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AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
1996-2015
RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
Synopsis:
The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
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Fonds
1996-2015
textual records, born digital
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9 file
ARCH240743
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ANY Books NE Writings - MIT Contracts - Books NE Writings - agreement forms, book proposal, correspondence NE Books - proposals for Series edited by Michael Speaks Book Proposal - Mark Taylor: Designing Architecture [Bernard] Cache / [Kojin] Karatani - Letters of agreement [Roger] Connah proposals Library of Congress ISBN Forms
1991-2000
ANY Books NE Writings - MIT Contracts - Books NE Writings - agreement forms
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ARCH240743
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ANY Books NE Writings - MIT Contracts - Books NE Writings - agreement forms, book proposal, correspondence NE Books - proposals for Series edited by Michael Speaks Book Proposal - Mark Taylor: Designing Architecture [Bernard] Cache / [Kojin] Karatani - Letters of agreement [Roger] Connah proposals Library of Congress ISBN Forms
textual records, born digital
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9 file
1991-2000
textual records
AP206.S2.031
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.032, AP206.S2.033 and AP206.S2.034. This file includes the following papers: "Book Review of Human Identity in the Urban Environment edited by Gwen Bell and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt" "What Architect Does" "The Big Boss" "Address by Principal Aditya Prakash on the occasion of the College Convocation [..]," 1973 "Simla: The Metropolis on the Mountain," 1975
1973-1978
Unpublished papers (folder 1 of 4)
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AP206.S2.031
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.032, AP206.S2.033 and AP206.S2.034. This file includes the following papers: "Book Review of Human Identity in the Urban Environment edited by Gwen Bell and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt" "What Architect Does" "The Big Boss" "Address by Principal Aditya Prakash on the occasion of the College Convocation [..]," 1973 "Simla: The Metropolis on the Mountain," 1975
textual records
1973-1978
Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals that appeared in response to the political, social, and artistic changes of the period. Clip/Stamp/Fold 2 investigates how a diverse group of(...)
Octagonal gallery and library rotunda
12 April 2007 to 9 September 2007
Clip/Stamp/Fold 2: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X
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Coined in the early twentieth century to designate progressive literary journals, the term “little magazine” was remobilized during the 1960s to grapple with the contemporary proliferation of independent architectural periodicals that appeared in response to the political, social, and artistic changes of the period. Clip/Stamp/Fold 2 investigates how a diverse group of(...)
Octagonal gallery and library rotunda
textual records
AP206.S2.069
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.070 and AP206.S2.071. This file includes the following papers: "A Conceptual Model of Urban Development" "Haryana's New Capital: Beyond Corbusier Planning and Urban Form" "The Capital Story" 1986 "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architectural and the Cultural Context," 1990 "Delhi: The Deepening Urban Crisis edited by Patwant Singh and Ram Dhamija," review "Reflections on Art" "Modulor! A System of Proportions" "Le Corbusier and Later Development in Chandigarh," 1988
1985-1990
Published and unpublished papers (folder 1 of 3)
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AP206.S2.069
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.070 and AP206.S2.071. This file includes the following papers: "A Conceptual Model of Urban Development" "Haryana's New Capital: Beyond Corbusier Planning and Urban Form" "The Capital Story" 1986 "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architectural and the Cultural Context," 1990 "Delhi: The Deepening Urban Crisis edited by Patwant Singh and Ram Dhamija," review "Reflections on Art" "Modulor! A System of Proportions" "Le Corbusier and Later Development in Chandigarh," 1988
textual records
1985-1990
Series
AP168.S1
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The Project records from Neil Denari series, 1994 – 2004, consists of records produced by Denari for his show “Interrupted Projections” at Gallery MA in Tokyo, Japan. It documents the development and final design for the principal architectural installation built on the third level of the gallery, as well as related materials displayed on the gallery’s fourth floor. The series also contains photographic and video documentation of the exhibit, the show catalogue, and promotional materials. The series includes 4003 digital files (1 GB), 53 slides, 21 transparencies, seven drawings and/or reprographic copies, two VHS video cassettes, one exhibition catalogue, and a small amount of promotional material comprising one large and two small posters, one postcard, and one t-shirt. The majority of records date from 1994-1996. Denari used a combination of physical drawings and digital modelling to draft the design for Interrupted Projections. The series contains one ink drawing and one transfer print with plans and sections of the third floor gallery space, two reprographic copies of drawings with elevations and plans of existing conditions of the third and fourth floors at Gallery MA, and three graphite hand drawings of the installation. Digital files in the series include two original Softimage databases containing full and partial 3D models of the installation, as well as one forward-migrated database containing models compiled from the two original databases. The original models were created in Softimage ’95 on Windows NT and will not open in contemporary versions of Autodesk Softimage. The forward-migrated model database was created by members of Autodesk’s Montreal office for the Archaeology of the Digital exhibition Complexity and Convention and will open in Softimage 2014. Each Softimage model database is made up of several directories that contain information necessary to render all models and their animation into a “scene” (such as textures, lighting, camera movements, etc.). When the Interrupted Projections models were migrated, the information from all directories in both original databases was compiled into the Scenes directory of a single database. These updated scene files (SCN) contain all the elements needed to render the models without the need for additional directories. Each scene file has a corresponding scene TOC file (scene table of content), which can be used to further modify the information in the scene. Scene files in the migrated database contain full and partial models for Interrupted Projections, including one animated scene that follows a camera