Sub-series
L'anarchitetto (1973)
AP207.S3.SS01
Description:
The sub-series documents the publication "L'anarchitetto”, written by Pettena and published by Guaraldi, in Florence, in 1973. The book consists of an essay in which Pettena describes himself as an "anarchitect" as he sees architecture more as a metaphor of the creative condition that starts with the intention of "making architecture" but ends up making art. He also states his refusal to "to recognize the borders between disciplines." [1] The sub-series contains pictures of Pettena's projects to be selected from for the book and scans of "L'anarchitetto”. Sources: Pettena, Gianni. "L'an architetto : portrait of the artist as a young architect", Guaraldi, Florence, 1973, 57 pages. [1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/rub/rubauthors-316.html?authID=148 (last accessed 30 January 2020).
2001-2010
L'anarchitetto (1973)
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AP207.S3.SS01
Description:
The sub-series documents the publication "L'anarchitetto”, written by Pettena and published by Guaraldi, in Florence, in 1973. The book consists of an essay in which Pettena describes himself as an "anarchitect" as he sees architecture more as a metaphor of the creative condition that starts with the intention of "making architecture" but ends up making art. He also states his refusal to "to recognize the borders between disciplines." [1] The sub-series contains pictures of Pettena's projects to be selected from for the book and scans of "L'anarchitetto”. Sources: Pettena, Gianni. "L'an architetto : portrait of the artist as a young architect", Guaraldi, Florence, 1973, 57 pages. [1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/rub/rubauthors-316.html?authID=148 (last accessed 30 January 2020).
Subseries
2001-2010
Project
AP018.S1.1973.PR06
Description:
This project series documents a proposal for an athletic, cultural and industrial campus in Mississauga, Ontario, between Dixie Road, Aerowood Drive and the Highway 401. This project was known as Mississauga Sports Complex at the beginning of the project from 1973-1974, but later became the Gordie Howe Sports Centre in 1975. The office identified the project number as 7306. The project consisted of a group of buildings including a tennis court, an arena, and a interior jogging track. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1973-1976. The majority of the drawings are originals that show site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, and structural drawings. Textual records include correspondence with clients and consultants as well as conference reports.
1973-1976
Gordie Howe Sports Centre, Mississauga, Ontario (1973-1976)
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AP018.S1.1973.PR06
Description:
This project series documents a proposal for an athletic, cultural and industrial campus in Mississauga, Ontario, between Dixie Road, Aerowood Drive and the Highway 401. This project was known as Mississauga Sports Complex at the beginning of the project from 1973-1974, but later became the Gordie Howe Sports Centre in 1975. The office identified the project number as 7306. The project consisted of a group of buildings including a tennis court, an arena, and a interior jogging track. The project is recorded through drawings and textual records dating from 1973-1976. The majority of the drawings are originals that show site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, and structural drawings. Textual records include correspondence with clients and consultants as well as conference reports.
Project
1973-1976
Project
AP018.S1.1973.PR03
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the Eaton’s store building at Dundas Square in Toronto from 1973-1977. The office identified the project number as 7303. This project, commissioned by The T. Eaton Co. Limited, consisted of a one million square foot department store with thirteen floors, ten above ground and three below. The building boasted nine floor of retail space, seamlessly connected through elevators and escalators. The remaining floors hosted office and storage spaces. Located at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, the Eaton’s store was connected to the Eaton Centre mall to its south. The mall, designed and built simultaneously with the Eaton’s store, was designed by the architecture firm Craig Zeidler Strong. For the Eaton’s store project, Parkin Architects Planners created a joint venture with architect C. Blakeway Millar, referred to as Parkin Millar in the documentation. Parkin Millar was the associate architects on this project, with the Eaton’s company architect, E.L. Hankinson, working as the primary architect. Each of the firms mentioned worked closely together to develop a cohesive design for the Eaton’s store and Eaton’s Centre mall, which is evident in the materials. The project is recorded through drawings, textual records, a book and presentation boards dating from 1973-1977. There are a large number of original drawings and sketches for the project. Most of the reprographic copies are arranged within the textual materials. There are presentation boards of the Vancouver Eaton's store in this project series that were likely used as reference by the architects. The textual records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, site reports, change orders, consultancy records, inter-office letters, and specifications. Also in this project series is a special edition of the Eaton News, a monograph with in depth descriptions of the project.
