textual records
ARCH276329
Description:
Includes Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau's death in 2000; a pamphlet produced by the Department of Northern Affairs and National resources, "Attracting Birds with Food and Water (1954); Simon Fraser University publication, COMMENT (Summer, 1979); "The Prayer of a Scientist," a poem by Robert Pos, M.D. (1993).
1954-2000
Magazine clippings related to current events
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ARCH276329
Description:
Includes Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau's death in 2000; a pamphlet produced by the Department of Northern Affairs and National resources, "Attracting Birds with Food and Water (1954); Simon Fraser University publication, COMMENT (Summer, 1979); "The Prayer of a Scientist," a poem by Robert Pos, M.D. (1993).
textual records
1954-2000
Series
Research materials on Africa
CD037.S1
Description:
This series consists of research materials from the 1960s to the1980s collected by Georg Lippsmeier during his work for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building). Topics covered in these research materials inlcude: low-cost housing, construction materials and technologies, and urbanization in Africa. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, and various maps of Africa.
1960s-1980s
Research materials on Africa
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CD037.S1
Description:
This series consists of research materials from the 1960s to the1980s collected by Georg Lippsmeier during his work for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building). Topics covered in these research materials inlcude: low-cost housing, construction materials and technologies, and urbanization in Africa. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, and various maps of Africa.
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1960s-1980s
Series
CD037.S4
Description:
This series consists of research material collected by Georg Lippsmeier for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building) on low-cost housing, construction material and technologies, and urbanization between the 1960s and late 1980s. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, maps, and photographs and negatives of construction material and techniques. It also includes a recording on roofing material.
1960s-2005
Research materials on low-cost housing, construction material and technologies, urbanization and energy
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CD037.S4
Description:
This series consists of research material collected by Georg Lippsmeier for the Institut für Tropenbau (Institute for Tropical Building) on low-cost housing, construction material and technologies, and urbanization between the 1960s and late 1980s. The material is predominantly comprised of photocopies of publications, reports, maps, and photographs and negatives of construction material and techniques. It also includes a recording on roofing material.
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1960s-2005
Series
USA Tomorrow records
AP037.S2
Description:
This series includes the editorial, promotional and research material related to the publishing of USA Tomorrow magazine by the editor Maxwell Levinson. It contains editorial correspondence and research files, publication material including photographs and manuscripts, and some issues of the magazine. It also contains documentation and publicity material related to the Manhattan Redevelopment Competition sponsored by USA Tomorrow. The documents within this series are arranged into sub-series, as followed: 1. Editorial files 2. USA Tomorrow Issues 3. Manhattan Redevelopment Competition The editorial files are arranged by alphabetically, and the issues by numerically. There were some photographs which have been physically removed from the files and arranged together in one photographs subseries.
1941-1990
USA Tomorrow records
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AP037.S2
Description:
This series includes the editorial, promotional and research material related to the publishing of USA Tomorrow magazine by the editor Maxwell Levinson. It contains editorial correspondence and research files, publication material including photographs and manuscripts, and some issues of the magazine. It also contains documentation and publicity material related to the Manhattan Redevelopment Competition sponsored by USA Tomorrow. The documents within this series are arranged into sub-series, as followed: 1. Editorial files 2. USA Tomorrow Issues 3. Manhattan Redevelopment Competition The editorial files are arranged by alphabetically, and the issues by numerically. There were some photographs which have been physically removed from the files and arranged together in one photographs subseries.
Series 2
1941-1990
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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
Sub-series
AP032.S1.SS4.D1
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A series of b/w photographs mounted on cardboard illustrating collaborative work in Rome by Myron Goldsmith with James Ferris and others (1954-1955). Also includes early Goldsmith and Ferris projects with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Architects (1955-1962). (Material on these additional projects is located in Series 4: Publications and Exhibitions, and Series 2: Professional Activities - Architecture).
1953-1962
Goldsmith - Ferris Portfolios
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AP032.S1.SS4.D1
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A series of b/w photographs mounted on cardboard illustrating collaborative work in Rome by Myron Goldsmith with James Ferris and others (1954-1955). Also includes early Goldsmith and Ferris projects with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Architects (1955-1962). (Material on these additional projects is located in Series 4: Publications and Exhibitions, and Series 2: Professional Activities - Architecture).