path through the interior and exterior of the final model. These files document the various stages of design work for the project, as well as Denari’s use of animation features in Softimage to visualize and study the spatial character of his drawings. Project collaborator Duks Koschitz created additional animations of the model that were edited and shown on the fourth floor of the exhibition. A compilation of his work is included on a VHS tape in the archive. The video, which spans one minute 16 seconds, contains four animations that move around the 3D gallery space. Koschitz attempted to reflect the concerns of the project in the movements of the camera, focusing on details such as the fictional company logos or curvatures in the surface of the model. The majority of photographic materials in the series are digital renderings of the model, comprising 38 slides, 14 diapositives, and seven digital images. Photographic materials also include images of the completed show, including seven diapositives that document the built work from various views on the third floor of Gallery MA, as well as the exhibition of materials on the fourth floor. A small number of slides document the exhibit open to the public, and include images of visitors interacting with the Sony Navicam. Most of the diapositive photographs and a small number of slides were taken by Fujitsuka Mitsumasa, a photographer of architecture based in Tokyo. A second VHS tape in the archive provides in-depth documentation of the Interrupted Projections exhibition, containing 45 minutes of raw video footage that explores Gallery MA and surrounding areas of Tokyo. The Interrupted Projections book contains in print the text and images from the installation and website. It was written by Denari and designed by Michiharu Shimoda, a graphic designer and underground trip-hop artist who was also responsible for the design of the fictional logos used in the exhibit. The book acts as an extension of the content of the show, as well as exhibition catalogue, and covers Denari’s other projects represented in the show. The series also contains a small amount of promotional media for Interrupted Projections, including one large and two small posters, a postcard, and a t-shirt.
1994 - 2004
Project records from Neil Denari
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AP168.S1
Description:
The Project records from Neil Denari series, 1994 – 2004, consists of records produced by Denari for his show “Interrupted Projections” at Gallery MA in Tokyo, Japan. It documents the development and final design for the principal architectural installation built on the third level of the gallery, as well as related materials displayed on the gallery’s fourth floor. The series also contains photographic and video documentation of the exhibit, the show catalogue, and promotional materials. The series includes 4003 digital files (1 GB), 53 slides, 21 transparencies, seven drawings and/or reprographic copies, two VHS video cassettes, one exhibition catalogue, and a small amount of promotional material comprising one large and two small posters, one postcard, and one t-shirt. The majority of records date from 1994-1996. Denari used a combination of physical drawings and digital modelling to draft the design for Interrupted Projections. The series contains one ink drawing and one transfer print with plans and sections of the third floor gallery space, two reprographic copies of drawings with elevations and plans of existing conditions of the third and fourth floors at Gallery MA, and three graphite hand drawings of the installation. Digital files in the series include two original Softimage databases containing full and partial 3D models of the installation, as well as one forward-migrated database containing models compiled from the two original databases. The original models were created in Softimage ’95 on Windows NT and will not open in contemporary versions of Autodesk Softimage. The forward-migrated model database was created by members of Autodesk’s Montreal office for the Archaeology of the Digital exhibition Complexity and Convention and will open in Softimage 2014. Each Softimage model database is made up of several directories that contain information necessary to render all models and their animation into a “scene” (such as textures, lighting, camera movements, etc.). When the Interrupted Projections models were migrated, the information from all directories in both original databases was compiled into the Scenes directory of a single database. These updated scene files (SCN) contain all the elements needed to render the models without the need for additional directories. Each scene file has a corresponding scene TOC file (scene table of content), which can be used to further modify the information in the scene. Scene files in the migrated database contain full and partial models for Interrupted Projections, including one animated scene that follows a camera path through the interior and exterior of the final model. These files document the various stages of design work for the project, as well as Denari’s use of animation features in Softimage to visualize and study the spatial character of his drawings. Project collaborator Duks Koschitz created additional animations of the model that were edited and shown on the fourth floor of the exhibition. A compilation of his work is included on a VHS tape in the archive. The video, which spans one minute 16 seconds, contains four animations that move around the 3D gallery space. Koschitz attempted to reflect the concerns of the project in the movements of the camera, focusing on details such as the fictional company logos or curvatures in the surface of the model. The majority of photographic materials in the series are digital renderings of the model, comprising 38 slides, 14 diapositives, and seven digital images. Photographic materials also include images of the completed show, including seven diapositives that document the built work from various views on the third floor of Gallery MA, as well as the exhibition of materials on the fourth floor. A small number of slides document the exhibit open to the public, and include images of visitors interacting with the Sony Navicam. Most of the diapositive photographs and a small number of slides were taken by Fujitsuka Mitsumasa, a photographer of architecture based in Tokyo. A second VHS tape in the archive provides in-depth documentation of the Interrupted Projections exhibition, containing 45 minutes of raw video footage that explores Gallery MA and surrounding areas of Tokyo. The Interrupted Projections book contains in print the text and images from the installation and website. It was written by Denari and designed by Michiharu Shimoda, a graphic designer and underground trip-hop artist who was also responsible for the design of the fictional logos used in the exhibit. The book acts as an extension of the content of the show, as well as exhibition catalogue, and covers Denari’s other projects represented in the show. The series also contains a small amount of promotional media for Interrupted Projections, including one large and two small posters, a postcard, and a t-shirt.
