Partial view of a walkway and a waterway on the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
ARCH255838
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Front row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion. Middle row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - Pavilion of Italy = Italian Pavilion; - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Sainte-Hélène Island: - Man the Explorer Pavilion; - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
1967
Partial view of a walkway and a waterway on the Île Notre-Dame site, Expo 67, Montréal, Québec
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ARCH255838
Description:
Front row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - CN Pavilion = C.N.R. Pavilion = Canadian National Pavilion; - Kodak Pavilion = Canadian Kodak Pavilion. Middle row (left to right): Notre-Dame Island: - Pavilion of Italy = Italian Pavilion; - Czechoslovak National Pavilion = Pavilion of Czechoslovakia; - Venezuelan Pavilion = Pavilion of Venezuela; - Pavilion of Ethiopia = Ethiopian Pavilion; - Pavilion of the Soviet Union = USSR Pavilion. Back row (left to right): Sainte-Hélène Island: - Man the Explorer Pavilion; - Pavilion of the United States = American Pavilion = USA Pavilion.
DR1987:0531 R/V
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- The floor plan on this sheet of drawings for Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California, was developed on the equilateral parallelogram grid which is ruled on the verso. The grid unit is inscribed on several orthographic drawings (eg. DR1987:0530) and is described by Lloyd Wright in the architect's statement (DR1987:0869:011:009). The plan includes the chapel, vestry and part of the cloister. The cross section includes a sketch of one of the wall planters.
architecture
between 1946 and 1950
Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California: Plan for chapel and campanile developed on an equilateral parallelogram grid and two sections through the chapel
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DR1987:0531 R/V
Description:
- The floor plan on this sheet of drawings for Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California, was developed on the equilateral parallelogram grid which is ruled on the verso. The grid unit is inscribed on several orthographic drawings (eg. DR1987:0530) and is described by Lloyd Wright in the architect's statement (DR1987:0869:011:009). The plan includes the chapel, vestry and part of the cloister. The cross section includes a sketch of one of the wall planters.
architecture
textual records
CD042.S1.001
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Box contains a spiral bound volume of texts for the exhibition "Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture" by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, various slides of bank buildings in Canada and in the United States, research materials on Canadian bank building, including photocopies of publications, press clippings, and publications. Also contains a first spiral bound volume of press clippings on American bank buildings.
1980-1990
Research material on Canadian bank buildings
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CD042.S1.001
Description:
Box contains a spiral bound volume of texts for the exhibition "Money Matters: A Critical Look at Bank Architecture" by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, various slides of bank buildings in Canada and in the United States, research materials on Canadian bank building, including photocopies of publications, press clippings, and publications. Also contains a first spiral bound volume of press clippings on American bank buildings.
textual records
1980-1990
textual records
AP197.S2.005
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The box is comprised of writings on modern architecture, which are divided by country and organized alphabetically. The sections are divided as follows: Sweden, Swiss, Turkey, and the United States. The next set of files are comprised of transcripts of interviews with various architects and theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Oscar Nitzchke, Mario Botta, and Patricia Patkau. The last set of files include two articles concerning architectural preservation.
circa 1970-1996
Research files on modern architecture organized by geographic location (S-U), transcripts of interviews with various architects, and writings on architecture preservation
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AP197.S2.005
Description:
The box is comprised of writings on modern architecture, which are divided by country and organized alphabetically. The sections are divided as follows: Sweden, Swiss, Turkey, and the United States. The next set of files are comprised of transcripts of interviews with various architects and theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Oscar Nitzchke, Mario Botta, and Patricia Patkau. The last set of files include two articles concerning architectural preservation.
textual records
circa 1970-1996
archives
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Fonds
Max Wolfe Roth fonds
AP125
Synopsis:
The Max Wolfe Roth fonds, 1933-2000, documents the professional career of architect Max Wolfe Roth. The fonds comprises of materials relating to 15 student projects (1933-1937) and 333 professional projects (1937-2000). Materials in this fonds consist of 7,589 drawings (including reprographic copies), 303 photographs, 22 panels, 2.83 l.m. of textual records, 0.33 l.m.of slides, 82 notebooks, 7 stamps, 1 slide rule and 1 model.
