Project
AP198.S1.1997.PR02
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Project records document the design process for OCEAN North’s competition entry for the Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre in 1997. The project was titled Terra Cultura by OCEAN North. The international competition called to create a multi-usage space that would include a venue for the symphonic orchestra, a music school, exhibition spaces, and the possibility to host a variety of small cultural events in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä. The proposed site is in the center of the town, across the street from the Jyväskylä city church and its park, and nearby buildings designed by Alvar Aalto. OCEAN North’s concept presents a topological surface as an extension of the surrounding urban scape with two masses that would host the formal functions of the building (concert hall, music school, exhibition halls). The two volumes, or raised blocks, are divided along a diagonal elevated space, which is the extension of the ground’s topological surface filled and dubbed “Liquid Flow Space” by the design team. In their interview with Greg Lynn, Johan Bettum and Kivi Sotamaa mentioned that the idea for Jyväskylä was that it was a cloud. Digital files, in particular, show the process to achieve the projected design. Drawings provide views of streamed particles and of resulting peels. They also include plans, elevations and axonometric views of the structure. Most files are raster or vector images, likely saved from CAD software. A few files are in CAD formats such as Microstation, 3D Studio and form*Z. Digital files also present sine wave analysis and resulting charts for each component of the program. The analysis and charts present the relationships between various components of the building’s program such as the Art Museum, the Concert Halls, the technical space, and the Common facilities. These files are raster images and spreadsheets. Photographs of the site in Jyväskylä and of models built by OCEAN North were digitized and are included with the digital working files. Physical drawings are chiefly floor plans for the building, but also include sections and sketches. Finally, project files include photographic prints of two built models. One of these models, a small model of the conceptual masses of the building structure, is itself in the archive. Photographs show the model in the context of a city scape model. The second model, not part of the archive at CCA, was built at a bigger scale and was an intricate cardboard and wooden stick structure. Sources: Softspace: from a representation of form to a simulation of space, Edited by Sean Lally and Jessica Young. London, New York: Routledge, 2007. Greg Lynn, ed. Archaeology of the Digital 17: OCEAN North, Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017. ePub.
1997
Terra Cultura – Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, international competition entry
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AP198.S1.1997.PR02
Description:
Project records document the design process for OCEAN North’s competition entry for the Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre in 1997. The project was titled Terra Cultura by OCEAN North. The international competition called to create a multi-usage space that would include a venue for the symphonic orchestra, a music school, exhibition spaces, and the possibility to host a variety of small cultural events in the Finnish city of Jyväskylä. The proposed site is in the center of the town, across the street from the Jyväskylä city church and its park, and nearby buildings designed by Alvar Aalto. OCEAN North’s concept presents a topological surface as an extension of the surrounding urban scape with two masses that would host the formal functions of the building (concert hall, music school, exhibition halls). The two volumes, or raised blocks, are divided along a diagonal elevated space, which is the extension of the ground’s topological surface filled and dubbed “Liquid Flow Space” by the design team. In their interview with Greg Lynn, Johan Bettum and Kivi Sotamaa mentioned that the idea for Jyväskylä was that it was a cloud. Digital files, in particular, show the process to achieve the projected design. Drawings provide views of streamed particles and of resulting peels. They also include plans, elevations and axonometric views of the structure. Most files are raster or vector images, likely saved from CAD software. A few files are in CAD formats such as Microstation, 3D Studio and form*Z. Digital files also present sine wave analysis and resulting charts for each component of the program. The analysis and charts present the relationships between various components of the building’s program such as the Art Museum, the Concert Halls, the technical space, and the Common facilities. These files are raster images and spreadsheets. Photographs of the site in Jyväskylä and of models built by OCEAN North were digitized and are included with the digital working files. Physical drawings are chiefly floor plans for the building, but also include sections and sketches. Finally, project files include photographic prints of two built models. One of these models, a small model of the conceptual masses of the building structure, is itself in the archive. Photographs show the model in the context of a city scape model. The second model, not part of the archive at CCA, was built at a bigger scale and was an intricate cardboard and wooden stick structure. Sources: Softspace: from a representation of form to a simulation of space, Edited by Sean Lally and Jessica Young. London, New York: Routledge, 2007. Greg Lynn, ed. Archaeology of the Digital 17: OCEAN North, Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre, Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2017. ePub.
