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The Spirit of Cornelia
The Spirit of Cornelia
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Martien de Vletter, landscape, play, playground, restoration, Robson Square, green roofs, garden, environment
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Martien de Vletter, landscape, play, playground, restoration, Robson Square, green roofs, garden, environment
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25 May 2021
25 May 2021
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events
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
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John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
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17 October 2016, 6:30pm
17 October 2016, 6:30pm
Title:
What Comes After the Environment?
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
What Comes After the Environment?
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Join us in Toronto for a conversation between writer and activist Naomi Klein and CCA Director Mirko Zardini that will address conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural environment.” What role will architects, landscape architects, urban designers, artists, and activists play in finding ways forward in the face of the climate crisis? This conversation(...)
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events
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Date:
17 October 2016
6:30pm
17 October 2016
6:30pm
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John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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28 June 2012 to 21 October 2012
28 June 2012 to 21 October 2012
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Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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After spending most of his life in the United States, photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) settled in Tokyo in 1961 and began a study of the city distinct from the street photography of his contemporaries. For the next fifty years, the shifting spaces and people of Tokyo made up the core of Ishimoto’s work. Tokyo: Yasuhiro Ishimoto features a selection of(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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28 June 2012 to
21 October 2012
28 June 2012 to
21 October 2012
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Hall cases
Hall cases
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exhibitions
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Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban(...)
Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban(...)
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Main galleries Keyword(s):
imperfect health, giovanna borasi, mirko zardini, kersten geers, david van severen, office, kgdvs
Main galleries Keyword(s):
imperfect health, giovanna borasi, mirko zardini, kersten geers, david van severen, office, kgdvs
Date:
25 October 2011 to 15 April 2012
25 October 2011 to 15 April 2012
Title:
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture
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Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban(...)
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture
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Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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25 October 2011 to
15 April 2012
25 October 2011 to
15 April 2012
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Main galleries Keyword(s):
imperfect health, giovanna borasi, mirko zardini, kersten geers, david van severen, office, kgdvs
Main galleries Keyword(s):
imperfect health, giovanna borasi, mirko zardini, kersten geers, david van severen, office, kgdvs
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
19 May 1993 to 29 August 1993
19 May 1993 to 29 August 1993
Title:
An Architectural Odyssey: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
An Architectural Odyssey: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn
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A look at Louis Kahn’s graphic work shows that his search for abstract monumentality, which culminated in his works of the 1960s, began decades earlier in his abundant drawings, travel sketches, and landscapes. The studies, travel sketches, and landscapes shown in the exhibition—such as Kahns intimate landscapes from Gaspé, where he regularly vacationed during the 1930s(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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19 May 1993 to
29 August 1993
19 May 1993 to
29 August 1993
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Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
20 October 2010 to 13 March 2011
20 October 2010 to 13 March 2011
Title:
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment
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Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
Journeys: How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment
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Although immigration is a dominant topic in contemporary culture, its discussion is often limited to the human experience, such as the crossing of borders and issues about national identity. Journeys takes a different perspective: how movements impact the environment. Examples range from the coconut that can drift freely on the ocean current and re-seed wherever it finds(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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20 October 2010 to
13 March 2011
20 October 2010 to
13 March 2011
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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events
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The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
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27 June 2016 to 30 June 2016
27 June 2016 to 30 June 2016
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Toolkit for Today: Keywords for the Environment
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The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
Toolkit for Today: Keywords for the Environment
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The Toolkit for Today seminar is a constitutive part of the CCA Doctoral Students Program. We invite scholars to open up their toolboxes, share methodological challenges and approaches, and discuss the key concepts they work with on contemporary issues in architecture and related disciplines. In 2016, the Toolkit for Today focuses on “Keywords for the Environment,”(...)
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events
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27 June 2016 to
30 June 2016
27 June 2016 to
30 June 2016
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
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Main galleries
Main galleries
Date:
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
16 October 1996 to 2 February 1997
Title:
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James
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Through a commission from the CCA, three contemporary photographers spent six years interpreting the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s most important landscape architect. *Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James* presents 155 photographs from this commission to offer visitors an opportunity to understand(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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16 October 1996 to
2 February 1997
16 October 1996 to
2 February 1997
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Main galleries
Main galleries
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events
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
Date:
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
23 June 2014 to 28 June 2014
Title:
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
Toolkit for Today: Materials and Atmospheres
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The CCA presents Toolkit for Today 2014, a summer seminar held as part of the TD Bank Group-CCA Collection Research Grants program. This year the seminar aims to address questions related to contemporary architecture, showing how projects enrich and diverge from each other and how their differences are born of unusual perspectives and new ways of articulating(...)
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events
events
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23 June 2014 to
28 June 2014
23 June 2014 to
28 June 2014
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exhibitions
exhibitions
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Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
Date:
22 September 1993 to 28 November 1993
22 September 1993 to 28 November 1993
Title:
"Letters from the People": Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
"Letters from the People": Photographs by Lee Friedlander
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Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander deals with words and language—how commercial signs and graffiti structure our perception of urban environment and, to a large extent, define our relationship to it. American photographer Lee Friedlander’s work is concerned not with the systematic and thorough documentation of various North American cities, but with(...)
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exhibitions
exhibitions
Date:
22 September 1993 to
28 November 1993
22 September 1993 to
28 November 1993
Location:
Octagonal gallery
Octagonal gallery
