born digital
ARCH280038
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Labelled: "9904 (2); UN Studio van Berkel en Bos; Stadhouderskade 113; 1073 AX Amsterdam; Disk 2/3". Annotations on original physical media: "Berkel + Bos; (2); UN Studio; (lazarote)". File formats: Tagged Image File Format (.tiff), unidentified file format, JPEG File Interchange Format.
1999
Presentation materials for the IFCCA competition, Zip disk, 100 MB
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ARCH280038
Description:
Labelled: "9904 (2); UN Studio van Berkel en Bos; Stadhouderskade 113; 1073 AX Amsterdam; Disk 2/3". Annotations on original physical media: "Berkel + Bos; (2); UN Studio; (lazarote)". File formats: Tagged Image File Format (.tiff), unidentified file format, JPEG File Interchange Format.
born digital
1999
textual records, born digital, photographs
ARCH279660
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Labelled: "Anything Backup". Annotation on the original physical media: "Any 24, part 2, disk 1". Most common file formats: Microsoft Word Document, JPEG File Interchange Format, unidentified file format, Macintosh PICT Image, Microsoft Word for Macintosh, Quark Xpress Data Files, Rich Text Format.
2000
Backup files, Anything journal
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ARCH279660
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Labelled: "Anything Backup". Annotation on the original physical media: "Any 24, part 2, disk 1". Most common file formats: Microsoft Word Document, JPEG File Interchange Format, unidentified file format, Macintosh PICT Image, Microsoft Word for Macintosh, Quark Xpress Data Files, Rich Text Format.
textual records, born digital, photographs
2000
Series
Office files
AP018.S2
Description:
This series is made up of various correspondece files, promotional files, and topic files. Correspondence and promotional files relate to Parkin First Architects, Parkin Architects Planners, and John B. Parkin Associates. The correspondence documents several transportation projects including airports, projects for Marathon Realty Inc., stadium projects, the National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the University of Ottawa. Promotional files give information on the firms, including design philosophy and the merger of John B. Parkin Associates and Smith Carter Searle. Topic files mostly consist of newpaper clippings and articles on the topics of planning, management, some projects, John C. Parkin, and various files on architecture, such as architectural education and architecture criticism. This series also contains a selection of invitations and Christmas cards as well as sound recordings and moving image recordings of interviews with the media, promotional recordings and recordings whose contents are unknown.
1960-1988
Office files
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AP018.S2
Description:
This series is made up of various correspondece files, promotional files, and topic files. Correspondence and promotional files relate to Parkin First Architects, Parkin Architects Planners, and John B. Parkin Associates. The correspondence documents several transportation projects including airports, projects for Marathon Realty Inc., stadium projects, the National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the University of Ottawa. Promotional files give information on the firms, including design philosophy and the merger of John B. Parkin Associates and Smith Carter Searle. Topic files mostly consist of newpaper clippings and articles on the topics of planning, management, some projects, John C. Parkin, and various files on architecture, such as architectural education and architecture criticism. This series also contains a selection of invitations and Christmas cards as well as sound recordings and moving image recordings of interviews with the media, promotional recordings and recordings whose contents are unknown.
Series
1960-1988
Series
Projects
AP041.S1
Description:
This series documents Melvin Charney's artistic, architecture and design projects from 1950 to 2012. It includes material related to his installations, architectural projects, his artworks and photographic projects. This series contains over 70 projects, including Charney's proposal for the Canadian government pavilion for the Japan world exposition, in Osaka, in 1967, his design for the Canadian tribute to human rights, in Ottawa, in 1986-1987, his installation Les maison de la rue Sherbrooke presented during the Corridart in 1976 for the Montréal Summer Olympics and Un dictionnaire presented, amongts others, at the 7th Venice Biennale in 2000. The series drawings and sketches, such as conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings as well as some his mixed media artworks. It also contains some photographs including photographs of the installations design by Charney, reference photographs, textual documents, such as notes, rapports and proposals, correspondence and reference materials.
