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A way of being an architect
26 April 2021
A way of being an architect
Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden revisit the recent architectural history of Buenos Aires
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machine learning, machine learning tool, architectural drawings, trees, AI, artificial intelligence, architectural history, protocols, toolkit, research methods
10 July 2023
Learning from Machine Learning
Sylvia Lavin on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
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Joseph Rykwert fonds
AP209
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The Joseph Rykwert fonds, 1928-2022, documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an architectural historian, author and professor. The fonds includes the records for over a dozen monographs written between the mid-1960s and the mid-2010s as well as edited works and articles, and details his teaching and lecturing activities from the 1960s onwards in universities in Europe and the United States. The records highlight Joseph Rykwert’s multidisciplinary approach, which involved archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis in his study of the history and theory of architecture and of the urban form. The fonds is composed of textual records, publications and ephemera, and of photographs including multiple albums and a large number of slides; the fonds also documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an independent designer through drawings realized between the late 1940s and the late 1970s.
1928-2022
Joseph Rykwert fonds
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AP209
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The Joseph Rykwert fonds, 1928-2022, documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an architectural historian, author and professor. The fonds includes the records for over a dozen monographs written between the mid-1960s and the mid-2010s as well as edited works and articles, and details his teaching and lecturing activities from the 1960s onwards in universities in Europe and the United States. The records highlight Joseph Rykwert’s multidisciplinary approach, which involved archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis in his study of the history and theory of architecture and of the urban form. The fonds is composed of textual records, publications and ephemera, and of photographs including multiple albums and a large number of slides; the fonds also documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an independent designer through drawings realized between the late 1940s and the late 1970s.
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1928-2022
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Kenneth Frampton fonds
AP197
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The Kenneth Frampton fonds, 1958-2016, documents the professional career of Kenneth Frampton – British architect, historian, theorist, and Ware professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Materials in the fonds consist of approximately 28.37 l.m. of textual records, 3966 photographs and prints, 3168 postcards, 2733 slides, 824 drawings (including reprographic copies), 470 negatives, 151 35 mm negatives, 105 posters, 30 objects, 23 audio cassettes, 18 VHS tapes, 15 transparencies, 3 tape reels, 2 microfilms, and 2 vinyl records.
1958-2016
Kenneth Frampton fonds
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AP197
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The Kenneth Frampton fonds, 1958-2016, documents the professional career of Kenneth Frampton – British architect, historian, theorist, and Ware professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Materials in the fonds consist of approximately 28.37 l.m. of textual records, 3966 photographs and prints, 3168 postcards, 2733 slides, 824 drawings (including reprographic copies), 470 negatives, 151 35 mm negatives, 105 posters, 30 objects, 23 audio cassettes, 18 VHS tapes, 15 transparencies, 3 tape reels, 2 microfilms, and 2 vinyl records.
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1958-2016
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Victor Depocas fonds
AP028
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Victor Depocas fonds is composed of documents and graphic materials produced between 1921 and 1986, predominantly between 1956 and 1984. It records Depocas activities as a member of the Province of Québec Association of Architects (A.A.P.Q.), the Ordre d’Architects du Québec (O.A.P.), and the Commission des monuments historiques du Québec; his activities as a Professor of architectural composition at l’École de Beaux-arts de Montréal (1953-1957); and his work as a professional architect along with general office files of the short-life firms David & Depocas and Deshaies & Depocas (1946-1950). The fonds documents mainly the architectural projects from the Commission that include restorations, renovations and modifications of residential, educational, ecclesiastical, and commercial buildings across Québec. Represented in drawings, textual records and photographs.
