Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Release Date: 11/29/2019
Audio-Introduction : Groundwork - To Build Law
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
This is an audio-introduction to the exhibition To Build Law, on show at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 10 December 2024 to 22 May 2025. According to a 2020 report by the UN Environment Programme, the construction industry accounts for at least , operating with narrow methods geared toward profit. Buildings are held as assets, torn down, and redeveloped, with limited consideration of community and environmental impacts. Meanwhile, housing crises escalate. Evidently, a systemic shift in the way we build and value our built environment is urgently needed. To Build...
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Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
“Market Landscape” is an investigation into the urban ecologies of two major financial districts: Hong Kong’s Central District and London’s Canary Wharf.
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Off:Re:Onshore, by Victor Muñoz Sanz
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
The audio documentary “Off:Re:OnShore,” by CCA Emerging curator Victor Muñoz Sanz, explores the legacy of industrial offshoring on the built environment of labour.
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“Sustainable?” Part 1: Introduction by Stan Allen/ Iñaki Ábalos
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Stan Allen and Iñaki Ábalos introduce “Sustainable?,” a colloquium and round table intiated by Àbalos to historically situate the issue of sustainability and construct a program for future engagement in architecture.
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“Sustainable?” Part 2: Unprecedented Collaborations, by Michelle Addington
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Michelle Addington introduces multiple contexts from which to re-examine our assumptions about sustainability, in the context of the “Sustainable?” colloquium.
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“Sustainable?” Part 3 : A Quarter Century of Environmentally Conscious Design, by Mahadev Raman
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Mahadev Raman charts his personal experience with the good, the bad, and the ugly of “sustainable” architecture from the 1970s to today, in the context of the “Sustainable?” colloquium.
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“Sustainable?” Part 4: The Reverse Utopianism of Sustaining Sustainability, by Mark Jarzombek
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Mark Jarzombek critiques some of the “procedures” that purport to create a sustainable sustainability, in the context of the “Sustainable?” colloquium.
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“Sustainable?” Part 5: Sustainability—The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture?, by Volker M. Welter
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Volker M. Welter talks about the history of sustainability, between vernacular architecture and modernist iconicity, in the context of the “Sustainable?” colloquium.
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“Sustainable?” Part 6: Integration of Sustainable Development Objectives in Buildings, the Swiss Approach, by Manuel Bauer
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Manuel Bauer discusses the Swiss economy and the idea of a “2000 Watt” society at horizon 2050, in the context of the “Sustainable?” colloquium.
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“Sustainable?” Part 7: Architecture and Sustainability, by Matthias Sauerbruch
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Matthias Sauerbruch speaks on low energy architecture at the Federal Environment Agency building in Dessau, in the context of the “Sustainable?” colloquium.
info_outline“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 up to the present day, this project explores how seemingly mundane design features—like parks, plantings, and land works—reveal new frameworks to understand the inner workings of global financial markets and their wider planetary impact. In doing so, the project aims to contribute to the knowledge of architecture’s role in the Anthropocene. (38 min English)
To learn more on the project: https://www.cca.qc.ca/marketlandscape
« Le paysage du marché » est une enquête sur les écologies urbaines de deux grands quartiers financiers : le district central de Hong Kong et Canary Wharf à Londres. Empêtré dans des histoires impériales s’étalant des premiers stades du capitalisme industriel jusqu’à nos jours, ce projet explore comment des caractéristiques de conception apparemment banales, telles que parcs, parterres et terrassements, révèlent de nouveaux cadres pour comprendre le fonctionnement des marchés financiers mondiaux et leur impact planétaire plus large. Ce faisant, ce projet vise à contribuer à la connaissance du rôle de l’architecture dans l’anthropocène. (38 minutes, Anglais)
Pour en apprendre plus sur le projet : https://www.cca.qc.ca/fr/evenements/70873/le-paysage-du-marche