textual records
PHCON2002:0016:003:059
11 March 1975
textual records
11 March 1975
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:003:109
23 July 1975
textual records
23 July 1975
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:003:159
24 November 1975
textual records
24 November 1975
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:004:046
14 July 1976
textual records
14 July 1976
Series
Paul Goesch
AP162.S2
Description:
Series documents the contribution of architect Paul Goesch to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Goesch participated using the pseudonym Tancred. Born in Schwerin, Germany in 1985, Goesch studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg. After his studies, he worked as a civil servant in Kulm and started producing his first drawings and watercolours between 1914 and 1916. He joined the Novembergruppe, an exhibiting group of painters, sculptors, architects and musicians that later merged with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst group led by Bruno Taut. He collaborated with Bruno Taut on the coloured-architecture program in Magdeburg, Germany in 1921, but was later hospitalized for mental illness, first in Göttingen, then in the Teupitz Hospital near Berlin in 1933 or 1934. In 1940, he was taken by the SS to Hartheim Euthanasia Centre where he was murdered on 6 September the same year. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) The series comprises a letter of Paul Goesch to the Die gläserne Kette circle, as well as portraits, including a carte-de-visite, and a diploma.
1890-1911
Paul Goesch
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AP162.S2
Description:
Series documents the contribution of architect Paul Goesch to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Goesch participated using the pseudonym Tancred. Born in Schwerin, Germany in 1985, Goesch studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg. After his studies, he worked as a civil servant in Kulm and started producing his first drawings and watercolours between 1914 and 1916. He joined the Novembergruppe, an exhibiting group of painters, sculptors, architects and musicians that later merged with the Arbeitsrat für Kunst group led by Bruno Taut. He collaborated with Bruno Taut on the coloured-architecture program in Magdeburg, Germany in 1921, but was later hospitalized for mental illness, first in Göttingen, then in the Teupitz Hospital near Berlin in 1933 or 1934. In 1940, he was taken by the SS to Hartheim Euthanasia Centre where he was murdered on 6 September the same year. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) The series comprises a letter of Paul Goesch to the Die gläserne Kette circle, as well as portraits, including a carte-de-visite, and a diploma.
series
1890-1911
Project
AP140.S2.SS1.D37
Description:
File documents an unsuccessful competition entry for the Siemens AG Headquarters, in Munich, Germany. The complex includes a research centre. Material in this file was produced in 1970. File contains presentation drawings, including some submitted for the competition, and publication drawings. Photographic materials includes a view of the Siemensstadt housing in Berlin by architect Walter Gropius, views of a study model, and views of a presentation model by John Donat Photography. File also contains one item of textual records.
1970
Siemens AG Headquarters Competition, Munich, Germany
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AP140.S2.SS1.D37
Description:
File documents an unsuccessful competition entry for the Siemens AG Headquarters, in Munich, Germany. The complex includes a research centre. Material in this file was produced in 1970. File contains presentation drawings, including some submitted for the competition, and publication drawings. Photographic materials includes a view of the Siemensstadt housing in Berlin by architect Walter Gropius, views of a study model, and views of a presentation model by John Donat Photography. File also contains one item of textual records.
File 37
1970
American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
24 April 2014 , 6pm
Artist’s Talk: Amie Siegel, Provenance
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Description:
American artist Amie Siegel’s moving image work Provenance (2013) follows the global trade of furniture from Chandigarh in reverse: from the homes of collectors in Europe and North America to sale at auction, restoration, through overseas transport and finally back to India. Originally designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Chandigarh furniture now sells(...)
drawings
Sketchbook 152: Macau IV
AP178.S2.1983.008
Description:
This sketchbook includes sketches and notes for the Plano de Expansão da Cidade de Macau, China and for projects in Berlin, Germany, including the Edifício de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse.
1983-1984
Sketchbook 152: Macau IV
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AP178.S2.1983.008
Description:
This sketchbook includes sketches and notes for the Plano de Expansão da Cidade de Macau, China and for projects in Berlin, Germany, including the Edifício de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse.
drawings
1983-1984
Project
Sketches and notes from the period when Gene Summers worked in the Office of Mies van der Rohe
AP114.S1.SS1.D1
Description:
Sub-series documents Gene Summers’ time working in the office of architect Mies van der Rohe, 1957 – 1959. It includes sketches, plans, elevations, and other drawings for various projects, such as the Ron Bacardi y Compañia Administration Building in Mexico City (1958-61) and the New National Gallery in Berlin (1962-68). The sub-series also contains notes on van der Rohe’s teachings recorded by Summers as well as supplementary notes added to the records by Phyllis Lambert in 2000.
1957 - 1959
Sketches and notes from the period when Gene Summers worked in the Office of Mies van der Rohe
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AP114.S1.SS1.D1
Description:
Sub-series documents Gene Summers’ time working in the office of architect Mies van der Rohe, 1957 – 1959. It includes sketches, plans, elevations, and other drawings for various projects, such as the Ron Bacardi y Compañia Administration Building in Mexico City (1958-61) and the New National Gallery in Berlin (1962-68). The sub-series also contains notes on van der Rohe’s teachings recorded by Summers as well as supplementary notes added to the records by Phyllis Lambert in 2000.
Subseries
1957 - 1959
Sketchbook 154: Kulturforum
ARCH292170
Description:
This sketchbook includes sketches for the Kulturforum in Berlin, Germany and for Quinta da Malagueira housing estate in Évora, Portugal. Also included are self portraits, notes, and sketches of people.
September 1983
Sketchbook 154: Kulturforum
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ARCH292170
Description:
This sketchbook includes sketches for the Kulturforum in Berlin, Germany and for Quinta da Malagueira housing estate in Évora, Portugal. Also included are self portraits, notes, and sketches of people.