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AP142.S1.D229
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File documents an unexecuted (?) project for a cultural centre and a park in Bologna, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1992 and 1993. File contains a conceptual drawing and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, an architect's statement, competition programmes, competition announcements, specifications, estimates, clippings, technical reports, schedules of drawings, labels for drawings, a work schedule, computer printouts, a curriculum vitae for Aldo Rossi, and notes.
1992-1993
Parco urbano e polo culturale - istituzionale della manifattura tabacchi, Comune di Bologna
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AP142.S1.D229
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File documents an unexecuted (?) project for a cultural centre and a park in Bologna, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1992 and 1993. File contains a conceptual drawing and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, an architect's statement, competition programmes, competition announcements, specifications, estimates, clippings, technical reports, schedules of drawings, labels for drawings, a work schedule, computer printouts, a curriculum vitae for Aldo Rossi, and notes.
File 229
1992-1993
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AP142.S1.D63
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File documents a successful competition entry for the southern Friedrichstadt area in Berlin, Germany. Aldo Rossi was commissioned with the design of the entire district but had to work more precisely on the block 10. Material in this file was produced between 1978 and 1985. File contains reference drawings, conceptual drawing, design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records including correspondence, a competition programme, a contact sheet, drawings, sketches and photographic material.
1978-1985
Berlin Südliche Friedrichstadt
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AP142.S1.D63
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File documents a successful competition entry for the southern Friedrichstadt area in Berlin, Germany. Aldo Rossi was commissioned with the design of the entire district but had to work more precisely on the block 10. Material in this file was produced between 1978 and 1985. File contains reference drawings, conceptual drawing, design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records including correspondence, a competition programme, a contact sheet, drawings, sketches and photographic material.
File 63
1978-1985
DR1987:0366
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- This drawing includes a large plan which Lloyd Wright used to work out the disposition of buildings for Los Angeles Municipal Airport. The plan is possibly one of a series of preparatory drawings for a perspective view; it has the same blue pencil grid as the preparatory drawing (DR1987:0369). The smaller sketches beside the plan are unidentified.
architecture
1929
Los Angeles Municipal Airport: Plan for terminal buildings and hangars
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DR1987:0366
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- This drawing includes a large plan which Lloyd Wright used to work out the disposition of buildings for Los Angeles Municipal Airport. The plan is possibly one of a series of preparatory drawings for a perspective view; it has the same blue pencil grid as the preparatory drawing (DR1987:0369). The smaller sketches beside the plan are unidentified.
architecture
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AP206.S1.1982.PR14
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This project series documents a house for Shri Om Prakash Gupta in Model Town, Panipat, India, likely sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The project consisted of a two-storey home with a barsati on its second level. The home wrapped a courtyard on three sides and had brick jali work along the top of its façade. The project is recorded through a drawing of floor plans, elevations and sections, possibly dating from sometime in the 1980s-1990s.
circa 1980s-1990s
House for Shri Om Prakash Gupta, Panipat, India (circa 1980s-1990s)
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AP206.S1.1982.PR14
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This project series documents a house for Shri Om Prakash Gupta in Model Town, Panipat, India, likely sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. The project consisted of a two-storey home with a barsati on its second level. The home wrapped a courtyard on three sides and had brick jali work along the top of its façade. The project is recorded through a drawing of floor plans, elevations and sections, possibly dating from sometime in the 1980s-1990s.
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circa 1980s-1990s
Sub-series
AP207.S2.SS05
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The sub-series documents the exhibition "Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers", curated by Pettena and presented at the Piazza Santissima Annuziata in Florence in 1988. The exhibition is a study of designs for exhibition spaces by comparing the work of Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers. The sub-series contains research material on Arata Isozaki and Oswald Mathias Ungers and their projects, such as articles and photocopies of publications.
circa 1988
Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers (1988)
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AP207.S2.SS05
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The sub-series documents the exhibition "Il polo espositivo: un tema, due architetti. Arata Isozaki, O.M. Ungers", curated by Pettena and presented at the Piazza Santissima Annuziata in Florence in 1988. The exhibition is a study of designs for exhibition spaces by comparing the work of Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers. The sub-series contains research material on Arata Isozaki and Oswald Mathias Ungers and their projects, such as articles and photocopies of publications.
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circa 1988
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AP178.S1.2000.PR07
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This project series documents the Fundaçao Miguel Cargaleiro II in Quinta da Soledade, Seixal, Portugal. The building was later named Oficina de Artes Manuel Cargaleiro and was inauguerated in 2014. Siza had originally worked on a project for building the headquarters of Fundaçao Miguel Cargaleiro in Lisbon, Portugal from 1991-1995 but this project was not completed. While the records were held in the office's archives, this project was assigned the number 7/00. The office assigned the dates 2000-2001 to this project. The project was built for the work and artistic activities of Miguel Cargaleiro. The exhibition space is shaped like an "S" and can be subdivided by collapsable panels. Documenting this project are three study models, aerial views of the project site, elevations, photographs of the models, and slides of plans and maps.
2000-2001
Fundaçao Miguel Cargaleiro II [Miguel Cargaleiro Foundation II], Quinta da Soledade, Seixal, Portugal (2000-2001)
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AP178.S1.2000.PR07
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This project series documents the Fundaçao Miguel Cargaleiro II in Quinta da Soledade, Seixal, Portugal. The building was later named Oficina de Artes Manuel Cargaleiro and was inauguerated in 2014. Siza had originally worked on a project for building the headquarters of Fundaçao Miguel Cargaleiro in Lisbon, Portugal from 1991-1995 but this project was not completed. While the records were held in the office's archives, this project was assigned the number 7/00. The office assigned the dates 2000-2001 to this project. The project was built for the work and artistic activities of Miguel Cargaleiro. The exhibition space is shaped like an "S" and can be subdivided by collapsable panels. Documenting this project are three study models, aerial views of the project site, elevations, photographs of the models, and slides of plans and maps.
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2000-2001
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AP075.S1.2000.PR07
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the residence of architect Gerald Sheff and his wife Shanitha Kachan on Glen Road in Toronto. Oberlander worked on this project from 1997-2000 with architectural firm Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg Architects. The landscaping project consisted in restoring the grass slope on the side of the driveway leading to the residence, and adding planting, including trees on the around the edge of the property to create more intimacy. The project series contains sketches, design developement drawings, including a landscape section, and working drawings, including site plans, drawing plans and landscape plans. The project series also comprises research material for the project, correspondence, including correspondence with architects and client, and photographs of the existing landscaping and of the construction work.
2000
Sheff Residence, Toronto, Ontario (2000)
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AP075.S1.2000.PR07
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the residence of architect Gerald Sheff and his wife Shanitha Kachan on Glen Road in Toronto. Oberlander worked on this project from 1997-2000 with architectural firm Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg Architects. The landscaping project consisted in restoring the grass slope on the side of the driveway leading to the residence, and adding planting, including trees on the around the edge of the property to create more intimacy. The project series contains sketches, design developement drawings, including a landscape section, and working drawings, including site plans, drawing plans and landscape plans. The project series also comprises research material for the project, correspondence, including correspondence with architects and client, and photographs of the existing landscaping and of the construction work.
