Sub-series
Administration
AP116.S4.SS1
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Sub-series documents the administrative aspects of Anyone Corporation's book publications, Writing Architecture Series from proposals to printing. Material in sub-series was produced between 1991 and 2000. Sub-series contains correspondence with authors, publishers and translators, contracts and agreements, book proposals and outlines, reviews and proofs of book covers.
1991-2000
Administration
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AP116.S4.SS1
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Sub-series documents the administrative aspects of Anyone Corporation's book publications, Writing Architecture Series from proposals to printing. Material in sub-series was produced between 1991 and 2000. Sub-series contains correspondence with authors, publishers and translators, contracts and agreements, book proposals and outlines, reviews and proofs of book covers.
Sub-series 1
1991-2000
DR1985:0388:001-006
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- In this letter from J.J.P. Oud to Sigfried Giedion, Oud critiques Giedon's book about Modernist Dutch architecture (title not indicated). Oud challenges several points made by Giedion and rebukes the author for his anti-socialist approach to architectural analysis. Oud suggests a less romantic and speculative methodology, and concludes the letter with a proposal to meet with the author and discuss their ideas. The letter is addressed to "Pep", Sigfried Giedion's nickname.
architecture
24 June 1928
Letter from J.J.P. Oud to Sigfried [Pep] Giedion, 28 June 1924, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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DR1985:0388:001-006
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- In this letter from J.J.P. Oud to Sigfried Giedion, Oud critiques Giedon's book about Modernist Dutch architecture (title not indicated). Oud challenges several points made by Giedion and rebukes the author for his anti-socialist approach to architectural analysis. Oud suggests a less romantic and speculative methodology, and concludes the letter with a proposal to meet with the author and discuss their ideas. The letter is addressed to "Pep", Sigfried Giedion's nickname.
architecture
drawings
ARCH153779
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views of miscellaneous subject matter including street plan of Chicago, Illinois and unknown cities in U.S. and Germany; slides for a presentation by Robert A. Stern; possible illustrative material for Kenneth Frampton book
circa 1970-1980
Views of miscellaneous subject matter including street plan of Chicago
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ARCH153779
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views of miscellaneous subject matter including street plan of Chicago, Illinois and unknown cities in U.S. and Germany; slides for a presentation by Robert A. Stern; possible illustrative material for Kenneth Frampton book
drawings
circa 1970-1980
Sub-series
Layouts
AP114.S1.SS4.D2
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Sub-series consists of material related to the layout of the manuscript for the 2003 book Gene Summers : Art / Architecture by Werner Blaser. It includes copies of the final layout as well as rejected pages.
circa 2002 - 2003
Layouts
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AP114.S1.SS4.D2
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Sub-series consists of material related to the layout of the manuscript for the 2003 book Gene Summers : Art / Architecture by Werner Blaser. It includes copies of the final layout as well as rejected pages.
File 2
circa 2002 - 2003
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
31 March 2004 to 30 May 2004
Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977
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Learning from… Ruscha and Venturi Scott Brown, 1962–1977 examines the relationship between the seminal illustrated books by artist Edward Ruscha and architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown that deal with the architecture and urbanism of the everyday in Los Angeles and Las Vegas during the 1960s and 1970s. Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip and Venturi(...)
Octagonal gallery
As Building Director of Baden in southwest Germany, Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826) had the unique opportunity to create in Karlsruhe—the capital and his native city—one of the most homogeneous architectural ensembles ever achieved by a single architect. The exhibition focuses on the impact of scientific and administrative reform on the urban and agricultural(...)
Main galleries
31 January 1990 to 18 March 1990
Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe
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As Building Director of Baden in southwest Germany, Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826) had the unique opportunity to create in Karlsruhe—the capital and his native city—one of the most homogeneous architectural ensembles ever achieved by a single architect. The exhibition focuses on the impact of scientific and administrative reform on the urban and agricultural(...)
Main galleries
Sub-series
AP075.S3.SS2
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This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's administrative records of her practice as landscape architect from the end of the 1950s to the end ot the 2010s. It comprises material related to her consulting services on her own various landscape projects and urban planning projects, and also her consulting services for projects submitted as member of a larger project team for private or public projects. Her office records also contains documents related the planning of her work, her patents applications and designs for her own landscape or playground furnitures, and her professional correspondence. The sub-series also documents Oberlander press and promotional activities, such as interviews she gave, articles written about her, about her work as landscape architect, her statements or her activism for social and environmental causes or preservation landmark buildings and spaces. The sub-series contains documents related to Oberlander's consulting services, including requests for services, proposals by her or by the project team, correspondence, or documentation collected for projects calls of interest to Oberlander. Oberlander's office records for planning of projects and other activities includes professional correspondence files, agendas and planners, message books and notebooks, patents applications and plans for her designs, and office references, such landscape architecture regulations and guidelines, and landscape specifications templates. The sub-series also comprises promotional material, such as photographs of her previous projects, press clippings of articles or periodicals with articles about her or her work, promotional panels for some of her major projects, and brochures or leaflets on her most well known projects. It includes also contains recordings of interviews on TV or radio shows she gave, biographical information on Oberlander, versions of her CV's, portaits of her, and lists and project write-ups.
1953-2018
Administrative records and promotional material
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AP075.S3.SS2
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This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's administrative records of her practice as landscape architect from the end of the 1950s to the end ot the 2010s. It comprises material related to her consulting services on her own various landscape projects and urban planning projects, and also her consulting services for projects submitted as member of a larger project team for private or public projects. Her office records also contains documents related the planning of her work, her patents applications and designs for her own landscape or playground furnitures, and her professional correspondence. The sub-series also documents Oberlander press and promotional activities, such as interviews she gave, articles written about her, about her work as landscape architect, her statements or her activism for social and environmental causes or preservation landmark buildings and spaces. The sub-series contains documents related to Oberlander's consulting services, including requests for services, proposals by her or by the project team, correspondence, or documentation collected for projects calls of interest to Oberlander. Oberlander's office records for planning of projects and other activities includes professional correspondence files, agendas and planners, message books and notebooks, patents applications and plans for her designs, and office references, such landscape architecture regulations and guidelines, and landscape specifications templates. The sub-series also comprises promotional material, such as photographs of her previous projects, press clippings of articles or periodicals with articles about her or her work, promotional panels for some of her major projects, and brochures or leaflets on her most well known projects. It includes also contains recordings of interviews on TV or radio shows she gave, biographical information on Oberlander, versions of her CV's, portaits of her, and lists and project write-ups.
Sub-series
1953-2018
Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
19 July 1994 to 25 September 1994
The Palladian Revival: Lord Burlington, His Villa and Garden at Chiswick
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Just as Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda helped to define for future generations the architecture of the Renaissance in Italy, so Chiswick is the locus classicus of the Palladian Revival of the eighteenth century. This exhibition follows a major architect’s thinking as he worked from source to design, from design to representation, in the making of a building which, as the(...)
Main galleries
textual records
AP197.S3.004
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The box is comprised of correspondence for 1991-1994, organized in alphabetical order by last name, from L-T. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to Kenneth Frampton’s involvement/participation as: a lecturer at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Conference and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a keynote speaker at the National University of Singapore Conference; visiting professorship at the Université de Montréal; as Chairman of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; a member of the advisory board for the World Architecture Triennale, Nara.
1991-1994
Personal and professional correspondence for names L-T from 1991-1994
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AP197.S3.004
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The box is comprised of correspondence for 1991-1994, organized in alphabetical order by last name, from L-T. The box documents Frampton’s career as Ware professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University and his related professional activities. Correspondence in this box includes: offers of teaching positions; requests to write articles, reviews, books and recommendation letters; invitations to teach, present, or attend at lectures/symposiums/conferences; and requests to serve on juries. Correspondence relates to Kenneth Frampton’s involvement/participation as: a lecturer at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA) Conference and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a keynote speaker at the National University of Singapore Conference; visiting professorship at the Université de Montréal; as Chairman of the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture; a member of the advisory board for the World Architecture Triennale, Nara.
textual records
1991-1994
Sub-series
L'anarchitetto (1973)
AP207.S3.SS01
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The sub-series documents the publication "L'anarchitetto”, written by Pettena and published by Guaraldi, in Florence, in 1973. The book consists of an essay in which Pettena describes himself as an "anarchitect" as he sees architecture more as a metaphor of the creative condition that starts with the intention of "making architecture" but ends up making art. He also states his refusal to "to recognize the borders between disciplines." [1] The sub-series contains pictures of Pettena's projects to be selected from for the book and scans of "L'anarchitetto”. Sources: Pettena, Gianni. "L'an architetto : portrait of the artist as a young architect", Guaraldi, Florence, 1973, 57 pages. [1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/rub/rubauthors-316.html?authID=148 (last accessed 30 January 2020).
2001-2010
L'anarchitetto (1973)
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AP207.S3.SS01
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The sub-series documents the publication "L'anarchitetto”, written by Pettena and published by Guaraldi, in Florence, in 1973. The book consists of an essay in which Pettena describes himself as an "anarchitect" as he sees architecture more as a metaphor of the creative condition that starts with the intention of "making architecture" but ends up making art. He also states his refusal to "to recognize the borders between disciplines." [1] The sub-series contains pictures of Pettena's projects to be selected from for the book and scans of "L'anarchitetto”. Sources: Pettena, Gianni. "L'an architetto : portrait of the artist as a young architect", Guaraldi, Florence, 1973, 57 pages. [1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire website, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/rub/rubauthors-316.html?authID=148 (last accessed 30 January 2020).
Subseries
2001-2010