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Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture

Summary: The CCA is an international research centre and museum founded on the conviction that architecture is a public concern. Based on its extensive collection, exhibitions, public programs, publications, and research opportunities, the CCA is advancing knowledge, promoting public understanding, and widening thought and debate on architecture, its history, theory, and practice, and its role in society today. Le CCA est un centre international de recherche et un musée fondé avec la conviction que l’architecture est d’intérêt public. Fort de ses vastes collections, expositions, programmes publics, publications et opportunités de recherche, le CCA est un chef de file dans l’avancement du savoir, de la connaissance et de l’enrichissement des idées et des débats sur l’art de l’architecture, son histoire, sa théorie, sa pratique, ainsi que son rôle dans la société.

Podcasts:

 On Experimental Writing - Albert Ferré, Pedro Gadanho, Naomi Stead, Kazys Varnelis | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 34:36

On Experimental Writing is an open discussion about different approaches to writing about architecture, urbanism and criticism today. Invited guests discuss and challenge these new editorial directions from their own perspective and based on their editorial experiences. Moderated by David Howes, with an introduction by Giovanna Borasi. Guests include: Albert Ferré, Editorial Director at Actar; Pedro Gadanho, editor-in-chief of the bookazine , BEYOND, Short Stories on the Post-Contemporary; Naomi Stead, architectural critic and editor of the journal Architectural Theory Review; and Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University and co-founder of the conceptual architecture group AUDC. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 10 February 2011

 Urgency 2009 Part 1 - Brigitte Shim | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 34:11

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 third annual presentation of the CCA’s Urgency event, after the 2007 discussion with Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman and the 2008 discussion with Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang. Adam Caruso, Caruso St John, London Brigitte Shim, Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Toronto Mirko Zardini, Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 12 June 2009

 Mellon Lecture - Anthony Vidler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:19

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 Architecture and Fine Arts and his Diploma in Architecture from Cambridge University. He was a faculty member of the Princeton University School of Architecture from 1965 to 1993 and was appointed the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Architecture in 1990. From 1993 to 1997, Professor Vidler was Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California in Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture from 1997. He is a historian and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, specializing in French architecture from the Enlightenment to the present. A recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor Vidler is the author of numerous works, including Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Régime (1990), The Architectural Uncanny : Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), Antoine Grumbach (1996), Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), Architecture between Spectacle and Use (2008), and Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (2008). The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, distinguished scholars of international repute are appointed Mellon Senior Fellows and join the Visiting Scholars in residence at the CCA Study Centre for extended periods each year. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 17 May 2005

 Speed and its Limits - Guy Nordenson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:03

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 discussions of projects with Richard Meier and Steven Holl. With an introduction by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the 2009 exhibition Speed Limits. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Timothy C. Harte | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:08

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 poetry and the paintings of Kazimir Malevich. With an introduction by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the 2009 exhibition Speed Limits. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Stephen Kern | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:36

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 multiplicity of lived times present in the works of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and Gertrude Stein. With an introduction by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the 2009 exhibition Speed Limits. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Tamar Zinguer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:41

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 introduction by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the 2009 exhibition Speed Limits. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Robert Levine | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:31

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 by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the 2009 exhibition Speed Limits. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Pierre Merlin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:21

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’occupe la vitesse dans la vie moderne, de l’art à l’architecture et à l’urbanisme, en passant par les arts graphiques, l’économie et la culture matérielle de l’ère industrielle et de celle de l’information. Un colloque organisé par le CCA en collaboration avec la Wolfsonian-Florida International University et le Stanford Humanities Lab. Les allocuteurs sont : Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University et Guy Nordenson & Associates Du 20 mai au 12 octobre, le CCA en collaboration avec la Wolfsonian-Florida International University, présente La vitesse et ses limites. Jeffrey T. Schnapp est le commissaire de cette exposition, qui souligne le centième anniversaire de la naissance du futurisme italien, mouvement à qui l’on doit la célèbre déclaration parue dans son manifeste inaugural : « La splendeur du monde s'est enrichie d'une beauté nouvelle : la beauté de la vitesse. » Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montréal, 21 juin 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Jeffrey Meikle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:45

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 offered both a euphoric celebration of speed and an antidote to its frightening pace. With an introduction by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Edward Dimendberg | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:13

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 future. With an introduction by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab, in preparation for the 2009 exhibition Speed Limits. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Speed and its Limits - Jeffrey Schnapp | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:41

Jeffrey T. Schnapp, moderator of Speed and its Limits, opens the colloquium with a discussion about his book project Quickening and the rise of a speed sub-culture in the pre-mechanical industrial era. With an introduction by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. Speed and its Limits explores the pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art to architecture and urbanism to graphics and design to economics to the material culture of the eras of industry and information. A colloquium organised by the CCA in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University and Stanford Humanities Lab. Featured speakers include: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford Humanities Lab Pierre Merlin, Université de Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin Robert Levine, California State University Tamar Zinguer, The Cooper Union Stephen Kern, Ohio State University Timothy C. Harte, Bryn Mawr College Guy Nordenson, Princeton University and Guy Nordenson & Associates From 20 May to 12 October 2009, the CCA, in collaboration with the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, presents Speed Limits. The exhibition is curated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and marks the centenary of the foundation of the Italian Futurist movement, whose inaugural manifesto famously proclaimed "that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 21 June 2008

 Mellon Lecture - Martin Kemp | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:19:23

Martin Kemp, 2004 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow and Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford, presents Processes and Structures: The Art and Science of Nature in Nature. Creative artists, architects, engineers, designers and scientists have all looked at nature with intuitions about underlying patterns of organization. Drawing on the column that he has been writing in the journal Nature for five years, Martin Kemp presents an overview of how artists and scientists have, knowingly and inadvertently, shared intuitions about natural design. A range of artists in various media feature. Architects and engineers include Antoni Gaudi, Buckminster Fuller, Cecil Balmond, and Toyo Ito. Martin Kemp was trained in natural sciences and art history. He was a Wolfson Research Professor at the British Academy (1993-98) and is currently Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many publications. He writes a regular column in Nature, now published in book form as Visualizations: The 'Nature' Book of Science and Art. He was co-curator of a major exhibition, Spectacular Bodies: the Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, at the Hayward Gallery London (2000-01). The CCA Mellon Foundation Senior Fellowship Program was established in 2001 to encourage advanced research in architectural history and thought. With the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, distinguished scholars of international repute are appointed Mellon Senior Fellows and join the Visiting Scholars in residence at the CCA Study Centre for extended periods each year. For a transcript of this lecture visit www.cca.qc.ca/mellonlectures Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 13 April 2004

 Urgency 2007 Part 3 - Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Phyllis Lambert | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 26:44

The third and final part of Urgency, in which major international architects Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice, followed by a conversation with CCA Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees Phyllis Lambert. This is the first annual presentation of the CCA’s Urgency event. The 2008 edition features Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang. Rem Koolhaas, Principal, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Peter Eisenman, Principal, Eisenman Architects Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Canadian Centre for Architecture Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 8 June 2007

 Urgency 2007 Part 2 - Peter Eisenman | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 26:44

The second of three parts of Urgency, in which major international architects Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice, followed by a conversation with CCA Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees Phyllis Lambert. This is the first annual presentation of the CCA’s Urgency event. The 2008 edition features Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang. Rem Koolhaas, Principal, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Peter Eisenman, Principal, Eisenman Architects Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Canadian Centre for Architecture Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 8 June 2007

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