A look at Senegal’s contemporary built environment reveals a recent shift towards industrialized construction practices that borrow from imported building solutions rather than the local techniques and materials that characterize much of post-independence Senegalese modernist architecture.
Maison de la Culture Douta Seck, Dakar, Senegal
20 November to 19 December
(In Dakar) Building Material Cultures: Reengaging Senegalese Craft-Based Building Traditions
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A look at Senegal’s contemporary built environment reveals a recent shift towards industrialized construction practices that borrow from imported building solutions rather than the local techniques and materials that characterize much of post-independence Senegalese modernist architecture.
Maison de la Culture Douta Seck, Dakar, Senegal
ARCH282970
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Original German title is Das bausystem für die umweltschutzarchitektur des nächsten Jahrtausends
circa 1996
Video recording titled The construction system for the environmental protection architecture of the next millennium
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Original German title is Das bausystem für die umweltschutzarchitektur des nächsten Jahrtausends
circa 1996
textual records
DR2012:0012:082:025
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File containing documents in English including drafts and notes, related to Melvin Charney's article, The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture. Annotations in graphite present throughout. Original folder inscribed in graphite: A.R. PIECE / NOTES FOR '80 → MONTREALNESS OF MONTREAL
1980
Drafts and notes related to "The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture"
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DR2012:0012:082:025
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File containing documents in English including drafts and notes, related to Melvin Charney's article, The Montrealness of Montreal: Formations and Formalities in Urban Architecture. Annotations in graphite present throughout. Original folder inscribed in graphite: A.R. PIECE / NOTES FOR '80 → MONTREALNESS OF MONTREAL
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1980
Copy of video recording of an interview with Catherine Chard Wisnicki for Women in Architecture
ARCH286157
1995
1995
Letter from Gary Davis to Carla Skodinski about Undergraduate Program in Architecture at IAUS
ARCH401370
20 November 1976
textual records
AP075.S3.SS1.015
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Correspondence related to the application of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander to the Meadows Press and the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) engagement calendar of 1999, Creative Gardens and Landscapes. Original folder entitled: "M. Meadows / MEADOW PRESS ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR".
1997
Cornelia Hahn Obelander application to the engagement calendar of Meadows Press on landscape architecture
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AP075.S3.SS1.015
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Correspondence related to the application of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander to the Meadows Press and the American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) engagement calendar of 1999, Creative Gardens and Landscapes. Original folder entitled: "M. Meadows / MEADOW PRESS ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR".
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1997
textual records
AP197.S2.017
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The files comprises of writings about philosophy, film, art, music, modern architecture, mathematics and ecology.
circa 1962- 1990
Various research files about philosophy, films, art, music, modern architecture, mathematics and ecology
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AP197.S2.017
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The files comprises of writings about philosophy, film, art, music, modern architecture, mathematics and ecology.
textual records
circa 1962- 1990
textual records
ARCH268209
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Documentation concerning CIAM, the International Congress of Modern Architecture (“Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne”), including textual documents in the hand of José Luis Sert. Documents include articles and illustrations clipped from publications, photographs (reproductions), and notes. Some documents pertain to the exhibition on the city of Amsterdam titled “Ville fonctionnelle.”
ca. 1936
Documentation concerning CIAM, the International Congress of Modern Architecture (“Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne”)
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Documentation concerning CIAM, the International Congress of Modern Architecture (“Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne”), including textual documents in the hand of José Luis Sert. Documents include articles and illustrations clipped from publications, photographs (reproductions), and notes. Some documents pertain to the exhibition on the city of Amsterdam titled “Ville fonctionnelle.”
textual records
ca. 1936
photographs
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Photograph of the winners, including Victor Prus, of the First Prize in national architecture competiton for the public house competition, in London, England.
1951
Photograph of the winners, including Victor Prus, of the First Prize in national architecture competiton
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Photograph of the winners, including Victor Prus, of the First Prize in national architecture competiton for the public house competition, in London, England.
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1951
drawings
AP148.S1.1970.PR02.001.1
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The material in the next 7 files (AP148.S1.1970.PR02.001.1 through AP148.S1.1970.PR02.001.7) was contained together in a handmade folder titled "AI Storyboard". The material in this folder has been separated for preservation purposes, and the original folder has been retained. This file contains notes and sketches on the film idea, including the story, visuals, music and cinematography. Also includes clippings, both of which refer to imagery and ideas of an earth-moon highway or contest for a highway, as well as the first architectural competition in space ("Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio"). Also includes a small viewer of an Escher image.
ca. 1970-1971
Notes and sketches on a film story, Interplanetary Architecture (Folder 1 of 7)
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02.001.1
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The material in the next 7 files (AP148.S1.1970.PR02.001.1 through AP148.S1.1970.PR02.001.7) was contained together in a handmade folder titled "AI Storyboard". The material in this folder has been separated for preservation purposes, and the original folder has been retained. This file contains notes and sketches on the film idea, including the story, visuals, music and cinematography. Also includes clippings, both of which refer to imagery and ideas of an earth-moon highway or contest for a highway, as well as the first architectural competition in space ("Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio"). Also includes a small viewer of an Escher image.
drawings
ca. 1970-1971