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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.
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.
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1991-1994
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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.
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.
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1953-2018
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AP197.S3.011
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years of 2002-2014, organized in chronological order. 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. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various universities, architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Alvaro Siza; Mario Botta; Glenn Murcutt; Angelo Bucci; Kengo Kuma; Charles Correa; Rafael Moneo; Raj Rewal; Harry Wolf; Tadao Ando; and David Chipperfield. Correspondence relates to Frampton participation/involvement in: writing Richard Meier and Steven Holl essays for Electa Architecture and the Labor, Work and Architecture publication; in the Chinese translation of Studies in Tectonic Culture; in the International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement’s (do.co,mo.mo) "The Challenge of the Modern Movement;" lecturing at the Bard Graduate Center; providing the keynote address at the Architectural Association of Ireland Symposium; acting as a jury member for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
2002-2014
Personal and professional correspondence from 2002-2014
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AP197.S3.011
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years of 2002-2014, organized in chronological order. 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. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various universities, architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Alvaro Siza; Mario Botta; Glenn Murcutt; Angelo Bucci; Kengo Kuma; Charles Correa; Rafael Moneo; Raj Rewal; Harry Wolf; Tadao Ando; and David Chipperfield. Correspondence relates to Frampton participation/involvement in: writing Richard Meier and Steven Holl essays for Electa Architecture and the Labor, Work and Architecture publication; in the Chinese translation of Studies in Tectonic Culture; in the International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement’s (do.co,mo.mo) "The Challenge of the Modern Movement;" lecturing at the Bard Graduate Center; providing the keynote address at the Architectural Association of Ireland Symposium; acting as a jury member for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
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2002-2014
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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).
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2001-2010
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
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
1936-2021
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds
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AP075
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The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds documents Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect. It contains over 203 projects that span from 1950 to 2018 predominantly in Canada and in the United States, but also in Germany. The fonds is a complete record of Oberlander's work, and comprises her playground projects, roof gardens, and public space landscapes, as well as landscape designs for private residences, as well as administrative records from her practice, her professional engagements, and her research materials. The material in this fonds is dated from 1936 to 2021.
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1936-2021
DR1984:0704:001
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a book of poems accompanied by a lithographic sketch
1980
The Silent Witness and Other Poems
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DR1984:0704:001
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a book of poems accompanied by a lithographic sketch
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(...)
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AP197.S3.006
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years of 1995-1997, organized in chronological order. 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. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Thames and Hudson Ltd.; the Berlage Institute; the Italian Cultural Institute; Yukio Futagawa of GA/ADA Edita Tokyo Co CD; and the MIT Press. Correspondence relates to his participation/involvement in: the Michael Blackwood Production “In search of Louis Kahn: Six Buildings;” the Japanese and German translations for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; organizing lectures on Studies in tectonic Culture; the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture “Technology, Place & and Architecture;” teaching at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne; the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture; and the Architectural Society of China. Correspondence concerning the following publications and lectures is included: “the Megaform as City in Miniature;” “Critical regionalism revisited,” a lecture at the Berlage Institute; the Le Corbusier publication; “Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Christoph Mackler;” and the forward for Vittorio Gregotti`s Inside Architecture.
1995-1997
Personal and professional correspondence from 1995-1997
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AP197.S3.006
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The box is comprised of correspondence for the years of 1995-1997, organized in chronological order. 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. Throughout this period, Frampton corresponded with various architects, professors, publishers, and editors of various publications such as: Thames and Hudson Ltd.; the Berlage Institute; the Italian Cultural Institute; Yukio Futagawa of GA/ADA Edita Tokyo Co CD; and the MIT Press. Correspondence relates to his participation/involvement in: the Michael Blackwood Production “In search of Louis Kahn: Six Buildings;” the Japanese and German translations for the Studies in Tectonic Culture publication; organizing lectures on Studies in tectonic Culture; the Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture “Technology, Place & and Architecture;” teaching at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne; the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture; and the Architectural Society of China. Correspondence concerning the following publications and lectures is included: “the Megaform as City in Miniature;” “Critical regionalism revisited,” a lecture at the Berlage Institute; the Le Corbusier publication; “Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Christoph Mackler;” and the forward for Vittorio Gregotti`s Inside Architecture.
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1995-1997
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(...)
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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