archives
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Fonds
Gene Summers fonds
AP114
Synopsis:
The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
1957 - 2004
Gene Summers fonds
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AP114
Synopsis:
The Gene Summers fonds documents primarily the later part of Gene Summers' career as an architect, developer, artist and art collector. Summer's early work with the Office of Mies van der Rohe and C.F. Murphy Associates is summarily represented by notes, sketches and photographs.
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Fonds
1957 - 2004
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Collection
AP172
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The Mies in America Research Collection documents an exhibition and publication project produced by Curator and Architectural Historian, Phyllis Lambert (1927-), and associated researchers between 1996-2002. The project explored German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's (1886-1969) contributions to the American architectural landscape following his immigration from Germany to Chicago in 1938. The resulting book, a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was published in 2001. The exhibition ran from 2001-2002 with stops at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, (Montreal), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). The Mies in America research collection consists of correspondence, research, and administrative, manuscript, and curatorial files created by Phyllis Lambert and the project team for the book and exhibition project Mies in America, originally housed in the Mies research office at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Throughout the process, the team of researchers consulted previously unstudied material on Mies van der Rhoe from major repositories across North America, including drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews , which are represented in photocopy throughout the collection to document the research activities as well as curatorial choices and manuscript development. Subsequent curatorial decisions based on this research are detailed through notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and object lists as the book and exhibition projects took shape. Original annotations, edits, and comments made by Phyllis Lambert and her research associates are present throughout. The administrative activities of the research team are also documented through correspondence, research assistant assignments, research trips, and photography requests. Files from the assistant curator (Cammie McAtee), and research assistants (primarily Elspeth Cowell, Nathalie Senecal, and Deborah Miller) are integrated throughout the collection.
1957-2002
Mies in America Research Collection
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AP172
Description:
The Mies in America Research Collection documents an exhibition and publication project produced by Curator and Architectural Historian, Phyllis Lambert (1927-), and associated researchers between 1996-2002. The project explored German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's (1886-1969) contributions to the American architectural landscape following his immigration from Germany to Chicago in 1938. The resulting book, a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was published in 2001. The exhibition ran from 2001-2002 with stops at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, (Montreal), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). The Mies in America research collection consists of correspondence, research, and administrative, manuscript, and curatorial files created by Phyllis Lambert and the project team for the book and exhibition project Mies in America, originally housed in the Mies research office at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Throughout the process, the team of researchers consulted previously unstudied material on Mies van der Rhoe from major repositories across North America, including drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews , which are represented in photocopy throughout the collection to document the research activities as well as curatorial choices and manuscript development. Subsequent curatorial decisions based on this research are detailed through notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and object lists as the book and exhibition projects took shape. Original annotations, edits, and comments made by Phyllis Lambert and her research associates are present throughout. The administrative activities of the research team are also documented through correspondence, research assistant assignments, research trips, and photography requests. Files from the assistant curator (Cammie McAtee), and research assistants (primarily Elspeth Cowell, Nathalie Senecal, and Deborah Miller) are integrated throughout the collection.
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Collection 172
1957-2002
Mies in America
A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
17 October 2001 to 20 January 2002
Mies in America
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A profound thinker, painstaking artist, and one of the greatest architects in history, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938, when he was already in his fifties and one of the recognized masters of his profession. Transplanted from the Bauhaus (of which he was the last director) to a technical institute in Chicago, from the European(...)
Main galleries
drawings, textual records
DR2012:0012:106:011
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Assorted drawings, sketches, and a photograph related to the following projects: - Chicago construction; - Kingston construction; - Fragments (1 photograph, 1 drawing). Further investigation is required to identify the projects present.
circa 1983-1990
Drawings, sketches, and a photograph related to various projects
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DR2012:0012:106:011
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Assorted drawings, sketches, and a photograph related to the following projects: - Chicago construction; - Kingston construction; - Fragments (1 photograph, 1 drawing). Further investigation is required to identify the projects present.
drawings, textual records
circa 1983-1990
Sub-series
Mies Centennial Project
AP032.S3.D2
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Documents concerning the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project (1983-1986) produced by the I.I.T. College of Architecture. Includes reports and planning, correspondence, notes, interviews, research and essays on Mies including personal papers related to Goldsmith from the 1960's. Also included are papers and brochures for Mies exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Mies van der Rohe Drawings catalogue (text by Phyllis Lambert), clippings and copies of tribute to Mies issue Inland Architect magazine (1986).
1960-1986
Mies Centennial Project
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AP032.S3.D2
Description:
Documents concerning the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project (1983-1986) produced by the I.I.T. College of Architecture. Includes reports and planning, correspondence, notes, interviews, research and essays on Mies including personal papers related to Goldsmith from the 1960's. Also included are papers and brochures for Mies exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Mies van der Rohe Drawings catalogue (text by Phyllis Lambert), clippings and copies of tribute to Mies issue Inland Architect magazine (1986).
File 2
1960-1986
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:004:149:001
26 December 1977
textual records
26 December 1977
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:004:149:002
24 February 1978
textual records
24 February 1978
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:006:017
1978
textual records
1978
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:007:047:001
24 December 1985
textual records
24 December 1985
textual records
PHCON2002:0016:003:043
10 February 1975
textual records
10 February 1975