Takashi Homma, photographer. Street market with shop-cum-flats in the background, Sector 22, Chandigarh. Commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal © Takashi Homma

29 November 2014, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm 
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

With TU Delft we have organized a public seminar at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam centered around the 2013 CCA publication Casablanca-Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization. The presentations and discussion will focus on the emergence, character and role of Casablanca and Chandigarh, two radically modern cities planned in the beginning of the 1950s. After a presentation by authors Maristella Casciato and Tom Avermaete, there will be reactions to particular themes and perspectives by Stanislaus von Moos, Antoni Folkers, and Frits Palmboom.

Programme

Introduction
Dirk van den Heuvel – Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Het Nieuwe Instituut and TU Delft

Staging Casablanca and Chandigarh
Maristella Casciato – Canadian Centre of Architecture, Montreal
Tom Avermaete – TU Delft

Themes and Perspectives
‘The Architecture of Urgency’, Stanislaus von Moos – University of Zurich
‘Chandigarh and its Landscapes’, Frits Palmboom – TU Delft
‘Modern Architecture in Africa’, Antoni Folkers – African Architecture Matters (AAM)

The seminar is free and will be conducted in Dutch and English. Learn more here.

> via The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)