Professor of Architectural History and Visual Culture, York University architecture, memory and place, architectural tourism, unesco heritage sites
Toronto
Joined April 2009
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What is it about architecture, and heritage in particular, that beckons us to travel? And what changes when we are forced into virtual experiences of place? @Shellhornstein explores architectural tourism in a time of pandemic sahgb.org.uk/features/archit…
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This image shows the Cinesphere’s iconic IMAX screen under construction (c. 1971).
Opening in 1971, the Cinesphere at Ontario Place was a building emblematic of the future. As the first IMAX theatre in the world and an engineering marvel it became a centrepiece at Ontario Pla
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There will be no lecture this Monday because of Yom Kippur. Join the ATCJS on the following Monday, October 5th at 4:00pm ET for our next talk in our Fall Lecture Series!
Attend here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8378497444…
No registration required. See you all there!
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EXCLUSIVE: Architectural historian and @UBuffalo professor Despina Stratigakos uncovers evidence of Hitler's systematic plan to rewrite the history of WWI in Germany's favor #RemembranceDay #longread bit.ly/ARdsWWI
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What do you perceive as the most pressing aspect of architectural history in higher education? SAH's Postdoctoral Researcher in the Humanities @SMDreller wants to know. ow.ly/AsJ450uDgmE #SAHDataProject
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"Visual and performing arts is becoming the dominant field within humanities and liberal arts....This field has supplanted English language and literature as the most popular degree in the humanities and liberal arts." ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/publica…
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Woo hoo!!! My @mcgillu colleague Prof David Theodore + TBA architects chosen for Canada's entry to the 2020 Venice Biennale! WOW! canadacouncil.ca/initiatives…
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“A party where everyone is talking too loud, standing too close, and jockeying for attention.” 👌 @JDavidsonNYC nymag.com/intelligencer/2019…
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Ipek and I made a podcast! itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/…
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Excited to be name-checked amongst such an impressive selection of feminists shifting the agenda in architecture! An amazing moment in our collective herstory....Thanks Jane!
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Sonja Bata's tastemaking extended to her original love — who could forget the modernist Bata HQ in Don Mills by architect John B Parkin (now site of the Aga Khan Museum)
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"'The old city was a discrete object sitting on a Tuscan hill surrounded by a collectively constructed wall; the new city is everywhere,' he writes. 'Only when we accept that we can only attain a partial understanding can work begin.’” @HawthorneLAT
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No os perdáis la última sesión de Rastros y Rostros, mañana a las 12 en el @CCHS_CSIC . Invitamos a Shelley Hornstein, quien nos hablará de la exposición "The Evidence Room", una reconstrucción de Auschwitz desde la arquitectura. – at Leganés, Spain
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Shelley Hornstein (York University, Toronto) impartirá una sesión del seminario Rastros y Rostros de la Violencia cchs.csic.es/es/event/semina…
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Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) German painter whose portraits of bohemians and lesbians in the Weimar period angered the Nazis #womensart
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Book release! The @Dochitect’s Journal- A collection of writings on the intersection of #Medicine and #Architecture bit.ly/2z4D0qJ – at Canada
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On sale now! My guide to Toronto's architecture: 26 tours through the streets and history of the city. #torontoarch torontoarchitecture.net – at Toronto, Ontario
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UChicago appointed co-commissioner of U.S. Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale news.uchicago.edu/article/20…
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Once Upon A City: Poor house helped Toronto’s destitute thestar.com/yourtoronto/once…
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She’s right: just as demolishing bldgs w/ horrific pasts doesn’t erase the problems, ex Mt Cashel @Shellhornstein books.google.ca/books?id=1Hd… nitter.cf/cbcthenational/status/…
Premier Kathleen Wynne says proposal to strip public schools of John A. Macdonald's name misses mark cbc.ca/1.4261433
