Carnegie Mellon Research Institute (CMRI)

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Carnegie-Mellon University (client)
Eisenman Architects (architectural firm)
Eisenman Architects (creator)
Eisenman/Robertson Architects (architectural firm)
Eisenman/Robertson Architects (creator)
Damianos & Associates (architectural firm)
Damianos & Associates (creator)
Hanna/Olin Ltd. (landscape architectural firm)
Hanna/Olin Ltd. (creator)
Peter Eisenman (archive creator)

Title:

Carnegie Mellon Research Institute (CMRI)

Date:

1987-1989

Level of archival description:
File 72

Extent and medium:

Approximately 1320 drawings
13 models
10 rolls
1.53 l.m. of textual records

3 floppy disks

Scope and content:
File documents the unexecuted project for the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Material in this file was produced between 1987 and 1989.

File contains design development drawings, photographic material, presentation drawings, record drawings, working drawings, reference drawings, models and design schematics that may have been used for presentations and possibly for publication.

Drawings include reprographic copies, ink, graphite, and coloured pencil on translucent paper works, and negatives.

Textual records include contracts, correspondence, memos, file index, zoning, schematics, 3 computer disks, 31 photographs, 1 artifact, program, costs, copies of presentation drawings, agreements, project description, estimates, preliminary plan, design criteria, meeting minutes.

The models include a presentation model in 5 pieces, 10 boxes of study models, and 2 Oxford Office Complex study models in 1 piece and in 8 pieces.

Reference number:

AP143.S4.D72

Location:

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States

Language of material:

Documents are in English.

General note:

Some material in this file has been processed at a preliminary level. Consult curator for further information.

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