Triangle Gallery 09.09 — 12.10.2011
Imperfect Health opens 25 October 2011
From the Collection of the Canadian Architectural Archives University of Calgary Connections with Collections Series BUILDING A HISTORY Highlights of 20 th Century Canadian Architecture
Stephen Smith, photographer. Turquoise Lawn, Sun City, Arizona . 1981. Chromogenic colour print, 32.3 x 48.3 cm. CCA Collection. PH1983:0011 © Stephen Smith As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the complexity of today’s health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Imperfect Health is curated by Giovanna Borasi, CCA Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Mirko Zardini, CCA Director and Chief Curator. www.cca.qc.ca
Sturgess Architecture. Spiral House in Calgary: Entry Courtyard Rendition/Sidewalk View #1, n.d.
Building A History: Highlights of 20 th Century Canadian Architecture is drawn from the rich collections of the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary and reflects the growing interest of architectural drawings as art form. The Canadian Architectural Archives is widely recognized as one of the few Canadian institutions dedicated to the preservation of architectural records and the promotion of architecture as fundamental to the definition of a culture and society. The exhibition features a great diversity of drawings from a period in Canadian history in which Canadian architecture found its own voice, and the subjects cut across many different categorical boundaries. This is a timely exhibition as Canadians are becoming more aware of their architectural legacy and are engaging in public discussions of what makes architecture great, thus contributing to a better understanding of Canadian cities.
Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts • 800 Macleod Trail SE • Calgary Alberta T2G 2M3 //caa.ucalgary.ca
Mapping a Prairie City: Lethbridge and Its Suburbs
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge Alberta June 24 – September 5, 2011
Mary Kavanagh and Rose De Clerck-Floate. Video documentation of plant growth at the Police Shooting Range and Water Treatment Plant, Lethbridge Alberta
Field Notes Collective is a group of arts professionals and scientists working in the Southern Alberta area who are bound by a shared set of social, environmental and cultural concerns. The mandate of the Collective is to foster dialogue and action through the staging of cross-disciplinary events, engaging with matters of local and regional interest. Mapping a Prairie City: Lethbridge and Its Suburbs introduces the Field Notes Collective through the presentation of externally sited works-in-progress by six collaborative art-science teams. Emerging from dynamic intersections in their research and creative practices, these projects have evolved through con- versation and field trips to artist studios, research stations, laboratories, rangelands and parks. Combin- ing aesthetic gestures with scientific methodology such as data collecting and seasonal tracking, many of these projects are also responsive to political and economic pressures that affect public policy and quality of life in the city, while raising questions regarding land use, community and place.
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