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AP074
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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds contains photographs dating from about 1947, of a house project in West Vancouver which Chard Wisnicki, the first female graduate of the McGill School of Architecture, was assistant architect. The fonds also contains a videocassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki from 1995, and one textual document from 1997.
[ca. 1947], 1995, 1997
Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds
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AP074
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The Catherine Chard Wisnicki fonds contains photographs dating from about 1947, of a house project in West Vancouver which Chard Wisnicki, the first female graduate of the McGill School of Architecture, was assistant architect. The fonds also contains a videocassette recording of an interview with Chard Wisnicki from 1995, and one textual document from 1997.
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[ca. 1947], 1995, 1997
Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
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Academic work and interviews
AP207.S4
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The series documents Pettena’s academic work and his activities as an architecture critic from the 1970s to the mid 2010s. It documents Pettena’s teaching, including his work as professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Florence from 1973 to 2008, but also as professor of Design at California State University. It also includes materials related to lectures and conferences he gave either on his work or on subjects he studied, including lectures for the Domus Academy in 1993. The series also documents interviews he gave during his career to promote his projects, his exhibitions or publications, as well as for publications and exhibitions on him and his work. The series contains administrative material related to Pettena’s work as a professor, chiefly at the University of Florence, such as correspondence and course syllabi. The series also includes Pettena’s teaching material, such as notes and reference material, and photocopies of reading assignments for courses. This series also contains a large collection of reference slides, predominantly on contemporary architecture and design and on architects, such as Ettore Sottsass Sr. and Jr., Hans Hollein, Alessandro Mendini, Carlo Scarpa, Oscar Niemeyer, Buckminster Fuller, and Studio Alchimia, as well as on contemporary artistic movements. Also included is student work, such as student theses from University of Florence and one thesis from a student at the California State University. The series also contains materials related to Pettena’s lectures, including correspondence, presentation texts, and promotional material for lectures, seminars and courses. Finally, the series includes material from Pettena’s interviews, such as interview transcripts, copies of published interviews, and audio and video recordings of interviews.
circa 1970-2015
Academic work and interviews
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AP207.S4
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The series documents Pettena’s academic work and his activities as an architecture critic from the 1970s to the mid 2010s. It documents Pettena’s teaching, including his work as professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Florence from 1973 to 2008, but also as professor of Design at California State University. It also includes materials related to lectures and conferences he gave either on his work or on subjects he studied, including lectures for the Domus Academy in 1993. The series also documents interviews he gave during his career to promote his projects, his exhibitions or publications, as well as for publications and exhibitions on him and his work. The series contains administrative material related to Pettena’s work as a professor, chiefly at the University of Florence, such as correspondence and course syllabi. The series also includes Pettena’s teaching material, such as notes and reference material, and photocopies of reading assignments for courses. This series also contains a large collection of reference slides, predominantly on contemporary architecture and design and on architects, such as Ettore Sottsass Sr. and Jr., Hans Hollein, Alessandro Mendini, Carlo Scarpa, Oscar Niemeyer, Buckminster Fuller, and Studio Alchimia, as well as on contemporary artistic movements. Also included is student work, such as student theses from University of Florence and one thesis from a student at the California State University. The series also contains materials related to Pettena’s lectures, including correspondence, presentation texts, and promotional material for lectures, seminars and courses. Finally, the series includes material from Pettena’s interviews, such as interview transcripts, copies of published interviews, and audio and video recordings of interviews.
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circa 1970-2015
research
Visiting Scholars 2010
Nicholas Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States Topic: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court Extension, Göteborg (1934-1938) Frederick Bohrer, Hood College, Frederick, United States Topic: Photography, Architecture, Archaeology: The Image as Object Enrico Chapel, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Topic: Le(...)
9 March 2010 to 15 August 2010
Visiting Scholars 2010
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Nicholas Adams, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, United States Topic: Being Modern, Being Swedish: Gunnar Asplund’s Law Court Extension, Göteborg (1934-1938) Frederick Bohrer, Hood College, Frederick, United States Topic: Photography, Architecture, Archaeology: The Image as Object Enrico Chapel, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Toulouse, France Topic: Le(...)
research
9 March 2010 to
15 August 2010
research
Visiting Scholars 2000–2001
Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Oliver Botar, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Topic: On Biocentrism and Modernism in Weimar German Architecture and Art Fabrizio Nevola, School of Architecture, Syracuse University Florence, Italy Topic: Siena, 1450-1520: From ‘Medieval’ to ‘Renaissance’ City Alessandra(...)
