19 March 1999
Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
21 May 2014 to 5 October 2014
Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
Archaeology of the Digital
Archaeology of the Digital is conceived as an investigation into the foundations of digital architecture at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s through four seminal projects that established bold new directions for architectural research by experimenting with novel digital tools: the Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1985–1995), Peter Eisenman’s unrealized(...)
Main galleries
7 May 2013 to 27 October 2013
Archaeology of the Digital
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Archaeology of the Digital is conceived as an investigation into the foundations of digital architecture at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s through four seminal projects that established bold new directions for architectural research by experimenting with novel digital tools: the Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1985–1995), Peter Eisenman’s unrealized(...)
Main galleries
The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
25 November 2009 to 28 February 2010
Intermission: Films From a Heroic Future
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The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our(...)
Main galleries
Join us on the opening day of Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines for a round-table discussion with curator Greg Lynn and some of the featured architects of the exhibition: Karl Chu (Metaxy), Lars Spuybroek (NOX), Kas Oosterhuis (ONL), Marc Goulthorpe (dECOi Architects), Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid (Asymptote).
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 May 2014 , 6pm
In conversation with the architects Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Join us on the opening day of Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines for a round-table discussion with curator Greg Lynn and some of the featured architects of the exhibition: Karl Chu (Metaxy), Lars Spuybroek (NOX), Kas Oosterhuis (ONL), Marc Goulthorpe (dECOi Architects), Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid (Asymptote).
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Adam Caruso of Caruso St John and Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects address topics they consider to be of vital importance and urgency in contemporary architectural practice. Their individual presentations are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing(...)
12 June 2009
Urgency 2009: Adam Caruso and Brigitte Shim
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Adam Caruso of Caruso St John and Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects address topics they consider to be of vital importance and urgency in contemporary architectural practice. Their individual presentations are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing(...)
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Devices of Design
A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004
Devices of Design
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A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
born digital
Empty disk, Greg Lynn
ARCH279747
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Labelled: "Greg Lynn". The disk is empty.
2000
Empty disk, Greg Lynn
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Labelled: "Greg Lynn". The disk is empty.
born digital
2000
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ARCH277519
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Includes photocopies of maps which have been annotated to show project locations, an e-mail message to Greg Lynn dated July 21, 2015, printouts of online content, and a copy of Urban design proposals--Yokohama Urban Ring Exhibition (1992) with covering note to Greg Lynn.
1992-2015
Documents sent to Mirko Zardini (Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture) or to Greg Lynn
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ARCH277519
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Includes photocopies of maps which have been annotated to show project locations, an e-mail message to Greg Lynn dated July 21, 2015, printouts of online content, and a copy of Urban design proposals--Yokohama Urban Ring Exhibition (1992) with covering note to Greg Lynn.
textual records
1992-2015