photographs
Quantity:
3 photograph(s)
PH1998:0014:004-006
architecture
after 1923
photographs
Quantity:
3 photograph(s)
after 1923
architecture
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
Peter Carter fonds
AP047
Synopsis:
The Peter Carter fonds, 1943-1996, documents the professional career of architect Peter Carter. The largest portion of the archive corresponds to projects Carter completed as principal of the office, Peter Carter Architect (1974-96). Materials in this fonds consist of 7263 drawings (including reprographic copies), 2007 photographic materials, approximately 65 panels, 3 l.m. of textual records, 26 models, 1 enclosing unit, 1 carpet sample, 1 graphic design layout for stationery letterhead, 1 brown oak sample, 1 window sample, 1 sign, 1 carioca stone, 1 travertine block and 1 grey carpet tile.
1943-1996
Peter Carter fonds
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AP047
Synopsis:
The Peter Carter fonds, 1943-1996, documents the professional career of architect Peter Carter. The largest portion of the archive corresponds to projects Carter completed as principal of the office, Peter Carter Architect (1974-96). Materials in this fonds consist of 7263 drawings (including reprographic copies), 2007 photographic materials, approximately 65 panels, 3 l.m. of textual records, 26 models, 1 enclosing unit, 1 carpet sample, 1 graphic design layout for stationery letterhead, 1 brown oak sample, 1 window sample, 1 sign, 1 carioca stone, 1 travertine block and 1 grey carpet tile.
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
1943-1996
Project
Mostra AR Parigi
AP142.S2.D4
Description:
File documents an exhibition on Aldo Rossi that was held in 1991 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, at Stichting de Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1992), and at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (1993), at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (1993). The exhibition travelled or was intended to travel to Brussels, Belgium, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Moscow, Russia, New York City, United States, and Tokyo, Japan. Further research may confirm these and other sites for the exhibition. Material in this file was produced in 1991 and 1993. File contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, correspondence, architect's statements, estimates, appraisals, invoices, calculations, administrative records, financial records, price lists, clippings, business cards, memorandums, layouts, lists of exhibited works, a list of donated works, acquisitions lists, lists of lenders of works, lists of photographs for the catalogue, lists of projects by Aldo Rossi, a schedule for drawings, imprints and draft imprints, exhibition plans and layouts, invitations, an exhibition guide book, a pamphlet on the furniture of Aldo Rossi, a calendar, a bibliography, a biographical chronology, drafts and the published exhibition catalogue 'Aldo Rossi par Aldo Rossi, architecte', and material for Alberto Ferlenga's 'Aldo Rossi: Architetture 1988-1992', a floppy disk, drafts for the exhibition and exhibition catalogue, draft exhibition labels, a document label, a report, notes, photocopies of views of drawings, views of models, and views of completed projects, negatives, and photographs, including contact sheets, views of models, views of an exhibition showing drawings and models, and views of completed projects by Aldo Rossi.
1991-1993
Mostra AR Parigi
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AP142.S2.D4
Description:
File documents an exhibition on Aldo Rossi that was held in 1991 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, at Stichting de Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1992), and at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (1993), at Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (1993). The exhibition travelled or was intended to travel to Brussels, Belgium, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Moscow, Russia, New York City, United States, and Tokyo, Japan. Further research may confirm these and other sites for the exhibition. Material in this file was produced in 1991 and 1993. File contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, correspondence, architect's statements, estimates, appraisals, invoices, calculations, administrative records, financial records, price lists, clippings, business cards, memorandums, layouts, lists of exhibited works, a list of donated works, acquisitions lists, lists of lenders of works, lists of photographs for the catalogue, lists of projects by Aldo Rossi, a schedule for drawings, imprints and draft imprints, exhibition plans and layouts, invitations, an exhibition guide book, a pamphlet on the furniture of Aldo Rossi, a calendar, a bibliography, a biographical chronology, drafts and the published exhibition catalogue 'Aldo Rossi par Aldo Rossi, architecte', and material for Alberto Ferlenga's 'Aldo Rossi: Architetture 1988-1992', a floppy disk, drafts for the exhibition and exhibition catalogue, draft exhibition labels, a document label, a report, notes, photocopies of views of drawings, views of models, and views of completed projects, negatives, and photographs, including contact sheets, views of models, views of an exhibition showing drawings and models, and views of completed projects by Aldo Rossi.
File 4
1991-1993
drawings
Quantity:
2 presentation drawing(s)
DR2004:1406
Description:
Note attached to drawings, possibly written by CCA staff, reads: 'City of the Future / - sheets go together / - not part of Cooper Hewitt / - exhibited in Cities on the Moon / shown in Hong Kong, Moscow'.
