textual records
AP075.S4.SS6.004
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Student work of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on history of landscape architecture.
1942
Student work for landscape architecture course at Harvard
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AP075.S4.SS6.004
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Student work of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on history of landscape architecture.
textual records
1942
textual records
AP018.S2.011
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This box contains research, including newspaper clippings and articles, on the topics of planning, management, architecture practice, architecture criticism, architecture and airports, and architecture history and philosophy. The box also includes files on ecology and the environment, as well as a file on Canadian identity.
1968-1978
Office files on the topic of management, planning, and architecture
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AP018.S2.011
Description:
This box contains research, including newspaper clippings and articles, on the topics of planning, management, architecture practice, architecture criticism, architecture and airports, and architecture history and philosophy. The box also includes files on ecology and the environment, as well as a file on Canadian identity.
textual records
1968-1978
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
13 November 2019 to 26 July 2020
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Jean-Louis Cohen, Amerikanizm, Russian architecture, Soviet Union, United States, USSR
archives
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Fonds
AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
1996-2015
RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
archives
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Fonds
1996-2015
In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
9 June 2016, 6pm
Amy Kulper: Architecture’s Digital Turn and the Advent of Photoshop
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In this lecture, Amy Kulper locates architecture’s “digital turn” in 1988, when Thomas Knoll invented Photoshop. Originally developed as an image-editing software, Photoshop fit neatly within the long history of optical correction in the discipline. Yet its ubiquity today also prompts new questions. Does Photoshop simply introduce logics of adjustment, correction, and(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
photographs
AP197.S1.SS9.024
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This box contains slides that depict architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects such as: Antonin Raymond; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; Otto Wagner; Tadao Ando; futurism, iron, steel, misc history and Herman Hertzberger; Alvar Aalto; Renzo Piano; and Le Corbusier. Frampton used these slides for his lectures.
circa 1970-1990
Slides of architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects
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AP197.S1.SS9.024
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This box contains slides that depict architecture drawings, models and built projects by various architects such as: Antonin Raymond; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; Otto Wagner; Tadao Ando; futurism, iron, steel, misc history and Herman Hertzberger; Alvar Aalto; Renzo Piano; and Le Corbusier. Frampton used these slides for his lectures.
photographs
circa 1970-1990
drawings, textual records
Quantity:
57 textual record(s) and reprographic copy(ies)
DR1997:0070:001-057
Description:
- Danforth's thesis included a written component. Danforth researched the history, function and program of the museum, modern art gallery or exhibition hall, taking suggestions from Mies van der Rohe and Walter Peterhans about which ones he should examine. The group of documents includes an incomplete draft of Danforth's written text, as well as research notes and illustrations of museums/exhibition spaces by architects including Schinkel (Altes Museum, Berlin), Le Corbusier (Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux, Paris and Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Henry van de Velde, and H.P. Berlage.
architecture, installation
1940-1943
Research notes, draft text, and illustrations for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
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DR1997:0070:001-057
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- Danforth's thesis included a written component. Danforth researched the history, function and program of the museum, modern art gallery or exhibition hall, taking suggestions from Mies van der Rohe and Walter Peterhans about which ones he should examine. The group of documents includes an incomplete draft of Danforth's written text, as well as research notes and illustrations of museums/exhibition spaces by architects including Schinkel (Altes Museum, Berlin), Le Corbusier (Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux, Paris and Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Henry van de Velde, and H.P. Berlage.
drawings, textual records
Quantity:
57 textual record(s) and reprographic copy(ies)
1940-1943
architecture, installation
books
DR1974:0002:039
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- One of two volumes of a history of Tuscan civil and military architecture to 1400, this publication includes several chapters on major cities such as Florence and Pisa with accounts of their important buildings, as well as discussions of many of the smaller towns in Tuscany. The text is accompanied by photomechanical illustrations, mostly sketches of scenes from bas-reliefs and manuscripts, but also including some illustrations of built structures.
architecture, military
printed 1874
LETTRES SUR LA TOSCANE / EN 1400 / ARCHITECTURE CIVILE ET MILITAIRE / PAR / M. GEORGES ROHAULT DE FLEURY / MEMBRE DES ACADÉMIES DES BEAUX-ARTS DE FLORENCE ET DE PISE / TOME Ier
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DR1974:0002:039
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- One of two volumes of a history of Tuscan civil and military architecture to 1400, this publication includes several chapters on major cities such as Florence and Pisa with accounts of their important buildings, as well as discussions of many of the smaller towns in Tuscany. The text is accompanied by photomechanical illustrations, mostly sketches of scenes from bas-reliefs and manuscripts, but also including some illustrations of built structures.
books
printed 1874
architecture, military
books
DR1974:0002:040
Description:
- One of two volumes of a history of Tuscan civil and military architecture to 1400, this publication includes several chapters on major cities such as Florence and Pisa with accounts of their important buildings, as well as discussions of many of the smaller towns in Tuscany. The text is accompanied by photomechanical illustrations, mostly sketches of scenes from bas-reliefs and manuscripts, but also including some illustrations of built structures.
architecture, military
printed 1874
LETTRES SUR LA TOSCANE / EN 1400 / ARCHITECTURE CIVILE ET MILITAIRE / PAR / M. GEORGES ROHAULT DE FLEURY / MEMBRE DES ACADÉMIES DES BEAUX-ARTS DE FLORENCE ET DE PISE / TOME II
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DR1974:0002:040
Description:
- One of two volumes of a history of Tuscan civil and military architecture to 1400, this publication includes several chapters on major cities such as Florence and Pisa with accounts of their important buildings, as well as discussions of many of the smaller towns in Tuscany. The text is accompanied by photomechanical illustrations, mostly sketches of scenes from bas-reliefs and manuscripts, but also including some illustrations of built structures.
books
printed 1874
architecture, military
archives
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Fonds
Pierre du Prey fonds
AP133
Synopsis:
The Pierre du Prey fonds documents Pierre du Prey’s work as a researcher and writer on the history of architecture. The fonds contains documents related to his work for "The Villas of Pliny: from antiquity to posterity," published in 1994, and a catalog he produced on Ockham Park in Surrey, England. It also documents du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian, such as his lectures or his attendance to congresses.
1967-2019
Pierre du Prey fonds
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AP133
Synopsis:
The Pierre du Prey fonds documents Pierre du Prey’s work as a researcher and writer on the history of architecture. The fonds contains documents related to his work for "The Villas of Pliny: from antiquity to posterity," published in 1994, and a catalog he produced on Ockham Park in Surrey, England. It also documents du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian, such as his lectures or his attendance to congresses.
archives
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Fonds
1967-2019