As some pandemic restrictions lift in Montreal, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)’s galleries and bookstore will be re-opening to the public as of Wednesday, February 10, 2020.
Three new exhibitions will now finally receive visitors, following a series of introductions and conversations broadcasted online over the past months.
Rural Urban Framework (RUF), A site meeting underneath the highway in Shaanxi Province, China, 2014. © RUF, courtesy CCA Montreal
The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework, discusses how and why we should rethink the role of the architect, and explores the meaning of context today. The exhibition is curated by Francesco Garutti (CCA Curator, Contemporary Architecture) in collaboration with Rural Urban Framework (Hong Kong) and 51N4E (Brussels). Both offices work at the seams of urbanization, with projects situated in transitional settlements in Ulaanbaatar, in the new vernacular of rural China, in the transforming centres of Western European cities and in Albania?s shifting public spaces. Comparing their research and design processes, the project questions the extents and certainties of architecture against backdrops of indeterminate notions of citizenship, unstable stages of urbanization, and insecure economies and ecologies.
Audio introductions to the galleries are available online. The conversations are extended in the CCA’s web issue titled With and Within. The accompanying publication The Things Around Us (CCA/J...