Project
AP207.S1.2017.PR02
Description:
The project series documents "Architecture Forgiven by Nature", an installation design by Pettena in 2017. The installation consists of an old water tower at the top of a hill in Brufa, covered with a metal grill. The intention is for plants to grow from the grill and hide the tower behind vegetation. The installation also included a staircase hidden behind the metal grill to give access to the top of the tower, so it could be used as a belvedere. "An additional function therefore joins the usual one, as nature helps to integrate a banal architecture into the landscape while also changing it into a place of consciousness and better understanding of both the environment and the art world." [1] The project is also known as "Torre di Brufa". The project series contains a drawing, printouts of digital renderings, plans of the structure surrounding the water tower, and video of Pettena showing the model of the tower. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-tower-in-brufa-2017/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
2006-2017
Architecture Forgiven by Nature (2017)
Actions:
AP207.S1.2017.PR02
Description:
The project series documents "Architecture Forgiven by Nature", an installation design by Pettena in 2017. The installation consists of an old water tower at the top of a hill in Brufa, covered with a metal grill. The intention is for plants to grow from the grill and hide the tower behind vegetation. The installation also included a staircase hidden behind the metal grill to give access to the top of the tower, so it could be used as a belvedere. "An additional function therefore joins the usual one, as nature helps to integrate a banal architecture into the landscape while also changing it into a place of consciousness and better understanding of both the environment and the art world." [1] The project is also known as "Torre di Brufa". The project series contains a drawing, printouts of digital renderings, plans of the structure surrounding the water tower, and video of Pettena showing the model of the tower. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-tower-in-brufa-2017/ (last accessed 28 January 2020)
Project
2006-2017
archives
Level of archival description:
Collection
AP172
Description:
The Mies in America Research Collection documents an exhibition and publication project produced by Curator and Architectural Historian, Phyllis Lambert (1927-), and associated researchers between 1996-2002. The project explored German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's (1886-1969) contributions to the American architectural landscape following his immigration from Germany to Chicago in 1938. The resulting book, a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was published in 2001. The exhibition ran from 2001-2002 with stops at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, (Montreal), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). The Mies in America research collection consists of correspondence, research, and administrative, manuscript, and curatorial files created by Phyllis Lambert and the project team for the book and exhibition project Mies in America, originally housed in the Mies research office at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Throughout the process, the team of researchers consulted previously unstudied material on Mies van der Rhoe from major repositories across North America, including drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews , which are represented in photocopy throughout the collection to document the research activities as well as curatorial choices and manuscript development. Subsequent curatorial decisions based on this research are detailed through notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and object lists as the book and exhibition projects took shape. Original annotations, edits, and comments made by Phyllis Lambert and her research associates are present throughout. The administrative activities of the research team are also documented through correspondence, research assistant assignments, research trips, and photography requests. Files from the assistant curator (Cammie McAtee), and research assistants (primarily Elspeth Cowell, Nathalie Senecal, and Deborah Miller) are integrated throughout the collection.
1957-2002
Mies in America Research Collection
Actions:
AP172
Description:
The Mies in America Research Collection documents an exhibition and publication project produced by Curator and Architectural Historian, Phyllis Lambert (1927-), and associated researchers between 1996-2002. The project explored German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's (1886-1969) contributions to the American architectural landscape following his immigration from Germany to Chicago in 1938. The resulting book, a collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art, was published in 2001. The exhibition ran from 2001-2002 with stops at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Canadian Centre for Architecture, (Montreal), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). The Mies in America research collection consists of correspondence, research, and administrative, manuscript, and curatorial files created by Phyllis Lambert and the project team for the book and exhibition project Mies in America, originally housed in the Mies research office at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Throughout the process, the team of researchers consulted previously unstudied material on Mies van der Rhoe from major repositories across North America, including drawings, collages, photographs, project documents, letters, and extensive interviews , which are represented in photocopy throughout the collection to document the research activities as well as curatorial choices and manuscript development. Subsequent curatorial decisions based on this research are detailed through notes, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and object lists as the book and exhibition projects took shape. Original annotations, edits, and comments made by Phyllis Lambert and her research associates are present throughout. The administrative activities of the research team are also documented through correspondence, research assistant assignments, research trips, and photography requests. Files from the assistant curator (Cammie McAtee), and research assistants (primarily Elspeth Cowell, Nathalie Senecal, and Deborah Miller) are integrated throughout the collection.
archives
Level of archival description:
Collection 172
1957-2002
Project
AP022.S1.1973.PR10
Description:
File documents a low-rise government office building on Block 61 of Robson Square. The complex includes a landscaped public courtyard, reataurants, conference and media centre, and a skating rink (built), Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains design development drawings, working drawings, shop drawings, textual records.
1973-1978
B.C. Government Services Complex, Robson Square
Actions:
AP022.S1.1973.PR10
Description:
File documents a low-rise government office building on Block 61 of Robson Square. The complex includes a landscaped public courtyard, reataurants, conference and media centre, and a skating rink (built), Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains design development drawings, working drawings, shop drawings, textual records.
Project
1973-1978
textual records
ARCH278467
Description:
File's title: A&H 2004 B.1. Conferencias/charlas (administración invitaciones) List of conferences, talks and/or seminars: - College of architecture and landscape architecture (Tucson, Arizona, United States); - Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, California, United States); - 40th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar (Helsinki, Finland); - Curso de Verano de Arquitectura (Almería, Spain); - III Encuentro de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisajismo tropical (San José, Costa Rica); - La Ciudad Azul, Instituto de Arquitectura tropical (San José, Costa Rica). The documents are in English and Spanish.
