“Sustainable?” Part 5: Sustainability—The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture?, by Volker M. Welter
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Release Date: 06/17/2007
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“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 intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos.
« Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table ronde, situe historiquement l’engagement de l’architecture envers le développement durable, et met en place un programme pour l’avenir sur la base de collaborations et de conversations entre architectes, ingénieurs et chercheurs. Organisé par l’architecte et chercheur Iñaki Àbalos. En anglais.
Ábalos & Herreros, architectural firm. Sample of motif of vegetation for the decorative windows, Plaza y torre Woermann, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, between 2001 and 2005. Ábalos & Herreros fonds, CCA. ARCH272011 © Iñaki Ábalos and Juan Herreros
Ábalos & Herreros, bureau d’architectes.Échantillon de motif végétal pour les fenêtres décoratives, Plaza y torre Woermann, Las Palmas, Îles Canaries, entre 2001 and 2005. Fonds Ábalos & Herreros, CCA. ARCH272011