Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
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AP197.S3.012
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years 2015-2016. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to the following writings and lectures Frampton participated in: an essay for a monograph on O'Donnell + Tuomey, architects; a Nils Erik Wickberg lecture in Helinski; the Wood at Work conference; a review of George Baird's book; and Modern Architecture: a Critical History.
2015-2016
Personal and professional correspondence from 2015-2016
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AP197.S3.012
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years 2015-2016. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to the following writings and lectures Frampton participated in: an essay for a monograph on O'Donnell + Tuomey, architects; a Nils Erik Wickberg lecture in Helinski; the Wood at Work conference; a review of George Baird's book; and Modern Architecture: a Critical History.
textual records
2015-2016
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Peter Eisenman fonds
AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
Peter Eisenman fonds
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AP143
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The Peter Eisenman fonds documents Eisenman's professional activities as an architect, teacher, and author from the 1950s to 2008. More than 200 projects are represented through conceptual and design development drawings, models, photographs, textual records, and computer-aided drawings. Also well represented in the fonds are materials related to Eisenman's exhibitions, publications, and writings.
archives
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Fonds
1925-2008, predominant 1951-2008
archives
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Fonds
AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
1995-2013
ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records
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AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
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Fonds
1995-2013
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
Portugal: Architecture, Tendenza, Revolution
Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
3 August 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Gregorio Carboni Maestri
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Visiting Scholar Gregorio Carboni Maestri presents his research. From the 1930s to the late 1980s, Portuguese architecture was formed through a frustrated relationship with modernity and through a crucial dialogue with Italy. This talk addresses how Portuguese architecture observed and reacted to Italian models such as rationalism in the 1930s, postwar neorealism, and(...)
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Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Visiting Scholar, Portugal, Tendenza
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Thierry Mandoul
"Auguste Choisy: Dessiner l'histoire de l'architecture"
Visiting Scholar, Thierry Mandoul, Auguste Choisy, drawing, The History of Architecture, Visiting Scholar Seminar, axonometric
27 July 2006
research
Visiting Scholars 1999–2000
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome: Mark Dorrian, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Topic: Baroque Deformation Martina Frank, Department of History, Università degli studi di Udine, Italy Topic: Luca Danesi et le baroque vénitien Indra McEwen, National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Canada Subject: The State of(...)
January 2000 to August 2000
Visiting Scholars 1999–2000
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome: Mark Dorrian, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Topic: Baroque Deformation Martina Frank, Department of History, Università degli studi di Udine, Italy Topic: Luca Danesi et le baroque vénitien Indra McEwen, National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Canada Subject: The State of(...)
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January 2000 to
August 2000
textual records, born digital, archives
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Anyone Corporation fonds
AP116
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The Anyone Corporation fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic records which document the activities of the Anyone Corporation over the course of its planned ten year life span from 1990 to 2001. The non-profit, New York City based organization, was founded by Peter Eisenman, Cynthia Davidson, Arata Isozaki, and Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio in order to stimulate a fruitful dialogue between architecture and general culture at the dawn of the new millennium. To this end, ANY (acronym for Architecture New York) organised ten international conferences and numerous public seminars, as well as publishing conference journals, a series of architecture related books, and ANY, a theory driven bi-monthly magazine.
1990-2001
Anyone Corporation fonds
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The Anyone Corporation fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic records which document the activities of the Anyone Corporation over the course of its planned ten year life span from 1990 to 2001. The non-profit, New York City based organization, was founded by Peter Eisenman, Cynthia Davidson, Arata Isozaki, and Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio in order to stimulate a fruitful dialogue between architecture and general culture at the dawn of the new millennium. To this end, ANY (acronym for Architecture New York) organised ten international conferences and numerous public seminars, as well as publishing conference journals, a series of architecture related books, and ANY, a theory driven bi-monthly magazine.
textual records, born digital, archives
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1990-2001
textual records
Outline and documentation for a book project on Chandigarh titled "Chandigarh: Histoire d'une ville"
ARCH270063
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Group consists of various versions of an outline and documentation for a book project on Chandigarh titled "Chandigarh: Histoire d'une ville" by Jacqueline Jeanneret. The documentation includes the transcription of a quote by Pierre Jeanneret, an history of the project for Chandigarh, a text on the CIAM (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne) chart, and texts on the Museum of Knowledge, including one by Le Corbusier.
1982-1986
Outline and documentation for a book project on Chandigarh titled "Chandigarh: Histoire d'une ville"
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ARCH270063
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Group consists of various versions of an outline and documentation for a book project on Chandigarh titled "Chandigarh: Histoire d'une ville" by Jacqueline Jeanneret. The documentation includes the transcription of a quote by Pierre Jeanneret, an history of the project for Chandigarh, a text on the CIAM (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne) chart, and texts on the Museum of Knowledge, including one by Le Corbusier.
textual records
1982-1986
Ijlal Muzaffar and Edward Eigen of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative present the group’s methodologies and discuss the need to rethink the terms of humanitarian design. The series They want to speak with you invites design and architecture professionals to discuss their most recent projects.
9 July 2015 , 6pm
Ijlal Muzaffar and Edward Eigen want to speak with you
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Ijlal Muzaffar and Edward Eigen of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative present the group’s methodologies and discuss the need to rethink the terms of humanitarian design. The series They want to speak with you invites design and architecture professionals to discuss their most recent projects.