Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d'Architecture
by CCA
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.
Episodes
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Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994 - Audio-Introduction
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…
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Audio-Introduction : How Modern : Biographies of Architecture in China 1949–1979
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...
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Audio-Introduction - With An Acre
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...
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Audio-Introduction : Groundwork - To Build Law
To Build Law 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 38 per cent of carbon...
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Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet
"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...
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Off:Re:Onshore, by Victor Muñoz Sanz
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 and developed by Victor Muñoz...
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"Sustainable?" Part 1: Introduction by Stan Allen/ Iñaki Ábalos
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 2: Unprecedented Collaborations, by Michelle Addington
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 3 : A Quarter Century of Environmentally Conscious Design, by Mahadev Raman
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 4: The Reverse Utopianism of Sustaining Sustainability, by Mark Jarzombek
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 5: Sustainability—The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture?, by Volker M. Welter
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 6: Integration of Sustainable Development Objectives in Buildings, the Swiss Approach, by Manuel Bauer
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 7: Architecture and Sustainability, by Matthias Sauerbruch
"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...
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"Sustainable?" Part 8: Ecological Urbanism, by Mohsen Mostafavi
"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...
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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.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.
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