Pittsburgh New Urban Housing Competition
1992
Project
File documents an unsuccessful competition entry by the Foreign Office Architects for a new urban housing development sponsored by the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The file contains plans, presentation material and printouts of images of an architectural model. The Foreign Office Architects received an Honourable Mention for their entry. Material in this file was produced in 1992.
Note: File ARCH272585 contains an early practice profile that contains copies of presentation drawings for this project.
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
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This group consists of presentation material by the Foreign Office Architects for the New Urban Housing competition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It includes printouts of colour images of an architectural model, sections and elevations, and presentation text.
1 roll(s)
2 printouts
sheet (smallest): 32.5 × 61 cm (12 13/16 × 24 in.) sheet (largest): 27.7 × 86 cm (10 7/8 × 33 7/8 in.)
- The printouts are rolled.
uninscribed
Pennsylvania United States
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
171-002-007R
This group consists of two drawings that were incorporated into presentation material for the New Urban Housing Pittsburgh Competition. The drawings include elevations, sections, floor plans, and plotting for the inclusion of model and perspective photographs in the final version of the material.
1 roll(s)
Ink on tracing paper; ink and dry transfer on vellum
sheets (smallest): 91.5 × 91.6 cm (36 × 36 1/16 in.) sheets (largest): 122.3 × 91.6 cm (48 1/8 × 36 1/16 in.)
- The drawings are rolled.
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
171-002-006R
This group includes a book of presentation material, several loose pages of mock-ups for presentation material, and colour negatives of an architectural model for the New Urban Housing competition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also included is a letter dated May 4, 1992, from the competition coordinator to the Foreign Office Architects stating that their submission has been selected for exhibition at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
51 drawing(s)
19 black ink and magazine clippings glued to translucent paper; 18 colour negatives (35mm); 13 printouts
sheets (smallest): 28 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.) sheets (largest): 45.5 × 30 cm (17 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
- The volume has a clear plastic protective cover.
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
171-011-002
This group contains slides related to the New Urban Housing competition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and possibly the National Glass Centre, Sunderland, England.
57 slide(s)
57 slides : col. ; 35mm
cases: 27.8 × 21.5 × 1 cm slides: 5.2 × 5.2 cm
- The slides are in 3 hard-plastic cases.
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Partial contents of DVD ARCH269427. Includes drawings and images of a model and presentation panels for the Pittsburgh New Urban Housing Competition. Original directory name: "003 Pittsburgh competition". Prevalent file types: .dwg, .jpg
17 digital file(s)
Foreign Office Architects fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Farshid Moussavi et Alejandro Zaera-Polo/
Gift of Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo
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