Panoramic perspective sketch in 2 parts
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DR2004:1406
Description:
Note attached to drawings, possibly written by CCA staff, reads: 'City of the Future / - sheets go together / - not part of Cooper Hewitt / - exhibited in Cities on the Moon / shown in Hong Kong, Moscow'.
drawings
Quantity:
2 presentation drawing(s)
photographs
Quantity:
73 photograph(s)
PH1989:0012:001-073
Description:
- This group of photographs shows 38 views of buildings, 31 photographs of drawings and two photographs of models for buildings in the Soviet Union by Konstantin Melnikov, Ivan Leonidov, the Vesnin family and 25 other architects (PH1989:0012:001-073). Also included are a booklet for an exhibition of works by Melnikov (PH1989:0012:024) and a photograph of an exhibition poster for the 1925 Paris Exhibition of the Decorative Arts (PH1989:0012:023). The buildings represented include government buildings, clubs, residential buildings, and various other types of buildings including an exhibition pavilion, a bus garage, mechanized canteens, a school, and a stadium. There are also photographs of three drawings related to town planning. Four of the government buildings by Leonidov are documented by photographs of competition drawings. - The work of Konstantin Melnikov is represented by seven projects which were all constructed. Photographs of three clubs in Moscow include three photographs and one photograph of a drawing for the Rusakov Club, two photographs of the Burevestnik Factory Club, and a photograph of the Kauchuk Club (club for rubber industry workers). There are eight photographs of the Melnikov residence in Moscow, two of which show the house under construction. Documents related to exhibitions include three photographs, two photographs of drawings and a photograph of a poster for the Soviet Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exhibition of the Decorative Arts, and a booklet for Melnikov's 1965 exhibition of architectural works, drawings and paintings in Moscow. There are two photographs of the Bakhmet'evski Bus Garage in Moscow. - The work of Ivan Leonidov is represented by one project for stairs for a government building (executed) and photographs of drawings for four architectural competitions for government buildings (all unexecuted), and one unexecuted project for housing. Documents for the five projects for government buildings include four photographs of the stairs to the Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium for the People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry (Narkomtyazhprom) in Kislovodsk; three photographs of drawings for a government office building competition in Alma-Ata; three photographs of drawings for the Film Studio competition (Moscow); three photographs of drawings for the Tsentrosoyuz (Centrosoiuz) Building competition (Moscow); and a photograph of a drawing for the Narkomtiazhprom Building (Building of Heavy Industry) competition (Moscow). There is also a photograph of a drawing for Kliuchiki Housing in Nizhnii Tagil (unexecuted). - The work of Aleksandr, Viktor, and Leonid Vesnin is represented by three unexecuted projects for government buildings in Moscow and one project for a club in Moscow (executed). Documents for the three projects for government buildings in Moscow include: three photographs of drawings for the Central Telegraph Office; a photograph of a drawing for the Palace of Labor; and a photograph of a drawing for the Leningrad Pravda Building. There are five photographs of the ZIL Palace of Culture (club for the Likhachev Automobile Plant workers) in Moscow. - The work of the 25 other architects includes government buildings, clubs, residential buildings, mechanized canteens, an experimental design for a school, a stadium, and photographs of drawings for town planning. Documents for the two government buildings (executed) include: five photographs of the Department of Industry and Planning (Gosprom) buildings in Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), and a photograph of a drawing for the First Building of Lensovet (Leningrad Union) in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). The two clubs in Moscow are documented by one photograph of the Kozhevnikov (Tanner's) Union Club (unexecuted) and one of the Zuev Club (executed). The two residential buildings are documented by one photograph of the Narkomfin (People's Commissariat for Finance) Apartment Building in Moscow (executed) and one photograph of a drawing for the Airman's Planit (unexecuted). Documents for various other projects include: five photographs of drawings for three mechanized canteens in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), including the Vasileostrovskaya Mechanized canteen, Vyborgskaya Mechanized Canteen, and Volodarskaya Mechanized Canteen (all executed); three photographs of drawings for an experimental design for a single-storey school (unexecuted); one photograph of a Dinamo Stadium [?] in Moscow; two photographs of models, one for an "architecton" (Moscow) and one for a housing project with integral collective services in Moscow (both unexecuted). There are also two photographs of site plans for industrial housing and related services for the coal mining town of Bogoslovsk (executed ?) and one for the same subject in Mashinostroiteli [?] (executed ?).
