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Agenda / November 07–April 07, 2019
Editors' Pick

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths

John Hejduk, Chronology of projects by John Hejduk: 1954–1974, c. 1974–1979.
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Main Gallery

1920 rue Baile

Montreal, Quebec

Date

November 07–April 07, 2019

Curator

Sylvia Lavin

A broad selection of material evidence—including drawings, models, and primary source documents gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives including the CCA collection—supports accounts of architects’ and architecture’s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenges the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself.