Canadian Centre for Architecture Podcast
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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.
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Sustainable?, an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was initiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. -
Michelle Addington introduces multiple contexts from which to re-examine our assumptions about sustainability.
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Sustainable?: A Quarter Century of Environmentally Conscious Design Canadian Centre for Architecture PodcastMahadev Raman charts his personal experience with the good, the bad, and the ugly of “sustainable” architecture, from the 1970s to today.
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Sustainable?: The Reverse Utopianism of Sustaining Sustainability Canadian Centre for Architecture PodcastMark Jarzombek critiques some of the “procedures” that purport to create a sustainable sustainability.
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Sustainable?: Sustainability—The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture? Canadian Centre for Architecture PodcastVolker M. Welter talks about the history of sustainability, between vernacular architecture and modernist iconicity.
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Sustainable?: Integration of Sustainable Development Objectives in Buildings, the Swiss Approach Canadian Centre for Architecture PodcastManuel Bauer discusses the Swiss economy and the idea of a “2000 Watt” society at horizon 2050.
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Matthias Sauerbruch speaks on low energy architecture at the Federal Environment Agency building in Dessau.
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Mohsen Mostafavi reflects on projects for sustainable housing from the Solar Decathlon competition at Cornell University.
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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 documentary was conceived of and developed by Víctor Muñoz Sanz during his residence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as 2015–2016 Emerging Curator. In recent decades, economies of the Global South have been shaped by offshore production and labour-intensive industrialization, which often come with dangerous work conditions, inadequate wages, and sexual exploitation, notably in the garment industry. Today, working and living conditions in and ... -
Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet Canadian Centre for Architecture PodcastMany international firms headquartered in major financial districts play a key part in funding industries responsible for climate change and environmental degradation—such as palm oil plantations, deep-sea drilling, and tar sands mining. In the public imaginary, these activities are often thought of as problems unfolding in far-flung landscapes. This project highlights how they also take place within a planetary-scale market landscape at the centres of our cities. 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 ...
