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2012 EXHIBITIONS
LAPOINTE MAGNE ET ASSOCIÉS (1992- 2012)
January 26 - May 5
La Maison de l'architecture du Québec est heureuse de présenter LAPOINTE MAGNE ET ASSOCIÉS (1992- 2012) vus par Marie-Paule Macdonald : Dialogues avec la ville en transformation
VERNISSAGE JEUDI 26 JANVIER 2012 18H Cette exposition monographique doublée de sa publication poursuit sa série des MONOGRAPHIES MAQ par laquelle la Maison de l'architecture du Québec veut analyser en profondeur le travail d'architectes québécois marquants des années 1995-2015, et mieux les situer et comprendre dans le contexte international.
La Maison de l'Architecture du Quebec 181,
rue Saint-Antoine Ouest Montréal, QC 2HZ 1H2
2011 EXHIBITIONS
INSTALLATIONS BY ARCHITECTS
June 9 - August 6, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9 at 6:30pm Remarks: 7 pm
Curated by Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach
INSTALLATIONS BY ARCHITECTS LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING
Presented by Sarah Bonnemaison
Thursday, July 14 at 6:30 pm
University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Main Lecture Theatre
Participating architects include: Atelier in Situ, Philip Beesley, Dan Hoffman, Dilller + Scofidio, Marianne Lund, John Hejduk, James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi + Terence van Eslander, Lab(au), Richard Kroeker, Périphériques Architects and more.
Installations by Architects features a collection of the mostsignificant projects from the last twenty-five years by today’s most exciting architects. Projects are grouped under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. Architechtural installations that invite the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. These temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers’ experiences of the environment, and engage them around issues in the built environment and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people’s everyday lives.
Installations by Architects aims to sharpen our understanding of the built environment. The exhibition presents printed banners and film projection rather than photographs, drawings, or architectural models.
The book Installations by Architects (Princeton Architectural Press 2009) includes interviews with the project architects and discussions by critics and theorists and will be available for sale at the Gallery.
Admission is free, everyone is welcome.
CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES DESIGN AT RIVERSIDE
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario N1S 2H4
www.cambridgegalleries.ca
PROJECTS REVIEW 2011
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 19 at 6:30 pm
Recent student work and projects from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture
April 18 - May 28, 2011
Cambridge Galleries, DESIGN AT RIVERSIDE
7 Melville Street South, Cambridge, Ontario
T 519.621.0460
Hours: Tues-Thurs 12-8 pm, Fri 12-5 pm, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 1:30 - 4:30 pm.
Image: Liana Bresler, embedded boundaries - plan of wastewater treatment landscape, 2010. Image courtesy of the artist.
The annual Projects Review exhibition celebrates exemplary student work of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, featuring projects drawn from the undergraduate Design Studios and Masters Thesis program between May 2010 and April 2011. The selected undergraduate work includes both final design projects and preparatory design exercises from the first to fourth year of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies program as well as outstanding Graduate thesis work drawn from the professional Master of Architecture program.
The exhibition provides the school community and the public the opportunity to see the architectural imagination, creative design solutions and drawing and modelling techniques explored by students in the architecture program.
NEXT NORTH: INFRANET LAB AND LATERAL OFFICE
Opening Reception, Tuesday January 25 @ 6:30pm
Exhibition runs January 20 – February 27, 2011
The myth of the Canadian north is tied to its unique geography– a territory vast, sparsely populated, fragile and sublime. Yet, with an estimated quarter of the world’s undiscovered energy resources and one of the most dramatically changing climatological conditions, the Arctic region has become a site of significant economic and development speculation. The sensitivity of this context, and the urgency with which it must be addressed, cannot be overstated. However, there appears to be little evidence of a vision of development beyond economic efficiency and expediency. How to document this complex region, and envision futures that reconcile development with traditional living patterns and fragile ecosystems will be amongst the key questions of the 21st century. The Next North exhibition proposes an alternate vision for the North, one in which architecture maintains a unique synergy with place and context.
The focal point of the Next North exhibition is a large immersive landscape installation, comprised of twenty five thousand points/dowels. This topography “samples” a range of landscapes across the Canadian North – from Kuujjuaq (QC) to Old Crow (YT) - and will host nine plexi-glass and 3-D print models accompanied by drawings and larger tectonic investigations including maps, timelines photographs that introduce viewers to the remarkable transformations taking place in the North.
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Lateral Office established (2003) by Mason White and Lola Sheppard, was awarded the 2010 Prix de Rome for their research project Emergent North. Lateral was a finalist in the WPA 2.0 international competition in 2009, and were awarded the Young Architects’ Forum from the Architectural League of New York in 2005.
InfraNet Lab (IFL) is a research collective founded (2008) by Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Neeraj Bhatia and Maya Przybylski. InfraNet was awarded the prestigious publication Pamphlet Architecture 30 – published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
The exhibition wil be held at Design at Riverside, on the ground floor of the School of Architecture in Cambridge.
2010 EXHIBITIONS
MASTER WORKS 2010 - JERUSALEM SARAJEVO + ECSTATIC CITIES
Opening Reception, Tuesday November 2nd at 6:30 pm
Master Works is a juried exhibition that showcases exceptional thesis projects by recent Masters of Architecture graduates of the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture. The exhibition is selected from proposals submitted to the Design at Riverside Advisory Committee, comprised of representatives from Cambridge Galleries and from the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture.
For the first time, the committee selected two projects for Master Works. Ecstatic City and Jerusalem/Sarajevo--in-between cities will be exhibited separately, but simultaneously.
