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Peter Caspari fonds
AP123
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The Peter Caspari fonds documents the education, personal and military activities of architect Peter Caspari from student work in Berlin to his immigration to England, and participation in WWII. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of drawings relating to student building design projects, and textual records relating to architecture course notes, training for the Pioneer Corps, and professional registration as an architect.
1928-1941
Peter Caspari fonds
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AP123
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The Peter Caspari fonds documents the education, personal and military activities of architect Peter Caspari from student work in Berlin to his immigration to England, and participation in WWII. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of drawings relating to student building design projects, and textual records relating to architecture course notes, training for the Pioneer Corps, and professional registration as an architect.
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1928-1941
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
1984-2003
Kuwabara Payne Mckenna Blumberg fonds
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AP056
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The Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg fonds documents the architectural projects of the firm from 1984-2003. 125 projects are recorded through drawings, photographs, models, textual records, periodicals and paintings. These projects include built work, proposals and competition entries.
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1984-2003
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AP140.S2.SS10.D2
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This sub-series documents some of the reference materials used or collection during the activities and procedures of the successive firms of James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; and Michael Wilford and Partners. Material in this file was produced between 1957 and 1998. Sub-series contains reference materials including typescripts dated from the early 1960s, articles and drafts of articles, translations, publications, regulations, postcards and invitation cards. It contains also materials from the surviving office library of James Stirling and Michael Wilford as it existed in 2000 when it was housed at 8 Fitzroy Square in London. During the processing the office library, a selection publications were transferred in the CCA library collection to facilitate description and access. This sub-series contains part of the published materials that remained in the archives.
1962-1995
Reference materials and library
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AP140.S2.SS10.D2
Description:
This sub-series documents some of the reference materials used or collection during the activities and procedures of the successive firms of James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; and Michael Wilford and Partners. Material in this file was produced between 1957 and 1998. Sub-series contains reference materials including typescripts dated from the early 1960s, articles and drafts of articles, translations, publications, regulations, postcards and invitation cards. It contains also materials from the surviving office library of James Stirling and Michael Wilford as it existed in 2000 when it was housed at 8 Fitzroy Square in London. During the processing the office library, a selection publications were transferred in the CCA library collection to facilitate description and access. This sub-series contains part of the published materials that remained in the archives.
File 2
1962-1995
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CI007
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The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
1918-2000
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection
CI007
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The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his students collection documents Mies's work as an architect, a designer and a consulting architect, between 1918 and 1981, as well as the work of his students at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, between 1938 and 1943. The collection is focussed on Mies's architectural projects and exhibition designs, mainly in Germany and in the United States.
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1918-2000
born digital
AP177.S1.001
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This file consists of images corresponding to renderings from CAD software created after the competition, likely for exhibitions or publications. It was transferred to CCA on a CD identified “RUR Architecture Kansai inventory 2/17/14”. Original directory name: "Digital". Most common file formats: Tagged Image File Format.
1996-2014
Renderings of the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library
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AP177.S1.001
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This file consists of images corresponding to renderings from CAD software created after the competition, likely for exhibitions or publications. It was transferred to CCA on a CD identified “RUR Architecture Kansai inventory 2/17/14”. Original directory name: "Digital". Most common file formats: Tagged Image File Format.
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1996-2014
Audible Archives
Audible Archives presents samples of digitized recordings alongside silent artefacts from the CCA Collection, highlighting sound as a significant medium for research while drawing attention to the challenges of preservation and stewardship.
Audible Archives
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Audible Archives presents samples of digitized recordings alongside silent artefacts from the CCA Collection, highlighting sound as a significant medium for research while drawing attention to the challenges of preservation and stewardship.
In this exhibition, a selection of contemporary publications and critical investigations lay the groundwork through which to explore the relationship between travel and design today, while selected items from the CCA collection offer a historiography of tourism.
12 December 2019 to 15 November 2020
Detour: Alternative Readings of Travel
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In this exhibition, a selection of contemporary publications and critical investigations lay the groundwork through which to explore the relationship between travel and design today, while selected items from the CCA collection offer a historiography of tourism.
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02
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The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
1969-1971
Architettura Interplanetaria [Interplanetary Architecture] (1970-1971)
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AP148.S1.1970.PR02
Description:
The project series documents Poli's work on the Interplanetary Architecture project, which was also made into a film by Superstudio directed by Alessandro Poli (the film is not included in the fonds). The project reflects Poli's deep fascination with the moon landing in 1969. Poli uses this major media event as a catalyst for thinking about a new approach to architecture and tools for design, including the idea that film and the movie camera should become part of the toolset. The project also seems to be in some way a response to Epoch magazine's challenge for a "Primo concorso di architettura nello spazio" (the first architectural competition in space), and includes much imagery and textual references to a new road or architectural links between the earth and other planets, including an earth moon highway. In his storyboard, Poli also makes reference to his earlier Piper project, and some imagery features wheels and an amusement park. The Interplanetary Architecture project was exhibited by Superstudio in Rome in 1972 and featured in "Casabella" magazine in April 1972 (no. 364). The project was also featured in the 2010 CCA exhibition "Other Space Odysseys". In the accompanying CCA publication, Poli describes this project as "a voyage off earthbound routes in quest of architecture unfettered by the urban nightmare, by induced needs or by planning as the only tool for regulating and solving the world's problems" (Poli quoted in Borasi and Zardini, 2010, 110). Poli's work on this project is deeply tied to the Zeno project, which was also featured in this exhibition and is included in this fonds (see AP148.S1.1972.PR01). For the Zeno project, Poli envisioned a dialogue between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and an Italian peasant, Zeno of Riparbella. Poli felt that these two shared a similarity in that both their homes were isolated capsules, one that provided a lens from which to see the rest of the world and understand their place in it. The material in the series includes numerous photomontages and collages of astronauts in space, as well as drawings of plantery shapes and structures. There are also texts, some of which include calculations of distances and diameters of planets, as well as notebooks and sketchbooks, many of which Poli included in a folder he entitled "Storyboard." The series also includes an unsent letter from Poli to Adolfo Natalini which describes how, after the moon landing, everything - the planet, the moon, the stars - is architecture, and that this will necessitate the need for new design tools, such as the movie camera. Some works are signed Alessandro Poli-Superstudio. Source cited: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, eds., Other Space Odysseys, Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.
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1969-1971
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AP194
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The Johan Bettum OCEAN North projects records, 1995-2000, consist of born-digital files and a physical drawing that document three projects by the OCEAN North collective: Synthetic Landscape (1995-2000), Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre (competition, 1997), and Tölöö Football Stadium (competition, 1997). The archive also includes a small amount of additional born-digital reference materials on 11 projects from the collective, including the three projects mentioned above.
1995-2000
Johan Bettum OCEAN North project records
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AP194
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The Johan Bettum OCEAN North projects records, 1995-2000, consist of born-digital files and a physical drawing that document three projects by the OCEAN North collective: Synthetic Landscape (1995-2000), Jyväskylä Music and Arts Centre (competition, 1997), and Tölöö Football Stadium (competition, 1997). The archive also includes a small amount of additional born-digital reference materials on 11 projects from the collective, including the three projects mentioned above.
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1995-2000
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Laboratories of the Future
Robert Kett, Robert J. Kett, Prospects Beyond Futures, Red Power Movement, counterculture, Alcatraz, 1970, CCA Singles
9 November 2020
Laboratories of the Future
Robert J. Kett introduces countercultural visions for Alcatraz during the occupation of the island by Indigenous activists
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