What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
10 May 2017 to 15 October 2017
Besides, History: Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Rather than adopting a postmodern attitude or evoking past discussions and historical architectural forms, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen address contemporary issues in their work while remaining in dialogue with history. Even with distinct pasts and contexts, affinities emerge in shared(...)
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Besides, History, Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Office, KGDVS, Bas Princen
articles
postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Itsuko Hasegawa, Kozo Kadowaki, Shonandai Cultural Centre
6 December 2020
An Architect Who Works With Citizens
Kozo Kadowaki on the Shonandai Cultural Centre by Itsuko Hasegawa
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Poking Holes in Modern Space
postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Hiroshi Hara, Mikio Wakabayashi, Kayoko Ota
16 April 2020
Poking Holes in Modern Space
Mikio Wakabayashi on the thoughts and actions of Hiroshi Hara
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Bridging a Chasm
postmodern, postmodernism, meanwhile in Japan, Toyo Ito, Commodified Housing Study Group, Koji Ichikawa, Kayoko Ota
23 January 2022
Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
28 February 2008 to 25 May 2008
Utopia's Ghost: Postmodernism Reconsidered
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Through the work of internationally renowned architects, this exhibition reveals the presence of utopian modernist ideas thought to have been discarded with the advent of the postmodern era. According to the exhibition’s lead curator Reinhold Martin, much of the architectural production of the last half-century has been haunted by the ghosts of modernist utopias: “The(...)
Octagonal gallery
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postmodernism, postmodern, architecture itself, sylvia lavin, peter eisenman
7 November 2018 to 7 April 2019
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postmodernism, postmodern, architecture itself, sylvia lavin, peter eisenman
textual records
AP197.S1.SS9.001
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This box contains notes, drafts, articles, book reviews and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized alphabetically by either title or the architect's last name, from A-Z. The contents are mostly older texts by Frampton, circa 1960-1990. Subjects and architects explored in these texts include: Raimund Abraham; Tadao Ando; contemporary architecture; the modern urban form; Gustave Eiffel; English neoclassicism; Louis Kahn; John Hejduk; Herman Hertzberger; postmodern theory; Steven Holl; industrialization; Le Corbusier; El Lissitzky; modernism; Palais Royale; Carlo Scarpa; James Stirling; Team 10; technology; and Otto Wagner.
circa 1964-1990
Kenneth Frampton texts, articles and notes (A-Z)
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AP197.S1.SS9.001
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This box contains notes, drafts, articles, book reviews and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized alphabetically by either title or the architect's last name, from A-Z. The contents are mostly older texts by Frampton, circa 1960-1990. Subjects and architects explored in these texts include: Raimund Abraham; Tadao Ando; contemporary architecture; the modern urban form; Gustave Eiffel; English neoclassicism; Louis Kahn; John Hejduk; Herman Hertzberger; postmodern theory; Steven Holl; industrialization; Le Corbusier; El Lissitzky; modernism; Palais Royale; Carlo Scarpa; James Stirling; Team 10; technology; and Otto Wagner.
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circa 1964-1990
archives
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Peter Rose fonds
AP046
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The Peter Rose fonds, documents the design and construction of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1989) and a design for the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montréal, Master Plan (1992) by architect Peter Rose. Both projects include drawings, textual records, models and photographs.
1983-1989
Peter Rose fonds
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The Peter Rose fonds, documents the design and construction of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1989) and a design for the redevelopment of the Old Port of Montréal, Master Plan (1992) by architect Peter Rose. Both projects include drawings, textual records, models and photographs.
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1983-1989
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13 file
ARCH241922
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Schwarzer Unforeseen - drafts of article by Mitchell Schwarzer Schwarzer Tectonics Unbound - drafts of article by Mitchell Schwarzer, includes curriculum vitae and correspondence Musicon Bremen - drafts project description by Daniel Libeskind Lynn Blob - drafts of article by Greg Lynn Fausch Opposition of Postmodern Tectonics - drafts of article by Deborah Fausch Isenstadt Spectacular Tectonics - drafts of article by Sandy Isenstadt Rakatansky What Kahn wants to Be - drafts of article by Mark Rakatansky Mertins Benjamin's Techonic Unconscious - drafts of article by Detlef Mertins Bressani - draft of article by Martin Bressani Wolf Metaphysical Foundations of Schinkel's Tectonics - drafts of article by Scott C. Wolf Calvahouse Review - drafts of review by Tim Culvahouse of Kenneth Frampton's Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (1995) Apter - Letter from Paris drafts by Emily Apter Bergdoll Review - review by Barry Bergdoll of Sigfried Giedion's Building in France, building in iron, building in ferroconcrete (1995)
1995-1996
Drafts of articles, curriculum vitae and correspondence
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Schwarzer Unforeseen - drafts of article by Mitchell Schwarzer Schwarzer Tectonics Unbound - drafts of article by Mitchell Schwarzer, includes curriculum vitae and correspondence Musicon Bremen - drafts project description by Daniel Libeskind Lynn Blob - drafts of article by Greg Lynn Fausch Opposition of Postmodern Tectonics - drafts of article by Deborah Fausch Isenstadt Spectacular Tectonics - drafts of article by Sandy Isenstadt Rakatansky What Kahn wants to Be - drafts of article by Mark Rakatansky Mertins Benjamin's Techonic Unconscious - drafts of article by Detlef Mertins Bressani - draft of article by Martin Bressani Wolf Metaphysical Foundations of Schinkel's Tectonics - drafts of article by Scott C. Wolf Calvahouse Review - drafts of review by Tim Culvahouse of Kenneth Frampton's Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture (1995) Apter - Letter from Paris drafts by Emily Apter Bergdoll Review - review by Barry Bergdoll of Sigfried Giedion's Building in France, building in iron, building in ferroconcrete (1995)
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13 file
1995-1996
books
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296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm
Hamburg : Junius : DAM, Deutsches Architektur Museum, 2004.
Die Revision der Postmoderne / herausgegeben von Ingeborg Flagge und Romana Schneider = Post-modernism revisited / edited by Ingeborg Flagge und Romana Schneider.
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296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm
books
Hamburg : Junius : DAM, Deutsches Architektur Museum, 2004.