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1994 - 2004
textual records, photographs
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34 file
ARCH242854
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Future Issues Any Future Issues Any: Future Issues Editorial Board Meeting - 1993 Any Planning Any Board Meeting Editorial Meeting notes Any magazine board Any magazine proposals Proposals- Space / Movement / Territory Architecture and Science (proposals) Ideology (proposals) Deleuze (proposal) Fold (Deleuze Issue - [John] Rajchman Free-Lance Inquiries Paul [Henninger] - miscellaneous Long-Range Planning / Jones High Concept (proposals) Projects Lost Files Edit Content Reports Writers Agreements Writer's Guidelines Any Writers Style Sheet Anyone Style Sheet Any ISSN (Library of Congress ISSN application) Copyright File Any - Library of Congress CD File Lists - Contributors MIT Press - catalogues Photo Research Image Requests Random - address lists, correspondence, invoices, 5 slides, 6 photos
1992-1998
ANY Magazine Editorial Files, 1992-1998
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ARCH242854
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Future Issues Any Future Issues Any: Future Issues Editorial Board Meeting - 1993 Any Planning Any Board Meeting Editorial Meeting notes Any magazine board Any magazine proposals Proposals- Space / Movement / Territory Architecture and Science (proposals) Ideology (proposals) Deleuze (proposal) Fold (Deleuze Issue - [John] Rajchman Free-Lance Inquiries Paul [Henninger] - miscellaneous Long-Range Planning / Jones High Concept (proposals) Projects Lost Files Edit Content Reports Writers Agreements Writer's Guidelines Any Writers Style Sheet Anyone Style Sheet Any ISSN (Library of Congress ISSN application) Copyright File Any - Library of Congress CD File Lists - Contributors MIT Press - catalogues Photo Research Image Requests Random - address lists, correspondence, invoices, 5 slides, 6 photos
textual records, photographs
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34 file
1992-1998
Stirling
AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.2
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British architect James Stirling and various critics talk about his philosophy and work while viewing his architectural projects around the world. New York, NY : Michael Blackwood Productions, c1987. Produced and directed by Michael Blackwood ; a coproduction Michael Blackwood Productions, Saarländischer Rundfunk, BBC Television, Sveriges Television/AB/SVTI ; photographed by John Else, Mead Hunt, Bodo Kessler ; edited by Stephen Plumlee ; narration written by Martin Filler and Rosemarie Hagg Bletter ; narrated by Russell Connor ; additional photography by John Adderly, Ricky Gauld, Mark Trottenberg ; sound-recordists, Brian Greenman, Martyn Clift, M. Webberley ; consultants, Martin Filler, Rosemarie Hagg Bletter ; still photographs, John Donat ... [et al.] ; associate director, Stephen Plumlee ; associate producer, Kelley Forsyth ; executive producers, Peter Brugger, Rolf Porsborn, Alan Yentob
1987
Stirling
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AP140.S2.SS7.D3.P10.2
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British architect James Stirling and various critics talk about his philosophy and work while viewing his architectural projects around the world. New York, NY : Michael Blackwood Productions, c1987. Produced and directed by Michael Blackwood ; a coproduction Michael Blackwood Productions, Saarländischer Rundfunk, BBC Television, Sveriges Television/AB/SVTI ; photographed by John Else, Mead Hunt, Bodo Kessler ; edited by Stephen Plumlee ; narration written by Martin Filler and Rosemarie Hagg Bletter ; narrated by Russell Connor ; additional photography by John Adderly, Ricky Gauld, Mark Trottenberg ; sound-recordists, Brian Greenman, Martyn Clift, M. Webberley ; consultants, Martin Filler, Rosemarie Hagg Bletter ; still photographs, John Donat ... [et al.] ; associate director, Stephen Plumlee ; associate producer, Kelley Forsyth ; executive producers, Peter Brugger, Rolf Porsborn, Alan Yentob
1987
textual records
ARCH153531
