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Learning from... Madrid
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(...)
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(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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4 December 2014 , 6pm
4 December 2014 , 6pm
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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(...)
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(...)
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events
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4 December 2014
6pm
4 December 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Copenhagen
Learning from... Copenhagen
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Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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21 May 2015 , 6pm
21 May 2015 , 6pm
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Learning from... Copenhagen
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Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
Learning from... Copenhagen
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Deane Simpson presents the Atlas of the Copenhagens, a book project addressing an urban territory that has been posited in the media and celebrated by the municipality of Copenhagen as the world’s most sustainable and liveable city. Such claims suggest that Copenhagen is a fitting site to study and engage in a debate on sustainability and liveability. The Atlas operates(...)
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21 May 2015
6pm
21 May 2015
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Astana
Learning from... Astana
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Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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19 April 2007 , 7pm
19 April 2007 , 7pm
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Learning from... Astana
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Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
Learning from... Astana
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Jeffrey Inaba, principal of the Los Angeles-based firm INABA, examines the urban centre and capital city of Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world with a proportionally small population of 16 million people. With its rich oil and natural gas reserves and strategic geographical location, Kazakhstan is poised to experience an economic boom and has already(...)
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19 April 2007
7pm
19 April 2007
7pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Shanghai
Learning from... Shanghai
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In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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7 May 2009
7 May 2009
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Learning from... Shanghai
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In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
Learning from... Shanghai
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In 2001, Shanghai announced the development plan of “One City Nine Towns,” a series of towns each built around a theme inspired by a different Western tradition. Chinese urban theorist Xiangning Li examines the themed spaces in the city’s post-colonial context, relating them to Shanghai’s contemporary urban culture and situating them within the changing dynamics between(...)
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Date:
7 May 2009
7 May 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from… Tokyo
Learning from… Tokyo
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In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
26 April 2007 , 7pm
26 April 2007 , 7pm
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Learning from… Tokyo
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In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
Learning from… Tokyo
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In this lecture entitled Tokyo Nine Flux, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto interprets urban space in Tokyo as a causal chain of responses to flux – natural phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons that pose a constant threat to the city, and increases in population, traffic and waste. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto is co-founder, with Momoyo Kaijima, of the architectural studio Atelier(...)
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Date:
26 April 2007
7pm
26 April 2007
7pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Caracas
Learning from... Caracas
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Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
8 May 2014 , 6pm
8 May 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Caracas
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Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
Learning from... Caracas
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Venezuelan law allows for an entity called the consejo communal (communal council), which empowers citizens to initiate local development projects through neighbourhood-based elected councils. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler’s film, Comuna under construction (2010), begins with the story of a poor hillside community in Caracas as its inhabitants decide whether they(...)
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8 May 2014
6pm
8 May 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Beirut
Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
11 March 2010 , 7pm
11 March 2010 , 7pm
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Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
Learning from... Beirut
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Hashim Sarkis, Aga Khan Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), proposes an alternative reading of urban issues in Beirut that considers elements beyond the city’s post-war reconstruction and identity politics. Through a series of specific architectural and urban analyses, the lecture proposes(...)
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Date:
11 March 2010
7pm
11 March 2010
7pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Saadiyat
Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Date:
21 August 2014 , 6pm
21 August 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
Learning from... Saadiyat
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Saadiyat Island is a “dreamscape” created by Tourism Development Investment Company just half a kilometer from downtown Abu Dhabi. It is an amalgam of luxury residential areas, 5-star resorts and golf courses crowned by a Cultural District containing a hallucinatory collection of museums designed by five Pritzker Prize winners. Is this the future of private(...)
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Date:
21 August 2014
6pm
21 August 2014
6pm
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Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Mumbai
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
9 April 2009
9 April 2009
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Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
Learning from... Mumbai
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Rahul Mehrotra presents a reading of Mumbai’s form as a symbol of India’s emerging urban culture. The lecture examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials like concrete, steel and brick, can be captured as a two-dimensional entity(...)
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Date:
9 April 2009
9 April 2009
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Learning from... Tongzhou
Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Date:
10 April 2014 , 6pm
10 April 2014 , 6pm
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Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
Learning from... Tongzhou
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It has been standard Chinese urban policy to develop new towns in overpopulated metropolitan regions since the 1990s. This lecture by Jing Zhou takes the case of Tongzhou near Beijing as an example of the resulting mixture of planned and unplanned urban development.Tongzhou town was first planned as a satellite town in the 1950s and founded on a historic harbour town. Its(...)
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Date:
10 April 2014
6pm
10 April 2014
6pm
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Paul Desmarais Theatre
Paul Desmarais Theatre
