Join 2023 CCA-WRI Fellows Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, and Tomomi Miyata as they share their research on how the underground has evolved as a space of Cold War anxiety and resource extraction, to contemporary concerns around climate and other unnational disasters from which the earth can provide shelter.
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Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, Tomomi Miyata, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jungyoon Kim, WRI, light, planet
10 August 2023, 9 a.m. to noon
Underground Anxieties: 2023 CCA-WRI Research Symposium
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Join 2023 CCA-WRI Fellows Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, and Tomomi Miyata as they share their research on how the underground has evolved as a space of Cold War anxiety and resource extraction, to contemporary concerns around climate and other unnational disasters from which the earth can provide shelter.
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Andrea Alberto Dutto, Oxana Gourinovitch, Tomomi Miyata, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jungyoon Kim, WRI, light, planet
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(...)
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Samia Henni, Jay Pather, CCA Research Network, Architecture as Public Concern, communities
Learning from... Brussels
Rotor members Michael Ghyoot and Maarten Gielen investigate the processes and practices of material management in Brussels and its suburbs. The concept of waste played a key role in their research and was informed by hundreds of visits to businesses, work sites, and recycling plants. The examination of discarded, unfinished products or those considered of inferior quality(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Brussels
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Rotor members Michael Ghyoot and Maarten Gielen investigate the processes and practices of material management in Brussels and its suburbs. The concept of waste played a key role in their research and was informed by hundreds of visits to businesses, work sites, and recycling plants. The examination of discarded, unfinished products or those considered of inferior quality(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Materiality of Parkour
Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 February 2009
Materiality of Parkour
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Engineer, artist, and theoretician Zoe Laughlin presents the new functions of existing materials in public spaces in relation to parkour, an activity which reinterprets the urban landscape. Her ideas focus on the materiality of daily life: how matter behaves, its sensorial qualities, and how people react to it. A member of the Division of Engineering’s Materials Research(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
27 April 2023, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Peguis First Nation and the Netley-Libau Marsh: Documenting Indigenous Land Use and Occupancy at the Mouth of Lake Winnipeg
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The St. Peter’s Indian Band (now Peguis First Nation) was forcibly removed from their original lands at Netley-Libau Marsh beginning in 1908, after an illegal surrender vote took place. Since then, the health of the area that was once the Peguis’s home has declined due to intense annual flooding and ice jams; the appearance of invasive species such as purple loosestrife,(...)
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Indigenous-led design, fellow, Peguis First Nation, land rehabilitation
Ben Bradley presents how the automobile shaped how Canadians encountered their country during the 20th century. As thousands and then millions came to know Canada by motoring, their travel patterns, viewing habits, and tastes shaped and reshaped the places they passed through. Canada’s roads came to be festooned with scenic pullouts, viewpoints, and a constellation of(...)
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Canada, environment, Bradley, It's all happening so fast, roadside
23 February 2017, 6pm
Making Canada a Roadside Attraction
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Ben Bradley presents how the automobile shaped how Canadians encountered their country during the 20th century. As thousands and then millions came to know Canada by motoring, their travel patterns, viewing habits, and tastes shaped and reshaped the places they passed through. Canada’s roads came to be festooned with scenic pullouts, viewpoints, and a constellation of(...)
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Canada, environment, Bradley, It's all happening so fast, roadside
Learning from… Toronto
Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
4 March 2010 , 7pm
Learning from… Toronto
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Ian Chodikoff, architect, urban designer, and editor of Canadian Architect magazine, presents his research on the contemporary suburb and how the influences of ethnic diversity and multiculturalism affect architecture and urban design within the suburban landscape across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Today’s suburbs are more ethnically diverse, globally connected and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
The Greg Lynn Show
It’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation has been a big part of the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital program. Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological(...)
11 May 2016
The Greg Lynn Show
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It’s Greg Lynn, in conversation with architects of seminal digital projects included in the exhibition Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention. Conversation has been a big part of the CCA’s Archaeology of the Digital program. Greg Lynn has spoken with the architects of projects produced from the late 1980s through the 2000s to develop an archaeological(...)
In this conversation, Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University) will discuss approaches to architectural history today with Esra Akcan (Cornell University) and Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). What does it mean to write a global history of architecture now? What is the relationship between such a history and urgent contemporary concerns? During a(...)
6 April 2017
A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton: Can There Be a Global Architectural History Today?
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In this conversation, Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University) will discuss approaches to architectural history today with Esra Akcan (Cornell University) and Mark Jarzombek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). What does it mean to write a global history of architecture now? What is the relationship between such a history and urgent contemporary concerns? During a(...)