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Letters to PDE Folder Oppositions Magazine : - Correspondence with MIT Press and Rizzoli about distribution - Schedule and financial status - Memos from Julia Bloomfield (1981) - Minutes and action list of editors meeting, March 20, 1981 - Daniel Libeskind's manuscript "Deus ex Machina…" - Manuscript of the translation of Riegl's "The Modern Cult of Monuments…"; fragment (pages 26-42) of edited text - Subscription count as of 10 December 1974 Loose documents: - Correspondence with MIT Press and Rizzoli - Memos from Julia Bloomfield (1978-1981) - William Ellis's manuscript : "Grave Complications" - Georges Teyssot's C.V. - Article project on "Gruppo 7" by Ellen Shapiro - Job description Managing Editor - Draft manuscript of article by PDE (no title) - Manuscript of Rosemarie Haag Bletter : "Opaque Transparency" - Manuscript of Anthony Vidler : "Postscript to Dal Co on Rossi" - Photocopy of "Manhattan: Capital of the XXth Century, 1969", Oppositions 4
1974-1981
D. Programmes and Publications, 1978-1981: 4. Oppositions Magazine
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ARCH153531
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Letters to PDE Folder Oppositions Magazine : - Correspondence with MIT Press and Rizzoli about distribution - Schedule and financial status - Memos from Julia Bloomfield (1981) - Minutes and action list of editors meeting, March 20, 1981 - Daniel Libeskind's manuscript "Deus ex Machina…" - Manuscript of the translation of Riegl's "The Modern Cult of Monuments…"; fragment (pages 26-42) of edited text - Subscription count as of 10 December 1974 Loose documents: - Correspondence with MIT Press and Rizzoli - Memos from Julia Bloomfield (1978-1981) - William Ellis's manuscript : "Grave Complications" - Georges Teyssot's C.V. - Article project on "Gruppo 7" by Ellen Shapiro - Job description Managing Editor - Draft manuscript of article by PDE (no title) - Manuscript of Rosemarie Haag Bletter : "Opaque Transparency" - Manuscript of Anthony Vidler : "Postscript to Dal Co on Rossi" - Photocopy of "Manhattan: Capital of the XXth Century, 1969", Oppositions 4
textual records
1974-1981
textual records
ARCH153544
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Documentation concerning the project of a Journal for Discussion, and Criticism of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, to be edited by Stanford Anderson and Anthony Vidler : with lists of proposed writers and topics for first issues; budget data Photocopy of Denise Levertov : "Some Notes on Organic Form", Poetry, vol. 106, no 6, September 1965 Schedule and introductory text by H.-R. Hitchcock for the "3rd Modern Architecture Symposium", Columbia University, May 13-15, 1966 CASE editorial Board Meeting, May 9 1965 Schedule of Seminar on Constructivism, A.A. 24/6/65 "A Work Study Program" Correspondence between PDE and Anthony Vidler Letter from Stuart Cohen [Statements of the editors about] Re:Form Editorial Statement (CASE/Problems in Architecture) Statement of the Editorial Board New York May 9, 1965; Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Stanford Anderson, Kenneth Frampton, Henry Millon
1965-1971
PDE IAUS, 1971: D Projects - 2 IAUS magazine: CASE Mag. 1965-1971
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ARCH153544
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Documentation concerning the project of a Journal for Discussion, and Criticism of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, to be edited by Stanford Anderson and Anthony Vidler : with lists of proposed writers and topics for first issues; budget data Photocopy of Denise Levertov : "Some Notes on Organic Form", Poetry, vol. 106, no 6, September 1965 Schedule and introductory text by H.-R. Hitchcock for the "3rd Modern Architecture Symposium", Columbia University, May 13-15, 1966 CASE editorial Board Meeting, May 9 1965 Schedule of Seminar on Constructivism, A.A. 24/6/65 "A Work Study Program" Correspondence between PDE and Anthony Vidler Letter from Stuart Cohen [Statements of the editors about] Re:Form Editorial Statement (CASE/Problems in Architecture) Statement of the Editorial Board New York May 9, 1965; Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Stanford Anderson, Kenneth Frampton, Henry Millon
textual records
1965-1971