About Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d’Architecture
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.
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 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 Brian Boigon fonds at the CCA, these principles also structured Boigon's broader practice as an artist, data architect, and design theorist. The exhibition centres on Culture Lab, presenting previously unseen video recordings in an accelerated, thirty-six-channel display that fragments and recomposes the symposium's architecture. The symposia are contextualized alongside other projects—Cartoon Regulators, SpillVille, Splinters, and Speed Reading Tokyo—to demonstrate the multiple modalities through which Boigon approached the design of interactive media.
The CCA presents the Culture Lab as a study that reconsiders the emergence of digital technologies in cultural and architectural production at the turn of the millennium.
23 Jan 2026
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 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.
23 Jan 2026
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 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 resistance while leaving a minimal trace on the earth. The pavilions will frame views of the region, but more importantly will set a vision for the future of the territory.
With an Acre is the third chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of practice.
23 Jun 2025
Audio-Introduction : Groundwork - To Build Law
This episode introduces the "To Build Law" exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, which examines the construction industry's impact and explores alternative approaches to building and valuing the built environment.
29 Nov 2019
Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet
This episode examines the urban ecologies of Hong Kong's Central District and London's Canary Wharf, revealing how design features expose global financial markets' planetary impact and architecture's role in the Anthropocene.
23 Jan 2018
Off:Re:Onshore, by Victor Muñoz Sanz
Victor Muñoz Sanz's audio documentary "Off:Re:OnShore" examines industrial offshoring's impact and architecture's role in reconciling work and well-being.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 3 : A Quarter Century of Environmentally Conscious Design, by Mahadev Raman
Mahadev Raman discusses environmentally conscious design over the last 25 years at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, focusing on collaborations between architects, engineers, and scholars.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 4: The Reverse Utopianism of Sustaining Sustainability, by Mark Jarzombek
Mark Jarzombek discusses the reverse utopianism of sustaining sustainability within architectural engagement, exploring collaborations between architects, engineers, and scholars in this episode.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 2: Unprecedented Collaborations, by Michelle Addington
Michelle Addington presents at the “Sustainable?” colloquium, exploring unprecedented collaborations between architects, engineers, and scholars to advance architectural engagement with sustainability.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 1: Introduction by Stan Allen/ Iñaki Ábalos
Architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos introduces a colloquium that historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability through collaborations between architects, engineers, and scholars.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 8: Ecological Urbanism, by Mohsen Mostafavi
Mohsen Mostafavi presents ecological urbanism as part of the "Sustainable?" colloquium, exploring architectural engagement with sustainability through collaborations among architects, engineers, and scholars.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 6: Integration of Sustainable Development Objectives in Buildings, the Swiss Approach, by Manuel Bauer
Manuel Bauer discusses the integration of sustainable development objectives in buildings using the Swiss approach, as part of the "Sustainable?" colloquium initiated by Iñaki Àbalos.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 5: Sustainability—The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture?, by Volker M. Welter
Volker M. Welter presents a historical perspective on architecture's engagement with sustainability, framing it as a collaborative effort among architects, engineers, and scholars.
17 Jun 2007
“Sustainable?” Part 7: Architecture and Sustainability, by Matthias Sauerbruch
Matthias Sauerbruch presents "Architecture and Sustainability," exploring architecture's historical engagement with sustainability through collaborations among architects, engineers, and scholars, initiated by Iñaki Àbalos.
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