The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
Toolkit for Today: Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
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The planet is the client
research
The 2023 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program invited new directions, readings, and interactions with the photographic works held in our Collection with a view to charting how broader understandings of ‘vision’ may exceed what Vilém Flusser names the ‘technical image.’
March 2023 to April 2023
Virtual Research Fellows 2023
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The 2023 edition of the Virtual Fellowship Program invited new directions, readings, and interactions with the photographic works held in our Collection with a view to charting how broader understandings of ‘vision’ may exceed what Vilém Flusser names the ‘technical image.’
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March 2023 to
April 2023
This critical reading of exemplary projects from the CCA Collection reveals everyday spatial and power dynamics that have created middlegrounds but that have not often been acknowledged. Beyond restitution, how can architects participate in imagining more just futures for sites of dispossession?
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
10 February 2021 to 13 March 2022
Middleground: Siting Dispossession
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This critical reading of exemplary projects from the CCA Collection reveals everyday spatial and power dynamics that have created middlegrounds but that have not often been acknowledged. Beyond restitution, how can architects participate in imagining more just futures for sites of dispossession?
Hall Cases Keyword(s):
Middleground, hall cases, Rafico Ruiz, Louise Paradis, indigenous, sovereignty, Ella den Elzen, Camille Saade-Traboulsi
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(...)
drawings
AP018.S1.1977.PR08.048
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These drawings originally included a note that read "Progress set of architectural drawings as returned by B of M, dated June 29, 1978 with comments from O&S and Surridge."
1978
Progress set of architectural drawings for client, Bank of Montreal Computer Complex Two, Scarborough, Ontario
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AP018.S1.1977.PR08.048
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These drawings originally included a note that read "Progress set of architectural drawings as returned by B of M, dated June 29, 1978 with comments from O&S and Surridge."
drawings
1978
textual records
ARCH255514
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27 files - brochures, correspondence, and drawings concerning: glazing, masonry, fence, elevator, handicap requirements, parking, roofing, windows, bullet-resistant material, stone, theatre, zoning, wind test report, water proofing, 99% submission comments, security.
1987
Brochures, correspondence, and drawings
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ARCH255514
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27 files - brochures, correspondence, and drawings concerning: glazing, masonry, fence, elevator, handicap requirements, parking, roofing, windows, bullet-resistant material, stone, theatre, zoning, wind test report, water proofing, 99% submission comments, security.
textual records
1987
The inaugural Architecture as Public Concern Lecture marks the launch of the CCA Research Network, an entity that brings together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture extends the theme of the Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, in 2023, “Who is the Work For?” It also aligns with the CCA Research Network’s(...)
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Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
26 September 2023, 2pm to 4pm
2023 Architecture as Public Concern Lecture: Who is the Work For?
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The inaugural Architecture as Public Concern Lecture marks the launch of the CCA Research Network, an entity that brings together alumni from almost four decades of research programs at the CCA. This annual lecture extends the theme of the Architecture as Public Concern Fellowship, which asks, in 2023, “Who is the Work For?” It also aligns with the CCA Research Network’s(...)
Online Keyword(s):
Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
articles
The place of money
Juan Campanini, Josefina Sposito, Buenos Aires, CCA c/o, banks, doors, financial crisis, 2001
9 January 2021
The place of money
Juan Campanini and Josefina Sposito discuss how an aesthetic of trust abruptly comes to an end
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textual records
ARCH257384
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Correspondence concerning model, correspondence from Ted Scott, lists of slides, site maps showing the age of buildings ''determined by Dr. Fathi'', photosurvey maps, comments and minutes concerning a raw water pumping station proposal in Abu Nuwas.
1981
Correspondence concerning model, correspondence from Ted Scott
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ARCH257384
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Correspondence concerning model, correspondence from Ted Scott, lists of slides, site maps showing the age of buildings ''determined by Dr. Fathi'', photosurvey maps, comments and minutes concerning a raw water pumping station proposal in Abu Nuwas.
textual records
1981