architecture, portrait
1920-1965 or later
Photographs of drawings, models and buildings designed by Melnikov, Leonidov, the Vesnin family and other architects, Paris, France and the Soviet Union (now in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine)
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PH1989:0012:001-073
Description:
- This group of photographs shows 38 views of buildings, 31 photographs of drawings and two photographs of models for buildings in the Soviet Union by Konstantin Melnikov, Ivan Leonidov, the Vesnin family and 25 other architects (PH1989:0012:001-073). Also included are a booklet for an exhibition of works by Melnikov (PH1989:0012:024) and a photograph of an exhibition poster for the 1925 Paris Exhibition of the Decorative Arts (PH1989:0012:023). The buildings represented include government buildings, clubs, residential buildings, and various other types of buildings including an exhibition pavilion, a bus garage, mechanized canteens, a school, and a stadium. There are also photographs of three drawings related to town planning. Four of the government buildings by Leonidov are documented by photographs of competition drawings. - The work of Konstantin Melnikov is represented by seven projects which were all constructed. Photographs of three clubs in Moscow include three photographs and one photograph of a drawing for the Rusakov Club, two photographs of the Burevestnik Factory Club, and a photograph of the Kauchuk Club (club for rubber industry workers). There are eight photographs of the Melnikov residence in Moscow, two of which show the house under construction. Documents related to exhibitions include three photographs, two photographs of drawings and a photograph of a poster for the Soviet Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exhibition of the Decorative Arts, and a booklet for Melnikov's 1965 exhibition of architectural works, drawings and paintings in Moscow. There are two photographs of the Bakhmet'evski Bus Garage in Moscow. - The work of Ivan Leonidov is represented by one project for stairs for a government building (executed) and photographs of drawings for four architectural competitions for government buildings (all unexecuted), and one unexecuted project for housing. Documents for the five projects for government buildings include four photographs of the stairs to the Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium for the People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry (Narkomtyazhprom) in Kislovodsk; three photographs of drawings for a government office building competition in Alma-Ata; three photographs of drawings for the Film Studio competition (Moscow); three photographs of drawings for the Tsentrosoyuz (Centrosoiuz) Building competition (Moscow); and a photograph of a drawing for the Narkomtiazhprom Building (Building of Heavy Industry) competition (Moscow). There is also a photograph of a drawing for Kliuchiki Housing in Nizhnii Tagil (unexecuted). - The work of Aleksandr, Viktor, and Leonid Vesnin is represented by three unexecuted projects for government buildings in Moscow and one project for a club in Moscow (executed). Documents for the three projects for government buildings in Moscow include: three photographs of drawings for the Central Telegraph Office; a photograph of a drawing for the Palace of Labor; and a photograph of a drawing for the Leningrad Pravda Building. There are five photographs of the ZIL Palace of Culture (club for the Likhachev Automobile Plant workers) in Moscow. - The work of the 25 other architects includes government buildings, clubs, residential buildings, mechanized canteens, an experimental design for a school, a stadium, and photographs of drawings for town planning. Documents for the two government buildings (executed) include: five photographs of the Department of Industry and Planning (Gosprom) buildings in Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), and a photograph of a drawing for the First Building of Lensovet (Leningrad Union) in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). The two clubs in Moscow are documented by one photograph of the Kozhevnikov (Tanner's) Union Club (unexecuted) and one of the Zuev Club (executed). The two residential buildings are documented by one photograph of the Narkomfin (People's Commissariat for Finance) Apartment Building in Moscow (executed) and one photograph of a drawing for the Airman's Planit (unexecuted). Documents for various other projects include: five photographs of drawings for three mechanized canteens in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), including the Vasileostrovskaya Mechanized canteen, Vyborgskaya Mechanized Canteen, and Volodarskaya Mechanized Canteen (all executed); three photographs of drawings for an experimental design for a single-storey school (unexecuted); one photograph of a Dinamo Stadium [?] in Moscow; two photographs of models, one for an "architecton" (Moscow) and one for a housing project with integral collective services in Moscow (both unexecuted). There are also two photographs of site plans for industrial housing and related services for the coal mining town of Bogoslovsk (executed ?) and one for the same subject in Mashinostroiteli [?] (executed ?).
photographs
Quantity:
73 photograph(s)
1920-1965 or later
architecture, portrait
Portrait of Ilya Golosov (left) and an unidentified officer [?] at a construction site, Russia
PH1998:0015:001
Description:
- Photographs PH1998:0015:001-003 show portraits of Ilya Golosov (1883-1945) and a view of Sovetskaia Square in Moscow which was once part of his personal archive (portraits: PH1998:0015:001 and PH1998:0015:003; square: PH1998:0015:002).
portrait
between 1914 and 1917
Portrait of Ilya Golosov (left) and an unidentified officer [?] at a construction site, Russia
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PH1998:0015:001
Description:
- Photographs PH1998:0015:001-003 show portraits of Ilya Golosov (1883-1945) and a view of Sovetskaia Square in Moscow which was once part of his personal archive (portraits: PH1998:0015:001 and PH1998:0015:003; square: PH1998:0015:002).
