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Max Wolfe Roth fonds
AP125
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The Max Wolfe Roth fonds, 1933-2000, documents the professional career of architect Max Wolfe Roth. The fonds comprises of materials relating to 15 student projects (1933-1937) and 333 professional projects (1937-2000). Materials in this fonds consist of 7,589 drawings (including reprographic copies), 303 photographs, 22 panels, 2.83 l.m. of textual records, 0.33 l.m.of slides, 82 notebooks, 7 stamps, 1 slide rule and 1 model.
1933-2000
Max Wolfe Roth fonds
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AP125
Synopsis:
The Max Wolfe Roth fonds, 1933-2000, documents the professional career of architect Max Wolfe Roth. The fonds comprises of materials relating to 15 student projects (1933-1937) and 333 professional projects (1937-2000). Materials in this fonds consist of 7,589 drawings (including reprographic copies), 303 photographs, 22 panels, 2.83 l.m. of textual records, 0.33 l.m.of slides, 82 notebooks, 7 stamps, 1 slide rule and 1 model.
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1933-2000
ARCH287614
4 October 1954
ARCH287630
articles
Bringing Projects to Life
Amancio Williams, Claudia Shmidt, correspondence, letters, Jean Prouvé, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Max Bill, Kenneth Frampton
12 November 2023
Bringing Projects to Life
A selection of letters written by Amancio Williams, introduced by Claudia Shmidt
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textual records
AP197.S3.001
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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1958- 1983. Correspondence documents the beginning of Frampton's professional career and includes letters from his time as: a tutor at the Royal College of Art; the technical editor of the magazine Architectural Design; a visiting professor at Princeton University; an associate professor and, subsequently, Ware Professor of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; a Fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; and an editor of Oppositions. This correspondence includes a letter inviting Frampton to teach at Princeton University and his acceptance of the position, his appointment to the Loeb Fellowship, and his appointment as an Associate Professor at Columbia University as well as correspondence concerning the first and second editions of Modern Architecture: a critical history. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Peter Eisenman; Robert Vickery; Anthony Hill; Melvin Charney; Richard Meier; Max Bill; Panos Koulermos; Tadao Ando; Tomás Maldonado; Manfredo Tafuri; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; Architecture and Urbanism; DOMUS; and Thames and Hudson. Activities documented in this box include: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to attend or present lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries.
1958-1984
Personal and professional correspondence from 1958-1984
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AP197.S3.001
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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1958- 1983. Correspondence documents the beginning of Frampton's professional career and includes letters from his time as: a tutor at the Royal College of Art; the technical editor of the magazine Architectural Design; a visiting professor at Princeton University; an associate professor and, subsequently, Ware Professor of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; a Fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; and an editor of Oppositions. This correspondence includes a letter inviting Frampton to teach at Princeton University and his acceptance of the position, his appointment to the Loeb Fellowship, and his appointment as an Associate Professor at Columbia University as well as correspondence concerning the first and second editions of Modern Architecture: a critical history. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Peter Eisenman; Robert Vickery; Anthony Hill; Melvin Charney; Richard Meier; Max Bill; Panos Koulermos; Tadao Ando; Tomás Maldonado; Manfredo Tafuri; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; Architecture and Urbanism; DOMUS; and Thames and Hudson. Activities documented in this box include: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to attend or present lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries.
textual records
1958-1984
books
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198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, [1974]
Max Bill : [catalogue / compiled and edited by Max Bill and James N. Wood].
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198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, [1974]
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199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Herford : Marta Herford : Scheidegger & Spiess, ©2008.
Max Bill : ohne Anfang, ohne Ende : eine Retrospektive zum hundertsten Geburtstag des Künstlers, Designers, Architekten, Typografen und Theoretikers = Max Bill : no beginning, no end : a retrospective making the centenary of the artist, designed, architect, typographer and theoretician.
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199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Herford : Marta Herford : Scheidegger & Spiess, ©2008.
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148 pages illustrations (some color), portrait, plan 23 cm
[Buenos Aires] Editorial Nueva Visión [1955]
Max Bill [por] Tomás Maldonado.
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148 pages illustrations (some color), portrait, plan 23 cm
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[Buenos Aires] Editorial Nueva Visión [1955]
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329 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Madrid : Fundación Juan March : Editorial de Arte y Ciencia, [2015], ©2015
Max Bill / Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Toledo, eds. ; texts by Max Bill, Jakob Bill, Karin Gimmi, Manuel Fontán del Junco, Neus Moyano, Gillermo Zuaznabar, Fernando Marzá and María Amalia García.
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329 pages (some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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Madrid : Fundación Juan March : Editorial de Arte y Ciencia, [2015], ©2015
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Max Bill.
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176 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
[Berlin?] : Zentrum für Kunstausstellungen der DDR, [1988?]
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[Berlin?] : Zentrum für Kunstausstellungen der DDR, [1988?]