Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
28 January 2016
Practicing Advocacy: Who Builds Your Architecture?
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Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver present the ongoing advocacy project Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?), which asks architects and allied fields to better understand how the production of buildings connects their practices to migrant construction workers who build their designs. WBYA?, a group of designers, scholars, and activists based in New York City, has(...)
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The Other Architect
Nuit Blanche 2025: 38%
It is time for a systemic change in the way we design and value the built environment. The way we build is not ecologically sustainable. The building industry is responsible for 38% of the worlds annual production of greenhouse gases. During the Nuit Blanche at the CCA, we invite you to come and discuss, reflect and be inspired by the actions of the German architecture(...)
Nuit Blanche 2025
1 March 2025 to 2 March 2025, 7pm to 1am
Nuit Blanche 2025: 38%
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It is time for a systemic change in the way we design and value the built environment. The way we build is not ecologically sustainable. The building industry is responsible for 38% of the worlds annual production of greenhouse gases. During the Nuit Blanche at the CCA, we invite you to come and discuss, reflect and be inspired by the actions of the German architecture(...)
Nuit Blanche 2025
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1 streaming video file (23 min., 54 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2016]
Who Builds Your Architecture? : an interview with Mabel O. Wilson and Jordan Carver from The Other Architect public program series.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2016]
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1 streaming video file (1 hr., 19 min., 32 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : [Canadian Centre for Architecture], [2016]
Practicing advocacy : Who Builds Your Architecture?.
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[Montréal] : [Canadian Centre for Architecture], [2016]
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237 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm
New York : M. Evans, [1964], Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1964]
Your engineered house / Rex Roberts.
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237 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm
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New York : M. Evans, [1964], Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1964]
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40 pages
Toronto : Anaconda American Brass Limited, [195?]
Your enduring home : a handbook for all who intend to buy, build or modernize / [edited by Collier Stevenson].
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40 pages
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Toronto : Anaconda American Brass Limited, [195?]
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The key to your new home; a primer of liveable and practical houses, edited by Lewis Storrs, Jr.
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128 pages illustrations (including plans) 33 cm
New York, Stackpole Sons [©1938]
The key to your new home; a primer of liveable and practical houses, edited by Lewis Storrs, Jr.
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New York, Stackpole Sons [©1938]
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xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1986.
Ceramic houses : how to build your own / Nader Khalili.
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xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1986.
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vii, 115 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Swindon : Historic England, 2018., ©2018
Prefabs : a social and architectural history / Elisabeth Blanchet and Sonia Zhuravlyova.
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vii, 115 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Swindon : Historic England, 2018., ©2018