Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
9 June 2011 , 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Elisabeth Essaïan
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Join us tonight, 9 June 2011 at 6 pm in the Shaughnessy House. Visiting Scholar Elisabeth Essaïan presents her research on urban planning during the Stalin era, and a critical assessment of the reception it received in European and North American publications from the 1920s to 1950s. Presented in French. Click here for the Facebook event. Consult the summer seminar(...)
Shaughnessy House
textual records
DR2012:0012:099:002
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including correspondence between Melvin Charney and Lance Wright, editor of the Architectural Review. Original folder inscribed in graphite: ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
1979-1980, 1990
Correspondence of Melvin Charney with Editor of the Architectural Review
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DR2012:0012:099:002
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File containing documents in English (predominant) and French, including correspondence between Melvin Charney and Lance Wright, editor of the Architectural Review. Original folder inscribed in graphite: ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW
textual records
1979-1980, 1990
photographs
Quantity:
94 slide(s)
PH1979:0624:001-095
Description:
- The group consists of photomicrographs and architectural views of Angers, France; Arles, France; Saint-Lazare, Avallon, France; Palace of the Popes, Avignon, France; Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d’Albi, Albi, France; Cathédrale de Chartres, Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France; Cathédrale d’Amiens, Amiens, France; Cathédrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, Bourges, France; Hôtel Lallemant, Bourges, France; and Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Beauvais, France. The group also consists of a view of a netsuke and a tsuba from Japan, as well as two views of masks from Macgowan and Rosse's 'Masks and Demons' ca. 1923.
1883-1930
A group of lantern slides on architectural and photomicrographic subjects
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PH1979:0624:001-095
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- The group consists of photomicrographs and architectural views of Angers, France; Arles, France; Saint-Lazare, Avallon, France; Palace of the Popes, Avignon, France; Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d’Albi, Albi, France; Cathédrale de Chartres, Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France; Cathédrale d’Amiens, Amiens, France; Cathédrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, Bourges, France; Hôtel Lallemant, Bourges, France; and Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Beauvais, France. The group also consists of a view of a netsuke and a tsuba from Japan, as well as two views of masks from Macgowan and Rosse's 'Masks and Demons' ca. 1923.
photographs
Quantity:
94 slide(s)
1883-1930
Project
AP178.S1.1991.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the Urban plan for the city centre of Montreuil, France, also known as Coeur de ville. The office archivist identified this project as 24/90. The office assigned the date 1991 to this project. During the sixties and the seventies, the construction of a mall and office towers created a rupture in the downtown of Montreuil and caused traffic problems. Siza was chosen to find architectural and urban solutions to these challenges. Luis Mendes started as a collaborator at Siza's office and finished as the architect in charge for this project. Several other architects helped during the 20 years of the Coeur de ville project, including Laurent Beaudoin, Emanuelle Beaudoin, Michel Corajoud and Christian Devillers. The concept of substitution urbanization was introduced, in order to repair the rupture created in the sixties and seventies and to introduce urban continuity in Montreuil. The Coeur de ville project proposal included a new spacial reorganization, the Victor Hugo housing building, a theater, and public spaces. In 2006, the buildings C1 and C2 were built. The master plan purposes were to readapt the area to the singularity of the territory, reintroduce the cultural and commercial functions of the area, and to create connections between the districts. Due to a change of municipal administration in the middle of the project, only part of the plan was realized, including two housing buildings and part of the urban renewal. Siza received the Grand Prix spécial du jury de l'urbanisme in 2005 for his contribution to the Coeur de Ville project This project series includes two subseries. Plano Centre Ville de Montreuil and Edificio de Habitaçäo Montreuil (Hamo). The Plano Centre Ville de Montreuil documents the master plans and general documentations of the project. The Edificio de Habitaçäo Montreuil documents the housing project of Siza in Montreuil.
1991-2003
Coeur de ville, Montreuil, France, (1991)
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AP178.S1.1991.PR05
Description:
This project series documents the Urban plan for the city centre of Montreuil, France, also known as Coeur de ville. The office archivist identified this project as 24/90. The office assigned the date 1991 to this project. During the sixties and the seventies, the construction of a mall and office towers created a rupture in the downtown of Montreuil and caused traffic problems. Siza was chosen to find architectural and urban solutions to these challenges. Luis Mendes started as a collaborator at Siza's office and finished as the architect in charge for this project. Several other architects helped during the 20 years of the Coeur de ville project, including Laurent Beaudoin, Emanuelle Beaudoin, Michel Corajoud and Christian Devillers. The concept of substitution urbanization was introduced, in order to repair the rupture created in the sixties and seventies and to introduce urban continuity in Montreuil. The Coeur de ville project proposal included a new spacial reorganization, the Victor Hugo housing building, a theater, and public spaces. In 2006, the buildings C1 and C2 were built. The master plan purposes were to readapt the area to the singularity of the territory, reintroduce the cultural and commercial functions of the area, and to create connections between the districts. Due to a change of municipal administration in the middle of the project, only part of the plan was realized, including two housing buildings and part of the urban renewal. Siza received the Grand Prix spécial du jury de l'urbanisme in 2005 for his contribution to the Coeur de Ville project This project series includes two subseries. Plano Centre Ville de Montreuil and Edificio de Habitaçäo Montreuil (Hamo). The Plano Centre Ville de Montreuil documents the master plans and general documentations of the project. The Edificio de Habitaçäo Montreuil documents the housing project of Siza in Montreuil.
Project
1991-2003
PH1985:0548:001-030
Description:
Volume consists of 29 black-and-white photographic prints showing the destruction to the city of Paris during the Paris Commune in 1871, and one print reproducing a painting. The photographs show the architecture of Paris before and after the war. Two of the photographs are photographs of drawings.
