CUAG: Lunchtime Lecture: Outside These Walls w/ Ben Gianni

CUAG: Lunchtime Lecture: Outside These Walls w/ Ben Gianni

Categories: Lectures and Seminars, Visual Arts | Intended for

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM | Add to calendar

Carleton University Art Gallery

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Fiona Wright, 613-520-2600 x4219, fiona.wright@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: Carleton University Art Gallery
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Each semester, Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) showcases a Carleton faculty member whose academic interests complements one of our current exhibitions, and invites them to give a talk on their research.

Join us for a lecture on Regent Park, the divisive and diverse Toronto neighbourhood seen in the photographs by David Ofori Zapparoli in Outside These Walls: Photographs by Yannick Anton and David Ofori Zapparoli. Prof. Ben Gianni (Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism) will discuss the history of the area, the structure of Regent Park as it took form in the 1940s and 1950s, and a reflection on the circumstances leaving to its redevelopment.

Bring your lunch, the gallery will provide coffee and tea, and we’ll all learn something new!

Professor Ben Gianni’s research interests focus on the areas of housing and urban development. Of particular interest is public housing constructed in the decades following WWII in Europe and North America, and its redevelopment from the 1990s onward. He is currently finishing a book on pre-WWII suburbanization in Pittsburgh, comparing the form of automobile suburbs from the 1920s with the streetcar suburbs that preceded them. Prof. Gianni teaches courses on housing and urban history, as well as leading the housing studio in the 4th year of the BAS program. A former Director of both the School of Architecture and the School of Information Technology at Carleton, he is currently coordinating the School’s Urbanism major.