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'A Section of Now' aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications, and seeks to catalyse urban and architectural interventions that accommodate, influence, and, in some cases, pre-empt our new lived realities. Authors address topics ranging from the safety of digital spaces to how normative life trajectories affect the elderly and the many selves each of us puts forward, while architects present frameworks for, among other things, spaces for blended families, thirty-year-old retirees, and contested monuments. Bringing together analytical essays about the contemporary moment and the direction in which society is moving, projective texts that outline new architectural types to address societal needs, alongside television series, photography, and architecture and design projects, 'A Section of Now' outlines a new relationship between the spaces in which we live and the ways we live within them. Architect, editor, and curator Giovanna Borasi is Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

Architectuur ; ontwerpen ; sociale en menselijke voorzieningen --- Architectuur en maatschappij ; alternatieve samenlevingsmodellen --- Architecturale ruimte ; psychologische en sociale impact --- Cultuurfilosofie ; rituelen --- Architectuurtheorie ; rituelen ; stijlen --- 72.01 --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica

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"This film is part of a curatorial project carried out by Francesco Garutti while in residence as Emerging Curator 2013-2014 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The film explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses on Long Island, commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the influential American public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges had been designed expressly to prevent the passage of buses, thereby only allowing people who could afford to own a car to access Long Island's leisure spaces. The questions that the story raises are timlier now than ever before. They engage with issues of secrecy and control, the morals of power and the effects of technology: What is the relationship between politics and artefacts? How and to what degree can a project's intentions be deliberately concealed? What are the deviously designed effects and the unplanned political consequences of the agency of the artefacts that surround us? The film explores these questions through interviews with four scholars who in the 1980s and 1990s debated possible interpretations of the case. The film alludes rather than explains, interweaving reportage with the abstraction of theories. It mixes the deafening sound of automobiles with the singing of the birds that live along the parkways of Long Island, which are now almost one hundred years old."--Container.

Bridges --- Parkways --- Highway planning --- Architecture --- Political aspects --- History --- Historiography. --- Moses, Robert,

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Architectural museums --- Research institutes --- Curatorship --- Museum techniques --- Museums --- Architecture --- 727.7 --- Institutes, Research --- Research centers --- Think tanks --- Universities and colleges --- Learned institutions and societies --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Education --- Museology --- Curating --- Curatorial practice --- 727.7 Gebouwen voor musea (museumarchitectuur). Kunstmusea --- Gebouwen voor musea (museumarchitectuur). Kunstmusea --- Educational aspects --- Social aspects --- Design and construction --- Technique --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies --- Architecture, Primitive

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Architecture --- Visionary architecture --- Philosophy. --- Lynn, Greg, 1964 --- -Maltzan, Michael --- Poli, Alessandro, --- Canadian Centre for Architecture

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