The show runs until November 14, 2010
JERUSALEM, SARAJEVO: IN BETWEEN CITIES
Caught between a tormented past and a contested future, between religions and nationalities, both Jerusalem and Sarajevo are cities of multiplicity and division. They are places where mosques, churches and synagogues are found side by side, where the boundary between personal welfare and the fate of the city itself dissolves. From the frequent portrayal of these two cities in the media it is... often difficult to discern the complex realities of daily life. This exhibition seeks to register the multiplicities of human experiences through the work of two recently completed UW School of Architecture theses that of Liana Bresler and Lejla Odobasic.
ECSTATIC CITY
The joint exhibition of the creative works of Tara Keens Douglas & Lisa Rajkumar-Maharaj, ECSTATIC CITY brings together art, celebration and urbanism; two vibrant and unique perceptions of the Trinidadian Carnival. The exhibition considers the relationship of the festival to personal architecture, space and urban form. In a vivid and dynamic display of interpretive works including paintings, costumes, photographs, and film, the exhibition communicates the vibrant form of Carnival through the embodied experiences of two students of the School of Architecture.
The show runs until November 14, 2010
SNØHETTA, architecture – landscapes – interiors
Cambridge Galleries Design at Riverside
June 17 - August 14, 2010
Exclusive Canadian venue for the North American exhibition tour (Canada, United States, Mexico)
SNØHETTA architecture – landscapes – interiors is an innovative inter-disciplinary, 20 year retrospective of the work of Norway’s renowned architecture phenom. The exhibition features 11 of SNØHETTA’s significant projects via film, computer animation, photographs, drawings, architectural models, texts and an interactive multi-touch table.
Exhibition design and production
Curator: Eva Madshus, Senior Curator, the National Museum
Exhibition design: Askim/Lantto Arkitekter, the National Museum and SNØHETTA
Graphic design: Bleed
Multi-touch installation: One Communication
Website: http://www.snoarc.no/
CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES DESIGN AT RIVERSIDE
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6
www.cambridgegalleries.ca
GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday to Thursday: 12 - 8 pm, Friday: 12 - 5 pm, Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
(Closed Sundays during the summer from Victoria Day weekend through Labour Day weekend)
MEDIA CONTACT:
Katrina Jennifer Bedford
jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca
519.621.0460 ext. 119
WINTER TERM EXHIBITIONS
PROJECTS REVIEW 2010
Opening Reception - Tuesday, April 20 at 6:30 pm
Recent student work and projects from the
University of Waterloo School of Architecture
April 19 - May 29, 2010
The annual Projects Review exhibition celebrates exemplary student work of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, featuring projects drawn from the undergraduate Design Studios and Masters Thesis program between April 2008 and March 2009. The selected undergraduate work includes both final design projects and preparatory design exercises from the first to fourth year of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies program as well as outstanding Graduate thesis work drawn from the professional Master of Architecture program.
The exhibition provides the school community and the public the opportunity to see the architectural imagination, creative design solutions and drawing and modelling techniques explored by students in the architecture program.
Cambridge Galleries’ exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Curated by Professor Dereck Revington and Coordinated by Diana Zepf and Timea Jakab.
Publication forthcoming.
PORTRAITS FROM ABOVE: Hong Kong's Informal Rooftop Communities
Opening Reception - Thursday, January 14, 6:30pm
Rufina Wu + Stefan Canham
Exhibition runs January 14-February 20 at Design at Riverside
Rufina Wu will be present at the public reception
CANADIAN PREMIERE OF AWARD WINNING EXHIBITION AND BOOK
THE PORTRAITS FROM ABOVE STORY
Self-built settlements on the roofs of high-rise buildings have been an integral part of Hong Kong’s history for over half a century. The rise of rooftop communities is closely linked to the migration history from the Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With each of China’s tumultuous political movements in the 20th century, like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, there was a corresponding wave of Mainland Chinese migrating to Hong Kong. The large influx of migrants resulted in a severe housing shortage and fostered the emergence of informal settlements. People constructed living spaces by utilizing every available space and all types of materials on the flat roofs of high-rise buildings. These rooftop structures range from basic shelters to intricate multi-storey constructions equipped with many of the amenities of modern life and have enabled subsequent waves of migrants to live in the central urban areas of the city.
Rufina Wu (Canada) and Stefan Canham (Germany) utilize the tools of an architect and the tools of a photographer to document the rooftop communities of five buildings located in older districts in the Kowloon Peninsula and slated for redevelopment by the Urban Renewal Authority of Hong Kong. Text records of the residents’ stories, measured drawings of each distinct rooftop structure, and high-resolution images of the domestic interiors of more than twenty households offer an unprecedented insight into the everyday life of Hong Kong’s rooftop residents. <>Rufina Wu was born in Hong Kong in 1980. She is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, and a CCSEP Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China 2005-06. She received AIA Medals for her Bachelor of Architecture thesis (Three Gorges Commune), and Master of Architecture thesis (BeijingUnderground). Her research interest focuses on informal housing tactics associated with rapid urban development and population mobility. She splits her time between Hong Kong and Vancouver.
Stefan Canham was born in England in 1968 and currently resides in Hamburg, Germany. He studied Film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste and has been working freelance on documentary photo and television projects since 1995. His work focuses on the usage of urban space, in particular on marginalized communities and forms of self-housing. He has exhibited in Germany and abroad.
The Portraits from Above book, winner of the 2008 International Bauhaus Award, is a wonderfully illustrated 275 page, bilingual paperback (English & Chinese), jointly published by mccmcreations of Hong Kong and pepperoni books of Berlin. Graphic Design: Hannes Wanderer, Ana Druga, Berlin.
A limited number of books are available from Cambridge Galleries for $38 CAD plus GST/shipping & handling. Please contact the Gallery for more information.