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“Market Landscape” is an investigation into the urban ecologies of two major financial districts: Hong Kong’s Central District and London’s Canary Wharf. Entangled by histories of empire stretching from the early stages of industrial capitalism
The audio documentary “Off:Re:OnShore” explores the legacy of industrial offshoring, the effects of corporate actions on the built environment of labour, and the role of architecture in bringing closer ideas of work and the good life. This docu
Antoine Picon: Smart Cities: A New Challenge for Design Smart cities represent the new digital frontier. They are where top-down monitoring meets with individual empowerment, where computation allies itself with increased sensory stimulation.
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable.Presented
Kadambari Baxi discusses the passport, a travel document whose design is often taken for granted, and presents excerpts from her recent project Citizenship By Design (in collaboration with Irene Cheng). The project investigates the design of in
Commissaire invité Jean-Louis Cohen présente sur l’exposition Architecture en uniforme : Projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et les résultats de dix ans de recherche internationale sur la contribution apportée par l’architec
Maristella Casciato, 2010 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture "Aldo Rossi" at Cesena, University of Bologna, speaks on the important contribution of Swiss born architect Pierre Jeanneret to th
Gerald Frug, 2010-2011 James Stirling Memorial Lecturer on the City, speaks on the design of urban governance systems and its effects on the work of urbanists and architects.He focuses on the fragmentation of current urban governance by the a
Jeffrey T. Schnapp, 2007 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Professor at Stanford University, presents The Face of the Modern Architect. Jeffrey T. Schnapp is Professor of Comparative Literature and Founder-Director of the Stanford Humanities Lab.
In the Learning From... lecture series, Rahul Mehrotra examines Mumbai, a megalopolis with more than 13 million inhabitants, as two distinct elements that occupy the same physical space. The first, the Static City, built of permanent materials
Geoff Manaugh examines urban design in the context of epidemiology, pandemics and quarantine, including measures taken by the United States’ government agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLD
Joan Busquets, 2009 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, presents Barcelona: Revisiting the "Grids." With an introduction by Alexis Sornin.The lecture addresses the experience of Barcelona following 25
Philip Ursprung, commissaire de l’exposition, propose un aperçu de Herzog & de Meuron : archéologie de l’imaginaire dans le cadre d’une série de conférences qui explore la frontière entre l’art et l’architecture, présentée en lien avec l’exposi
The third and final part of Urgency, in which major international architects Brigitte Shim and Adam Caruso present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice, followed by a conversation with CCA Director Mirko Zardini.This is the thi
The second of three parts of Urgency, in which major international architects Brigitte Shim and Adam Caruso present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice, followed by a conversation with CCA Director Mirko Zardini.This is the th
The first of three parts of Urgency, in which major international architects Brigitte Shim and Adam Caruso present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice, followed by a conversation with CCA Director Mirko Zardini.This is the thi
Anthony Vidler, 2005 CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellow and Dean, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, presents How to Invent Utopia: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Plato's Polis.Anthony Vidler received his B.A. in Arch
Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates, presents Deliberate/Délibéré. Nordenson proposes a series of images and reflections relating to speed that have emerged through his practice as a structural engineer, including
Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College, presents Speed and the Russian Avant-Garde. The lecture examines the emergence of speed as a key artistic principle in Russian Avant-Garde culture, with a particular focus on Russian futurist transrational p
Stephen Kern, Ohio State University, presents The Pace of Experience in the Modernist Period, 1890-1940. The lecture examines the modernist novel during a period of technological acceleration, focusing on formal experiments with pace and a mult
Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union, presents The Velocity of Play Around 1900. The lecture centres on the changing faces of play at the turn of the 20th century - how play has been shaped by speed, acceleration, collapse, and fear. With an introdu
Robert Levine, California State University, presents Keeping Time, With an Accent. Levine discusses time as a cultural invention, addressing differences in punctuality, pace of life, and ways of timekeeping across cultures. With an introduction
Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, présente Vers une mobilité durable, apaisée et maîtrisée ? Avec une introduction par le directeur du CCA, Mirko Zardini.La vitesse et ses limites traite de la place importante qu’occup
Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin, presents Speeding Toward Stasis: Rethinking the Paradox of Streamlining. Speaking as a cultural historian, Meikle identifies an ambiguity at the centre of streamlining, where the design style offe
Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine, presents Slow Architecture and Urbanism. The lecture focuses on the High Line project in New York City, and what an embrace of slowness as a design virtue might imply for our collective futur
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