1871
Views of the destruction of Paris during the Commune, Paris, France
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PH1985:0548:001-030
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Volume consists of 29 black-and-white photographic prints showing the destruction to the city of Paris during the Paris Commune in 1871, and one print reproducing a painting. The photographs show the architecture of Paris before and after the war. Two of the photographs are photographs of drawings.
photographs
PH1998:0031:001-109
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- Album PH1998:0031:001-109 comprises 86 views of Italy, 19 views of France, and 4 views of Windsor Castle, New Windsor, England. The 86 views of Italy include: 10 views of Rome and 25 photographs of sculptures in two collections in Rome, 17 in the Vatican Museum and 8 in the Capitolano Museum; 11 views of Pisa and 3 photographs of paintings located in Pisa; 10 views of Naples and 2 photographs of sculptures located in Naples; 10 views of Genoa; 6 views of Italy; 4 views of Florence; 1 view of San Remo; one photograph of an unidentified architectural plan; one photograph of a drawing; and two photographs of frescoes. -- The 19 views of France include 2 views of Nice.
architecture, painting, portrait, sculpture
1870s-1880s
Album of photographic views of Italy, France and England
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PH1998:0031:001-109
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- Album PH1998:0031:001-109 comprises 86 views of Italy, 19 views of France, and 4 views of Windsor Castle, New Windsor, England. The 86 views of Italy include: 10 views of Rome and 25 photographs of sculptures in two collections in Rome, 17 in the Vatican Museum and 8 in the Capitolano Museum; 11 views of Pisa and 3 photographs of paintings located in Pisa; 10 views of Naples and 2 photographs of sculptures located in Naples; 10 views of Genoa; 6 views of Italy; 4 views of Florence; 1 view of San Remo; one photograph of an unidentified architectural plan; one photograph of a drawing; and two photographs of frescoes. -- The 19 views of France include 2 views of Nice.
photographs
1870s-1880s
architecture, painting, portrait, sculpture
photographs
Quantity:
7 photograph(s)
PH1978:0043:001-007
ca. 1850-1860
photographs
Quantity:
7 photograph(s)
ca. 1850-1860
drawings
ARCH270040
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Group consists of 8 published posters on Le Corbusier's architectural projects and work of arts. The group includes a poster dated in 1991 "Les amis du Modulor" reproducing a lithography "Le Modulor" by Le Corbusier in 1956. There is also a group of four posters presenting in chronological order each of Le Corbusier architectural projects published in 1987 by the Éditions d'Architecture in Zurich. The group also includes a poster of the Couvent de la Tourette in Évreux, France, by Le Corbusier, and a non dated poster of the poem "L'Angle Droit" written by Le Corbusier.
1980s-1990s
Published posters on Le Corbusier's architectural projects and work of arts
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ARCH270040
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Group consists of 8 published posters on Le Corbusier's architectural projects and work of arts. The group includes a poster dated in 1991 "Les amis du Modulor" reproducing a lithography "Le Modulor" by Le Corbusier in 1956. There is also a group of four posters presenting in chronological order each of Le Corbusier architectural projects published in 1987 by the Éditions d'Architecture in Zurich. The group also includes a poster of the Couvent de la Tourette in Évreux, France, by Le Corbusier, and a non dated poster of the poem "L'Angle Droit" written by Le Corbusier.
drawings
1980s-1990s
PH1980:1015:327
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Project described by Christian de Bonnefoi, Encyclopaedia Universalis 2000 in Journal de l'Atelier d'Architecture (USTO) as follows: "En 1927-1928, il élabore une série de projets utopiques pour le bord de la Seine. [...] Un projet pour un "immeuble à habitations et garage" qui pouvait être édifié sur un terrain vaste de 32 000 mètres carrés comprenait six cents appartements, un garage pour quatre mille voitures, quatre salles de tennis, un restaurant et une piscine. Ces projets représentent de vastes organismes urbains où la typologie pyramidale est envisagée à très grande échelle. Ces formes englobantes abritent des équipements qui transforment la ville en cité futuriste...".
architecture, painting
between 1927 and 1929
View of a project drawing for a tenement building on the edge of the Seine River, France
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PH1980:1015:327
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Project described by Christian de Bonnefoi, Encyclopaedia Universalis 2000 in Journal de l'Atelier d'Architecture (USTO) as follows: "En 1927-1928, il élabore une série de projets utopiques pour le bord de la Seine. [...] Un projet pour un "immeuble à habitations et garage" qui pouvait être édifié sur un terrain vaste de 32 000 mètres carrés comprenait six cents appartements, un garage pour quatre mille voitures, quatre salles de tennis, un restaurant et une piscine. Ces projets représentent de vastes organismes urbains où la typologie pyramidale est envisagée à très grande échelle. Ces formes englobantes abritent des équipements qui transforment la ville en cité futuriste...".
architecture, painting
drawings
ARCH276977
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Group consists of 13 plans for the Centre International de Recherches Biologiques (CIRB) in Talloires, Haute Savoie, France, by the architectural firm Architectes Desa (Gilles de Tellier, Jacques Losserand and Alain Taves) probably collected by Jacqueline Jeanneret for documentation. The group includes a site plan, floor plans, sections and an elevation.
May 5, 1988
Plans for the Centre International de Recherches Biologiques (CIRB) in Talloires, Haute Savoie, France
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ARCH276977
Description:
Group consists of 13 plans for the Centre International de Recherches Biologiques (CIRB) in Talloires, Haute Savoie, France, by the architectural firm Architectes Desa (Gilles de Tellier, Jacques Losserand and Alain Taves) probably collected by Jacqueline Jeanneret for documentation. The group includes a site plan, floor plans, sections and an elevation.
drawings
May 5, 1988