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Empire
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power, empire, Desert Storm, Victory Day, jet aircraft, bomber, flight, stealth, Lockheed, Boeing, helicopter, Washington DC, Washington Monument, Pentagon, Mall, Lincoln Memorial, grassy knoll, White House, Fed, dome, Senate, Arlington Memorial Bridge, Capitol, Treasury Building, Jefferson Memorial, World War II Memorial, reflecting pool
23 July 2009
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textual records
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16 textual record(s)
ARCH267532
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Photocopies of various personal documents, including an identity card issued to Pierre Jeanneret (1963), numerous pages from the architects' Swiss and French passports (1937-1963), a certificate of employment issued by the "Ministère de l'Armement" (1940), movement cards ("carte de circulation") and authorisations to carry weapons issued to Pierre Jeanneret during World War II by the "Bureau Militaire de Circulation" and the "Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur" (1939-1945), and a movement card issued to André Masson by the "Détachement Armée des Alpes (1945). Also contains a copy of the agenda for CIAM2, the second International Congress of Modern Architecture ("Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne"), which reveals Pierre Jeanneret's participation in the Congress.
Photocopies of various personal documents
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ARCH267532
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Photocopies of various personal documents, including an identity card issued to Pierre Jeanneret (1963), numerous pages from the architects' Swiss and French passports (1937-1963), a certificate of employment issued by the "Ministère de l'Armement" (1940), movement cards ("carte de circulation") and authorisations to carry weapons issued to Pierre Jeanneret during World War II by the "Bureau Militaire de Circulation" and the "Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur" (1939-1945), and a movement card issued to André Masson by the "Détachement Armée des Alpes (1945). Also contains a copy of the agenda for CIAM2, the second International Congress of Modern Architecture ("Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne"), which reveals Pierre Jeanneret's participation in the Congress.
textual records
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16 textual record(s)
archives
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Fonds
CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
1914-2008
Gordon Matta-Clark collection
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CP138
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The Gordon Matta-Clark collection documents the personal and professional activities of Gordon Matta-Clark through his correspondence, texts, library, artwork and films, created predominantly between 1969 and 1978. Additionally the collection contains correspondence and photographs collected by Anne Alpert, Matta-Clark's mother, and documentation on his work collected by his widow Jane Crawford following his death.
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1914-2008
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AP185.S2
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This project, 1994-2001, contains material related to the Ost/Kuttner Apartment, a built residential project in New York City. Described by its clients as “Cleopatra’s submarine,” the O/K Apartment converts two adjacent units in a pre-World War II building in New York into a single but divisible space. The Apartment is organized into areas defined less by their programmatic identity—bathroom, bedroom, living room—than by a series of undulating landscapes made up of custom, function-bridging forms, which KOL/MAC developed by digitally compositing cross-sections of everyday domestic objects. To produce the pieces, the architects worked intensively with contractors in a process directly informed by computer-aided fabrication in a variety of fields including ship-building, bobsled design, and stage design. The digital project records are largely in word processing formats, namely Microsoft Word for Mac and ClarisWorks, as well as images in TIF, JPEG, and Mac Pict image formats. There are also a large number of Microstation CAD drawings. There are two major groupings within the digital material: First, there is a body of video and still images. These consist of screen captures of renderings and other digital models. There are also images and HTML for a related website, a photograph viewer showing pictures of a built, physical model of the apartment. Of note, there are two videos which document the early construction of the Apartment, as well as the construction of the shower/bed. The second grouping consists of construction and design documentation. This consists of correspondence, invoices, and other word processing documents which show KOL/MAC’s work with the client, contractor, engineer, and other stakeholders. They also contain a large number of design files and images which document the evolving design of the Apartment. KOL/MAC versioned their working files at certain intervals, and each version represents a snapshot of the working files at a particular time. There is a substantial amount of duplication across these files. There is also a physical component to the records, including three material samples from the apartment, as well as 28 floorplans for the bid set, 6 floorplans, and 2 blueprints. There is also .3 linear meters of textual records which document KOL/MAC’s work with the client, contractor, and sub-contractor during construction.
1994-2001
O/K Apartment (New York, N.Y.)
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AP185.S2
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This project, 1994-2001, contains material related to the Ost/Kuttner Apartment, a built residential project in New York City. Described by its clients as “Cleopatra’s submarine,” the O/K Apartment converts two adjacent units in a pre-World War II building in New York into a single but divisible space. The Apartment is organized into areas defined less by their programmatic identity—bathroom, bedroom, living room—than by a series of undulating landscapes made up of custom, function-bridging forms, which KOL/MAC developed by digitally compositing cross-sections of everyday domestic objects. To produce the pieces, the architects worked intensively with contractors in a process directly informed by computer-aided fabrication in a variety of fields including ship-building, bobsled design, and stage design. The digital project records are largely in word processing formats, namely Microsoft Word for Mac and ClarisWorks, as well as images in TIF, JPEG, and Mac Pict image formats. There are also a large number of Microstation CAD drawings. There are two major groupings within the digital material: First, there is a body of video and still images. These consist of screen captures of renderings and other digital models. There are also images and HTML for a related website, a photograph viewer showing pictures of a built, physical model of the apartment. Of note, there are two videos which document the early construction of the Apartment, as well as the construction of the shower/bed. The second grouping consists of construction and design documentation. This consists of correspondence, invoices, and other word processing documents which show KOL/MAC’s work with the client, contractor, engineer, and other stakeholders. They also contain a large number of design files and images which document the evolving design of the Apartment. KOL/MAC versioned their working files at certain intervals, and each version represents a snapshot of the working files at a particular time. There is a substantial amount of duplication across these files. There is also a physical component to the records, including three material samples from the apartment, as well as 28 floorplans for the bid set, 6 floorplans, and 2 blueprints. There is also .3 linear meters of textual records which document KOL/MAC’s work with the client, contractor, and sub-contractor during construction.
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1994-2001
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Ross & Macdonald fonds
AP013
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The Ross & Macdonald fonds is comprised of documents concerning the work of six successive architectural firms: Ross & MacFarlane (1905-1912), Ross & Macdonald (1913-1944), Ross & Ross (1944-1946), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1946-1950), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1950-1958), and Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett (1958-1976). The greatest concentration of work was produced in Montreal where each of the firms maintained their head office, but there were also a large number of works executed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fonds contains 27 884 drawings (24 294 originals plus 3 590 reproductions), 236 photographs, and 18.6 metres of textual documents.
1902-1982
Ross & Macdonald fonds
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AP013
Synopsis:
The Ross & Macdonald fonds is comprised of documents concerning the work of six successive architectural firms: Ross & MacFarlane (1905-1912), Ross & Macdonald (1913-1944), Ross & Ross (1944-1946), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1946-1950), Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1950-1958), and Ross, Fish, Duschenes & Barrett (1958-1976). The greatest concentration of work was produced in Montreal where each of the firms maintained their head office, but there were also a large number of works executed in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The fonds contains 27 884 drawings (24 294 originals plus 3 590 reproductions), 236 photographs, and 18.6 metres of textual documents.
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1902-1982
archives
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4 items : ill., map, plan ; 29 cm.
World War II Japanese American War Memorial : competition documents, 1990.
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4 items : ill., map, plan ; 29 cm.
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archives
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4 items : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans
Maryland World War II Memorial Design Competition : competition documents, 1995.
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4 items : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans
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books
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xli, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Washington, D.C. : National Building Museum ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
World War II and the American dream : how wartime building changed a nation / exhibition organized and catalog edited by Donald Albrecht ; essays by Margaret Crawford [and others].
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xli, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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Washington, D.C. : National Building Museum ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.
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1 model : ceramic ; 37 x 11 x 9 cm
1981 ([United States] : Mount Hope Estate & Winery)
In memory of the veterans of World War II : dedicated Dec. 7, 1981.
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1 model : ceramic ; 37 x 11 x 9 cm
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1981 ([United States] : Mount Hope Estate & Winery)
books
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viii, 113 leaves, 68 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
1980.
Post World War II tract houses : the subdivision developments of Joseph L. Eichler, 1949-1956 / Susan Hall Harrison.
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viii, 113 leaves, 68 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
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1980.