Where We Grow Older
The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Where We Grow Older
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The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
virtual fellowship program, Nokubekezela Mchunu, Wafa Ali, Papers that Remain, post-custodial archives, Africa
1 March 2022 to 23 December 2022
CCA Virtual Fellowship Program 2022
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
research
1 March 2022 to
23 December 2022
10 Minutes is a collection of twenty-four interviews with architects, designers, and artists about their relationship with materials and how this informs architectures and design’s place in society. Questions of economy, ecology, cooperation, and pedagogy are also at the heart of the conversations, revealing a variety of contemporary, exploratory, and constantly renewed(...)
2 May 2024, 6pm
10 minutes: Architects and Designers in Conversation
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10 Minutes is a collection of twenty-four interviews with architects, designers, and artists about their relationship with materials and how this informs architectures and design’s place in society. Questions of economy, ecology, cooperation, and pedagogy are also at the heart of the conversations, revealing a variety of contemporary, exploratory, and constantly renewed(...)
David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, applies a sensory studies approach to the analysis of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his anthropological and archival research. These range from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine(...)
Shaughnessy House
26 February 2015 , 6pm
The Sensory Interior
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David Howes, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, applies a sensory studies approach to the analysis of a series of interiors he has encountered in the course of his anthropological and archival research. These range from a men’s house in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to the exclusively feminine(...)
Shaughnessy House
Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
20 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Katie Lloyd Thomas
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Visiting Scholar Katie Lloyd Thomas presents her research: In the United Kingdom, the naming and selection of building products—or ‘shopping’ on behalf of the client—only became part of the architect’s role during the vast expansion of mass manufacturing in the 1930s. These radical transformations, largely overlooked today, were enthusiastically embraced and debated by(...)
Shaughnessy House
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ARCH271668
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Group consists of two copies (the original and a copy) of "How to pick the optimum winter tilt for solar collectors that have top and bottom reflectors".
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How to pick the optimum winter tilt for solar collectors that have top and bottom reflectors
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Group consists of two copies (the original and a copy) of "How to pick the optimum winter tilt for solar collectors that have top and bottom reflectors".
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ARCH175924
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British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association, Vancouver, ca. 1964
ca. 1964
How to Build Rooms without Ceilings: A Catalogue of Practical Landscaping Projects with Wood
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ARCH175924
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British Columbia Lumber Manufacturers Association, Vancouver, ca. 1964
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ca. 1964
archives
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AP106
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The Faubourg Québec project records, 1989-1994, document the redevelopment of Faubourg Québec, a 30 acre site east of the Old Port of Montréal, into an urban residential neighbourhood. Materials in these project records consist of approximately 253 drawings (including reprographic copies) and 0.33 of l.m. textual materials.
1989-1994
Faubourg Québec project records
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AP106
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The Faubourg Québec project records, 1989-1994, document the redevelopment of Faubourg Québec, a 30 acre site east of the Old Port of Montréal, into an urban residential neighbourhood. Materials in these project records consist of approximately 253 drawings (including reprographic copies) and 0.33 of l.m. textual materials.
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Fonds
1989-1994
photographs
AP149.S1.1986.PR01.002
ca. 1986
Visual material for lecture related to the How the Other Half Builds Publication
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AP149.S1.1986.PR01.002
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ca. 1986
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CD033
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The Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection primarily consists of presentation materials, publications and born digital materials, like videos and photographs, by Aldo Cibic produced between 2003 and 2008 for the project “Microrealities”.
2003-2008
Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection
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CD033
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The Aldo Cibic Microrealities project collection primarily consists of presentation materials, publications and born digital materials, like videos and photographs, by Aldo Cibic produced between 2003 and 2008 for the project “Microrealities”.
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2003-2008