Sessions in which Prof. Marc Grignon participates
Friday 26 May, 2017
Sessions in which Prof. Marc Grignon attends
Wednesday 24 May, 2017
Thursday 25 May, 2017
As a marker within territory, architecture stakes a claim over that territory on behalf of those who design and build. In Canada, this dynamic inscribed colonial powers onto the land in the wake of Indigenous dispossession, and this architecture is often celebrated as reflective of settler nationhood. Yet other architectures also emerge out of this colonial past: those specifically constructed to further Canada’s attempts to assimilate First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities into the do...
This year, Canada marks the 150th anniversary of Confederation. To celebrate this momentous event, communities and organizations are uniting to examine our past and present, to consider plans for the future, and to try to define Canadian national identity. As a nation, Canada has always been a land of many voices, and thus of many identities; a fact that was formally recognized by parliament as multiculturalism some fifty years ago. Since then, we have become increasingly aware that Canadi...
Recuperation, reuse, recycling, reconversion, requalification: for over half a century, these concepts have been simultaneously associated with the notion of heritage. This period has been, in effect, marked by the transition from a “heritage of contemplation” to a “heritage of use,” to borrow Jean-Claude Marsan’s expression. In fact, buildings and sites are no longer just safeguarded for historic or aesthetic considerations, but for a new usage that is supposed to give them contemporary r...
This lecture examines some of the many fine historical churches in the Niagara region from the 1830s to the early 20th century. We commence with St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake (1831) and explain Scottish, English and American associations for the 'temple-form' design. After brief consideration of St Vincent-de-Paul Roman Catholic Church, Niagara-on-the-Lake, attention is turned to the Methodist Church at Beaverdams and the reconstruction of its original 1830s design a...
Friday 26 May, 2017
Although the study of architecture in Canada is a relatively young field, it is no exaggeration to say that more attention has been given to religious architecture than any other form of building in the country. That is because as long as people have inhabited the land that is now known as Canada, there have been buildings devoted to their religious beliefs and practices. Churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples can be found in communities across the country in every style, from vernacul...
The banquet includes a welcome drink, three-course dinner with three wine pairings, explained by a winemaker, as well as transportation to and from Ravine Estate Winery. Le banquet inclut un cocktail, un repas trois services avec trois mets-vins, expliqués par un vinificateur, ainsi qu'une navette aller-retour à Ravine Estate Winery. Cocktail : 18:20 Banquet : 19:00
Saturday 27 May, 2017
In light of the temporal emphasis of the conference as a whole, this session will investigate the idea of Canadian built environment in the context of “alternative modernities,” a term that defines Modernism not as a monolithic discourse, but as multiple aesthetic, cultural, and political ways of engaging with/or countering mainstream Western modernist narratives. In other words, how do constructed spaces/buildings in Canada run parallel to, or otherwise disrupt or complicate, dominant not...
Architectural walking tour of Niagara-on-the-Lake with the Niagara Historical Society and Museum. Visite à pied de l'architecture de Niagara-on-the-Lake avec le Niagara Historical Society and Museum. Meeting Point | Point de Rencontre : Niagara Historical Soceity and Museum, 43 Castlereagh Street, Niagara-on-the-Lake. (Approx. 8 minutes walking from downtown | 8 minutes à pied du centre-ville) Guide : Glenn Smith Description :