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2000
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Wenzel Hablik
AP162.S3
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Series documents the contribution of architect Wenzel Hablik to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Hablik participated using the pseudonym W.H.. Born in Brüx, Germany, (now Most, in Czech Republic) in 1881, Hablik worked as a porcelina painter from 1895 to 1897 and later as architectural draftsman. Between 1897 to 1902 he studied architecture at the Faschsdule für Tonindustrie und verwandte Gewerbe in Teplitz-Schönau, and at the Kungstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1902. Between 1905 and 1906, he studied painting at the Akademie für bildenbe Künste in Prague. He worked in Itzehoe, Germany, after an invitation by a patron, Richard Biel, in 1907, where he start collaborating on textile designs with Elisabeth Lindemann, who he married in 1917. His work was exhibited at the Austellung für unbekannte Architeckten in 1919. The same year he joined the Arbeitsrat für Kunst lead by Bruno Taut. In 1925, Hablik published "Zyklus Architektur" an artist folio presenting some of his etched architectural fantasies. He worked for the family workshop by designing textiles and wall hangings. He died in 1934 in Itzehoe. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) The series comprises letters and a drawing by Wenzel Hablik.
circa 1919-1920
Wenzel Hablik
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AP162.S3
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Series documents the contribution of architect Wenzel Hablik to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Hablik participated using the pseudonym W.H.. Born in Brüx, Germany, (now Most, in Czech Republic) in 1881, Hablik worked as a porcelina painter from 1895 to 1897 and later as architectural draftsman. Between 1897 to 1902 he studied architecture at the Faschsdule für Tonindustrie und verwandte Gewerbe in Teplitz-Schönau, and at the Kungstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1902. Between 1905 and 1906, he studied painting at the Akademie für bildenbe Künste in Prague. He worked in Itzehoe, Germany, after an invitation by a patron, Richard Biel, in 1907, where he start collaborating on textile designs with Elisabeth Lindemann, who he married in 1917. His work was exhibited at the Austellung für unbekannte Architeckten in 1919. The same year he joined the Arbeitsrat für Kunst lead by Bruno Taut. In 1925, Hablik published "Zyklus Architektur" an artist folio presenting some of his etched architectural fantasies. He worked for the family workshop by designing textiles and wall hangings. He died in 1934 in Itzehoe. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) The series comprises letters and a drawing by Wenzel Hablik.
series
circa 1919-1920
textual records
DR1995:0263:032-032
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includes 9 folders and one sealed envelope containing trade catalogues, brochures, correspondence, clippings, drawings, office memoranda, calculations, estimates, samples, pamphlet, minutes of meetings, specifications, and notes. - Folders in this group are labelled with the following titles: 'PAL system'; 'Services: General'; 'Heating, Cooling'; 'Protected walkway'; 'On Site Handling'; 'Chairs'; 'Work Zone / Processes'; 'P.E.P. Tables'.
9 folders and one sealed envelope containing trade catalogues
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DR1995:0263:032-032
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includes 9 folders and one sealed envelope containing trade catalogues, brochures, correspondence, clippings, drawings, office memoranda, calculations, estimates, samples, pamphlet, minutes of meetings, specifications, and notes. - Folders in this group are labelled with the following titles: 'PAL system'; 'Services: General'; 'Heating, Cooling'; 'Protected walkway'; 'On Site Handling'; 'Chairs'; 'Work Zone / Processes'; 'P.E.P. Tables'.
textual records
Project
AP018.S1.1977.PR06
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This project series documents the building maintenance program for the IBM headquarters building at 1150 Eglington Avenue in North York, Ontario in 1970. The office identified the project number as 7707. This project consisted of maintenance to existing sidewalk slabs, roof restoration work and retrofitting, and a possible thermal upgrade of the headquarters, which had been built by the firm John B. Parkin Associates beginning in 1965. The project is recorded through correspondence dating from 1977-1978.
1977-1978
IBM Headquarters Building, Building Maintenance Program, North York, Ontario (1977)
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AP018.S1.1977.PR06
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This project series documents the building maintenance program for the IBM headquarters building at 1150 Eglington Avenue in North York, Ontario in 1970. The office identified the project number as 7707. This project consisted of maintenance to existing sidewalk slabs, roof restoration work and retrofitting, and a possible thermal upgrade of the headquarters, which had been built by the firm John B. Parkin Associates beginning in 1965. The project is recorded through correspondence dating from 1977-1978.
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1977-1978