Audio-Introduction : How Modern : Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Release Date: 01/23/2026
Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 - Audio-Introduction
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
This is an Audio-Introduction from Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 presented at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 26 February 2026 to 30 August 2026 Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 proposes an understanding of the Culture Lab as a medium in its own right: a form of interactive entertainment that operates through liveness and staged conditions for participation, eliciting specific behaviours from participants. As evidenced by materials in the at the CCA, these principles...
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Audio-Introduction : How Modern : Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
This is an audio-introduction to the exhibition How Modern, on view at CCA from 20 November 2025 to 5 April 2026. The exhibition How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979, produced and curated in collaboration with M+ Museum in Hong Kong, reconsiders these assumptions. The exhibition takes the multimedia documentation of architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime as a point of departure, illuminating specific social and cultural microhistories that are not evident in purely textual historical sources. These social biographies of...
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Audio-Introduction - With An Acre
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
You are listening to the audio-introduction of With an Acre. With an Acre follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum and community space in solidarity with Flor de Café, a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais. Inspired by the temporality of Indigenous collective structures and the form of highway billboards that mark the extended rural landscape in the region, Juaçaba proposes a landmark on an elevated plantation overlooking the town of Nepomuceno. Light and tactical construction will provide a space for sharing knowledge, offering a symbolic stage of...
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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.
info_outlineThis is an audio-introduction to the exhibition How Modern, on view at CCA from 20 November 2025 to 5 April 2026.
The exhibition How Modern: Biographies of Architecture in China 1949-1979, produced and curated in collaboration with M+ Museum in Hong Kong, reconsiders these assumptions. The exhibition takes the multimedia documentation of architectural production under the socialist Chinese regime as a point of departure, illuminating specific social and cultural microhistories that are not evident in purely textual historical sources. These social biographies of projects—characterized by material and technical inventiveness, continuities and discontinuities with social, economic, and political inclinations, and direct and indirect influences from within and beyond the Eastern bloc—challenge prevailing assessments of design and architectural practice in Mao’s China as monolithic, hermetic, and autocratic.
Examining more nuanced histories and narratives behind projects from the undocumented perspectives of design institutes, architects, and inhabitants, the exhibition extends the CCA’s research into new readings of modern architecture and practice across different geographies, cultures and sociopolitical contexts.
The exhibition is organized by the CCA in collaboration with M+, Hong Kong.