Exhibitions


Latest Exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture - THE GOOD CAUSE: ARCHITECTURE OF PEACE Print E-mail
Friday, 17 June 2011 07:42
When: From 16 June to 4 September 2011,
What: An exhibition which explores how architects and urban planners facilitate the process of rebuilding and stabilizing post-conflict spaces.
Where: Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), 1920, rue Baile in Montréal, Québec, Canada


The_Good_Cause_ENG-2Babur Gardens, Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: Christian Richters. Used with permission of the Aga Khan Trust For CultureThe Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents The Good Cause: Architecture of Peace, an exhibition in its Octagonal Gallery examining issues arising from the reconstruction of post-war territories. The Good Cause explores the creation of lasting peace through architecture and planning projects designed to stabilize, humanize, and rebuild cities and territories devastated by armed conflict. The exhibition questions whether reconstruction can be an instrument of peace and conflict prevention, and it highlights the complexities alongside factors of success and failure involved in this process.

Conceived by the NAI (Rotterdam) and Archis (Amsterdam) and realised in collaboration with the CCA, the exhibition looks at the production of space in wartime and peacetime and presents case studies of projects undertaken with the participation of architects, planners, and architecture schools in several regions scarred by long-term geopolitical tensions: Afghanistan, Kosovo, South Africa, Rwanda, Israel, and Palestine.

 

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The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents 'Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War' Print E-mail
Friday, 15 April 2011 08:20

OL_301_002_cropA team of camouflage artists at work at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, illustration in Robert P. Breckenridge, Modern Camouflage: The New Science of Protective Concealment, 1942.
McGill University Library, Montreal.




An interesting exhibition is currently happening at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War documents the extensive contribution of architecture to the war between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945, and considers how this questioned architectural methods and construction technologies, and lead to the supremacy of modernism. The armies of World War Two represented only the tips of colliding icebergs, the belligerent nations which had mobilized and transformed themselves for a global “war of production” of unprecedented scale.



Dates: 13 April to 18 September 2011


Visiting the exhibition, we were quite impressed with the aproach curator Jean-Louis Cohen who brought cohesiveness to an event covering a multitude of topics that don't necessarily relate to each other, but unifying them under the contextual theme of World War 2.

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 May 2011 10:53
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Exhibition at the MAD: Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design Print E-mail
Wednesday, 30 March 2011 12:47

MAD-Header2My Mu (Watashi No Mu) Isamu Naguchi 1950, Courtesy of Naguchi Museum

Focusing on the dynamic relationship between craft and design, Crafting Modernism: Mid-Century American Art and Design showcases the bold new directions taken in media and aesthetics during the postwar years.

Organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, and on view from October 11, 2011 through January 15, 2012, this historic exhibition is the fourth part of an ongoing series of shows for the The Centenary Project—the first in-depth examination of American craft in the 20th century. The first three exhibitions were presented at the Museum between 1993 and 1995.

Co-curated by Jeannine Falino and Jennifer Scanlan, Crafting Modernism underscores the growth and transformation of American life during the turbulent 1960s through art, craft, and design. Featuring the work of more than 160 artists and designers, including iconic figures such as Wendell Castle, Sheila Hicks, and Jack Lenor Larsen, and lesser-known, though highly influential artists and designers such as Katherine Choy, and Hui Ka Kwong, Crafting Modernism will demonstrate through furniture, textiles, tableware, ceramics, glass, jewelry, sculpture and painting, how the period between 1945 and 1969 proved a key transitional era for American craft and design. A scholarly 360-page catalogue, published by Harry N. Abrams, will accompany the exhibition.

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The CCA Exhibition Palladio At Work Reveals The Working Process of This Influential Late Renaissance Architect Print E-mail
Tuesday, 01 March 2011 08:47

 

On view from 3 March until 22 May 2011, the exhibition gives new insight on Palladio’s use of drawings as a tool to record, develop, and disseminate his ideas.

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Andrea Palladio. Plan and elevation of a tetrastyle prostyle temple in the Corinthian order and the Temple of Minerva, Assisi. 1560s. London, RIBA British Architectural Library, XI/14r


The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents Palladio at Work, curated by Guido Beltramini with the collaboration of Charles Hind. On view in the museum’s Octagonal Gallery from 3 March until 22 May 2011, the focused examination of 15 drawings by the late Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), from the collections of the Royal Institute of British Architects, also includes his influential book I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (1570) and other material from the CCA Collection. Guido Beltramini addresses contemporary questions and gives new insight on Palladio’s working method through extensive annotations in the form of diverse reference materials, images, and texts.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 March 2011 08:58
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Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) to Launch STUDIO-X MUMBAI Print E-mail
Written by Victoria Benitez   
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 08:46

image002Mark Wigley Dean of GSAPP to host opening reception for international exhibition Architecture of Consequence and special series of discussions on social responsibility in design

Studio-X, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s global network of laboratories launch its Mumbai center to the public on February 10, 2011 with the opening of Architecture of Consequence, the Netherlands Architecture Institute’s (NAi) international traveling exhibition about the role of architecture in social innovation and sustainability.  Studio-X Mumbai is GSAPP’s newest global design center that will explore the future of cities through research, public dialogue, arts and culture.  It will also be joining an existing network of Studio-X labs in New York City, Beijing, and Amman to engage in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and cross-continental exchange of knowledge and information.  

“With the addition of each hub in the Studio-X network, this radical experiment in redefining the capacity and role of globally collaborative modes of education, research and action, increases its bandwidth exponentially - creating a new kind of collective brain to think about the always urgent question of the future of cities,” says dean of Columbia’s GSAPP Mark Wigley.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 February 2011 08:52
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