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Far from Nostalgia
9 October 2023
Project
AP178.S1.1977.PR02
Description:
This project series documents restoration work to the Banco Borges & Irmão in Vila do Conde, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 42/70. In the past the office identified the project as number 155. The office assigned the dates 1977 for this project. The project consisted of new installations including an office for the manager, bank safe, customer safes, archives room, sanitary facilities and a dressing room. This project was not realized. The building was later demolished and the site was used to build the Banco Borges & Irmão II (see project series AP178.S1.1978.PR01 in this fonds). Documenting this project are sketches, site plans, correspondence and a building program.
1976-1977
Banco Borges & Irmão I, projecto de recuperação [Borges & Irmão bank I, restoration project], Vila do Conde, Portugal (1977)
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AP178.S1.1977.PR02
Description:
This project series documents restoration work to the Banco Borges & Irmão in Vila do Conde, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 42/70. In the past the office identified the project as number 155. The office assigned the dates 1977 for this project. The project consisted of new installations including an office for the manager, bank safe, customer safes, archives room, sanitary facilities and a dressing room. This project was not realized. The building was later demolished and the site was used to build the Banco Borges & Irmão II (see project series AP178.S1.1978.PR01 in this fonds). Documenting this project are sketches, site plans, correspondence and a building program.
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1976-1977
Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
30 May 2013, 6pm
Friends and Enemies of Mies’s Mansion House Square
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Michela Rosso, 2013 Support Grant Recipient, presents her research from Peter Carter’s archive on the Mansion House square scheme (1962–1985) and shows the different facets of the controversy over Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt tower in the heart of the City of London. Rosso holds a doctorate from the Politecnico di Torino, where since 2003 she has been Associate professor(...)
Shaughnessy House
Project
AP178.S1.1986.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the Plano Monterusciello e Campo Flegrei in Naples, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 44/80. The office assigned the date 1986 to this project. Documenting this project are studies and site plans.
1986-1987
Plano Monterusciello e Campo Flegrei [Urban plan Monterusciello], Naples, Italy (1986-1987)
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AP178.S1.1986.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the Plano Monterusciello e Campo Flegrei in Naples, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 44/80. The office assigned the date 1986 to this project. Documenting this project are studies and site plans.
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1986-1987
Project
AP178.S1.1988.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the competition for Projecto para Siena in Siena, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the numbers 51/80. The office assigned the date 1988 for this project. Documenting this project are photographs and slides of plans and model.
1988
Projecto para Siena [Matteotti Piazza], Siena, Italy (1988)
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AP178.S1.1988.PR02
Description:
This project series documents the competition for Projecto para Siena in Siena, Italy. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the numbers 51/80. The office assigned the date 1988 for this project. Documenting this project are photographs and slides of plans and model.
Project
1988
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Fonds
Roland Dumais fonds
AP005
Synopsis:
The Roland Dumais fonds, 1930-1975, documents architect Roland Dumais’s design and construction of over 500 built projects in Québec. In addition to documenting Dumais’s professional career (1935-1971), the fonds includes materials relating to the everyday administration of Dumais’s architectural firm (1941-1977) as well as materials pertaining to his personal life (1932-1982). Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 12 400 drawings (including reprographic copies), 126 photographic materials, 10.33 l.m. of textual records, 5 models, and 3 reels of 16 mm film.
1930-1975
Roland Dumais fonds
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AP005
Synopsis:
The Roland Dumais fonds, 1930-1975, documents architect Roland Dumais’s design and construction of over 500 built projects in Québec. In addition to documenting Dumais’s professional career (1935-1971), the fonds includes materials relating to the everyday administration of Dumais’s architectural firm (1941-1977) as well as materials pertaining to his personal life (1932-1982). Materials in this fonds consist of approximately 12 400 drawings (including reprographic copies), 126 photographic materials, 10.33 l.m. of textual records, 5 models, and 3 reels of 16 mm film.
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1930-1975
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Fonds
Amancio Williams fonds
AP205
Synopsis:
The Amancio Williams fonds documents Williams' career as an architect and designer from the 1940s to the late 1980s. The fonds documents his work for over 80 architectural, urban planning and furniture design projects, as well as the administration of his architecture practice, and his professional activities through correspondence, photographic material, and promotional materials.
1848-2010s
Amancio Williams fonds
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AP205
Synopsis:
The Amancio Williams fonds documents Williams' career as an architect and designer from the 1940s to the late 1980s. The fonds documents his work for over 80 architectural, urban planning and furniture design projects, as well as the administration of his architecture practice, and his professional activities through correspondence, photographic material, and promotional materials.
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1848-2010s
Project
AP178.S1.1970.PR03
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This project series documents a housing scheme for Álvaro Bonifácio in Ovar, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 3/70. The office assigned the date 1970-1972 to this project. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, plans and correspondence.
1970-1972
Loteamento Álvaro Bonifácio [Álvaro Bonifácio housing scheme], Ovar, Portugal (1970-1972)
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AP178.S1.1970.PR03
Description:
This project series documents a housing scheme for Álvaro Bonifácio in Ovar, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 3/70. The office assigned the date 1970-1972 to this project. Documenting this project are sketches, studies, plans and correspondence.
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1970-1972
Project
AP178.S1.1960.PR01
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This project series documents the Restaurante em Perafita in Matosinhos, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 1/60. The office assigned the date 1960 to this project. The project was never developed and is only documented by a small number of sketches.
circa 1960
Restaurante em Perafita [Restaurant Perafita], Perafita, Matosinhos, Portugal (1960)
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AP178.S1.1960.PR01
Description:
This project series documents the Restaurante em Perafita in Matosinhos, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 1/60. The office assigned the date 1960 to this project. The project was never developed and is only documented by a small number of sketches.
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circa 1960
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AP178.S1.2000.PR12
Description:
This project series document the Edifícios Centrais do Campus de Tarongers - Proj. III in Valencia, Spainl. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 13/00. The office assigned the date 2000 to this project. Documenting this project are studies and slides.
2000-2001
Edifícios Centrais do Campus de Tarongers - Proj. III [Central building, Tarongers Campus - Proj. III], Valencia, Spain (2001)
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AP178.S1.2000.PR12
Description:
This project series document the Edifícios Centrais do Campus de Tarongers - Proj. III in Valencia, Spainl. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 13/00. The office assigned the date 2000 to this project. Documenting this project are studies and slides.
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2000-2001