1973-1977
Eaton's Store Building, Dundas Square, Toronto (1973-1977)
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AP018.S1.1973.PR03
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the Eaton’s store building at Dundas Square in Toronto from 1973-1977. The office identified the project number as 7303. This project, commissioned by The T. Eaton Co. Limited, consisted of a one million square foot department store with thirteen floors, ten above ground and three below. The building boasted nine floor of retail space, seamlessly connected through elevators and escalators. The remaining floors hosted office and storage spaces. Located at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, the Eaton’s store was connected to the Eaton Centre mall to its south. The mall, designed and built simultaneously with the Eaton’s store, was designed by the architecture firm Craig Zeidler Strong. For the Eaton’s store project, Parkin Architects Planners created a joint venture with architect C. Blakeway Millar, referred to as Parkin Millar in the documentation. Parkin Millar was the associate architects on this project, with the Eaton’s company architect, E.L. Hankinson, working as the primary architect. Each of the firms mentioned worked closely together to develop a cohesive design for the Eaton’s store and Eaton’s Centre mall, which is evident in the materials. The project is recorded through drawings, textual records, a book and presentation boards dating from 1973-1977. There are a large number of original drawings and sketches for the project. Most of the reprographic copies are arranged within the textual materials. There are presentation boards of the Vancouver Eaton's store in this project series that were likely used as reference by the architects. The textual records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, site reports, change orders, consultancy records, inter-office letters, and specifications. Also in this project series is a special edition of the Eaton News, a monograph with in depth descriptions of the project.
Project
1973-1977
Project
AP018.S1.1973.PR11
Description:
This project series documents a feasibility study for the Ontario Association of Architects headquarters in Toronto from 1973-1975. The office identified the project number as 7311. This project consisted of an investigation into the feasibility of purchasing an additional lot next to the headquarters building so an expansion could be completed. This study also looked at the possibility of an addition on the back of the building, and the state of the electrical and mechanical systems at that time. The headquarters had been designed by John C. Parkin's previous firm, John B. Parkin Associates, in the 1950s and was located at 50 Park Road. The project is recorded through textual records dating from 1973-1975, which consist of correspondence, conference reports, interoffice letters, and consultancy records.
1973-1975
Ontario Association of Architects, Feasibility Study, Toronto (1973-1975)
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AP018.S1.1973.PR11
Description:
This project series documents a feasibility study for the Ontario Association of Architects headquarters in Toronto from 1973-1975. The office identified the project number as 7311. This project consisted of an investigation into the feasibility of purchasing an additional lot next to the headquarters building so an expansion could be completed. This study also looked at the possibility of an addition on the back of the building, and the state of the electrical and mechanical systems at that time. The headquarters had been designed by John C. Parkin's previous firm, John B. Parkin Associates, in the 1950s and was located at 50 Park Road. The project is recorded through textual records dating from 1973-1975, which consist of correspondence, conference reports, interoffice letters, and consultancy records.