portrait
textual records
DR2012:0015:021:025
Description:
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including correspondence. References are made to the National Gallery of Canada's sponsorship of an exhibition of Melvin Charney's work at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, along with notes, and press clippings. Original folder inscribed in graphite: NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA / 2000+
1985, 1998-2005, 2009
Correspondence of Melvin Charney's sponsorship for project
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DR2012:0015:021:025
Description:
File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including correspondence. References are made to the National Gallery of Canada's sponsorship of an exhibition of Melvin Charney's work at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, along with notes, and press clippings. Original folder inscribed in graphite: NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA / 2000+
textual records
1985, 1998-2005, 2009
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
19 June 1991 to 8 September 1991
Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1917-1935
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Description:
The exhibition explores one of the most adventurous and influential moments in the history of architecture: the explosion of invention and ideas that followed the October Revolution in Russia. The Soviet avant-garde architects were productivist as much as aesthetic in their concerns; they saw architecture and the arts as one, and they were committed to bringing design(...)
Main galleries
drawings, photographs
PH1998:0013:001-048
Description:
- All of the projects in album PH1998:0013:001-048 were designed by Solomon Lisagor, some in collaboration with other architects, from 1923 through 1938 for various locations in Soviet Union. The photographs and magazine clippings show drawings and models for and views of twenty projects including: the Palace of Soviets, Moscow (10 pages); the Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium for the Ministry of the Oil Industry in Kislovodsk, Soviet Union (now Russia) (8 pages); the "Worker" RZhSKT [the "Worker" Worker's Housing Construction Cooperative Trust] in Saratov, Soviet Union (now Russia) (5 pages); the Limeny resort, Crimea, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (4 pages); the Rostov Institute of Engineers of Transport [?], Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union (now Russia) (3 pages); the House-commune of transitional type, Rostokino, Moscow (3 pages); a Building of People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry (Narkomtyazhprom), Moscow (3 pages); a Type F unit apartment, 8 Gogolevskii Boulevard, Moscow (2 pages); a development scheme for the southern coast of Crimea, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (2 pages). Several other projects are represented on single album pages: a workers settlement in Kashira, a circus, and a Red Army Dormitory; a Sovtorgflot building, Arkhangel'sk, Soviet Union (now Russia); a typical experimental single-family house; prefabricated housing; a single-family house, a public rest room and two bus stops; a development scheme for the Ufa region, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia); and housing constructed from larger stone blocks [krupnye kamennye bloki]. One of the album pages is unused.
architecture
between 1923 and 1943
Album of photographs and magazine clippings of projects by Solomon Lisagor, some designed in collaboration with other architects, Soviet Union (now in Russia and Ukraine)
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PH1998:0013:001-048
Description:
- All of the projects in album PH1998:0013:001-048 were designed by Solomon Lisagor, some in collaboration with other architects, from 1923 through 1938 for various locations in Soviet Union. The photographs and magazine clippings show drawings and models for and views of twenty projects including: the Palace of Soviets, Moscow (10 pages); the Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium for the Ministry of the Oil Industry in Kislovodsk, Soviet Union (now Russia) (8 pages); the "Worker" RZhSKT [the "Worker" Worker's Housing Construction Cooperative Trust] in Saratov, Soviet Union (now Russia) (5 pages); the Limeny resort, Crimea, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (4 pages); the Rostov Institute of Engineers of Transport [?], Rostov-on-Don, Soviet Union (now Russia) (3 pages); the House-commune of transitional type, Rostokino, Moscow (3 pages); a Building of People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry (Narkomtyazhprom), Moscow (3 pages); a Type F unit apartment, 8 Gogolevskii Boulevard, Moscow (2 pages); a development scheme for the southern coast of Crimea, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (2 pages). Several other projects are represented on single album pages: a workers settlement in Kashira, a circus, and a Red Army Dormitory; a Sovtorgflot building, Arkhangel'sk, Soviet Union (now Russia); a typical experimental single-family house; prefabricated housing; a single-family house, a public rest room and two bus stops; a development scheme for the Ufa region, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia); and housing constructed from larger stone blocks [krupnye kamennye bloki]. One of the album pages is unused.
drawings, photographs
between 1923 and 1943
architecture
Journeys and translation
20th century, Arkhitektura SSSR, béton, concrete, Cuba, CUJAE, Fidel Castro, Havane, Hugo Palmarola, hurricane Flora, Janet Abrams, Moscou, Moscow, Nikita Khrouchtchev, ouragan Flora, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Salvador Allende, Santiago del Cuba, Soviet Union, Union soviétique, URSS, USSR, Viterbo O’Reilly, XXe siècle
17 June 2016
articles
17 June 2016
Journeys and translation