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A couple of upcoming architecture discussions that I grabbed from the Instant Coffee list:
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Architecture as Spectacle: A Panel Discussion
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Thursday, March 30, 7 to 8:30 pm
World-renowned architects are helping Toronto continue its unprecedented cultural revival on the once fragile shoulders of culture. In the heat of the transformation, join artists, authors, critics and scholars in a rousing discussion about how spectacular architecture contributes (or not) to the psyche of the city. Hear Michael Awad, Lisa Rochon, Christian Giroux and Daniel Young debate and explore the phenomenon of architecture as spectacle and its impact on everything from individual users to urban issues. Michael Awad is an architect, artist and urbanist; Lisa Rochon is an author and architecture critic for The Globe and Mail; Christian Giroux is a sculptor teaching at the University of Guelph; and Daniel Young has studied Critical Urban Geography at the University of Toronto.
General public $15 | AGO Members $12 | Students $10
Now On
Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture
David Milne Watercolours - Painting toward the Light
See both exhibitions for one great price.
Art Gallery of Ontario - www.ago.net
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A presentation by and discussion with: Thinkarchitecture
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Networked Cultures and Relational Architecture
a presentation by and discussion with:
Thinkarchitecture (London / Vienna)
Saturday the 18th of March 2006, 5:00pm
Toronto Free Gallery
660 Queen Street East, Toronto
416-913-0461
Event free of charge
ThinkArchitecture is a team of architects and cultural theorists who live and work in London and Vienna. Directors of ThinkArchitecture are Peter M?rtenb?ck and Helge Mooshammer.
In the past ten years ThinkArchitecture has developed and carried out a vast range of interdisciplinary art/architecture projects in the urban realm, including work in London’s Borough of Southwark (Authorising Space ), a derelict factory site in Vienna (7 Days in Paradise), the Brooklyn Bridge anchorage in New York (CruiseScapes ) and various other urban areas. Working with communities on site ThinkArchitecture generates dialogues through workshops, exhibitions and public debates, and produces makeshift architectural structures for temporary inhabitation.
ThinkArchitecture has contributed to international exhibitions in Argentina, Austria, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Russia and the USA. The practice has been nominated for the annual art incentive prize of the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam / Sandberg Institute , 1999, Best British Architectural Practice, 2000 and has been awarded renowned fellowships and prizes. Books include Die virtuelle Dimension (2001) , Visuelle Kultur (eds., 2003) , Cruising: Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures (2005) and the forthcoming Networked Cultures (2006).
www.thinkarchitecture.net
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Architecture as Spectacle: A Panel Discussion
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Thursday, March 30, 7 to 8:30 pm
World-renowned architects are helping Toronto continue its unprecedented cultural revival on the once fragile shoulders of culture. In the heat of the transformation, join artists, authors, critics and scholars in a rousing discussion about how spectacular architecture contributes (or not) to the psyche of the city. Hear Michael Awad, Lisa Rochon, Christian Giroux and Daniel Young debate and explore the phenomenon of architecture as spectacle and its impact on everything from individual users to urban issues. Michael Awad is an architect, artist and urbanist; Lisa Rochon is an author and architecture critic for The Globe and Mail; Christian Giroux is a sculptor teaching at the University of Guelph; and Daniel Young has studied Critical Urban Geography at the University of Toronto.
General public $15 | AGO Members $12 | Students $10
Now On
Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture
David Milne Watercolours - Painting toward the Light
See both exhibitions for one great price.
Art Gallery of Ontario - www.ago.net
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A presentation by and discussion with: Thinkarchitecture
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Networked Cultures and Relational Architecture
a presentation by and discussion with:
Thinkarchitecture (London / Vienna)
Saturday the 18th of March 2006, 5:00pm
Toronto Free Gallery
660 Queen Street East, Toronto
416-913-0461
Event free of charge
ThinkArchitecture is a team of architects and cultural theorists who live and work in London and Vienna. Directors of ThinkArchitecture are Peter M?rtenb?ck and Helge Mooshammer.
In the past ten years ThinkArchitecture has developed and carried out a vast range of interdisciplinary art/architecture projects in the urban realm, including work in London’s Borough of Southwark (Authorising Space ), a derelict factory site in Vienna (7 Days in Paradise), the Brooklyn Bridge anchorage in New York (CruiseScapes ) and various other urban areas. Working with communities on site ThinkArchitecture generates dialogues through workshops, exhibitions and public debates, and produces makeshift architectural structures for temporary inhabitation.
ThinkArchitecture has contributed to international exhibitions in Argentina, Austria, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Russia and the USA. The practice has been nominated for the annual art incentive prize of the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam / Sandberg Institute , 1999, Best British Architectural Practice, 2000 and has been awarded renowned fellowships and prizes. Books include Die virtuelle Dimension (2001) , Visuelle Kultur (eds., 2003) , Cruising: Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures (2005) and the forthcoming Networked Cultures (2006).
www.thinkarchitecture.net