and architect Xu Tiantian, participants are invited to discover how various local materials from across the coastal ecosystem of Meizhou Island, are sourced, studied, and implemented into an architectural project. From bamboo to mangroves to oyster shells, this workshop is an invitation to explore how materials with diverse(...)
2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
11 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Cara Rachele
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2016 Visiting Scholar Cara Rachele presents her research: This lecture investigates the explosion of detail drawings in the Renaissance. It connects the emergence of the detail in the sixteenth century as a canonical drawing type with the evocation of the material antique. The organic evolution of the detail drawing method can be seen in the sketchbooks of everyday(...)
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How to: mind the moon
How to: mind the moon
A perverted material library by Lev Bratishenko, Francelle Cane, Anastasia Kubrak, Jane Mah Hutton, Marija Marić, Amelyn Ng, Bethany Rigby, and Fred Scharmen
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Material Witness
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Susanne Kriemann, conversation, oral history, radioactive landscapes
11 March 2024
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Into the material world
PHCON2002:0016:001:031.7
1970-1978
To the nature of materials anarchitecture adds a notion of non material events
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McAppy: photograph of model showing enclosure application (storage and materials)
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1984
Section view of plant materials for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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