Project
1973-1975
Project
AP207.S1.1973.PR04
Description:
The project series documents "Progetto D'Architettura n. 5" a three fold performance carried out at the Milan Triennale in 1973. The first group performing were two musicians, one accordionist, Davide Mosconi, and one cellist, Marino Vismara, playing while walking around the large entrance at the bottom of the grand staircase of the Triennale building. The performers constantly bumped into each other as they tried to get the upper hand on the other. At the same time, a 'fire eater', Nunzio Salvago, spat out flames in the staircase. Finally, on the second floor at the end of the stairs, Pettena, using vibraphone mallets, hit the ceramic tiles of the entrance walls off of which the sound was amplified by contact with microphones installed beforehand. The performance was thought of as "an operation of the “reading” of physical space, of occupation of the whole of the environment, realized through sound [...]." The project series contains video recordings and photographs of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-archi-n-5-project-1973/ (last accessed 12 November 2019)
2009-2016
Progetto D'Architettura n. 5 [Architectural Project no. 5] (1973)
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AP207.S1.1973.PR04
Description:
The project series documents "Progetto D'Architettura n. 5" a three fold performance carried out at the Milan Triennale in 1973. The first group performing were two musicians, one accordionist, Davide Mosconi, and one cellist, Marino Vismara, playing while walking around the large entrance at the bottom of the grand staircase of the Triennale building. The performers constantly bumped into each other as they tried to get the upper hand on the other. At the same time, a 'fire eater', Nunzio Salvago, spat out flames in the staircase. Finally, on the second floor at the end of the stairs, Pettena, using vibraphone mallets, hit the ceramic tiles of the entrance walls off of which the sound was amplified by contact with microphones installed beforehand. The performance was thought of as "an operation of the “reading” of physical space, of occupation of the whole of the environment, realized through sound [...]." The project series contains video recordings and photographs of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-archi-n-5-project-1973/ (last accessed 12 November 2019)
Project
2009-2016
Project
AP075.S1.1973.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for a proposed playground at the corner of West 38th Street and Hudson Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked in this project from 1973-1975. This project was not realized. Oberlander's landscape design consisted in a central mound covered in grass, surrounded by tree logs, with swings on top, and two lower grass mounds on the Southeast corner of the playground with other play installations for creative play. The project series contains four sketches, including two digitatized layout sketches, two presentation drawings, a preliminary site plan, a site plan, a topographic survey.
1973-2005
Playground, 38th and Hudson Streets, Vancouver, British Columbia (1973)
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AP075.S1.1973.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for a proposed playground at the corner of West 38th Street and Hudson Street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked in this project from 1973-1975. This project was not realized. Oberlander's landscape design consisted in a central mound covered in grass, surrounded by tree logs, with swings on top, and two lower grass mounds on the Southeast corner of the playground with other play installations for creative play. The project series contains four sketches, including two digitatized layout sketches, two presentation drawings, a preliminary site plan, a site plan, a topographic survey.
Project
1973-2005
Project
AP075.S1.1973.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Han Oberlanders's landscape project for the garden of Hamilton Southam residence on Buena Vista Road in the Rockcliffe Park residential neightbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario. Oberlander worked on this project in 1973-1974. Oberlander design included a two-level terrace, a play area that included a play grove, a sand area, and a play house combined with a storage shed for the garden. The project series contains sketches showing preliminary planting layouts, design development drawings, such as landscape plans, landscape elevations, and planting plans, and presentation drawings with general landscape plans and elevations. The project is also documented through construction drawings for the terrace, including plans and sections, and construction drawings for the play house and storage space, including plans, elevations and sections. The project series also comprises correspondence and a plant list.
1973-1975
Garden at 327 Buena Vista Road, Ottawa, Ontario (1973)
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AP075.S1.1973.PR02
Description:
Project series documents Cornelia Han Oberlanders's landscape project for the garden of Hamilton Southam residence on Buena Vista Road in the Rockcliffe Park residential neightbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario. Oberlander worked on this project in 1973-1974. Oberlander design included a two-level terrace, a play area that included a play grove, a sand area, and a play house combined with a storage shed for the garden. The project series contains sketches showing preliminary planting layouts, design development drawings, such as landscape plans, landscape elevations, and planting plans, and presentation drawings with general landscape plans and elevations. The project is also documented through construction drawings for the terrace, including plans and sections, and construction drawings for the play house and storage space, including plans, elevations and sections. The project series also comprises correspondence and a plant list.
