Sub-series
General Textual Files
AP116.S3.SS23.D1
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File documents some if the activities related to the planning and production of How the Critic Sees: Seven Critics on Seven Buildings, issue 21 of ANY magazine (December) and of the In ANY Event: 8 Critics in 8 Buildings, held 3 May 1997 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York. Material in file was produced between 1993 and 1998. File contains correspondence, clippings, texts, lay-out mock-ups, photograph, notes, clippings, posters, and postcards.
1993-1998, predominant 1996-1998
General Textual Files
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AP116.S3.SS23.D1
Description:
File documents some if the activities related to the planning and production of How the Critic Sees: Seven Critics on Seven Buildings, issue 21 of ANY magazine (December) and of the In ANY Event: 8 Critics in 8 Buildings, held 3 May 1997 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York. Material in file was produced between 1993 and 1998. File contains correspondence, clippings, texts, lay-out mock-ups, photograph, notes, clippings, posters, and postcards.
File 1
1993-1998, predominant 1996-1998
research
Visiting Scholars 2009
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
23 March 2009 to 30 October 2009
Visiting Scholars 2009
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Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
research
23 March 2009 to
30 October 2009
DR1966:0001:031
Description:
- This rendering is for a project for decorating one side of the cove of a cove ceiling. It is not possible to tell how much of the design was intended to be executed in stucco. The decoration consists of a leafy border and mouldings containing a scene of Juno in her chariot, pulled by two peacocks.
interior design
ca. 1764
Elevation for a cove ceiling decorated with a scene of Juno in a chariot, for the Palazzo Lante, Rome, Italy
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DR1966:0001:031
Description:
- This rendering is for a project for decorating one side of the cove of a cove ceiling. It is not possible to tell how much of the design was intended to be executed in stucco. The decoration consists of a leafy border and mouldings containing a scene of Juno in her chariot, pulled by two peacocks.
interior design
Project
Study of human settlements
AP149.S1.1986.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's human settlement study in developping countries, mainly in India and in China, in the 1970s and 1980s. The project led to three publications series "How the Other Half Builds" (Volume 1: Space, Volume 2: Plots and Volume 3: The Self-Selection Process). A series of audio-visual training packages entitled "Human Settlements Training Packages" was also produced in relation with this study. They produced a total of six series comprised of slides and audio cassettes that provide new ideas for planning low-income housing and low-cost technologies. The production of these training packages is based on years of field work in China and in India, and research in collobaration with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India. The material in this project series was produced between 1985 and 1993. The files contain a large collection of slides of the training packages, guides for the slide show presentations, and various textual records related to the production of the training packages. The project series also comprises correspondence with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation and sketchbooks with study drawings of housing mainly in India, possibly by Vikram Bhatt. The file also includes textual records related to the production of the publications series "How the Other Half Builds", as well as dummies for the publications and the final version of the books.
1985-1993
Study of human settlements
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AP149.S1.1986.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's human settlement study in developping countries, mainly in India and in China, in the 1970s and 1980s. The project led to three publications series "How the Other Half Builds" (Volume 1: Space, Volume 2: Plots and Volume 3: The Self-Selection Process). A series of audio-visual training packages entitled "Human Settlements Training Packages" was also produced in relation with this study. They produced a total of six series comprised of slides and audio cassettes that provide new ideas for planning low-income housing and low-cost technologies. The production of these training packages is based on years of field work in China and in India, and research in collobaration with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India. The material in this project series was produced between 1985 and 1993. The files contain a large collection of slides of the training packages, guides for the slide show presentations, and various textual records related to the production of the training packages. The project series also comprises correspondence with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation and sketchbooks with study drawings of housing mainly in India, possibly by Vikram Bhatt. The file also includes textual records related to the production of the publications series "How the Other Half Builds", as well as dummies for the publications and the final version of the books.
Project
1985-1993
drawings
DR2012:0012:047:009
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The roll is labelled "Body Works Series 2000", but this appears to be incorrect, as the item itself is titled "Melvin Charney: Un dictionnaire... 1970-2001. Plan d’installation no. 2: position des planches et des séries." It is a diagram depicting how the plates for the series should be arranged on the wall for an exhibition.
1970- 2001
Installation plans, Un dictionnaire
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DR2012:0012:047:009
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The roll is labelled "Body Works Series 2000", but this appears to be incorrect, as the item itself is titled "Melvin Charney: Un dictionnaire... 1970-2001. Plan d’installation no. 2: position des planches et des séries." It is a diagram depicting how the plates for the series should be arranged on the wall for an exhibition.
