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Occluding Baghdad
Figuring Territory
28 November 2022
Occluding Baghdad
Amin Alsaden on the violence inflicted by depictions of the city in Western films
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Toward Unsettling
Toward Unsettling
Alexandra Pereira-Edwards, Misca Birklein-Lagassé, and Zaven Titizian on the Swimming Pools of Nunavut
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PH1986:0912:021
ca. 1885
View of hillside with Orient and Continental Hotels, Algiers, Algeria
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ARCH265120:001
after 1911
By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
30 January 2014 to 25 May 2014
Photographing the Arab City in the Nineteenth Century
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By the latter half of the nineteenth century, several pioneer photographers had travelled to the Middle East and North Africa, bringing back to Europe and North America images that captured the idea of the exotic. Whether in search of Nile temples, the Holy Land or Berber costumes; whether amateurs or pilgrims; whether part of scientific missions or commercial ventures,(...)
Octagonal gallery
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Support Grants 2011
Luis Burriel Bielza, Somos.arquitectos Benoît Jacquet, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris Catherine Maumi, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Grenoble Brendan Cormier, Canadian Archive for Urban Speculation and Enquiry
14 March 2011 to 28 November 2011
Support Grants 2011
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Luis Burriel Bielza, Somos.arquitectos Benoît Jacquet, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris Catherine Maumi, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Grenoble Brendan Cormier, Canadian Archive for Urban Speculation and Enquiry
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14 March 2011 to
28 November 2011
In the 1980s and 1990s, the trend in urban design shifted from the global planning approach—exemplified by the urban master plans of the 1950s and 1960s—to a sector based approach favouring gradual change rather than the rebuilding of cities. Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm examines the physical and social space of the city, as seen by contemporary(...)
Main galleries
19 October 1994 to 8 January 1995
Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the trend in urban design shifted from the global planning approach—exemplified by the urban master plans of the 1950s and 1960s—to a sector based approach favouring gradual change rather than the rebuilding of cities. Urban Revisions: Current Projects for the Public Realm examines the physical and social space of the city, as seen by contemporary(...)
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The rest of your senses
Learning from... Bahrain
Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
6 October 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... Bahrain
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Noura al Sayeh presents the third lecture in the Learning From… the Middle East series. The presentation will survey the photographic documentation of the Bahrain coast by photographer Camille Zakharia. The urban transformations in the last 30 years have redrawn the Bahraini landscape and triggered the development of a contemporary vernacular culture. The presentation(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Barriere Lake, healing centre, master's students program, indigenous, Algonquin, First Nations
19 December 2022
Keekagin, the thing you look for to steer when you are lost
Leslie Beedell, Sarah Chin, and Madeleine Reinhart explore healing and building at Barriere Lake
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19 December 2022