Project
1973-1975
textual records
textual records
1973
Project
AP207.S1.1973.PR02
Description:
The project series documents the performance "Io Sono La Spia". It consists of a group of photographs of the founders of Global Tools taken in 1973, in Milan, in which Pettena identifies himself as "the spy" by holding a sign that reads "Io Sono La Spia" [I am the Spy]. Global Tools, was a multidisciplinary program of workshops used to promote different tools and materials in architecture and represented the peak in the radical movement in Italy. By identifying himself as "the spy", Pettena "claimed to be a betraying architect and he stated his own 'diversity' by calling into question his identified role as a 'radical architect'." [1] The project series contains the sign with the words "Io Sono La Spia" and photographs of the Global Tools team, including a photograph showing Pettena holding the sign "Io Sono La Spia". Source: [1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 184.
1973-2015
Io Sono La Spia [I am the Spy] (1973)
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AP207.S1.1973.PR02
Description:
The project series documents the performance "Io Sono La Spia". It consists of a group of photographs of the founders of Global Tools taken in 1973, in Milan, in which Pettena identifies himself as "the spy" by holding a sign that reads "Io Sono La Spia" [I am the Spy]. Global Tools, was a multidisciplinary program of workshops used to promote different tools and materials in architecture and represented the peak in the radical movement in Italy. By identifying himself as "the spy", Pettena "claimed to be a betraying architect and he stated his own 'diversity' by calling into question his identified role as a 'radical architect'." [1] The project series contains the sign with the words "Io Sono La Spia" and photographs of the Global Tools team, including a photograph showing Pettena holding the sign "Io Sono La Spia". Source: [1] Marco Scotini, editor. Non-conscious architecture: Gianni Pettena, Sternberg Press, 2018, 235 pages. p. 184.
Project
1973-2015
Project
AP018.S1.1973.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the residence of A.W. Billes and his family at 30 High Point Road in North York, Toronto from 1973-1975. The office identified the project number as 7302. This project consisted of a ten bedroom home for Toronto businessman Alfred W. Billes, who was part of the Canadian Tire founding family and part owner at this time. The extravagant home included tennis courts, a pool, an indoor atrium with gardens, staff quarters, a library, and a piano room, among others. Built in the Bridle Path neighbourhood, the home was designed in the modernist style with two terraced balconies facing the street. Following the completion of the project, A.W. Billes sued the firm of Parkin Partnership Architects Planners over dissatisfaction with the construction, a case that was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Parkin lost the case in 1984 and had to pay A.W. Billes approximately $125,000. The project is recorded through drawings, photographs, slides, a project painting, and textual records dating from 1973-1984. The drawings are a mix of original sketches and construction drawings. The photographs and slides show the completed project. The textual records include construction documentation, design notes, interoffice memos, correspondence, meeting and site reports, extensive lawsuit documentation, contract data, a project manual for the homeowners and consultancy records. Some of the drawings and textual records are labelled Part 7', but it is unclear from the documentation what this refers to. There are a large number of construction drawings, some sketches, and detail drawings arranged within the textual materials.
1973-1984
Residence of Mr. & Mrs. A.W. Billes, Toronto (1973-1975)
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AP018.S1.1973.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the residence of A.W. Billes and his family at 30 High Point Road in North York, Toronto from 1973-1975. The office identified the project number as 7302. This project consisted of a ten bedroom home for Toronto businessman Alfred W. Billes, who was part of the Canadian Tire founding family and part owner at this time. The extravagant home included tennis courts, a pool, an indoor atrium with gardens, staff quarters, a library, and a piano room, among others. Built in the Bridle Path neighbourhood, the home was designed in the modernist style with two terraced balconies facing the street. Following the completion of the project, A.W. Billes sued the firm of Parkin Partnership Architects Planners over dissatisfaction with the construction, a case that was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Parkin lost the case in 1984 and had to pay A.W. Billes approximately $125,000. The project is recorded through drawings, photographs, slides, a project painting, and textual records dating from 1973-1984. The drawings are a mix of original sketches and construction drawings. The photographs and slides show the completed project. The textual records include construction documentation, design notes, interoffice memos, correspondence, meeting and site reports, extensive lawsuit documentation, contract data, a project manual for the homeowners and consultancy records. Some of the drawings and textual records are labelled Part 7', but it is unclear from the documentation what this refers to. There are a large number of construction drawings, some sketches, and detail drawings arranged within the textual materials.
Project
1973-1984