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DESCRIPTION:Exhibition at the McLennan Library lobby\n\nMinimum Cost Housin
 g Group: Design for the Global Majority\n\nThe Minimum Cost Housing Group 
 (MCHG) was founded in 1971 as a postgraduate program at McGill University’
 s School of Architecture by Columbian architect and alumnus Alvaro Ortega.
  Architects and students who joined the program were concerned with global
  access to adequate housing and ecology issues. This exhibition traces how
  student thesis work\, research papers\, technical papers\, reports and ot
 her types of formal and informational publications were essential outlets 
 for the transmission of the group’s innovative research. This research was
  wide-ranging\, from mitigating the environmental impacts of building mate
 rials\, and reducing environmental costs of buildings in use\, to explorin
 g culturally appropriate\, context-specific design norms. These displays a
 lso emphasize how\, from the 1970s to the 2010s\, the MCHG’s changing obje
 ctives and research priorities are reflected in the evolving aesthetics of
  the publications: inspired alternatively by countercultural environmental
 ism\, DIY\, photocollages\, aerial perspectives\, and computational imager
 y. Photographs\, architectural drawings\, step-by-step instructions\, visu
 al aids\, cartoons\, and collages are interspersed throughout\, offering a
  visually approachable lens through which to learn about the innovative te
 chnological and architectural research of the MCHG.\n\nThese collected mat
 erials represent archival holdings from the McGill Library’s John Bland Ca
 nadian Architecture Collection\, including the Alvaro Ortega Fonds\, Witol
 d Rybczynski Fonds\, and the personal collection of Vikram Bhatt. A more e
 xtensive and detailed exhibition will follow in Fall 2023 at the Peter Guo
 -hua Fu School of Architecture.\n\nThe exhibition is accessible during the
  opening hours of the McLennan Library Building. See details here: https:/
 /www.mcgill.ca/library/services/hours \n\n\n	\n\nAbout the curators\n\nCura
 tors:  Vikram Bhatt\, Ipek Türeli\, Arièle Dionne-Krosnick\n\nResearch: Ar
 ièle Dionne-Krosnick\, Beatriz da Silva Takahashi\n\nDesign and Communicat
 ion: Abigail MacKenzie\, Christopher Malouf\, Hannah Mansfield Thiessen\n
 \nLibrary Consultants: Tellina Liu\, Jennifer Garland\n
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LOCATION:McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 ru
 e McTavish
SUMMARY:Minimum Cost Housing Group: Design for the Global Majority
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/channels/event/minimum-cost-housing-
 group-design-global-majority-347863
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