The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
articles
machine learning, machine learning tool, architectural drawings, trees, AI, artificial intelligence, architectural history, protocols, toolkit, research methods
10 July 2023
Learning from Machine Learning
Sylvia Lavin on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
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DR1981:0017:051 V
architecture
ca. 1630-1640
architecture
Paul Desmarais Theatre
19 April 2005
Paul Desmarais Theatre
PH1984:0857
interior design
1934 or later
interior design
PH1998:0014:014
architecture, painting, sculpture
between 7 February 1926 and 1930
architecture, painting, sculpture
DR1983:0652:001-038
Description:
Most of the drawings are by an unknown hand. A drawing attributed to Pietro da Cortona and dated circa 1610-1620 is pasted onto leaf 18. An inscription on the verso of folio 17 could not have been written before 1757.
architecture
compiled no earlier than 1757
Album of drawings of architectural details and ancient monuments
DR1983:0652:001-038
Description:
Most of the drawings are by an unknown hand. A drawing attributed to Pietro da Cortona and dated circa 1610-1620 is pasted onto leaf 18. An inscription on the verso of folio 17 could not have been written before 1757.
architecture
DR1974:0002:032:055:001-002
architecture
between 1800 and 1868
Two drawings of Gothic architectural elements: capitals, corbels and piers
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DR1974:0002:032:055:001-002
architecture
Booklet for Melnikov's 1965 exhibition of architectural works, drawings and paintings, Moscow
PH1989:0012:024
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- This booklet for Melnikov's 1965 exhibition in Moscow has a photograph of an elevation for the principal façade of the Soviet Pavilion at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris, on the cover and a portrait of Melnikov on the fly-leaf.
architecture
published 1965
Booklet for Melnikov's 1965 exhibition of architectural works, drawings and paintings, Moscow
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PH1989:0012:024
Description:
- This booklet for Melnikov's 1965 exhibition in Moscow has a photograph of an elevation for the principal façade of the Soviet Pavilion at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris, on the cover and a portrait of Melnikov on the fly-leaf.
architecture
ARCH401381
circa 1980