Environmental Histories
(Lecture, in English, Paul Desmarais Theatre)
To kick off “Architecture and/for the Environment” — the CCA’s third Multidisciplinary Research Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — Daniel Abramson and Imre Szeman will present two key concepts that reconceive the environment in the history of architecture. Daniel Abramson, an architectural historian, will discuss how the idea of architectural “obsolescence” lies at the root of the paradigm of sustainability. Imre Szeman, a literature and film scholar, will speak about the contradictory social and environmental challenges which characterise “petrocultures”.
The multidisciplinary project, which the CCA will launch in 2017, will study the concepts, tools and methods that environmental histories in architecture might encompass.
For further information: http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/calendar?event=40923
