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Installation view of The Same Thing Looks Different, a 2023 exhibition at The Power Plant featuring concrete sculptures by Jen Aitken. Several grey and cream-coloured sculptures are visible in a large exhibition space. The floor of the space is grey and its walls are white.
Installation view of The Same Thing Looks Different, a 2023 exhibition at The Power Plant featuring concrete sculptures by Jen Aitken. Several grey and cream-coloured sculptures are visible in a large exhibition space. The floor of the space is grey and its walls are white.
Photo: The Power Plant/Toni Hafkenscheid.

Have you ever wondered Have you ever wondered

about the appeal of brutalist architecture?

Photo: The Power Plant/Toni Hafkenscheid.

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Brutalist Toronto: The Walking Tour

If you’ve ever wondered about brutalist architecture and are curious to find out more, here is your chance!

Learn about brutalist architecture in this free walking tour organized by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.

On Wednesday, August 30, join Brutalist Toronto: The Walking Tour, a fun and engaging tour led by award-winning architect Alex Josephson. The event will start with a tour of Jen Aitken’s exhibition The Same Thing Looks Different, and after, takes off for a walk from The Power Plant building to St Andrew Station. Josephson will draw connections between the brutalist architecture of Toronto’s landscape and the geometric forms of Aitken’s concrete statues.

A concrete sculpture in a museum. Two young women are crouched down beside it looking at the sculpture.

(Photo credit: Installation view of Jen Aitken’s The Same Thing Looks Different, The Power Plant, 2023. Photo by Henry Chan.)

 

About your tour guide: Alex Josephson

Born in Toronto, Canada, Alex Josephson studied architecture at the University of Waterloo and in Rome. He co-founded PARTISANS in 2012 after dropping out of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). Alex is the only Canadian to have received the New York Prize Fellowship at the Van Alen Institute, he was named 2015 Best Emerging Designer by Canada’s Design Exchange. He currently lectures at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture. Alex is a registered architect in Ontario.

 

Event details

Hosted by: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

Type of event: exhibition tour & walking tour

Featured artist: Jen Aitken, a Toronto-based sculptor

Tour guide: Alex Josephson, an award-winning architect

Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Start time: 6:00 PM EDT

Duration: 1 hour (non-recurring event)

Number of sessions: 1

Cost: free

Location: The walking tour starts at The Power Plant building at 231 Queens Quay West, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, M5J 2G8. After a tour of Jen Aitken’s exhibition The Same Thing Looks Different (currently going on at The Power Plant), the group will take off for a walk from The Power Plant building to St Andrew subway Station.

Booking link: Book your tickets here

Contact Details: The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, M5J 2G8, Canada; 416-973-4949, info@thepowerplant.org, www.thepowerplant.org

 

Accessibility: The Power Plant promotes physical and social inclusion. The gallery is wheelchair accessible and includes an accessible restroom. Both levels of the gallery are serviceable by elevator, and they also welcome guide dogs and other service animals. More accessibility info here.