Mass-produced objects are often overlooked in favour of more sophisticated and more scholarly sources as the basis for understanding architecture as it is perceived and interpreted for popular assimilation. Focusing on the United States between the 1890s and the 1960s Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A. highlights ephemeral items that have created public awareness of(...)
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14 June 1995 to 29 October 1995
Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A.
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Mass-produced objects are often overlooked in favour of more sophisticated and more scholarly sources as the basis for understanding architecture as it is perceived and interpreted for popular assimilation. Focusing on the United States between the 1890s and the 1960s Popularizing Architecture in the U.S.A. highlights ephemeral items that have created public awareness of(...)
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Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow presents a Mellon Lecture on his concept of Architectural Behavior, which investigates the physical responses to natural elements such as light, air, heat, wind, water, human behavior related to custom, and the way in which buildings relate to the city and their surroundings.
7 March 2013
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto: Architecture Behaviorology
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Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow presents a Mellon Lecture on his concept of Architectural Behavior, which investigates the physical responses to natural elements such as light, air, heat, wind, water, human behavior related to custom, and the way in which buildings relate to the city and their surroundings.
Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
15 May 2003 to 14 September 2003
Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation
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Traces of India depicts the social, political, and anthropological role of images, showing how they laid the historical foundations—real and imagined—on which an ordered empire may have been constructed, rather than an assemblage of colonial trading relationships. Organized around six themes, the exhibition explores some of the greatest architectural sites of the Indian(...)
Main galleries
Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
22 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: First Office
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Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood of First Office present recent work on exhibitions and display, including a temporary screening room installed at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi present a lecture on Kuehn Malvezzis recent work, including their winning proposal for the Insectarium in Montreal. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
8 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: Kuehn Malvezzi
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Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi present a lecture on Kuehn Malvezzis recent work, including their winning proposal for the Insectarium in Montreal. Presented as part of Displaying Architecture, a CCA series that looks at the relationship between architecture and spaces of display.
Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
15 October 2015 , 6pm
Displaying Architecture: Andreas Angelidakis
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Andreas Angelidakis describes his exhibition practice as a single continuous project that investigates the architecture of exhibiting. This talk will focus on the development of his practice across five exhibitions: the third Thessaloniki Biennial; The System of Objects at the DESTE Foundation in Athens; Every End Is a Beginning at the National Museum of Contemporary Art(...)
In the face of global warming, Philippe Rahm Architectes propose to reset the discipline of architecture on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities.
29 November 2023, 6pm
Philippe Rahm: Climatic Architecture
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In the face of global warming, Philippe Rahm Architectes propose to reset the discipline of architecture on its intrinsic atmospheric qualities.
The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
12 March 2015 to 17 May 2015
Industrial Architecture: Ábalos&Herreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
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The exhibition Industrial Architecture: ÁbalosHerreros selected by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen presents a precise reading of the industrial approach to architecture in the work of ÁbalosHerreros, a firm that operated in Madrid from 1984 until 2008. Diverse objects are presented: CAD drawings, photographs of archival material taken by Stefano Graziani, a replica(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, OFFICE, KGVDS, Ábalos, Herreros, Ábalos&Herreros, out of the box
Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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11 October 1989 to 31 December 1989
French Architecture in the Age of Jacques-Germain Soufflot
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780), architect of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, later named Le Panthéon, is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Neo-Classical movement in architecture. The exhibition presents a selection of original drawings and rare books, which illustrates some of the major movements in French art and architecture that occurred during(...)
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The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
14 October 1983 to 11 December 1983
The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture in Montréal
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The exhibition presents three aspects of the villas described by the Roman writer, Pliny the Younger, in the first century AD: their direct historical influence on architecture, the indirect influence they have exerted on architects as a model for study, and their impact on the classical tradition in the city of Montreal. The Villas of Pliny and Classical Architecture(...)
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal