Project
AP018.S1.1962.PR04
Description:
This project series documents the design of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Centre in Toronto in 1962. The office identified the project number as 6266. This project consisted of designs for the now famous modernist building complex, the Toronto-Dominion Centre. The design of the Toronto-Dominion Centre is almost wholly credited to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Originally, firms John B. Parkin Associates in joint venture with Bregman + Hamann had designed the Centre, but their designs were criticized and eventually van der Rohe was brought on as the design consulting architect for design, while the other firms still acted as primary architects. This project consisted of early designs for the project. The project is recorded through reprographic copies of floor plans, site plans and elevations dating from 1962-1963.
1963
Toronto-Dominion Bank Centre, Toronto (1962)
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AP018.S1.1962.PR04
Description:
This project series documents the design of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Centre in Toronto in 1962. The office identified the project number as 6266. This project consisted of designs for the now famous modernist building complex, the Toronto-Dominion Centre. The design of the Toronto-Dominion Centre is almost wholly credited to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Originally, firms John B. Parkin Associates in joint venture with Bregman + Hamann had designed the Centre, but their designs were criticized and eventually van der Rohe was brought on as the design consulting architect for design, while the other firms still acted as primary architects. This project consisted of early designs for the project. The project is recorded through reprographic copies of floor plans, site plans and elevations dating from 1962-1963.
Project
1963
photographs
ARCH268727
Description:
Contains photographic materials related to various architects, like Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Rem Koolhaas, Mies van der Rohe, Jean Nouvel, I.M. Pei, Renzo Piano, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bernard Tschumi, Federico Soriano and Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza. Includes as well 2 textual records.
n.d.
Ring binder with photographic materials related to various architects
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ARCH268727
Description:
Contains photographic materials related to various architects, like Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Rem Koolhaas, Mies van der Rohe, Jean Nouvel, I.M. Pei, Renzo Piano, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Bernard Tschumi, Federico Soriano and Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza. Includes as well 2 textual records.
photographs
n.d.
drawings, textual records
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57 textual record(s) and reprographic copy(ies)
DR1997:0070:001-057
Description:
- Danforth's thesis included a written component. Danforth researched the history, function and program of the museum, modern art gallery or exhibition hall, taking suggestions from Mies van der Rohe and Walter Peterhans about which ones he should examine. The group of documents includes an incomplete draft of Danforth's written text, as well as research notes and illustrations of museums/exhibition spaces by architects including Schinkel (Altes Museum, Berlin), Le Corbusier (Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux, Paris and Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Henry van de Velde, and H.P. Berlage.
architecture, installation
1940-1943
Research notes, draft text, and illustrations for a graduate thesis for a small museum, Department of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
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DR1997:0070:001-057
Description:
- Danforth's thesis included a written component. Danforth researched the history, function and program of the museum, modern art gallery or exhibition hall, taking suggestions from Mies van der Rohe and Walter Peterhans about which ones he should examine. The group of documents includes an incomplete draft of Danforth's written text, as well as research notes and illustrations of museums/exhibition spaces by architects including Schinkel (Altes Museum, Berlin), Le Corbusier (Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux, Paris and Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Henry van de Velde, and H.P. Berlage.
drawings, textual records
Quantity:
57 textual record(s) and reprographic copy(ies)
1940-1943
architecture, installation
textual records, photographs
AP197.S2.032
Description:
The box contains various research files organized by either author's last name or subject in alphabetical order, from U- W. The main sections in this box comprise of writings that relate to Jørn Utzon, Mies dan ver Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Photographs illustrate the works of Mies van der Rohe.