1921-1986
Victor Depocas fonds
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Victor Depocas fonds is composed of documents and graphic materials produced between 1921 and 1986, predominantly between 1956 and 1984. It records Depocas activities as a member of the Province of Québec Association of Architects (A.A.P.Q.), the Ordre d’Architects du Québec (O.A.P.), and the Commission des monuments historiques du Québec; his activities as a Professor of architectural composition at l’École de Beaux-arts de Montréal (1953-1957); and his work as a professional architect along with general office files of the short-life firms David & Depocas and Deshaies & Depocas (1946-1950). The fonds documents mainly the architectural projects from the Commission that include restorations, renovations and modifications of residential, educational, ecclesiastical, and commercial buildings across Québec. Represented in drawings, textual records and photographs.
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1921-1986
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
virtual fellowship program, Nokubekezela Mchunu, Wafa Ali, Papers that Remain, post-custodial archives, Africa
1 March 2022 to 23 December 2022
CCA Virtual Fellowship Program 2022
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The CCA Virtual Fellowship Program supports our long-term investment in thinking through how already digitized and accessible CCA Collection material can generate new historical configurations, timely interpretations, and a broader reach within architectural research.
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1 March 2022 to
23 December 2022
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AP075.S4.SS6
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This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's student work during her training in landscape architecture at Harvard University. It contains research on urban planning, student work on the history of landscape architecture and drawings for student projects.
1943-1945
Student work at Harvard University
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AP075.S4.SS6
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This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's student work during her training in landscape architecture at Harvard University. It contains research on urban planning, student work on the history of landscape architecture and drawings for student projects.
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1943-1945
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Visiting Scholars 2009
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
23 March 2009 to 30 October 2009
Visiting Scholars 2009
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Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
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23 March 2009 to
30 October 2009
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Articles, 2015-2020
AP133.S3
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This series documents Pierre du Prey's writings for articles in collaborative publications and magazine on the history of architecture. It contains documents related to the following articles: "William Chambers, John Yenn, and the Boboli Gardens transported to England's Shores" in "Rethinking Renaissance Drawings: Essays in Honour of David McTavish" edited by Una Roman d’Elia (2015); "Conviviality Versus Seclusions in Pliny’s Tuscan and Laurentine Villas" in "The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Bassin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity" edited by Annalisa Marzano and Guy P. R. Métraux (2017); and "London, Parma, Dresden: Exposition, Competition, Exhibition" in "The Companions to the History of Architecture, Volume II: Eighteenth-Century Architecture", edited by Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong (2018). It also contains material related to the article "A Serendipitous Discovery" published in "The Architectural Historian" magazine of March 2019 about a recently found drawing by Sir John Soane and small publication "Finding the 'Lost' Church of St. John the Baptist" published by Delusso Éditeur in 2020. The series contains draft and final versions of texts, and correspondence regarding each of the five articles.
2010-2020
Articles, 2015-2020
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AP133.S3
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This series documents Pierre du Prey's writings for articles in collaborative publications and magazine on the history of architecture. It contains documents related to the following articles: "William Chambers, John Yenn, and the Boboli Gardens transported to England's Shores" in "Rethinking Renaissance Drawings: Essays in Honour of David McTavish" edited by Una Roman d’Elia (2015); "Conviviality Versus Seclusions in Pliny’s Tuscan and Laurentine Villas" in "The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Bassin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity" edited by Annalisa Marzano and Guy P. R. Métraux (2017); and "London, Parma, Dresden: Exposition, Competition, Exhibition" in "The Companions to the History of Architecture, Volume II: Eighteenth-Century Architecture", edited by Caroline van Eck and Sigrid de Jong (2018). It also contains material related to the article "A Serendipitous Discovery" published in "The Architectural Historian" magazine of March 2019 about a recently found drawing by Sir John Soane and small publication "Finding the 'Lost' Church of St. John the Baptist" published by Delusso Éditeur in 2020. The series contains draft and final versions of texts, and correspondence regarding each of the five articles.
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2010-2020
The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.
22 July 2024 to 26 July 2024
Toolkit for Today: Cross Wor(l)ds/Queer Wor(l)ds
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The 2024 Toolkit for Today explores imaginative, material, and methodological paths to collectively navigate how queer and trans* theory can offer critiques of power that allow for the revision of some of the core concepts and ontologies of architectural history.