2003-2004, 2006
Mostly correspondence regarding conferences, talks and seminars given by Abalos & Herreros
Actions:
ARCH278467
Description:
File's title: A&H 2004 B.1. Conferencias/charlas (administración invitaciones) List of conferences, talks and/or seminars: - College of architecture and landscape architecture (Tucson, Arizona, United States); - Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, California, United States); - 40th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar (Helsinki, Finland); - Curso de Verano de Arquitectura (Almería, Spain); - III Encuentro de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Paisajismo tropical (San José, Costa Rica); - La Ciudad Azul, Instituto de Arquitectura tropical (San José, Costa Rica). The documents are in English and Spanish.
textual records
2003-2004, 2006
research
Visiting Scholars 2009
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
23 March 2009 to 30 October 2009
Visiting Scholars 2009
Actions:
Description:
Esra Akcan, University of Illinois, Chicago, United States Topic: Modernity in Translation: Geopolitical Interactions in Residential Culture Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States Topic: Julien-David LeRoy and the Making of Architectural History Christina Cogdell, College of Santa Fe, Gainesville, United States Topic: Emergent(...)
research
23 March 2009 to
30 October 2009
ARCH282077
Description:
Recording is a tour and discussion of Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Vancouver including a description of many of the plants. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's voice can be heard on the recording. The landscape architects of the garden are also present, Joe Wai and Donald Vaughan. At 00:41:41 the recording ends and the rest of the tape consists of a recording of CBC radio including an interview of Bruce Truan from Arthur Erickson Architects from "The Early Edition." The audio cassette label is inscribed "SUN YAT-SEN 3".
circa 1980s
Audio recording of a tour of Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Vancouver, Part 3
Actions:
ARCH282077
Description:
Recording is a tour and discussion of Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Vancouver including a description of many of the plants. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's voice can be heard on the recording. The landscape architects of the garden are also present, Joe Wai and Donald Vaughan. At 00:41:41 the recording ends and the rest of the tape consists of a recording of CBC radio including an interview of Bruce Truan from Arthur Erickson Architects from "The Early Edition." The audio cassette label is inscribed "SUN YAT-SEN 3".
circa 1980s
Project
Vancouver Civic Theatre
AP137.D3
Description:
File documents a performing arts centre comprised of a 2,800-seat auditorium, a 650-seat auditorium, underground parking, restaurant, and a paved and landscaped plaza. The complex was constructed with a concrete exterior and glass and aluminum curtain wall in Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation panels of photographs.
1958-1962
Vancouver Civic Theatre
Actions:
AP137.D3
Description:
File documents a performing arts centre comprised of a 2,800-seat auditorium, a 650-seat auditorium, underground parking, restaurant, and a paved and landscaped plaza. The complex was constructed with a concrete exterior and glass and aluminum curtain wall in Vancouver, British Columbia. File contains design development drawings, working drawings, and presentation panels of photographs.
File 3
1958-1962
Project
Unibad
AP144.S2.D107
Description:
File documents a consultancy project for the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, for site planning and phased improvements for the campus. The project delineates zones for landscaping, pedestrian and vehicular circulation patterns, passive and active recreation areas, and building types. A plan showing existing conditions also shows new construction and a phasing scheme. This plan has a plastic overlay and is mounted on a panel of press board, and was possibly used for presentation purposes. Existing conditions material includes panoramas of the campus (montages of photographs), and existing plans of the campus and surrounding area. Conceptual sketches are drawn on top of photocopied photographs of the campus in coloured crayon, and are annotated with notes by Price which address the landscaping and walkway embellishments intended to enhance the experience of circulating between buildings. Material in this file was produced in 1980. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, reference drawings, a panel, photographic materials, and textual records.
1980
Unibad
Actions:
AP144.S2.D107
Description:
File documents a consultancy project for the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, for site planning and phased improvements for the campus. The project delineates zones for landscaping, pedestrian and vehicular circulation patterns, passive and active recreation areas, and building types. A plan showing existing conditions also shows new construction and a phasing scheme. This plan has a plastic overlay and is mounted on a panel of press board, and was possibly used for presentation purposes. Existing conditions material includes panoramas of the campus (montages of photographs), and existing plans of the campus and surrounding area. Conceptual sketches are drawn on top of photocopied photographs of the campus in coloured crayon, and are annotated with notes by Price which address the landscaping and walkway embellishments intended to enhance the experience of circulating between buildings. Material in this file was produced in 1980. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, reference drawings, a panel, photographic materials, and textual records.
File 107
1980
textual records
ARCH257655
Description:
correspondence concerning heritage, brochures, AE sketches (originals and copies), memos, notes, correspondence, colour photographs of model, slides of landscapes (1990)
1979-1983
Correspondence concerning heritage, brochures, AE sketches
Actions:
ARCH257655
Description:
correspondence concerning heritage, brochures, AE sketches (originals and copies), memos, notes, correspondence, colour photographs of model, slides of landscapes (1990)
textual records
1979-1983
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
AP195
Synopsis:
The Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records, 1996-2015, consist of approximately 43,800 digital files that document the design and construction of an interactive science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Materials related to presentations, publications, events, and the press are also represented. Formats include chiefly CAD files, especially plotter files and AutoCAD drawings, though related text documents and images are also represented. The majority of the records date from 2000 to 2006.
1996 - 2015
Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records
Actions:
AP195
Synopsis:
The Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records, 1996-2015, consist of approximately 43,800 digital files that document the design and construction of an interactive science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Materials related to presentations, publications, events, and the press are also represented. Formats include chiefly CAD files, especially plotter files and AutoCAD drawings, though related text documents and images are also represented. The majority of the records date from 2000 to 2006.
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
1996 - 2015