Interpreting material from the Gianni Pettena fonds, Elisabetta Trincherini traces Pettena’s ongoing dialogue with North America through observations of his travels, the examination of a selection of projects, and an exploration of his teaching syllabi.
January 2023
Find and Tell: Elisabetta Trincherini on Gianni Pettena
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Interpreting material from the Gianni Pettena fonds, Elisabetta Trincherini traces Pettena’s ongoing dialogue with North America through observations of his travels, the examination of a selection of projects, and an exploration of his teaching syllabi.
Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
14 July 2016, 6pm
Antoni Folkers: Modern Architecture in Africa
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Antoni Folkers discusses a collection related to modern architecture in Africa that was recently acquired by the CCA. His account traces the activity of three travellers involved in building the collection: Georg Lippsmeier in the 1950s, Coen Beeker in the 1960s, and Kiran Mukerji in the 1970s. An architect and urban designer, Folkers is the author of Modern Architecture(...)
Shaughnessy House
An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
Kenneth Frampton, Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton, Jacqueline Meyer
August 2017 to September 2017
“Dear Ken”: Reading the Archive Out Loud
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An archive is usually named for one person, but it always contains many other voices. The Kenneth Frampton archive recently arrived at the CCA and it emerges in the exhibition Educating Architects: Four Courses by Kenneth Frampton. The exhibition includes a few letters from over sixty years of correspondence, but there could have been many more—in the archive, there’s(...)
On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
16 March 2017
Here It Is Toxic, There It Is Not
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On New Year’s Eve 1987, the people of Gonaïves, an impoverished port town on Haiti’s west coast, awoke to 4,000 tons of toxic ash. Amidst political turmoil in Haiti, officials had approved the import of toxic waste from the United States classified as “fertilizer.” In this case, the ash came from Philadelphia, which was facing a waste management crisis brought on by the(...)
Canada, environment, Jodoin, Müller, It's all happening so fast, toxic, Haiti, voluntary exchange, garbage imperialism, Gonaives
born digital
Voyage to Italy
PH2006:0232
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The film is about a trip to the ruins of Pompei. The box contains the original DVD and a security copy.
2006
Voyage to Italy
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PH2006:0232
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The film is about a trip to the ruins of Pompei. The box contains the original DVD and a security copy.
born digital
2006
textual records, graphic materials
Voyage to Italy
ARCH186547
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itineraries, travel ephemera, correspondence to Fred Lebensold
1962
Voyage to Italy
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ARCH186547
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itineraries, travel ephemera, correspondence to Fred Lebensold
textual records, graphic materials
1962
textual records
PH2008:0032
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Leaflet accompanying the exhibition "Rêve Voyages, L(v)ivre", held with the the students of the collèges du département de l’Hérault, at Galerie d’O, Montpellier, France in 2007.
2007
Le carnet de voyage imaginaire
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PH2008:0032
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Leaflet accompanying the exhibition "Rêve Voyages, L(v)ivre", held with the the students of the collèges du département de l’Hérault, at Galerie d’O, Montpellier, France in 2007.
textual records
2007
textual records
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45 agenda(s)
ARCH197874
1966-1987
textual records
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45 agenda(s)
1966-1987