Please join us for a conversation around Samia Hennis latest publication, Toxicité Coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara, published in French by Éditions B42. On this occasion, Henni will present how this project came to be and the creative process behind this edition.
12 March 2026, 6pm
Book Launch: Colonial Toxicity with Samia Henni
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Description:
Please join us for a conversation around Samia Hennis latest publication, Toxicité Coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara, published in French by Éditions B42. On this occasion, Henni will present how this project came to be and the creative process behind this edition.
books
PHCON2002:0016:021:001
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Address book consists of drawings and sketches for Office Baroque (1977) along with pages of addresses and pages of sketches at the end of the book.
1976-1978
Small blue address book with Office Baroque sketches
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PHCON2002:0016:021:001
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Address book consists of drawings and sketches for Office Baroque (1977) along with pages of addresses and pages of sketches at the end of the book.
books
1976-1978
textual records
AP140.S2.SS4.D1.P4
Description:
mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence from publisher Gerd Hatje, dated between 1972 and 1974, including: folder 1 - letter from Gerd Hatje to James Stilring, dated 18 February 1972, passing on reader's comments ("I have the feeling these comments are made by Robert (sic) Middleton, but I'm not sure."), annotated in red ink by James Stirling with preliminary responses - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, dated 29 Feb 1972, responding to comments - mock-up of cover and inside page, "Presentation by Leon Krier," "Buildings & Projects / 1950 - 1973" - photocopy of illustrations and labels to accompany John Jacobus introduction - stapled and bound set of photocopies of Leon krier drawings for Derby - alternate versions for cover of book, photocopies, some annotated in green ink, inscribed: "Presentation by Leon Krier" and then annotated "layout by Leon Krier or design by Leon Krier" folder 2 - page layouts, mostly photocopies with at least one original layout (black ink), some pages annotated or check-marked in red marker - page layouts for book, chronology of projects, captions, numbers of words for each project, mostly photocopy, some ink, some annotated folder 3 (labelled "Book Preparation" - three alternate designs for cover, originals, black and red ink on tracing paper - complete original book layout, mostly black ink, some red ink and brown marker on tracing paper folder 4 - "Chronological List of Works by James Stirling 1950 - 1972," photocopy from A+U Feb 1975, annotated - book layout, annotated with letters keyed to captions in red marker, annotated in red ink throughout - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, 24 Jan 1975, doesn't like typeface chosen by Gerd Hatje ("returned marked 'nein'"), notes other specific preferences regarding dust jacket (Bembo 270 typeface, red "JS" as previously decided, axonometric will be half-size, cover should be glossy black) - letter from Ruth Wurster (Verlag Gerd Hatje) to James Stirling, 4 Feb 1975, enclosing proofs of title pages - letter from James Stirling to Gerd Hatje, responding to letter from Ruth Wurster folder 5 - book layout, photocopy, a few corrections in red marker
1972 -1974
Mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence
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AP140.S2.SS4.D1.P4
Description:
mostly sketches for book layout and some correspondence from publisher Gerd Hatje, dated between 1972 and 1974, including: folder 1 - letter from Gerd Hatje to James Stilring, dated 18 February 1972, passing on reader's comments ("I have the feeling these comments are made by Robert (sic) Middleton, but I'm not sure."), annotated in red ink by James Stirling with preliminary responses - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, dated 29 Feb 1972, responding to comments - mock-up of cover and inside page, "Presentation by Leon Krier," "Buildings & Projects / 1950 - 1973" - photocopy of illustrations and labels to accompany John Jacobus introduction - stapled and bound set of photocopies of Leon krier drawings for Derby - alternate versions for cover of book, photocopies, some annotated in green ink, inscribed: "Presentation by Leon Krier" and then annotated "layout by Leon Krier or design by Leon Krier" folder 2 - page layouts, mostly photocopies with at least one original layout (black ink), some pages annotated or check-marked in red marker - page layouts for book, chronology of projects, captions, numbers of words for each project, mostly photocopy, some ink, some annotated folder 3 (labelled "Book Preparation" - three alternate designs for cover, originals, black and red ink on tracing paper - complete original book layout, mostly black ink, some red ink and brown marker on tracing paper folder 4 - "Chronological List of Works by James Stirling 1950 - 1972," photocopy from A+U Feb 1975, annotated - book layout, annotated with letters keyed to captions in red marker, annotated in red ink throughout - letter from James Stirling to gerd Hatje, 24 Jan 1975, doesn't like typeface chosen by Gerd Hatje ("returned marked 'nein'"), notes other specific preferences regarding dust jacket (Bembo 270 typeface, red "JS" as previously decided, axonometric will be half-size, cover should be glossy black) - letter from Ruth Wurster (Verlag Gerd Hatje) to James Stirling, 4 Feb 1975, enclosing proofs of title pages - letter from James Stirling to Gerd Hatje, responding to letter from Ruth Wurster folder 5 - book layout, photocopy, a few corrections in red marker
textual records
1972 -1974
CCA Bookstore
27 March 2025, 6pm
CCA Bookstore
Please join us on 30 September for a conversation around the The Museum Is Not Enough, No.10–14 with the publication’s editors and graphic designer, Jonathan Hares.
30 September 2025, 6pm
Book Presentation: The Museum Is Not Enough, No. 10–14
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Please join us on 30 September for a conversation around the The Museum Is Not Enough, No.10–14 with the publication’s editors and graphic designer, Jonathan Hares.
textual records
AP018.S2.028
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This is a box consisting of personal and professional cards and invitations, a copy of a book on the Parkin family lineage and a day planner.
circa 1949-circa 1984
Invitations, Christmas cards and Parkin Family book copy
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AP018.S2.028
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This is a box consisting of personal and professional cards and invitations, a copy of a book on the Parkin family lineage and a day planner.
textual records
circa 1949-circa 1984
ARCH288359
1955
PH1981:0598:006
published 1911
books
DR2012:0012:088:019
2011
books
2011
drawings, textual records
DR2004:1036
drawings, textual records