Project
1997
photographs
AP140.S1.SS2.D2.P3
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views of Eduardo Paolozzi and various buildings including Kissa House and Gate (House in the Chilterns), Bentham Road Flats, West Wycombe, Marylebone Lane School, Cotswold Barns, a Finnish apartment house by Aalto, and other unidentified buildings; also includes envelopes, a letter from a photographic printing company to James Stirling, and an article titled "British Low-Cost Housing Described by Architect" in which "James Sterling" [sic] is mentioned
circa 1950s-1970s
Views of Eduardo Paolozzi and various buildings
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AP140.S1.SS2.D2.P3
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views of Eduardo Paolozzi and various buildings including Kissa House and Gate (House in the Chilterns), Bentham Road Flats, West Wycombe, Marylebone Lane School, Cotswold Barns, a Finnish apartment house by Aalto, and other unidentified buildings; also includes envelopes, a letter from a photographic printing company to James Stirling, and an article titled "British Low-Cost Housing Described by Architect" in which "James Sterling" [sic] is mentioned
photographs
circa 1950s-1970s
textual records
John Hejduk 1979, Country
ARCH252152
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Various documents related to the publication of the exhibition catalogue, "John Hejduk, 7 Houses : January 22 to February 16, 1980" / introduction by Peter Eisenman. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, [1979] Interview, John Hejduk - Reima Pietila, Finnish Architect, Helsinki Interview, John Hejduk - Donald Wall, Professor; School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Nancy Ferrara, Experimental Psychologist Statement, John Hejduk Exhibition; January 22 - February 16, 1980 Letter to PDE from Prof. P. Sanders, Nov. 2, 1979
1979-1980
John Hejduk 1979, Country
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ARCH252152
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Various documents related to the publication of the exhibition catalogue, "John Hejduk, 7 Houses : January 22 to February 16, 1980" / introduction by Peter Eisenman. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, [1979] Interview, John Hejduk - Reima Pietila, Finnish Architect, Helsinki Interview, John Hejduk - Donald Wall, Professor; School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Nancy Ferrara, Experimental Psychologist Statement, John Hejduk Exhibition; January 22 - February 16, 1980 Letter to PDE from Prof. P. Sanders, Nov. 2, 1979
textual records
1979-1980
textual records
AP197.S3.007
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years of 1997-1998, organized in chronological order. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: the Berlage Institute; the Finnish Association of Architect; Università della Svizzera italiana; Kisho Kurakawa; Tadao Ando; Mario Botta; Aurelio Galfetti; the Barragan Foundation; and Steven Holl. Correspondence relating to the following projects can be found in this box: editor of Technology, Place and Architecture: The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; and the General Editor of the publication World Architecture: a Critical Mosaic 1900-2000 Vols: 1-10.
1997-1998
Personal and professional correspondence from 1997-1998
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AP197.S3.007
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years of 1997-1998, organized in chronological order. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: the Berlage Institute; the Finnish Association of Architect; Università della Svizzera italiana; Kisho Kurakawa; Tadao Ando; Mario Botta; Aurelio Galfetti; the Barragan Foundation; and Steven Holl. Correspondence relating to the following projects can be found in this box: editor of Technology, Place and Architecture: The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; and the General Editor of the publication World Architecture: a Critical Mosaic 1900-2000 Vols: 1-10.
textual records
1997-1998
archives
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Fonds
AP171
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This fonds documents the professional practice and activities of the Foreign Office Architects between 1989 and 2011, with a primary focus on their architectural projects. The documents in the fonds include drawings and plans, photographic materials, presentation panels, models, textual records, and digital files relating to 192 projects and international exhibitions . Additionally, the fonds includes material relating to publications, office activities, and research.
circa 1983-2011
Foreign Office Architects fonds
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AP171
Synopsis:
This fonds documents the professional practice and activities of the Foreign Office Architects between 1989 and 2011, with a primary focus on their architectural projects. The documents in the fonds include drawings and plans, photographic materials, presentation panels, models, textual records, and digital files relating to 192 projects and international exhibitions . Additionally, the fonds includes material relating to publications, office activities, and research.
archives
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Fonds
circa 1983-2011
textual records
AP197.S1.SS9.014
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The box contains drafts, final copies, notes and correspondence for various articles, interviews, keynote addresses, and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from FR- I. The largest portion of this box consists of articles, correspondence and research files on Tony Fretton; a dossier on the 1994 Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award in which Frampton was a nominator from 1994-1996; various articles, drafts and correspondence on Steven Holl; drafts of "Homage a Finlandia: Finnish Architecture and the Unfinished Modern Project," a Nils Wickberg lecture, Aalto University; and correspondence and drafts of a Michael Hopkins essay featured in "Hopkins: the work of Michael Hopkins and Partners." Other subjects and architects explored in these texts relate to: Tony Fretton; Hiromi Fuiji; futurism; on Galfetti's Aula; Antoni Gaudí; globalism and its discontents; Giorgio Grassi; Vittorio Gregotti; the Guggenheim; Dan S. Hanganu; the work of Hariri Hariri; Herman Hertzberger; homage to Iberia; industrialization; and an introduction to "Inside Architecture" by Vittorio Gregotti.
