Learning from... Hong Kong
Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. Rooftop structures range from basic shelters for the disadvantaged to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with the amenities of modern life. Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham use the tools of an architect and a photographer to document(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
3 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Hong Kong
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Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. Rooftop structures range from basic shelters for the disadvantaged to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with the amenities of modern life. Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham use the tools of an architect and a photographer to document(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
The Unschool
What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
30 July 2012 to 3 August 2012
The Unschool
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What could a school be? For a week over summer 2012, students of The Unschool explored the spaces in and around schools and pushed the limits of the camera as a social instrument with guest curator Monica Nouwens. Participants compared how people live in schools and cities, and how design can encourage and limit behaviours, relationships, and activities. “Could(...)
Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
25 March 2017, 3pm
Port Hope in the Age of Nuclear Waste
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Blake Fitzpatrick and Robert Del Tredici talk about their investigations of Port Hope in a conversation moderated by Louise Désy, CCA Curator, Photographs. Port Hope is Canada’s premier atomic town and the nation’s conduit to the nuclear world. In 1932, Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. built a radium refinery a stone’s throw from the town’s Main Street. After shifting to uranium(...)
Main galleries
David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
9 May 2013 , 7pm
Learning from... Johannesburg
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David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavić talk about their joint publication TJ/Double Negative, an innovative combination of photographs and fiction that tries to make sense of Johannesburg. They discuss their approach to representing this troubled but intriguing city in words and images. Goldblatt is a renowned documenter of South African people and places, and has been(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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14 December 2017
Eve Blau, Richard Pare, and Phyllis Lambert on Photographic Evidence
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Legislating Architecture explores how architecture is shaped by law and other societal regulatory systems. The film, directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, presents excerpts from conversations conducted with architects including Luigi Snozzi, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, and Christian Kerez. It is a point of departure for an issue of ARCH+ also entitled(...)
27 October 2016, 6pm
Legislating Architecture: Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth
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Legislating Architecture explores how architecture is shaped by law and other societal regulatory systems. The film, directed by Arno Brandlhuber and Christopher Roth, presents excerpts from conversations conducted with architects including Luigi Snozzi, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, and Christian Kerez. It is a point of departure for an issue of ARCH+ also entitled(...)
Join us for a talk by artist Susanne Kriemann, who will present her research and photographic projects dealing with radioactivity.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
14 March 2024, 6pm
Susanne Kriemann on the Radioactive Afterlife
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Join us for a talk by artist Susanne Kriemann, who will present her research and photographic projects dealing with radioactivity.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
research
Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
April 2022
Find and Tell: Shirley Blumberg on John C. Parkin
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Selecting and interpreting material within the John C. Parkin fonds at the CCA, Shirley Blumberg offers a portrait of one of the key actors in the modernization of Canadian cities in the 1950s and 1960s and discusses the power of photography and advertising techniques in promoting the agenda of a corporate practice during those years.
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April 2022
Join us on 6 June for the opening of madskills: Self Documenting Construction on Social Media, an exhibition curated by Hester Keijser, CCA Curator of Photography and New Media, investigating social media clips that document the construction industry, created and disseminated by those present on site.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Madskills, construction, social media
6 June 2024, 5pm to 9pm
Opening: madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media
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Join us on 6 June for the opening of madskills: Self Documenting Construction on Social Media, an exhibition curated by Hester Keijser, CCA Curator of Photography and New Media, investigating social media clips that document the construction industry, created and disseminated by those present on site.
Paul-Desmarais Theatre and Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
Madskills, construction, social media
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Peter Sealy, McGill University Topic: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Architectural Unconscious Christopher C. Clarke, University of Calgary Topic: Influences of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Architects on Aboriginal Communities and Architecture
January 2005 to September 2005
Master’s Students Program 2005
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Peter Sealy, McGill University Topic: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Architectural Unconscious Christopher C. Clarke, University of Calgary Topic: Influences of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Architects on Aboriginal Communities and Architecture
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January 2005 to
September 2005