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,”(...)
27 June 2016 to 30 June 2016
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,”(...)
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
Portugal: Architecture, Tendenza, Revolution
Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
3 August 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
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Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
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1 September 2016, 6pm
Is the Problem... Still the Environment?
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The three recipients of this years Power Corporation of Canada Award, Lisa Chow (McGill University), Michèle Curtis (Carleton University), and Geneviève Depelteau (University of British Columbia), present the findings of their three-month research residency at the CCA, during which they studied the rise of an environmental consciousness in architecture and landscape(...)
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
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27 July 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Irene Sunwoo
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Visiting Scholar Irene Sunwoo presents her research: During the 1970s and 1980s, the Architectural Association (AA) in London tested a “marketplace” model of architectural education that supported an array of theoretical investigations. Exploring issues including politics, phenomenology, semiotics, sustainability, literature, and third-world housing, the school became a(...)
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
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21 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Susanne Bauer
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Visiting Scholar Susanne Bauer presents her research: The theoretical debates which took place in American architecture circles—predominantly those on the east coast—as of the early 1960s were often concerned with questions of formal analysis of architectural space and, more broadly, with the present state of architecture and the disciplines future. Some of these debates(...)
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
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22 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Adam Morton
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Visiting scholar Adam Morton presents his research: Under capitalism, how is space organized in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet? This talk presents the making of modern state space in Mexico through the perspective of a spatial political economy. It will draw on my ongoing research on the production of(...)
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
22 October 2009 , 7pm
Geoff Manaugh: Cities of the CDC
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Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC. Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. His fall 2009 design studio Landscapes of Quarantine examines(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
16 September 2010, 6pm
Robert Burley: The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
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Robert Burley, CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University, speaks on “The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence.” The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre