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Current Events Files
AP032.S6.D1
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A collection of current events and personal interest files concerning U.S. politics, civil rights, Jewish groups, Chernobyl Russia, Israel, Poland, Feminism and the Gulf War. Also numerous files marked "unsorted" which contain articles on the above topics as well as architecture and engineering, and also include some correspondence, notes, memos and postcards. Most of the material consists of newspaper and periodical clippings.
1986-1990
Current Events Files
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AP032.S6.D1
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A collection of current events and personal interest files concerning U.S. politics, civil rights, Jewish groups, Chernobyl Russia, Israel, Poland, Feminism and the Gulf War. Also numerous files marked "unsorted" which contain articles on the above topics as well as architecture and engineering, and also include some correspondence, notes, memos and postcards. Most of the material consists of newspaper and periodical clippings.
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1986-1990
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Building a new New World with Jean-Louis Cohen
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Join us for a conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen about his new work on how the world is shaped by the flow of ideas across countries and cultures.
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Bruno Taut
AP162.S8
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Series documents the contribution of architect Bruno Taut to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Bruno Taut participated under the pseudonym Glas. Born in 1880 in Königsberg, Germany, Bruno Taut studied architecture at the Bauwerkschule in Königsberg. After working in architectural firms from 1903 to 1909, he worked in partnership with Franz Hoffman and later with his brother Max Taut. Bruno Taut undertook various architectural projects including housing projects, public commissions, and later projects for universities and schools. In 1918, he founded the Arbeisrat für Kunst, a union of architects, painters, writers and other artists based in Berlin and dedicated to bring architectural and artisit tendencies of the time to a broader public. This union also involved some members of the Die gläserne Kette circle. Between 1920 and 1921, Bruno Taut was editor to the magazine "Frühlich". He taught architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1930 to 1932, and undertook a working visit in Russia in 1932 to 1933. After spending time in Japan between 1933 and 1936 due to enforced emigration, he taught at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul. He died in Istanbul in 1938. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) This series comprises part of Bruno Taut's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and documents. The series also includes photographic materials of some of his architectural projects.
between 1919 and 1920
Bruno Taut
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AP162.S8
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Series documents the contribution of architect Bruno Taut to the correspondence circle of Die gläserne Kette. Bruno Taut participated under the pseudonym Glas. Born in 1880 in Königsberg, Germany, Bruno Taut studied architecture at the Bauwerkschule in Königsberg. After working in architectural firms from 1903 to 1909, he worked in partnership with Franz Hoffman and later with his brother Max Taut. Bruno Taut undertook various architectural projects including housing projects, public commissions, and later projects for universities and schools. In 1918, he founded the Arbeisrat für Kunst, a union of architects, painters, writers and other artists based in Berlin and dedicated to bring architectural and artisit tendencies of the time to a broader public. This union also involved some members of the Die gläserne Kette circle. Between 1920 and 1921, Bruno Taut was editor to the magazine "Frühlich". He taught architecture at the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1930 to 1932, and undertook a working visit in Russia in 1932 to 1933. After spending time in Japan between 1933 and 1936 due to enforced emigration, he taught at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul. He died in Istanbul in 1938. (Source: Ian Boyd Whyte, Bruno Taut and the Architecture of Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) This series comprises part of Bruno Taut's correspondence to the Die gläserne Kette circle, along with related drawings and documents. The series also includes photographic materials of some of his architectural projects.
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between 1919 and 1920
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Joseph Rykwert fonds
AP209
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The Joseph Rykwert fonds, 1928-2022, documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an architectural historian, author and professor. The fonds includes the records for over a dozen monographs written between the mid-1960s and the mid-2010s as well as edited works and articles, and details his teaching and lecturing activities from the 1960s onwards in universities in Europe and the United States. The records highlight Joseph Rykwert’s multidisciplinary approach, which involved archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis in his study of the history and theory of architecture and of the urban form. The fonds is composed of textual records, publications and ephemera, and of photographs including multiple albums and a large number of slides; the fonds also documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an independent designer through drawings realized between the late 1940s and the late 1970s.
1928-2022
Joseph Rykwert fonds
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The Joseph Rykwert fonds, 1928-2022, documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an architectural historian, author and professor. The fonds includes the records for over a dozen monographs written between the mid-1960s and the mid-2010s as well as edited works and articles, and details his teaching and lecturing activities from the 1960s onwards in universities in Europe and the United States. The records highlight Joseph Rykwert’s multidisciplinary approach, which involved archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis in his study of the history and theory of architecture and of the urban form. The fonds is composed of textual records, publications and ephemera, and of photographs including multiple albums and a large number of slides; the fonds also documents Joseph Rykwert’s career as an independent designer through drawings realized between the late 1940s and the late 1970s.
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1928-2022
textual records
ARCH153533
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Kenneth Frampton's proposal for an Oppositions Book, December 3, 1981 Manuscript by Vincent Scully on Aldo Rossi: "Postcript: The Life of Forms" Folder Oppositions Books : - Memos from Joan Ockman (1981) - Correspondence with MIT Press - Proposed draft of a letter to Roger Conover MIT Press - Publication schedule October 1981- October 1983 - Agenda & minutes of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting (1981) - 2 MIT Press catalogue, Fall 1981 - Description of Colquhoun's and Rossi's book projects - Fund raising documents. Loose documents : - Letters from Espacio editora (Spain), Dec. 1980 - Agenda for Editors meeting, 25 Nov. 1980 & 24 Feb. 1981 - Letters by Lindsay Stamm Shapiro, Managing Editor - Budget of Rossi's book - Letters from the Graham Foundation, spring 1981 Folder Oppositions Books - Grant Applications : - Application Grant to the Graham Foundation, Dec. 15, 1980 Loose documents : - Agenda of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting, 27 September 1980 - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (Polano, Isozaki, etc. - Translation sample of Rossi's Scientific Autobiography Folder Oppositions Books : - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (1979-1980) - Correspondence of PDE (Bill Hubbard, reproduction rights) - Anatole Senkevitch, translation of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Sample translation of Ginzburg's book - Photocopy of the Russian edition of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Letters of agreements - Correspondence with Kenner Printing Co. - Diane Ghirardo: translation bills (1971) - Prospective Series of Oppositions Books with budget MIT Press catalogue Fall 1979
1971-1983
D. Programmes and Publications, 1978-1981: 5. Oppositions Books
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Kenneth Frampton's proposal for an Oppositions Book, December 3, 1981 Manuscript by Vincent Scully on Aldo Rossi: "Postcript: The Life of Forms" Folder Oppositions Books : - Memos from Joan Ockman (1981) - Correspondence with MIT Press - Proposed draft of a letter to Roger Conover MIT Press - Publication schedule October 1981- October 1983 - Agenda & minutes of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting (1981) - 2 MIT Press catalogue, Fall 1981 - Description of Colquhoun's and Rossi's book projects - Fund raising documents. Loose documents : - Letters from Espacio editora (Spain), Dec. 1980 - Agenda for Editors meeting, 25 Nov. 1980 & 24 Feb. 1981 - Letters by Lindsay Stamm Shapiro, Managing Editor - Budget of Rossi's book - Letters from the Graham Foundation, spring 1981 Folder Oppositions Books - Grant Applications : - Application Grant to the Graham Foundation, Dec. 15, 1980 Loose documents : - Agenda of Oppositions Books Editorial Meeting, 27 September 1980 - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (Polano, Isozaki, etc. - Translation sample of Rossi's Scientific Autobiography Folder Oppositions Books : - Correspondence of Lindsay Stamm Shapiro (1979-1980) - Correspondence of PDE (Bill Hubbard, reproduction rights) - Anatole Senkevitch, translation of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Sample translation of Ginzburg's book - Photocopy of the Russian edition of Moisei Ginzburg's book - Letters of agreements - Correspondence with Kenner Printing Co. - Diane Ghirardo: translation bills (1971) - Prospective Series of Oppositions Books with budget MIT Press catalogue Fall 1979
textual records
1971-1983
DR1974:0002:010:001-048
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- This album contains original designs - mostly preliminary drawings - by Charles and possibly Hubert Rohault de Fleury for theatres and miscellaneous projects, record drawings and prints of French, and perhaps Italian, theatres, and prints for a diverse collection of other French subjects. Drawings and prints for theatres include: traced plans, perhaps of Italian theatres; preliminary plans for theatres designed by Charles Rohault de Fleury; a plan of Théâtre de variétés, Paris, signed by the architect, Jacques Cellérier; prints of Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris, designed by Charles de Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre; a print of Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, designed by Nicolas Lenoir; a proposal for an opera house, Paris, by Hector Horeau with a plan and perspective; and an engraving of the inscription for the first stone of the Grand-Théâtre, Lyon, designed by Antoine-Marie Chenavard and Jean Pollet. The remaining prints in the album date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include: a competition entry by Louis-Pierre Baltard for a monument at Bordeaux dedicated to the triumphs of the Republican army and to peace; a stable for the Czarina commissioned by Peter I and designed by François Bruant; decorations by Victor Louis for the "fêtes de paix" of 1763 and the inauguration of an equestrian statue of Louis XV for the Théâtre italien dedicated to the Marquis de Marigny; a funerary temple by Louis-Jean Desprez dedicated to Voltaire; a stable with two manèges by Jean François de Neufforge; a competition entry for an obelisk for Pont-Neuf, Paris, by Thomas Pierre Baraguay; a plan and two engravings of the Cirque for the Confédération générale, 14 July 1790, on the Champ-de-Mars; an advertising flyer for Louis Ambroise Dubut's book, "Architecture civile: maison de ville et de campagne"; and a prospectus and print of the Néothermes, rue de la Victoire, Paris, designed by Jean Charles Bringol. Three design drawings are for two projects by Charles Rohault de Fleury - an iron arcade for boulevard du Temple, Paris, and a bathroom or public bath (DR1974:0002:010:013, DR1974:0002:010:014 and DR1974:0002:010:044). A finished drawing for entrance gates (DR1974:0002:010:047) and unidentified sketches and notes (DR1974:0002:010:019 - DR1974:0002:010:022) are by either Hubert or Charles Rohault de Fleury.
architecture, temporary architecture, interior design, military, urban planning
drawings executed ca. 1790-1868, manuscripts 1802-1868, printed 1717-1868
Album of drawings, prints, and manuscripts of theatres and of French projects for buildings, monuments and temporary structures, and drawings and prints by Hubert and Charles Rohault de Fleury for theatres and miscellaneous projects
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DR1974:0002:010:001-048
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- This album contains original designs - mostly preliminary drawings - by Charles and possibly Hubert Rohault de Fleury for theatres and miscellaneous projects, record drawings and prints of French, and perhaps Italian, theatres, and prints for a diverse collection of other French subjects. Drawings and prints for theatres include: traced plans, perhaps of Italian theatres; preliminary plans for theatres designed by Charles Rohault de Fleury; a plan of Théâtre de variétés, Paris, signed by the architect, Jacques Cellérier; prints of Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris, designed by Charles de Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre; a print of Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, designed by Nicolas Lenoir; a proposal for an opera house, Paris, by Hector Horeau with a plan and perspective; and an engraving of the inscription for the first stone of the Grand-Théâtre, Lyon, designed by Antoine-Marie Chenavard and Jean Pollet. The remaining prints in the album date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include: a competition entry by Louis-Pierre Baltard for a monument at Bordeaux dedicated to the triumphs of the Republican army and to peace; a stable for the Czarina commissioned by Peter I and designed by François Bruant; decorations by Victor Louis for the "fêtes de paix" of 1763 and the inauguration of an equestrian statue of Louis XV for the Théâtre italien dedicated to the Marquis de Marigny; a funerary temple by Louis-Jean Desprez dedicated to Voltaire; a stable with two manèges by Jean François de Neufforge; a competition entry for an obelisk for Pont-Neuf, Paris, by Thomas Pierre Baraguay; a plan and two engravings of the Cirque for the Confédération générale, 14 July 1790, on the Champ-de-Mars; an advertising flyer for Louis Ambroise Dubut's book, "Architecture civile: maison de ville et de campagne"; and a prospectus and print of the Néothermes, rue de la Victoire, Paris, designed by Jean Charles Bringol. Three design drawings are for two projects by Charles Rohault de Fleury - an iron arcade for boulevard du Temple, Paris, and a bathroom or public bath (DR1974:0002:010:013, DR1974:0002:010:014 and DR1974:0002:010:044). A finished drawing for entrance gates (DR1974:0002:010:047) and unidentified sketches and notes (DR1974:0002:010:019 - DR1974:0002:010:022) are by either Hubert or Charles Rohault de Fleury.
drawings, textual records, works of art
drawings executed ca. 1790-1868, manuscripts 1802-1868, printed 1717-1868
architecture, temporary architecture, interior design, military, urban planning
books
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xxiv, 282 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
New York : Philosophical Library, [1948], ©1948
Russian architecture : trends in nationalism and modernism / by Arthur Voyce.
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xxiv, 282 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
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New York : Philosophical Library, [1948], ©1948
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322 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 18 cm
Moscow : Progress Publishers, [1972]
North Russian architecture / I. Bartenev. B. Fyodorov ; translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook.
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322 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 18 cm
books
Moscow : Progress Publishers, [1972]
books
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112 pages, 54 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
New York : Hacker Art Books, 1975.
Russian mediaeval architecture : with an account of the Transcaucasian styles and their influence in the West / by David Roden Buxton.
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112 pages, 54 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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New York : Hacker Art Books, 1975.
books
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542 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, map, plans ; 33 cm
London : Elek, 1975.
Early Russian architecture / Hubert Faensen, Vladimir Ivanov ; photographs by Klaus G. Beyer ; translated [from the German] by Mary Whittall.
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542 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, map, plans ; 33 cm
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London : Elek, 1975.