标题:Tom Avermaete and Maristella Casciato, Casablanca Chandigarh. A Report on Modernization, with Photographic Missions by Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma
摘要:Since 1982, the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal has been organizing architectural exhibitions, some explicitly drawing on and valorizing the immense collection of the institute, while others seek first and foremost to present an engagement with and positioning vis-à-vis issues and challenges of the contemporary (local) architectural discipline. Or as the official website of the institute states, the CCA-exhibition program “forges links between architectural thinking and practice, addressing contemporary issues via historical perspectives and an engagement with social, environmental, and political themes.” 1 Over the years, the institute has contributed to a reflection on both architectural history and practice with important and challenging exhibitions, some monographic in nature, we can think of Paul Nelson (1991) or James Frazer Stirling (2012), but also ones which brought to the fore overlooked themes offering alternative perspectives from where to reread and rewrite the (recent) history of architecture. To name but a few: The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life (1998); 1973: Sorry, Out of Gas (2007–2008); Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War (2011); Imperfect Health (2011–2012).
关键词:urbanisme; historiographie de l’architecture; échange transnational; photographie