textual records, photographs
DR1999:0511
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documents include 38 negatives, 121 photographs, guidebook, historical maps/pictures/text/dates, publications, color, competition brief, site plans, axonometrics, sketches, 1941 Berlin phone directory, Leonardo da Vinci information, mechanical, microchip information, notes, ground foam, samples
Negatives, photographs, guidebook, historical maps/pictures/text/dates
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DR1999:0511
Description:
documents include 38 negatives, 121 photographs, guidebook, historical maps/pictures/text/dates, publications, color, competition brief, site plans, axonometrics, sketches, 1941 Berlin phone directory, Leonardo da Vinci information, mechanical, microchip information, notes, ground foam, samples
textual records, photographs
Series
Bruno Taut
AP162.S8
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Series documents the contribution of architect Bruno Taut to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Bruno Taut participated under the pseudonym Glas. Born in 1880 in Königsberg, Germany, Bruno Taut studied architecture at the Bauwerkschule in Königsberg. After working in architectural firms from 1903 to 1909, he worked in partnership with Franz Hoffman and later with his brother Max Taut. Bruno Taut undertook various architectural projects including housing projects, public commissions, and later projects for universities and schools. In 1918, he founded the Arbeisrat für Kunst, a union of architects, painters, writers and other artists based in Berlin and dedicated to bring architectural and artisit tendencies of the time to a broader public. This union also involved some members of the Die gläserne Kette circle. Between 1920 and 1921, Bruno Taut was editor to the magazine "Frühlich". He taught architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1930 to 1932, and undertook a working visit in Russia in 1932 to 1933. After spending time in Japan between 1933 and 1936 due to enforced emigration, he taught at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul. He died in Istanbul in 1938. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) This series comprises part of Bruno Taut's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and documents. The series also includes photographic materials of some of his architectural projects.
between 1919 and 1920
Bruno Taut
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AP162.S8
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Series documents the contribution of architect Bruno Taut to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Bruno Taut participated under the pseudonym Glas. Born in 1880 in Königsberg, Germany, Bruno Taut studied architecture at the Bauwerkschule in Königsberg. After working in architectural firms from 1903 to 1909, he worked in partnership with Franz Hoffman and later with his brother Max Taut. Bruno Taut undertook various architectural projects including housing projects, public commissions, and later projects for universities and schools. In 1918, he founded the Arbeisrat für Kunst, a union of architects, painters, writers and other artists based in Berlin and dedicated to bring architectural and artisit tendencies of the time to a broader public. This union also involved some members of the Die gläserne Kette circle. Between 1920 and 1921, Bruno Taut was editor to the magazine "Frühlich". He taught architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1930 to 1932, and undertook a working visit in Russia in 1932 to 1933. After spending time in Japan between 1933 and 1936 due to enforced emigration, he taught at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul. He died in Istanbul in 1938. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) This series comprises part of Bruno Taut's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and documents. The series also includes photographic materials of some of his architectural projects.
series
between 1919 and 1920
drawings
AP178.S2.1981.011
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This sketchbook includes notes and sketches for Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin, Germany (including Bonjour Tristesse and Kita) and for the Quinta da Malagueira housing estate in Évora, Portugal. The sketchbook also includes notes and sketches of people.
October 1981
Sketchbook 95: Évora (Remates) - Berlim
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AP178.S2.1981.011
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This sketchbook includes notes and sketches for Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin, Germany (including Bonjour Tristesse and Kita) and for the Quinta da Malagueira housing estate in Évora, Portugal. The sketchbook also includes notes and sketches of people.
drawings
October 1981
drawings
AP178.S2.1983.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches and notes for Plano de Expansão da Cidade de Macau, China and for Edifício de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse in Berlin, Germany. The sketchbook also contains landscapes of China as well as sketches of people on a train.
February 1983
Sketchbook 139: Macau II Visita
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AP178.S2.1983.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches and notes for Plano de Expansão da Cidade de Macau, China and for Edifício de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse in Berlin, Germany. The sketchbook also contains landscapes of China as well as sketches of people on a train.
drawings
February 1983
drawings
AP178.S2.1981.005
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Inlcudes sketches for Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin, Germany (including Bonjour Tristesse and Kita) as well as sketches for Casa Avelino Duarte in Ovar, Portugal. The sketchbook also includes notes and sketches of people in meetings and of Kurfurstendam Avenue.