1962-2015
Research files organized by author's last name or subject from U- W
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AP197.S2.032
Description:
The box contains various research files organized by either author's last name or subject in alphabetical order, from U- W. The main sections in this box comprise of writings that relate to Jørn Utzon, Mies dan ver Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Photographs illustrate the works of Mies van der Rohe.
textual records, photographs
1962-2015
textual records
Notes on Farnsworth house
ARCH255651
Description:
3 envelopes: Goldsmith notes on Farnsworth house construction, notes of his conversation with Mies about the project; Farnsworth house construction photographs c. 1946-1950 by Myron Goldsmith, 1 by Mies van der Rohe; Farnsworth slides construction later, some duplicates
Notes on Farnsworth house
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ARCH255651
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3 envelopes: Goldsmith notes on Farnsworth house construction, notes of his conversation with Mies about the project; Farnsworth house construction photographs c. 1946-1950 by Myron Goldsmith, 1 by Mies van der Rohe; Farnsworth slides construction later, some duplicates
textual records
Series
AP032.S3
Description:
This series consists of papers concerning Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture at I.I.T. and a visiting teacher at Harvard University. The papers include many of his lectures and talks, as well as correspondence and papers related to his participation with committees studying education and his involvement with the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project. Also included in this series are a collection of over 300 graduate student papers and master theses, for which many Goldsmith was advisor.
1950-1996
Professional Activities - Teaching
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AP032.S3
Description:
This series consists of papers concerning Goldsmith's career as a professor of architecture at I.I.T. and a visiting teacher at Harvard University. The papers include many of his lectures and talks, as well as correspondence and papers related to his participation with committees studying education and his involvement with the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project. Also included in this series are a collection of over 300 graduate student papers and master theses, for which many Goldsmith was advisor.
Series 3
1950-1996
archives
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Fonds
Reginald Malcolmson fonds
AP150
Synopsis:
The Reginald Malcolmson fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Reginald Francis Malcolmson. It pertains to his work as architectural student, and to the architectural and urban planning projects by Reginald Malcolmson, working alone and on behalf of other architectural firms. It also pertains to Malcolmson's role as author and to his involvement in exhibitions.
1933-1992
Reginald Malcolmson fonds
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AP150
Synopsis:
The Reginald Malcolmson fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architect Reginald Francis Malcolmson. It pertains to his work as architectural student, and to the architectural and urban planning projects by Reginald Malcolmson, working alone and on behalf of other architectural firms. It also pertains to Malcolmson's role as author and to his involvement in exhibitions.
archives
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Fonds
1933-1992
DR1994:0012
Description:
- These sketch elevations for a Court House and the sketches for conchoidal chairs are apparently unrelated. The court house sketches are for an unidentified project. One of the elevations which shows a wall built along the grade of the hill, is reminiscent of Mountain House which was designed by Mies in 1934 while he was still in Germany. Mountain House also deals with the problem of relating the building to a hillside (see drawings D1994:0006:001-009).
architecture, interior design
ca. 1947
Sketches for conchoidal chairs without arms and sketch elevations for a Court House, possibly after Mountain House
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DR1994:0012
Description:
- These sketch elevations for a Court House and the sketches for conchoidal chairs are apparently unrelated. The court house sketches are for an unidentified project. One of the elevations which shows a wall built along the grade of the hill, is reminiscent of Mountain House which was designed by Mies in 1934 while he was still in Germany. Mountain House also deals with the problem of relating the building to a hillside (see drawings D1994:0006:001-009).
architecture, interior design
Seagram Plaza
The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis of calm, distant from the commotion and turbulence of the street. The way in which the plaza has been adopted by New Yorkers(...)
Hall cases
1 May 2013 to 18 August 2013
Seagram Plaza
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The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis of calm, distant from the commotion and turbulence of the street. The way in which the plaza has been adopted by New Yorkers(...)
Hall cases
Sub-series
Student Drawings
AP032.S1.SS1.D3.SD1
Description:
Sketch studies by Goldsmith executed in Mies van der Rohe's class, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago: The subjects include farm and vernacular buildings, and studies for golf and country club houses. Included are lecture notes, correspondence, and a scholarship form. Note: Individual titles for some of the drawings were assigned during preparation of the CCA exhibition "Myron Goldsmith, Poet of Structure", 1991.
1938-1939
Student Drawings
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AP032.S1.SS1.D3.SD1
Description:
Sketch studies by Goldsmith executed in Mies van der Rohe's class, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago: The subjects include farm and vernacular buildings, and studies for golf and country club houses. Included are lecture notes, correspondence, and a scholarship form. Note: Individual titles for some of the drawings were assigned during preparation of the CCA exhibition "Myron Goldsmith, Poet of Structure", 1991.
Sub-file 1
1938-1939