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early conceptual and schematic design drawings including a schedule of accommodation and functional and area diagrams for the planning of the British Olivetti Headquarters, many sketches and diagrams for the plan of the warehouse, including a number of drawings initialed by Michael Wilford and dated from March 1972, a few conceptual and schematic design drawings consisting of many doodles and thumbnail sketches for the conference room and the concourse

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more developed proposals for the different parts of the British Olivetti Headquarters including a number of elevation drawings, several sketches for the conference room, a few drawings for the Olivetti sign above the warehouse building, several section detail drawings, several drawings exploring alternatives for the design for the glazed entrance, a few diagrammatic plans and sections dated May 1972, and a few plan obliques and cutaway plan obliques for the building, also early site plan and plan oblique for an earlier scheme for the Headquarters

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This box is comprised of personal and professional correspondence, organized in chronological order, from 1984-1990. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: various offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, attend or present at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries such as the American Academy in Rome. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio; Tadao Ando; Rafael Moneo; James Stirling; Marco Frascari; Alvaro Siza; Arata Isozaki; the Casabella; the Progressive Architecture; and Architecture and Urbanism. This correspondence includes Frampton’s invitation to be the Craig Francis Cullinan Visiting Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Rice University; correspondence with Rizzoli International Publications about the Tadao Ando book; correspondence with MIT Press for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; and correspondence about critical regionalism.

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Portfolio containing ephemera and posters advertising the following conferences, events, and exhibitions: - mailout/poster for a Frank Stella exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; - mailout/poster for an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago; - posters for the 7th Venice biennale of architeture; - poster for the 1. Kolloquium Funktionialismus, Hamburg; - poster for a Jean Rustin exhibition at Maison de la culture et des loisirs; - signed poster for a Ric Evans exhibition, at David Mirvish Books, Toronto; - poster for an Edward Keinholz exhibition, London; - poster for a Frank Auerbach exhibition at the 42nd Venice Biennale; - paper placemat of the Taj Mahal; - poster of Hindu deities; - poster for Perspecta, the Yale School of design journal, in which Melvin Charney's article, Experimental strategies: notes for environmental design, appeared in the 11th edition; - poster of Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros; - mailout/poster for a Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Leo Castelli gallery; - poster for a Pierre Alechinsky exhibition, in Brussels; - poster for an exhibition on Pliny the Younger's La villa Laurentine, Paris; - poster for an exhibition, Places and monuments, in Paris; - poster for an event at George Gund Hall, Harvard; - posters for the exhibition, Rothmans salutes citysite sculpture, Visual Arts Ontario, Toronto (Melvin Charney participated); - poster for event, Coop Himmelblau: der Engel des Tons; - poster, "Seize the time"; - poster, "Meeting solidarité Chili"; - poster for Don Judd exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; - posters for Aurora Borealis event at le Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal (Melvin Charney participated); - poster for James Stirling exhibition at Riba Heinz Gallery, London; - untitled poster; - poster for political demonstration, UQAM; - poster for Joe Zucker exhibition, Combinations, at Holly Solomon Gallery, New York; - poster, "The drifting acropolis"; - poster for Lucas Samaras exhibition, Reconstructions, boxes, and photo-transformations, at Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago; - poster for Erica Lennard exhibition, Les femmes, les soeurs, at Agatha Gaillard Gallery, Paris.