On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
27 November 2013
In conversation: Yto Barrada & Takashi Homma
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On the occasion of the opening of How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies, and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh the two featured photographers Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma join a conversation with the exhibition curators. They discuss how inhabitants take ownership of the city and urban life in Casablanca and Chandigarh.
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
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1 streaming video file (1 hr., 25 min., 44 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : CCA, [2013]
In conversation : Maristella Casciato, Tom Avermaete, Yto Barrada & Takashi Homma.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2013]
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367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Park Books, ©2014.
Casablanca Chandigarh : bilans d'une modernisation / Tom Avermaete, Maristella Casciato ; missions photographiques de Yto Barrada, Takashi Homma.
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367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
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Montréal : Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich : Park Books, ©2014.
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367 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Montréal, Québec, Canada : CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture = Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2014], ©2014
Casablanca Chandigarh : a report on modernization / Tom Avermaete, Maristella Casciato ; photographic missions by Yto Barrada, Takashi Homma.
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : CCA, Canadian Centre for Architecture = Centre canadien d'architecture ; Zürich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2014], ©2014
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Le présent ouvrage documente deux réalités urbaines complémentaires qui ont joué un rôle fondamental dans l’imaginaire de la ville moderne du vingtième siècle, ainsi que dans sa définition et ses multiples redéfinitions. Se démarquant de l’idée que l’architecture qui fait l’Histoire est celle des chefs-d’œuvre monumentaux, les textes recueillis ici s’attachent plutôt à(...)
Casablanca Chandigarh : bilans d’une modernisation
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Le présent ouvrage documente deux réalités urbaines complémentaires qui ont joué un rôle fondamental dans l’imaginaire de la ville moderne du vingtième siècle, ainsi que dans sa définition et ses multiples redéfinitions. Se démarquant de l’idée que l’architecture qui fait l’Histoire est celle des chefs-d’œuvre monumentaux, les textes recueillis ici s’attachent plutôt à l’histoire des espaces publics, des structures d’habitation et des installations communautaires de ces deux villes, dont les plans modernes se sont révélés étonnamment adaptables sur la durée. Cette perspective est illustrée par les photographies de Yto Barrada et de Takashi Homma, deux artistes qui se sont efforcés d’y capturer l’essence de la vie urbaine au quotidien. Dans un monde marqué par la décolonisation et les complexités politiques de la guerre froide, Casablanca et Chandigarh figurent à la fois comme une illustration et un contre-exemple des processus de modernisation et de développement. Les trois chapitres de cet ouvrage établissent le contexte qui permet d’interpréter la réalité urbaine de Casablanca et de Chandigarh comme le résultat de processus dynamiques et nuancés d’échanges internationaux stimulés par l’engagement et l’expertise d’une nouvelle classe de professionnels de l’urbanisme. Grâce à son étude des acteurs, des idéologies et des objectifs qui sous-tendent ces deux réalisations urbanistiques, le présent ouvrage vise à contribuer à une historiographie divergente de l’urbanisme d’après-guerre et aux réflexions actuelles sur l’effet des pratiques transnationales en matière d’urbanisme.
CCA Publications
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This book documents two complementary urban realities that have played a fundamental role in the imagination, definition and redefinition of the twentieth-century modern city. Shifting away from an understanding of architecture as the construction of monumental masterpieces, the texts collected here assemble the narratives behind the public spaces, housing and social(...)
Casablanca Chandigarh: a report on modernization
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This book documents two complementary urban realities that have played a fundamental role in the imagination, definition and redefinition of the twentieth-century modern city. Shifting away from an understanding of architecture as the construction of monumental masterpieces, the texts collected here assemble the narratives behind the public spaces, housing and social facilities in these two cities, where modern plans have proven unexpectedly resilient and adaptable over time. This perspective is reinforced through visual contributions by Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma—two photographers especially invested in capturing everyday urban life. In a world marked by decolonization and Cold War politics, Casablanca and Chandigarh appear simultaneously as exponents of and countercurrents to modernization and its development perspectives. The book’s three chapters set the context for reading Casablanca and Chandigarh as the results of nuanced, dynamic processes of international exchange driven by the engagement and expertise of a new class of design professionals. As a dossier of actors, alignments and agendas, the book contributes to an alternative historiography of post-war urbanism and to recent reflections on the impact of transnational practice.
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