1933-2000
Max Wolfe Roth fonds
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AP125
Synopsis:
The Max Wolfe Roth fonds, 1933-2000, documents the professional career of architect Max Wolfe Roth. The fonds comprises of materials relating to 15 student projects (1933-1937) and 333 professional projects (1937-2000). Materials in this fonds consist of 7,589 drawings (including reprographic copies), 303 photographs, 22 panels, 2.83 l.m. of textual records, 0.33 l.m.of slides, 82 notebooks, 7 stamps, 1 slide rule and 1 model.
archives
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Fonds
1933-2000
Project
AP207.S1.2012.PR03
Description:
The project series documents "The Curious Mr. Pettena", a series of photographs taken by Pettena during his stay in the United States from 1971 to 1973. During that time "[Pettena] discovers views and contexts which he feels near to his theoretic and visual work, a temporary architecture as well, documenting research and whatever comes from the mind, making it real, or discovering it in something already built where nature has worked so that it may become part of a common language or subject." [1] The project series contains the photograph series and a project description. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-the-curious-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
2012-2015
The Curious Mr. Pettena (2012)
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AP207.S1.2012.PR03
Description:
The project series documents "The Curious Mr. Pettena", a series of photographs taken by Pettena during his stay in the United States from 1971 to 1973. During that time "[Pettena] discovers views and contexts which he feels near to his theoretic and visual work, a temporary architecture as well, documenting research and whatever comes from the mind, making it real, or discovering it in something already built where nature has worked so that it may become part of a common language or subject." [1] The project series contains the photograph series and a project description. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-the-curious-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
Project
2012-2015
Project
Mostra AR Parigi
AP142.S2.D4
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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
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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
DR1987:0604 R/V
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- This sheet of drawings for the vestry and campanile for Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California, includes southeast, north and east elevations, sections, details, and a sash and door schedule. Also included are plans for the campanile and "new" office. The plans and elevations were developed on the equilateral parallelogram grid ruled on the verso. The grid unit is inscribed on several orthographic drawings (eg. DR1987:0530) and is described by Lloyd Wright in the architect's statement (DR1987:0869:011:009).
architecture, interior design
11 February 1953, November and 28 December 1953
Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California: Plans, elevations, sections and details for the vestry and campanile and plan for the office, developed on an equilateral parallelogram grid, with sash and door schedule
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DR1987:0604 R/V
Description:
- This sheet of drawings for the vestry and campanile for Wayfarers' Chapel, Palos Verdes, California, includes southeast, north and east elevations, sections, details, and a sash and door schedule. Also included are plans for the campanile and "new" office. The plans and elevations were developed on the equilateral parallelogram grid ruled on the verso. The grid unit is inscribed on several orthographic drawings (eg. DR1987:0530) and is described by Lloyd Wright in the architect's statement (DR1987:0869:011:009).
architecture, interior design
drawings, textual records, photographs
AP142.S2.D4.P1
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sketches, drawings, photographs, correspondence, architect's statements, administrative records, clippings, business cards, layouts, acquisitions lists, lists of photographs for the catalogue, a draft for an exhibition label, lists of projects by Aldo Rossi, invitations, a schedule for drawings, imprints and draft imprints, memorandums, notes, a calendar, 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'
Sketches, drawings, photographs, correspondence, architect's statements
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AP142.S2.D4.P1
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sketches, drawings, photographs, correspondence, architect's statements, administrative records, clippings, business cards, layouts, acquisitions lists, lists of photographs for the catalogue, a draft for an exhibition label, lists of projects by Aldo Rossi, invitations, a schedule for drawings, imprints and draft imprints, memorandums, notes, a calendar, 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'
drawings, textual records, photographs
drawings
DR1987:0734
Description:
- This drawing, which was composed from old photographs as indicated by the inscription, shows a view of the courtyard in front of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié. The inscription on the label states that the building to the left of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié is the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire; however, this identification is incorrect. According to Pinard, the building to the left of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié is a lodging wing of the Congregation of Notre Dame.
architecture
August 1933
View of the courtyard of Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié, Montréal
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DR1987:0734
Description:
- This drawing, which was composed from old photographs as indicated by the inscription, shows a view of the courtyard in front of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié. The inscription on the label states that the building to the left of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié is the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire; however, this identification is incorrect. According to Pinard, the building to the left of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié is a lodging wing of the Congregation of Notre Dame.
drawings
August 1933
architecture