What It Takes to Make a Home
The CCA film What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who address the question of homelessness through various projects.
October 2019
What It Takes to Make a Home
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The CCA film What It Takes to Make a Home (2019) follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who address the question of homelessness through various projects.
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What It Takes to Make a Home
30 November 2020
What It Takes to Make a Home
A film conceived by Giovanna Borasi and directed by Daniel Schwartz
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Where We Grow Older
The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
Where We Grow Older
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The documentary Where We Grow Older (CCA, 2023, 30 min) looks at how the growing ageing population is reshaping architectural and social constructs and questions the role of urban design and politics in facing these challenges. The film investigates two models of how care and housing can be reconceived in light of prolonged lives: public housing and the creation of a new(...)
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Learning from... London
Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
Paul Desmarais Theater
10 March 2011 , 7pm
Learning from... London
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Kieran Long presents a story about the difficulty of describing a city in all its richness. London contains stories and meanings that are alive to its citizens, but apparently too difficult to talk about, too rich, and too messy to be allowed to affect those who decide how the city changes. The deafness of developers, politicians and architects to these narratives is so(...)
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10 March 2011
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Paul Desmarais Theater
Learning from... Mexico City
Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
10 May 2012 , 7pm
Learning from... Mexico City
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Arturo Ortiz Struck describes the boundaries of formal and legal building in the context of Mexico:“In order to build a critical view of the production of space and architecture in this environment, we should start from two fundamental premises. The first considers that spaces reflect who we are, and they express our cultural ways and how we unfold in everyday life. The(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
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Montreal: Questions on Dwelling, 2020.
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Montreal: Questions on Dwelling, 2020.
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3 items : color illustrations ; 97 cm
Canadian Centre for Architecture documentary films on housing : products, 2019-2023
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xii, 227 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, [2007], Lancaster : Gazelle Drake Academic, [2007], ©2007
Guerilla gardening : a manualfesto / David Tracey.
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xii, 227 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, [2007], Lancaster : Gazelle Drake Academic, [2007], ©2007
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lxxii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
Longevity hubs : regional innovation for global aging / edited by Joseph F. Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto.
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lxxii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]
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x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ©2011.
Urban Green : Architecture for the Future / Neil B. Chambers.
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ©2011.