File 1
1953-1962
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.033
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Predominantly includes photocopies of publication on housing in China, housing policies and urban renewal, and housing improvement and development in India. Group also includes two files of reference material on housing improvements for Native American communities.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on housing in China and in India
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AP149.S2.SS3.033
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Predominantly includes photocopies of publication on housing in China, housing policies and urban renewal, and housing improvement and development in India. Group also includes two files of reference material on housing improvements for Native American communities.
textual records
1970s-1990s
Project
La Villette, Paris
AP143.S4.D53
Description:
File documents an unexecuted project for La Villette, Paris, France. Material in this file was produced between 1985 and 1986. In June of 1986, Renato Rizzi supervised the construction of a presentation model of the scheme for site 1 (DR1992:0008:001) and, in September of the same year, of a second version incorporating Derrida's "chora" figure, a gilded object "that would resemble at once a web, a sieve, or a grille and a stringed musical instrument" (DR1992:0008:002). Detailed construction documents, including plan, lighting plan, and sections were finalized at the same time, as were decisions concerning the choice of materials. File contains design development drawings, models, photographic materials, presentation drawings, publication drawings, and textual records.
1985-1986
La Villette, Paris
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AP143.S4.D53
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File documents an unexecuted project for La Villette, Paris, France. Material in this file was produced between 1985 and 1986. In June of 1986, Renato Rizzi supervised the construction of a presentation model of the scheme for site 1 (DR1992:0008:001) and, in September of the same year, of a second version incorporating Derrida's "chora" figure, a gilded object "that would resemble at once a web, a sieve, or a grille and a stringed musical instrument" (DR1992:0008:002). Detailed construction documents, including plan, lighting plan, and sections were finalized at the same time, as were decisions concerning the choice of materials. File contains design development drawings, models, photographic materials, presentation drawings, publication drawings, and textual records.
File 53
1985-1986
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Promotional materials
AP170.S4
Description:
Series 4, Promotional materials, 1998 – 2007, documents how the firm presented and marketed Hyposurface, It consists of more than 5000 digital files, the bulk of which date from 2004 -- 2007. This series chiefly includes materials for publication, the press, and presentations, as well as a small amount of files related to the dECOi portfolio and Hyposurface website. Notably, there is also an interactive CD-ROM presenting the HypoSurface project. Roughly half the files in this series are raster images, including TIF, GIF, EXIF, JPEG and Windows Bitmap formats. There are also includes nearly 1,000 Aegis pattern files, about 300 files in audiovisual formats, as well as a very small number of textual and CAD formats.
1998 - 2007
Promotional materials
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AP170.S4
Description:
Series 4, Promotional materials, 1998 – 2007, documents how the firm presented and marketed Hyposurface, It consists of more than 5000 digital files, the bulk of which date from 2004 -- 2007. This series chiefly includes materials for publication, the press, and presentations, as well as a small amount of files related to the dECOi portfolio and Hyposurface website. Notably, there is also an interactive CD-ROM presenting the HypoSurface project. Roughly half the files in this series are raster images, including TIF, GIF, EXIF, JPEG and Windows Bitmap formats. There are also includes nearly 1,000 Aegis pattern files, about 300 files in audiovisual formats, as well as a very small number of textual and CAD formats.
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1998 - 2007
Sub-series
AP032.S3.D1
Description:
Institute and personal papers concerning Myron Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture (1961-1980), and a research professor (1980-1996) at the College of Architecture, I.I.T. Documents include drafts and texts of lectures by Goldsmith, thesis papers by Phyllis Lambert and David Sharpe, papers for a study of architectural education, and correspondence with colleagues and students as well as I.I.T. reports, brochures, publications, directory.
1961-1996
General Activities and Programs
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AP032.S3.D1
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Institute and personal papers concerning Myron Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture (1961-1980), and a research professor (1980-1996) at the College of Architecture, I.I.T. Documents include drafts and texts of lectures by Goldsmith, thesis papers by Phyllis Lambert and David Sharpe, papers for a study of architectural education, and correspondence with colleagues and students as well as I.I.T. reports, brochures, publications, directory.
File 1
1961-1996