Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d'Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is an international research centre and museum in Montreal, founded on the belief that architecture is a public concern. Through its extensive collection, exhibitions, public programs, publications, and research opportunities, it advances knowledge and public understanding of architecture. The podcast explores architecture's history, theory, practice, and role in society. It is bilingual, with content in both English and French.
Episodes
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 throug
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 regim
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 p
Audio-Introduction : Groundwork - To Build Law
To Build Law This is an audio-introduction to the exhibition To Build Law, on show at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 10 December 2024 to 22 May 2025. According to a 2020 report by the UN Environment Programme, the construction industry accounts for at least 38 per cent of carbon emissions globally, operating with narrow methods geared toward profit. Buildings are held as assets, torn
Market Landscape: Speaking between Financial Districts and The Planet
"Market Landscape" is an investigation into the urban ecologies of two major financial districts: Hong Kong's Central District and London's Canary Wharf. Entangled by histories of empire stretching from the early stages of industrial capitalism up to the present day, this project explores how seemingly mundane design features—like parks, plantings, and land works—reveal new frameworks to understan
Off:Re:Onshore, by Victor Muñoz Sanz
The audio documentary "Off:Re:OnShore" explores the legacy of industrial offshoring, the effects of corporate actions on the built environment of labour, and the role of architecture in bringing closer ideas of work and the good life. This documentary was conceived and developed by Victor Muñoz Sanz during his residence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as 2015–2016 Emerging Curator. (35min.
"Sustainable?" Part 1: Introduction by Stan Allen/ Iñaki Ábalos
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 2: Unprecedented Collaborations, by Michelle Addington
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 3 : A Quarter Century of Environmentally Conscious Design, by Mahadev Raman
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 4: The Reverse Utopianism of Sustaining Sustainability, by Mark Jarzombek
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 5: Sustainability—The Shangri-La of Modern Architecture?, by Volker M. Welter
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 6: Integration of Sustainable Development Objectives in Buildings, the Swiss Approach, by Manuel Bauer
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 7: Architecture and Sustainability, by Matthias Sauerbruch
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
"Sustainable?" Part 8: Ecological Urbanism, by Mohsen Mostafavi
"Sustainable?," an international colloquium and roundtable, historically situates architectural engagement with sustainability, and constructs a program for future engagement based in collaborations and conversations between architects, engineers, and scholars from various disciplines. It was intiated by architect and scholar Iñaki Àbalos. « Sustainable? », un colloque international et une table r
