Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)
Title
Urban Development Corporation (UDC)/Low Rise High Density (LRHD)
Dates of creation
1972-1975
Level of archival description
Subseries
Extent and Medium
0.05 l.m. of textual records
Scope and Content
Sub-series documents the Low Rise High Density (LRHD) projects undertaken in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York, by the IAUS in collaboration with the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), and the accompanying exhibition held in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Material in sub-series was produced between 1972 and 1975.
Sub-series contains correspondence, reports, budgets, project descriptions and exhibition catalogues.
Materials in this subseries were arranged to reflect their original order.
Location
Staten Island
New York
United States
Related units of description
Textual documents in file ARCH153469 (sub-series AP057.S1.SS2), file ARCH153564 (sub-series AP057.S2.SS3), and files ARCH153874, ARCH153875 (sub-series AP057.S4.SS4) also contain information relevant to sub-series AP057.S2.SS5.
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)
Description:
Minutes of meeting, 6 April 1973 Program Phase Report, 28 December 1972 Correspondence Outline of Presentation:CUNY, 25 February 1975 Descriptions of exhibition and catalogue contents
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0.01 l.m. of textual records
Credit line:
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Eisenman Architects/
Gift of Eisenman Architects
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)
Description:
Handwritten minutes of meeting, 6 April 1973 Memos from PDE, Peter Wolf Complaint letter to PDE from Kenneth Frampton, April 23 1972 Estimates for exhibition catalog Proposals and description of the structure of MoMA exhibition Budget Newspaper clippings, Newsdays, July 18 1973 Several project descriptions & cost analyses
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0.01 l.m. of textual records
Credit line:
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Eisenman Architects/
Gift of Eisenman Architects
Letter from Edward J. Logue to Arthur Drexler with attached draft letter from Edward J. Logue to Louis Winnick soliciting a donation from the Ford Foundation
Letter from Kenneth Frampton to Peter D. Eisenman about presentation to the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) and a critique of the organizational structure of IAUS
Memorandum from Peter Wolf to Theodore Liebman about the terms and scope of services for the schematic design phase of the Low-Rise HIgh-Density (LRHD) project
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)
Description:
Letters between PDE, Ed Logue of NYS Urban Development Corporation, and Arthur Drexler of MoMA about budget overruns concerning Low Rise High Density exhibition and catalogue
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0.01 l.m. of textual records
Credit line:
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Eisenman Architects/
Gift of Eisenman Architects
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)
Description:
Report Phase 1
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0.01 l.m. of textual records
Credit line:
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Eisenman Architects/
Gift of Eisenman Architects
Title: Another chance for housing : low-rise alternatives ; Brownsville, Brooklyn, Fox Hills, Staten Island
Dates of creation: 1973
Form: textual records
Catalogued items within this file 1
People:
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (archive creator)
Description:
[catalogue of] an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, June 12 - August 19 1973 / designed by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies for the New York State Urban Development Corporation. - New York : MoMA, 1973. 2 Catalogues from the MoMA exhibition
Quantity / Object type:
1 File
Extent and Medium:
0.01 l.m. of textual records
Credit line:
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Eisenman Architects/
Gift of Eisenman Architects