September 2000 to August 2001
Visiting Scholars 2000–2001
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Theme: The Phenomenon of Paradigm Shifts in Architecture since Antiquity: Oliver Botar, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Topic: On Biocentrism and Modernism in Weimar German Architecture and Art Fabrizio Nevola, School of Architecture, Syracuse University Florence, Italy Topic: Siena, 1450-1520: From ‘Medieval’ to ‘Renaissance’ City Alessandra(...)
research
September 2000 to
August 2001
articles
Near Documentary
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Jeff Wall, conversation, oral history
5 June 2023
research
Visiting Scholars 1997–1998
Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Barbara Arciszewska, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Topic: Continental Baroque and the Emergence of Palladianism in England Hugh Cullum, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Cullum and Nightingale Architects, London, United Kingdom Topic: On the Ducal Palace La Venaria Reale near Turin and(...)
September 1997 to August 1998
Visiting Scholars 1997–1998
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Theme: The Baroque Phenomenon beyond Rome Barbara Arciszewska, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States Topic: Continental Baroque and the Emergence of Palladianism in England Hugh Cullum, School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Cullum and Nightingale Architects, London, United Kingdom Topic: On the Ducal Palace La Venaria Reale near Turin and(...)
research
September 1997 to
August 1998
research
Visiting Scholars 2005
Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
3 January 2005 to 30 September 2005
Visiting Scholars 2005
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Paolo Amaldi, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium Topic: Analyse du rapport entre espace architectural et instrument de représentation dans l’oeuvre de Mies van der Rohe Jean-François Bédard, Paris Program, Columbia University, New York, United States Topic: Honnêteté and the Grotesque: a Study of the Album by Gilles-Marie Oppenord(...)
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3 January 2005 to
30 September 2005
textual records
ARCH153526
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Minutes of the Exhibition Program meetings Budgets Exhibition Program Calendars Correspondence with curators, writers, Max Protetch Gallery, etc. October status report Newspaper clippings Correspondence with Skyline subscribers Contracts with Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. Grant Application to the NEA for Californian exhibition Folder : Austrian Wave ; correspondence with Austrian architects Unlabelled folder : correspondence relating to most exhibitions including budgets, grant application, schedules, newspaper clippings Folder containing personal correspondence to PDE, 1975-1976 Envelope containing typewritten texts relating to Philip Johnson's catalogue - Kenneth Frampton : AT&T Headquarters, New York - Kenneth Frampton : The Glass House Revisited - 9 pages of correspondence between Philip Johnson & J.J.P. Oud - Peter Eisenman : Acknowledgments - Philip Johnson : History, Genealogy, Historicism - 1 text by Giorgio Ciucci (no title) - Catalogue "Another Chance for Housing…", 1973.
1973-1982
D. Programmes and Publications, 1977-1982: 2. Exhibitions and Catalogues
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ARCH153526
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Minutes of the Exhibition Program meetings Budgets Exhibition Program Calendars Correspondence with curators, writers, Max Protetch Gallery, etc. October status report Newspaper clippings Correspondence with Skyline subscribers Contracts with Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. Grant Application to the NEA for Californian exhibition Folder : Austrian Wave ; correspondence with Austrian architects Unlabelled folder : correspondence relating to most exhibitions including budgets, grant application, schedules, newspaper clippings Folder containing personal correspondence to PDE, 1975-1976 Envelope containing typewritten texts relating to Philip Johnson's catalogue - Kenneth Frampton : AT&T Headquarters, New York - Kenneth Frampton : The Glass House Revisited - 9 pages of correspondence between Philip Johnson & J.J.P. Oud - Peter Eisenman : Acknowledgments - Philip Johnson : History, Genealogy, Historicism - 1 text by Giorgio Ciucci (no title) - Catalogue "Another Chance for Housing…", 1973.
textual records
1973-1982
photographs
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3 file
Miscellaneous Images
ARCH242868
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Miscellaneous Images: Misc. Photos to be Returned (Cesar Pelli & Associates sketch of 10 Columbus Circle, Richard Meier model for Berlin Office Building, J.P. Kleihues detail of Museum of Pre- and Early- History, Frankfurt Miscellaneous Artists (including Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Sarah Rothe, and architecture and film stills) Kipnis (clippings of various articles by Herbert Muschamp)
Miscellaneous Images
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ARCH242868
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Miscellaneous Images: Misc. Photos to be Returned (Cesar Pelli & Associates sketch of 10 Columbus Circle, Richard Meier model for Berlin Office Building, J.P. Kleihues detail of Museum of Pre- and Early- History, Frankfurt Miscellaneous Artists (including Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Sarah Rothe, and architecture and film stills) Kipnis (clippings of various articles by Herbert Muschamp)
photographs
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3 file