drawings
1970- 2001
Project
Une histoire
AP041.S1.1975.D1
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UNE HISTOIRE is a project consisting of photographs, photomontages, drawings and a wooden sculpture. A photograph of a worker’s house near a pulp mill in Trois-Rivières became the focus of the series. In an attempt to understand the architecture of that house, and how industrialization was being reflected in the architecture of Québec, Charney went to visit the house in 1974, only to find it had already been torn down. Charney photographed its surroundings and tried to reproduce its likeness in drawings. Unsatisfied with the results, he built a wooden sculpture (UNE HISTOIRE…Le trésor de Trois-Rivières, 1975), a replica of the house, in an attempt to fully “know” and understand the structure. Source: Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. Montréal Musée d’art contemporain. (p. 29-36)
1975-1978
Une histoire
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AP041.S1.1975.D1
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UNE HISTOIRE is a project consisting of photographs, photomontages, drawings and a wooden sculpture. A photograph of a worker’s house near a pulp mill in Trois-Rivières became the focus of the series. In an attempt to understand the architecture of that house, and how industrialization was being reflected in the architecture of Québec, Charney went to visit the house in 1974, only to find it had already been torn down. Charney photographed its surroundings and tried to reproduce its likeness in drawings. Unsatisfied with the results, he built a wooden sculpture (UNE HISTOIRE…Le trésor de Trois-Rivières, 1975), a replica of the house, in an attempt to fully “know” and understand the structure. Source: Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. Montréal Musée d’art contemporain. (p. 29-36)
Project
1975-1978
Project
AP207.S1.2012.PR11
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The project series documents "Nature vs Architecture", a series of drawings created by Pettena in 2012-2013. It consists of plans of famous buildings assembled together in six different drawings to which Pettena added topographic lines showing geological features. "A very clear symbology shows here how the artist wishes to side up, in the confrontation, with nature, because its force cannot be ignored by architecture, whether consciously or not." [1] The project series contains the six original drawings by Pettena, a montage of the drawings and a project description in Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-nature-vs-architecture-2013-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
2012-2015
Nature vs Architecture (2012-2013)
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AP207.S1.2012.PR11
Description:
The project series documents "Nature vs Architecture", a series of drawings created by Pettena in 2012-2013. It consists of plans of famous buildings assembled together in six different drawings to which Pettena added topographic lines showing geological features. "A very clear symbology shows here how the artist wishes to side up, in the confrontation, with nature, because its force cannot be ignored by architecture, whether consciously or not." [1] The project series contains the six original drawings by Pettena, a montage of the drawings and a project description in Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-nature-vs-architecture-2013-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
Project
2012-2015
Project
AP144.S2.D30
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File documents the project Hale Croft Housing Development, Cheshire, England. File includes two site plans, possibly of existing conditions, one of the proposed development site and surrounding area, the other of the development site located off Hale Road in more detail. It is unclear how a third drawing entitled "installation of televiser in self-serve launderette", relates to the other drawings. The scope of the project cannot be determined from the content of the file. Material in this file was produced in 1962. The following name and address appear on one drawing: Publicity & Allied Interests, 52 Gloucester Place, W.1, Welbeck 3521 &2 File contains drawings.
[1962]
Hale Croft Housing Development, Cheshire
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AP144.S2.D30
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File documents the project Hale Croft Housing Development, Cheshire, England. File includes two site plans, possibly of existing conditions, one of the proposed development site and surrounding area, the other of the development site located off Hale Road in more detail. It is unclear how a third drawing entitled "installation of televiser in self-serve launderette", relates to the other drawings. The scope of the project cannot be determined from the content of the file. Material in this file was produced in 1962. The following name and address appear on one drawing: Publicity & Allied Interests, 52 Gloucester Place, W.1, Welbeck 3521 &2 File contains drawings.
File 30
[1962]
archives
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Fonds
AP119
Synopsis:
The Peter Yeadon Prix de Rome project records consist of twenty ink jet printouts of computer-generated images, four sketchbooks, as well as project documentation of Yeadon's Prix de Rome project. All of the drawings were made in Rome between 1999 and 2000.
1998-2002
Peter Yeadon Prix de Rome project records
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AP119
Synopsis:
The Peter Yeadon Prix de Rome project records consist of twenty ink jet printouts of computer-generated images, four sketchbooks, as well as project documentation of Yeadon's Prix de Rome project. All of the drawings were made in Rome between 1999 and 2000.
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Fonds
1998-2002
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Promotional materials
AP170.S4
Description:
Series 4, Promotional materials, 1998 – 2007, documents how the firm presented and marketed Hyposurface, It consists of more than 5000 digital files, the bulk of which date from 2004 -- 2007. This series chiefly includes materials for publication, the press, and presentations, as well as a small amount of files related to the dECOi portfolio and Hyposurface website. Notably, there is also an interactive CD-ROM presenting the HypoSurface project. Roughly half the files in this series are raster images, including TIF, GIF, EXIF, JPEG and Windows Bitmap formats. There are also includes nearly 1,000 Aegis pattern files, about 300 files in audiovisual formats, as well as a very small number of textual and CAD formats.
1998 - 2007
Promotional materials
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AP170.S4
Description:
Series 4, Promotional materials, 1998 – 2007, documents how the firm presented and marketed Hyposurface, It consists of more than 5000 digital files, the bulk of which date from 2004 -- 2007. This series chiefly includes materials for publication, the press, and presentations, as well as a small amount of files related to the dECOi portfolio and Hyposurface website. Notably, there is also an interactive CD-ROM presenting the HypoSurface project. Roughly half the files in this series are raster images, including TIF, GIF, EXIF, JPEG and Windows Bitmap formats. There are also includes nearly 1,000 Aegis pattern files, about 300 files in audiovisual formats, as well as a very small number of textual and CAD formats.
Series
1998 - 2007