Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
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4 July 2007 to 30 September 2007
Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
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Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky is the first retrospective to examine the life and work of the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions of comfort and culture. The exhibition highlights the diverse contributions of a unique and underappreciated pioneer of(...)
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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16 May 2012 to 14 October 2012
Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling
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Architect James Frazer Stirling’s work has resisted characterization because of its radical shifts in influence, named by others as prewar modernism to Neoclassicism, Rationalism and Brutalism to Postmodernism. But the continuity of his thinking emerges through the quantity and variety of material in the James Stirling/Michael Wilford Archive, a tool for understanding an(...)
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Decolonize or Redistribute? Abdel Moneim Mustafa and Mid-Century Modernism in Sudan
Esra Akcan examines architecture through the lens of healing from colonization
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9 May 2022
3 August 2023, 6pm to 7:30pm
Learning from... Tongzhou
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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
10 April 2014 , 6pm
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(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
Shaughnessy House
2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Visiting Scholars 2007
S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
May 2007 to September 2007
Visiting Scholars 2007
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S.M. Can Bilsel, University of San Diego, San Diego, United States Topic: The Modern Cult of Authenticity: Reproduction of Antiquity and the Location of Architecture in the 20th Century Museum Constance Classen, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Topic: Beckford and Fonthill: Creating a Palace of the Senses Seminar: Multisensory Marketing and the Design of Retail(...)
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May 2007 to
September 2007
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Visiting Scholars 2004
Jean-Pierre Chupin, École darchitecture, Université de Montréal, Canada Topic: Théories du projet et paradoxes de la pensée analogique au tournant des années 70 Samuel D. Abert, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Topic: And was Jerusalem builded here… Maarten Delbeke, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium Topic: The Sacred History of(...)
January 2004 to August 2004
Visiting Scholars 2004
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Jean-Pierre Chupin, École darchitecture, Université de Montréal, Canada Topic: Théories du projet et paradoxes de la pensée analogique au tournant des années 70 Samuel D. Abert, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Topic: And was Jerusalem builded here… Maarten Delbeke, Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium Topic: The Sacred History of(...)
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January 2004 to
August 2004
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Visiting Scholars 2005
Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
3 January 2005 to 30 September 2005
Visiting Scholars 2005
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Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
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3 January 2005 to
30 September 2005