July 1981
Sketchbook 84: Berlim Creche Pequen. - Picoto - Casas Ovar - Porto
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AP178.S2.1981.005
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Inlcudes sketches for Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin, Germany (including Bonjour Tristesse and Kita) as well as sketches for Casa Avelino Duarte in Ovar, Portugal. The sketchbook also includes notes and sketches of people in meetings and of Kurfurstendam Avenue.
drawings
July 1981
photographs
PH1989:0262.04:030
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Part of pedestal to Monument of King Frederick F. William III of Prussia erected by the inhabitants of Berlin as a token of their gratitude for the embellishments which this monarch has bestowed on their Thiergraten (Zoological Gardens). (p. 1562, vol. 4).
sculpture
1851
Part of Pedestal to Monument of Frederic William III
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PH1989:0262.04:030
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Part of pedestal to Monument of King Frederick F. William III of Prussia erected by the inhabitants of Berlin as a token of their gratitude for the embellishments which this monarch has bestowed on their Thiergraten (Zoological Gardens). (p. 1562, vol. 4).
photographs
1851
sculpture
photographs
AP140.S2.SS1.D37.P5
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views of publication drawings for floor plans, partial plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, and a few sketch perspectives, most of which are not otherwise present in the project documents, views of architect Walter Gropius and of the Siemensstadt housing in Berlin by Gropius
Views of publication drawings for floor plans, partial plans
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AP140.S2.SS1.D37.P5
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views of publication drawings for floor plans, partial plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, and a few sketch perspectives, most of which are not otherwise present in the project documents, views of architect Walter Gropius and of the Siemensstadt housing in Berlin by Gropius
photographs
Project
Max Reinhardt Haus
AP143.S4.D96
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File documents the unexecuted project for The Max Reinhardt Haus, Berlin, Germany. Material in this file was produced in 1992. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, photographic materials, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, textual records, and study models. Textual records include proposal, agreement, site, project information, consultants, specifications, drawings, blueprints, computer drawings, Essay, transcriptions (P.E. & Heimrod), phone records, transmittals, letters, clippings, "Electronic Zoo" information, publications, drawings, site plan, brief, executive summary, Budget, consultants, correspondence, fees, preliminary system description, computer drawings, supplies list, proposal, schedule, project directory, 20 photographs, 12 transparencies, 2 slides, 3 computer disks, and 1 audio cassette.
1992
Max Reinhardt Haus
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AP143.S4.D96
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File documents the unexecuted project for The Max Reinhardt Haus, Berlin, Germany. Material in this file was produced in 1992. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, photographic materials, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, textual records, and study models. Textual records include proposal, agreement, site, project information, consultants, specifications, drawings, blueprints, computer drawings, Essay, transcriptions (P.E. & Heimrod), phone records, transmittals, letters, clippings, "Electronic Zoo" information, publications, drawings, site plan, brief, executive summary, Budget, consultants, correspondence, fees, preliminary system description, computer drawings, supplies list, proposal, schedule, project directory, 20 photographs, 12 transparencies, 2 slides, 3 computer disks, and 1 audio cassette.
File 96
1992
textual records
AP140.S2.SS10.D1.P18
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correspondence with Josef Paul Kleihues, Universität Dortmund, relating to the Dortmunder Architkturausstellung exhibition and to reviews of the Hotel in Meineke Strasse, Berlin, by the firm of James Stirling and Partner, also correspondence with Wolf Jobst Siedler, dated between 1976 and 1977
Correspondence with Josef Paul Kleihues, Universität Dortmund
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AP140.S2.SS10.D1.P18
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correspondence with Josef Paul Kleihues, Universität Dortmund, relating to the Dortmunder Architkturausstellung exhibition and to reviews of the Hotel in Meineke Strasse, Berlin, by the firm of James Stirling and Partner, also correspondence with Wolf Jobst Siedler, dated between 1976 and 1977
textual records
Learning from... Rome
Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
5 March 2009
Learning from... Rome
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Filmmaker and photographer Armin Linke reveals the societal changes, cultural complexities, and beauty of contemporary Rome through two short films and architectural photographs from his archives. The first film focuses on a moment of natural choreography as some 100,000 starlings fly against the backdrop of the city of Rome. Linke presents a selection of photographs,(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre