textual records, born digital
ARCH257399
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box of floppy disks of projects S to Z : SANCST, Saskatoon Hospital, Songhees Townhouse, Vancouver Art Gallery, Suki's Hair Salon, Sikh Temple, SFU, Saudi Pavillon, Shetler Island, Shangai Culture and Art Centre, Singapour, Suzzalo Library, Washington University, Tanjong Batur, Taylor Bay, Teck Mining, 1300 West Georgia, TPS, Pender Street, Umm AL Qura UNiversity, Surrey Courthouse, Abu Nuwas, Vernon Museum Art Gallery, Wayland Development, Washington State University, Whistler Village, Woodland Park Zoo
Floppy disks of projects S to Z
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ARCH257399
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box of floppy disks of projects S to Z : SANCST, Saskatoon Hospital, Songhees Townhouse, Vancouver Art Gallery, Suki's Hair Salon, Sikh Temple, SFU, Saudi Pavillon, Shetler Island, Shangai Culture and Art Centre, Singapour, Suzzalo Library, Washington University, Tanjong Batur, Taylor Bay, Teck Mining, 1300 West Georgia, TPS, Pender Street, Umm AL Qura UNiversity, Surrey Courthouse, Abu Nuwas, Vernon Museum Art Gallery, Wayland Development, Washington State University, Whistler Village, Woodland Park Zoo
textual records, born digital
photographs
Harvard and its Surroundings
PH1979:0604
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This album comprises 102 pages of texts (descriptions of Harvard University and surroundings), a Key Plan of the vicinity of Harvard University, an Index, a List of Illustrations and an Introduction, 39 albertypes (collotypes, full pages), 28 engravings and 2 half-titles. The title page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription Edition. Published by Moses King, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.; a presentation page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription (fourth) edition by Moses King. Copiously illustrated with albertypes, and engravings. Cambridge. Moses King, Publisher, Harvard Square, 1882. Copyright, 1878, by Moses King. Copyright, 1880, by Charles W. Sever. Copyright, 1882, by Moses King. Designs by L.S. Ipsen; Sketches by H. M. Stephenson; University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. The illustrations are listed as follows: -Memorial Hall. - Dining Hall, Memorial Transept and Sanders Theatre -Harvard Hall. - Physical Laboratory and Lecture rooms -Massachusetts Hall. - Examinations Rooms -The Quadrance of Harvard College. Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Thayer -Matthews Hall. - Dormitory -Dane Hall. - Law School -Wadsworth, or Old Presidents' House. - Dormitory -Grays Hall. - Dormitory -Boylston Hall. - Chemical Laboratory -Gore Hall. - The Universityé Library -Weld Hall. - Dormitory -Old President's Chair -University Hall. - Administration and Lecture Rooms -Sever Hall. - Lectures, Recitations and Examinations -Thayer Hall. - Dormitory -Appleton Chapel. - University House of Worship -Holden Chapel (engraving) -Holworthy Hall. - Dormitory -Stoughton Hall. - Dormitory -Hollis Hall. - Dormitory -Holmes House (engraving) -Hemenway Gymnasium -Interior of the Harvard (Hemenway) Gymnasium -Society Hall (engraving) -Lawrence Scientific School. - Laboratories Lecture and Workrooms -Divinity Hall. - Lecture Room, Library and Dormitory -Memorial Hall Transept (engraving) -Memorial Dining Hall. - The Students' Commons -Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology -Museum of Comparative Zoology. - Natural History Collections -Plan of Oxford Street -The Old Gymnasium -University Boat Club House -The President's House. - Residence of the Executive Officer -Dana House (engraving) -Holyoke House. - Shops and Dormitory -College House. - Post Office, Shops and Dormitory -Botanic Garden and Herbarium -The Astronomical Observatory -The Old Medical School. - Lectures, Laboratories, Museums, etc. -The Harvard Medical School. The New Building -Dental School. - Lecture and Workrooms and Laboratory -Bussey Institution. - School of Horticulture and Agriculture -Harvard Surroundings (engraving) -Old Mile Stone (engraving) -Felton Building, - Dormitory -Beck Hall, - Dormitory -Old Cambridge Baptist Church (engraving) -Moses King's Harvard-Square Publishing House -Hasty Pudding Club House (sketch by Cabot and Chandler: Architects: Boston) -Little's Block. - Shops and Dormitory -First Parish Church (engraving) -Christ Church (engraving) -Soldiers' Monument (engraving) -Shepard Memorial Church (engraving) -Washington Elm (engraving) -Waterhouse House (engraving) -Elmwood (engraving) -Fayerweather House (engraving) -Lee House (engraving) -Riedesel House (engraving) -Washington's Head-quarters, or Longfellow's Home (engraving) -Protestant Episcopal Theological School of Massachusetts (engraving) -Vassal House (engraving) -Brattle House (engraving) -New CIty Building (engraving) -Hicks House (engraving) -St. Paul's Church (engraving) -University Press John Wilson & Son
architecture
1882
Harvard and its Surroundings
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PH1979:0604
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This album comprises 102 pages of texts (descriptions of Harvard University and surroundings), a Key Plan of the vicinity of Harvard University, an Index, a List of Illustrations and an Introduction, 39 albertypes (collotypes, full pages), 28 engravings and 2 half-titles. The title page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription Edition. Published by Moses King, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.; a presentation page: Harvard and its Surroundings. Subscription (fourth) edition by Moses King. Copiously illustrated with albertypes, and engravings. Cambridge. Moses King, Publisher, Harvard Square, 1882. Copyright, 1878, by Moses King. Copyright, 1880, by Charles W. Sever. Copyright, 1882, by Moses King. Designs by L.S. Ipsen; Sketches by H. M. Stephenson; University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. The illustrations are listed as follows: -Memorial Hall. - Dining Hall, Memorial Transept and Sanders Theatre -Harvard Hall. - Physical Laboratory and Lecture rooms -Massachusetts Hall. - Examinations Rooms -The Quadrance of Harvard College. Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Thayer -Matthews Hall. - Dormitory -Dane Hall. - Law School -Wadsworth, or Old Presidents' House. - Dormitory -Grays Hall. - Dormitory -Boylston Hall. - Chemical Laboratory -Gore Hall. - The Universityé Library -Weld Hall. - Dormitory -Old President's Chair -University Hall. - Administration and Lecture Rooms -Sever Hall. - Lectures, Recitations and Examinations -Thayer Hall. - Dormitory -Appleton Chapel. - University House of Worship -Holden Chapel (engraving) -Holworthy Hall. - Dormitory -Stoughton Hall. - Dormitory -Hollis Hall. - Dormitory -Holmes House (engraving) -Hemenway Gymnasium -Interior of the Harvard (Hemenway) Gymnasium -Society Hall (engraving) -Lawrence Scientific School. - Laboratories Lecture and Workrooms -Divinity Hall. - Lecture Room, Library and Dormitory -Memorial Hall Transept (engraving) -Memorial Dining Hall. - The Students' Commons -Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology -Museum of Comparative Zoology. - Natural History Collections -Plan of Oxford Street -The Old Gymnasium -University Boat Club House -The President's House. - Residence of the Executive Officer -Dana House (engraving) -Holyoke House. - Shops and Dormitory -College House. - Post Office, Shops and Dormitory -Botanic Garden and Herbarium -The Astronomical Observatory -The Old Medical School. - Lectures, Laboratories, Museums, etc. -The Harvard Medical School. The New Building -Dental School. - Lecture and Workrooms and Laboratory -Bussey Institution. - School of Horticulture and Agriculture -Harvard Surroundings (engraving) -Old Mile Stone (engraving) -Felton Building, - Dormitory -Beck Hall, - Dormitory -Old Cambridge Baptist Church (engraving) -Moses King's Harvard-Square Publishing House -Hasty Pudding Club House (sketch by Cabot and Chandler: Architects: Boston) -Little's Block. - Shops and Dormitory -First Parish Church (engraving) -Christ Church (engraving) -Soldiers' Monument (engraving) -Shepard Memorial Church (engraving) -Washington Elm (engraving) -Waterhouse House (engraving) -Elmwood (engraving) -Fayerweather House (engraving) -Lee House (engraving) -Riedesel House (engraving) -Washington's Head-quarters, or Longfellow's Home (engraving) -Protestant Episcopal Theological School of Massachusetts (engraving) -Vassal House (engraving) -Brattle House (engraving) -New CIty Building (engraving) -Hicks House (engraving) -St. Paul's Church (engraving) -University Press John Wilson & Son
photographs
1882
architecture
*Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988* explores how American architect and writer Peter Eisenman questioned the concept of “site,” and demonstrates the importance of drawing and modelmaking in generating his ideas. The exhibition reveals the richness and complexity of the design process by looking carefully at Eisenman’s drawings and(...)
Main galleries
2 March 1994 to 19 June 1994
Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988
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*Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Work of Peter Eisenman, 1978–1988* explores how American architect and writer Peter Eisenman questioned the concept of “site,” and demonstrates the importance of drawing and modelmaking in generating his ideas. The exhibition reveals the richness and complexity of the design process by looking carefully at Eisenman’s drawings and(...)
Main galleries
archives
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Fonds
AP167
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The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
1995-2013
ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records
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AP167
Synopsis:
The ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] NSA Muscle project records, 1995-2013, contain approximately 5,000 digital working files for the NSA Muscle, a built prototype commissioned for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 2003. The NSA Muscle is a programmable structure that changes its shape and content in real time. The records are entirely digital, and include administrative files, CAD files, Virtools files, publicity materials and photographs. They document the planning, design development, construction and exhibition of the NSA Muscle and related projects.
archives
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Fonds
1995-2013
PH1979:0601
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This 398 page album comprises a preface, index, 24 photographs and 1 lithographed map. It shows exterior and interior views of buildings and monuments of Bristol, England. Title page reads: A Book about Bristol; Historical, ecclesiastical, and biographical, from original research by John Taylor, Librarian of the Bristol Museum and Library. Author of "A Guide to Clifton," "Tintern Abbey and its Founders", etc. London : Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Row, Bristol: Thomas Kerslake & Co., Queen's Road; William George, 26 Park Street, 1872.
architecture
1872
A Book about Bristol; Historical, ecclesiastical, and biographical, from original research
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PH1979:0601
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This 398 page album comprises a preface, index, 24 photographs and 1 lithographed map. It shows exterior and interior views of buildings and monuments of Bristol, England. Title page reads: A Book about Bristol; Historical, ecclesiastical, and biographical, from original research by John Taylor, Librarian of the Bristol Museum and Library. Author of "A Guide to Clifton," "Tintern Abbey and its Founders", etc. London : Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Row, Bristol: Thomas Kerslake & Co., Queen's Road; William George, 26 Park Street, 1872.
1872
architecture
textual records
Periodicals and booklets
ARCH186578
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periodicals and booklets - The Seigneur (summer 1961), Massey Medals for Architecture 1964, The Architectural Review (article on Expo 67, August, 1967), Architecture Canada (articles on National Arts Centre and Expo Theme Pavilions, April and May, 1969), Heavy Construction News (article by Desbarats, September, 1972), Stelco Trend/ Stelco Tendances (article on Canadian National Aviation Museum, c.1986), The Canadian Architect (article on John Bland and the McGill School of Architecture, March, 1988), DOCOMOMO Québec Bulletin (article on the Pavillon du lac aux Castors, hiver 1994)
1961 - 1994
Periodicals and booklets
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ARCH186578
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periodicals and booklets - The Seigneur (summer 1961), Massey Medals for Architecture 1964, The Architectural Review (article on Expo 67, August, 1967), Architecture Canada (articles on National Arts Centre and Expo Theme Pavilions, April and May, 1969), Heavy Construction News (article by Desbarats, September, 1972), Stelco Trend/ Stelco Tendances (article on Canadian National Aviation Museum, c.1986), The Canadian Architect (article on John Bland and the McGill School of Architecture, March, 1988), DOCOMOMO Québec Bulletin (article on the Pavillon du lac aux Castors, hiver 1994)
textual records
1961 - 1994
textual records
ARCH256984
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Offer of services and Permanent Files - Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Upland Development of Pier B.C, Wadi Sagra Circle Project (Amman, Jordan), Bratish Columbia Place, Lethbridge Hospital and Nursing Home, Nothwest Territories Pavilion at Expo '86, Chirimena Tourist Development Plan (Venezuela), Islamic University of Medina, Lincoln Park, Tumbler Ridge Town Planning, Centro Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), Fraser Valley College (Abbotsford Campus), Alert Station Design, Lake Louise Visitors Service Centre (Banff), Kuwait News Agency, Architecture Building (Washington)
1975-1984
Offer of services and permanent files for various projects
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ARCH256984
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Offer of services and Permanent Files - Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Upland Development of Pier B.C, Wadi Sagra Circle Project (Amman, Jordan), Bratish Columbia Place, Lethbridge Hospital and Nursing Home, Nothwest Territories Pavilion at Expo '86, Chirimena Tourist Development Plan (Venezuela), Islamic University of Medina, Lincoln Park, Tumbler Ridge Town Planning, Centro Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), Fraser Valley College (Abbotsford Campus), Alert Station Design, Lake Louise Visitors Service Centre (Banff), Kuwait News Agency, Architecture Building (Washington)
textual records
1975-1984
photographs
ARCH269550
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Group consists of photographs of various buildings in Chandigarh, India, including a photograph of the Shop-Cum-Flats II in sector 22, the Hospital for animals by Jeet Malhotra near Chandigarh and the Servants quarters attached to the Chandigarh Club in an unidentified sector by Jeet Malhotra. There group also includes photographs of the Museum and Art Gallery (in construction) by Le Corbusier in sector 10, photographs of the Architects office in sector 19 and photographs of the Medical Research Institute (Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research) in sector 12.
ca. 1955-1965
Photographs of various buildings in Chandigarh, India
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ARCH269550
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Group consists of photographs of various buildings in Chandigarh, India, including a photograph of the Shop-Cum-Flats II in sector 22, the Hospital for animals by Jeet Malhotra near Chandigarh and the Servants quarters attached to the Chandigarh Club in an unidentified sector by Jeet Malhotra. There group also includes photographs of the Museum and Art Gallery (in construction) by Le Corbusier in sector 10, photographs of the Architects office in sector 19 and photographs of the Medical Research Institute (Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research) in sector 12.
photographs
ca. 1955-1965
drawings, textual records
AP018.S1.1969.PR01.044
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This is a box of correspondence on possible benefactors, a museum location report, documentation on the opening of Stage I, project summaries and proposals, press kit materials, correspondence with Henry Moore, meeting minutes, design notes and calculations for Areas B and C, correspondence and reports on Phase 3, and drawings of graphics and signs for the gallery. It should be noted that these materials span the scope of multiple Art Gallery of Ontario projects completed by Parkin Architects Planners. They have been left together here to reflect their original order and context.
1968-1986
Project documentation, Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Stage I Expansion, Toronto
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AP018.S1.1969.PR01.044
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This is a box of correspondence on possible benefactors, a museum location report, documentation on the opening of Stage I, project summaries and proposals, press kit materials, correspondence with Henry Moore, meeting minutes, design notes and calculations for Areas B and C, correspondence and reports on Phase 3, and drawings of graphics and signs for the gallery. It should be noted that these materials span the scope of multiple Art Gallery of Ontario projects completed by Parkin Architects Planners. They have been left together here to reflect their original order and context.
drawings, textual records
1968-1986
According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room