British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
7 December 2006 to 25 March 2007
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
Octagonal gallery
DR1988:0437:043
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is dedicated to Bacchus. The central pavilion contains a statue of Bacchus seated on a wine keg and the attic level consists of a trellis covered in grape vines. To either side of the central pavilion ruined archways frame scenes of people pressing grapes.
temporary architecture
printed 1771
Etching of Posi's design for the "seconda macchina" of 1771
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DR1988:0437:043
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is dedicated to Bacchus. The central pavilion contains a statue of Bacchus seated on a wine keg and the attic level consists of a trellis covered in grape vines. To either side of the central pavilion ruined archways frame scenes of people pressing grapes.
temporary architecture
photographs
PH1980:0048.05:001-041
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- Album PH1980:0048.05:001-041 includes: ten views of the ruins at Karnak; six views of ruins at Medinet Habu; four views of temples at Philae; four views of ruins at Thebes; three views of a temple at Dendera; three views of a temple at Idfu; two views of temples at Luxor; two views of tombs at Djebel-el-Selceleh; one view of the Nile and one view of the port at Aswan; one view of the port and one view of the Vice King's palace at Syout; and one view each of Girga, the village of Balianeh or El-Madsouneh, and lotus capitals at Isna.
architecture, topographic
published 1859-1860
Album of views of ruins of temples, temple complexes and tombs, with several views of towns, villages, ports, and one palace, Ottoman Empire (now in Egypt)
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PH1980:0048.05:001-041
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- Album PH1980:0048.05:001-041 includes: ten views of the ruins at Karnak; six views of ruins at Medinet Habu; four views of temples at Philae; four views of ruins at Thebes; three views of a temple at Dendera; three views of a temple at Idfu; two views of temples at Luxor; two views of tombs at Djebel-el-Selceleh; one view of the Nile and one view of the port at Aswan; one view of the port and one view of the Vice King's palace at Syout; and one view each of Girga, the village of Balianeh or El-Madsouneh, and lotus capitals at Isna.
photographs
published 1859-1860
architecture, topographic
Learning from… São Paulo
Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
22 April 2010
Learning from… São Paulo
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Angelo Bucci, architect and professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, addresses the violence and changing environment of São Paulo in search of new urban forms. São Paulo’s urban violence can be understood as ruining the experience of the city and, as a result, the purpose of the architect’s work. The lecture examines São Paulo not as a static object, but as an(...)
photographs
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8 photograph(s)
Photographs of Italy
ARCH280864
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Group consists of photographs of some locations in Italy, including two photographs of Pise in 1911 and five photographs of Pompeii's ruins in 1911. There is also a photograph of a unidentified building's details.
between 1907 and 1911
Photographs of Italy
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ARCH280864
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Group consists of photographs of some locations in Italy, including two photographs of Pise in 1911 and five photographs of Pompeii's ruins in 1911. There is also a photograph of a unidentified building's details.
photographs
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8 photograph(s)
between 1907 and 1911
As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
1 December 2016, 6pm
In the Frontiers of Climate Change (Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Rights)
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As the Earth’s climate reaches a state of constant instability, there is growing awareness of how global warming can affect human rights and increase social strife. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which political violence and human rights abuses, from past and present, constitute driving factors in the transformations of the global environment and climate.(...)
Paul Demarais Theatre
Sub-series
Notebooks and Sketchbooks
CP138.S4.SS1
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Sub-series consists of notebooks, pads of paper and sketchbooks, containing sketches, drawing and texts relating to the following projects: Anarchitecture (1974); Automation House (1972); A W-Hole House (1973); the Caribbean Orange (1978); Day's End (1975); Food (1971); Fresh Air Cart (1972); Garbage Wall (1970); Office Baroque (1977); Photo-Fry (1969); Tree Dance (1971); Untitled Cutting (1978) for Alanna Heiss's Twentieth Century Ruins; and studies for cut drawings. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1969 and 1978. Sub-series contains bound volumes of sketches and texts.
[1969-1978]
Notebooks and Sketchbooks
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CP138.S4.SS1
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Sub-series consists of notebooks, pads of paper and sketchbooks, containing sketches, drawing and texts relating to the following projects: Anarchitecture (1974); Automation House (1972); A W-Hole House (1973); the Caribbean Orange (1978); Day's End (1975); Food (1971); Fresh Air Cart (1972); Garbage Wall (1970); Office Baroque (1977); Photo-Fry (1969); Tree Dance (1971); Untitled Cutting (1978) for Alanna Heiss's Twentieth Century Ruins; and studies for cut drawings. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1969 and 1978. Sub-series contains bound volumes of sketches and texts.
Sub-series 1
[1969-1978]
Sub-series
AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS10
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This project subseries documents the Ligação Pedonal do Pátio B do Chiado, L. do Carmo e Ter.do Carmo in Lisbon, Portugal. The office assigned the dates 1988-1990 for this project. The project consists of a pedestrian passageway between the Patio B, the ruins of the Carmo Church, Largo do Carmo and the Elevador de Santa Justa. The project was not complete in 1990s, but Siza completed the project in 2008. Documenting this project are studies. Documentation for this project can also be found in subseries AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1.
1988-1998
Ligação Pedonal do Pátio B do Chiado, L. do Carmo e Ter.do Carmo [Pedestrian connection between courtyard B and Largo do Carmo], Lisbon, Portugal (1988-1998)
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AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS10
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This project subseries documents the Ligação Pedonal do Pátio B do Chiado, L. do Carmo e Ter.do Carmo in Lisbon, Portugal. The office assigned the dates 1988-1990 for this project. The project consists of a pedestrian passageway between the Patio B, the ruins of the Carmo Church, Largo do Carmo and the Elevador de Santa Justa. The project was not complete in 1990s, but Siza completed the project in 2008. Documenting this project are studies. Documentation for this project can also be found in subseries AP178.S1.1988.PR07.SS1.
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1988-1998
1st December 2022
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022
1 December 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022
PH1982:0047
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- The subject of photograph PH1979:0148 is identified as cliff dwellings near Fort Wingate, New Mexico based on the inscription in the negative on the almost identical photograph PH1982:0047: "CLIFF RUINS NEAR FORT WINGATE, N.M.". The inscription on photograph PH1979:0148 "Cliff Dwellings, Arizona" is presumed to be erroneous.
architecture
1872-1885
View of ruins of cliff dwellings near Fort Wingate, New Mexico
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PH1982:0047
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- The subject of photograph PH1979:0148 is identified as cliff dwellings near Fort Wingate, New Mexico based on the inscription in the negative on the almost identical photograph PH1982:0047: "CLIFF RUINS NEAR FORT WINGATE, N.M.". The inscription on photograph PH1979:0148 "Cliff Dwellings, Arizona" is presumed to be erroneous.
architecture