circa 1971-2015
Kenneth Frampton writings (FR-I)
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AP197.S1.SS9.014
Description:
The box contains drafts, final copies, notes and correspondence for various articles, interviews, keynote addresses, and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized in alphabetical order, from FR- I. The largest portion of this box consists of articles, correspondence and research files on Tony Fretton; a dossier on the 1994 Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Award in which Frampton was a nominator from 1994-1996; various articles, drafts and correspondence on Steven Holl; drafts of "Homage a Finlandia: Finnish Architecture and the Unfinished Modern Project," a Nils Wickberg lecture, Aalto University; and correspondence and drafts of a Michael Hopkins essay featured in "Hopkins: the work of Michael Hopkins and Partners." Other subjects and architects explored in these texts relate to: Tony Fretton; Hiromi Fuiji; futurism; on Galfetti's Aula; Antoni Gaudí; globalism and its discontents; Giorgio Grassi; Vittorio Gregotti; the Guggenheim; Dan S. Hanganu; the work of Hariri Hariri; Herman Hertzberger; homage to Iberia; industrialization; and an introduction to "Inside Architecture" by Vittorio Gregotti.
textual records
circa 1971-2015
textual records
Hejduk
ARCH153754
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Various documents relating to the exhibition catalogue, "John Hejduk, 7 Houses : January 22 to February 16, 1980" / introduction by Peter Eisenman. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, [1979] Transcript of a conversation between John Hejduk and PDE; October13, 1977; "Nine Square House" Hejduk; 17 December 1979 (essay: "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions") Photocopy : Eisenman's preface, Galley Transcripts of a conversation between Wall and Hejduk : In perspective (no date) Typewritten manuscript : "The Destruction of the Box" Class discussion at Cooper Union; February 11 1976 (Mr. Rosaro, PDE, Chris, Wilcox, Rick, Blitz Brochure: John Hejduk: 3 + 1, 1976 1 exhibition catalogue: Projects/John Hejduk, architect: an exhibition at the Foundation Le Corbusier, Paris, October 1972 Folder Country: John Hejduk Interview, John Hejduk - Reima Pietila, Finnish Architect, Helsinki Interview, John Hejduk - Donald Wall, Professor; School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Nancy Ferrara, Experimental Psychologist Statement, John Hejduk Exhibition; January 22 - February 16 1980 Letter to PDE from Prof. P. Sanders, November 2 1979
1972-1980
Hejduk
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ARCH153754
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Various documents relating to the exhibition catalogue, "John Hejduk, 7 Houses : January 22 to February 16, 1980" / introduction by Peter Eisenman. -- New York, N.Y. : Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, [1979] Transcript of a conversation between John Hejduk and PDE; October13, 1977; "Nine Square House" Hejduk; 17 December 1979 (essay: "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions") Photocopy : Eisenman's preface, Galley Transcripts of a conversation between Wall and Hejduk : In perspective (no date) Typewritten manuscript : "The Destruction of the Box" Class discussion at Cooper Union; February 11 1976 (Mr. Rosaro, PDE, Chris, Wilcox, Rick, Blitz Brochure: John Hejduk: 3 + 1, 1976 1 exhibition catalogue: Projects/John Hejduk, architect: an exhibition at the Foundation Le Corbusier, Paris, October 1972 Folder Country: John Hejduk Interview, John Hejduk - Reima Pietila, Finnish Architect, Helsinki Interview, John Hejduk - Donald Wall, Professor; School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology & Nancy Ferrara, Experimental Psychologist Statement, John Hejduk Exhibition; January 22 - February 16 1980 Letter to PDE from Prof. P. Sanders, November 2 1979
textual records
1972-1980
books
Housing in Finland.
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59 pages : illustrations, charts
Helsinki, Finland : Government Printing Centre, 1983.
books
Helsinki, Finland : Government Printing Centre, 1983.
journals and magazines
Design in Finland.
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volumes : color illustrations ; 27 cm
[Helsinki, Finland] : [Finnish Foreign Trade Association]
journals and magazines
[Helsinki, Finland] : [Finnish Foreign Trade Association]
books
Description:
327 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm.
Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2000.
Finland / edited by Marja-Riitta Norri, Elina Standertskjöld, and Wilfried Wang ; with essays by Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen [and others] ; translations, Hildi Hawkins [and others].
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327 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm.
books
Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2000.