1955-2012
Projects
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AP041.S1
Description:
This series documents Melvin Charney's artistic, architecture and design projects from 1950 to 2012. It includes material related to his installations, architectural projects, his artworks and photographic projects. This series contains over 70 projects, including Charney's proposal for the Canadian government pavilion for the Japan world exposition, in Osaka, in 1967, his design for the Canadian tribute to human rights, in Ottawa, in 1986-1987, his installation Les maison de la rue Sherbrooke presented during the Corridart in 1976 for the Montréal Summer Olympics and Un dictionnaire presented, amongts others, at the 7th Venice Biennale in 2000. The series drawings and sketches, such as conceptual, design development, presentation and working drawings as well as some his mixed media artworks. It also contains some photographs including photographs of the installations design by Charney, reference photographs, textual documents, such as notes, rapports and proposals, correspondence and reference materials.
Series
1955-2012
research
Visiting Scholars 2012
Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
2 April 2012 to 31 August 2012
Visiting Scholars 2012
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Elke Krasny, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria Topic: Shim-Sutcliffe: Crafting Architecture. A Monograph as Critical Reflection Shannon Mattern, The New School, New York, United States Topic: Urban Media Archaeology. Communication Infrastructure and Material Cities Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: Utility versus(...)
research
2 April 2012 to
31 August 2012
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
Revolution on a Human Scale: Photography and Vkhutemas
Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
29 June 2017, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Aglaya Glebova
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Visiting Scholar Aglaya Glebova presents her research: Vkhutemas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, was a state-funded institute that sought to prepare a new generation of revolutionary artists and architects for the construction of a properly Soviet modernity. Dissolved under political pressure in 1930, the school never had a dedicated department of photography, but(...)
Shaughnessy House
archives
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Fonds
Melvin Charney fonds
AP041
Synopsis:
The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
1947-2012
Melvin Charney fonds
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AP041
Synopsis:
The Melvin Charney fonds documents Charney's career from the 1950s to the 2012 over 70 architectural and artistics projects, records related to exhibitions he designed, exhibition in which his projects were presented, his teaching activities, and his writings. The fonds contains a considerable amount of textual records, architectural drawings, photographic materials, some models, and a small number of artefacts related to his projects.
archives
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Fonds
1947-2012
AP018.S2.020
Description:
These materials include interviews with the media, promotional recordings on the firm and projects and recordings whose contents are unknown. The most notable recording in the materials is a phone call between sculptor Henry Moore and John Cresswell Parkin (see ARCH 281661 in this file). All materials have been described without playback.
1960-1980
Promotional audiovisual materials and other recordings
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AP018.S2.020
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These materials include interviews with the media, promotional recordings on the firm and projects and recordings whose contents are unknown. The most notable recording in the materials is a phone call between sculptor Henry Moore and John Cresswell Parkin (see ARCH 281661 in this file). All materials have been described without playback.
1960-1980
born digital
ARCH280050
Description:
Label on post-it: "Diagrams; Reiser + Umemoto; Disk 6 of 9". Annotations on original physical media: "Zip #2; midtown eps; regional map eps; link eps; act eps; slided". File formats: unidentified file format, Encapsulated PostScript File Format, Quark Xpress Data File. Empty files and directories were deleted from the extracted files.
1999
Presentation materials for the IFCCA competition, Zip disk (6/9), 100 MB
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ARCH280050
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Label on post-it: "Diagrams; Reiser + Umemoto; Disk 6 of 9". Annotations on original physical media: "Zip #2; midtown eps; regional map eps; link eps; act eps; slided". File formats: unidentified file format, Encapsulated PostScript File Format, Quark Xpress Data File. Empty files and directories were deleted from the extracted files.
born digital
1999
After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery
22 September 2011 to 8 January 2012
Modernism in Miniature: Points of View
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After a period of decline, the architectural model gained new prominence when it became a popular tool for design education and practice in the early twentieth century. This revival is usually associated with the turn towards objectivity and the search for expressive means to communicate ideas in three dimensions—but how was the model transformed in the age of its(...)
Octagonal gallery