Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
2 April 2009
Michael Rakowitz and Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas
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Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz speaks with Luca Stasi of Recetas Urbanas about their various projects. Rakowitz’s work explores the concepts of nomadic habitat and urban appropriation, while Recetas Urbanas uses strategies of urban intervention that take advantage of legal loopholes, opening up opportunities for autonomous architecture. The conversation is part of(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Liquidated Architecture
American urban planner and designer Damon Rich examines the links among politics, architecture, and history. His research analyses the evolution of the real estate market – foreclosures, mortgages, construction and zoning. He is also a collaborator of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), an organization based in Brooklyn that studies movements within cities and their(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
26 February 2009
Liquidated Architecture
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American urban planner and designer Damon Rich examines the links among politics, architecture, and history. His research analyses the evolution of the real estate market – foreclosures, mortgages, construction and zoning. He is also a collaborator of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), an organization based in Brooklyn that studies movements within cities and their(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
drawings, graphic materials, born digital
ARCH270659
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Contains plans, perspectives and a presentation brochure with a DVD by Gedesma for the management plan of urban waste for the Community of Madrid, Spain. Please note that the brochure with the DVDs was removed for conservation purposes and is now located in the cool vault. See ARCH273852.
2000-2002
Plans, perspectives and a presentation brochure with a DVD by Gedesma
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ARCH270659
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Contains plans, perspectives and a presentation brochure with a DVD by Gedesma for the management plan of urban waste for the Community of Madrid, Spain. Please note that the brochure with the DVDs was removed for conservation purposes and is now located in the cool vault. See ARCH273852.
drawings, graphic materials, born digital
2000-2002
drawings
AP178.S2.1985.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Urban plan, Schilderswijk-West in The Hague, The Netherlands, and for the Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte in Giudecca, Italy. It also contains sketches of furniture, people, as well as landscape of Venice and Amsterdam.
January 1985
Sketchbook 195: BB - Veneza - Guimaraes
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AP178.S2.1985.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Urban plan, Schilderswijk-West in The Hague, The Netherlands, and for the Recuperação da Área do Campo di Marte in Giudecca, Italy. It also contains sketches of furniture, people, as well as landscape of Venice and Amsterdam.
drawings
January 1985
drawings
AP140.S2.SS1.D63.P24
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Early conceptual and design development drawings, including sketches and schematic maps, site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and axonometrics for the Performing Arts Centre, housing and hotel scheme and the Collegetown urban design study
circa 1971-1989
Early conceptual and design development drawings, Performing Arts Centre, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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AP140.S2.SS1.D63.P24
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Early conceptual and design development drawings, including sketches and schematic maps, site plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and axonometrics for the Performing Arts Centre, housing and hotel scheme and the Collegetown urban design study
drawings
circa 1971-1989
drawings
AP178.S2.1990.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches of furnitures and of the Olympic Village Meteorological Centre and MOPU delegation headquarters in Barcelona, Spain. It also includes notes about the the reconstruction of the Chiado in Lisbon and the Urban and circulation study for Praça de Espanha in Portugal.
January 1990
Sketchbook 302: Pr. Espanha - Cadiz - Barcelona
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AP178.S2.1990.001
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This sketchbook includes sketches of furnitures and of the Olympic Village Meteorological Centre and MOPU delegation headquarters in Barcelona, Spain. It also includes notes about the the reconstruction of the Chiado in Lisbon and the Urban and circulation study for Praça de Espanha in Portugal.
drawings
January 1990
articles
Connecting Collectivity
textual records
ARCH6383
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Correspondance avec J.-Étienne Gauthier, greffier-adjoint, et Gaspard De Serres, trésorier de la Cité de Montréal. Projets de règlements afin de créer la Commission d'urbanisme, 1923. « Replanning Montréal and District », extrait du Journal of the Engineering Institute of Canada / James Ewing, ingénieur. « What Can the Matter be? A Study of National Development », extrait du Journal, Town Planning Institute of Canada, juillet 1923 / James Ewing, ingénieur. Coupures de journaux, 1923.
1923
Coupures de presse, correspondence et proposition pour la Commission d'urbanisme
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Correspondance avec J.-Étienne Gauthier, greffier-adjoint, et Gaspard De Serres, trésorier de la Cité de Montréal. Projets de règlements afin de créer la Commission d'urbanisme, 1923. « Replanning Montréal and District », extrait du Journal of the Engineering Institute of Canada / James Ewing, ingénieur. « What Can the Matter be? A Study of National Development », extrait du Journal, Town Planning Institute of Canada, juillet 1923 / James Ewing, ingénieur. Coupures de journaux, 1923.
textual records
1923
textual records
ARCH256343
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inspection reports, transmittals; Central Waterfront: proposals from City of Toronto, notes, design approach and urban planning experience report, MacLaren Eng. CV, work schedules, study area maps, Harbourfront: A Look at the Future (publicity)
1981-1985
Inspection reports, transmittals, Central Waterfront: proposals from City of Toronto, notes
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ARCH256343
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inspection reports, transmittals; Central Waterfront: proposals from City of Toronto, notes, design approach and urban planning experience report, MacLaren Eng. CV, work schedules, study area maps, Harbourfront: A Look at the Future (publicity)
textual records
1981-1985
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Sketchbooks
AP178.S2
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Series AP178.S2 consists of over 280 of Siza’s personal sketchbooks, beginning from the late 1970s to the beginning of the early 2000s. The sketchbooks mostly contain sketches with some notes and are numbered chronologically. Indicated on the front cover of each sketchbook are the sketchbook number and the architectural project(s) and/or the geographic site(s) documented by the sketches and notes. The sketchbooks are mostly black notebooks and measure 21 x 30 cm, with a few exceptions. Most sketchbooks contain notes in Portuguese while some also include French and English notes. The sketchbooks document Siza’s creative process and demonstrate his unique method to comprehend an architectural project. Siza mentions that in the early stages of a project he immediately begins to draw, regardless of if he has knowledge of all the details and problems. The sketchbooks document the evolution of Siza's projects and also serve as a type of log. Not only does each sketchbook contain various sketches and notes for projects Siza was working on but also schedules, contacts, and drafts of letters. Among the sketches for projects are also general sketches of his travels, people, animals, objects, furniture, and at times landscapes. Most sketchbooks primarily contain sketches for projects with intermingled sketches of people or faces, however there are a number of sketchbooks that mostly contain sketches of people. The Siza fonds is being processed in four phases. Up to date the sketchbooks that have been processed are ones that relate to architectural projects that were processed in the first and second phase of processing. This includes projects from 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s; urban planning projects; Reconstrução do Chiado; Berlin projects submitted to the IBA competition; and the Plano de urbanização Deelgebied 5 Schilderswijk-West in The Hague. However, it is important to note that the sketchbooks usually contain sketches related to multiple projects and therefore the sketchbooks that were processed also contain sketches related to projects not included in this list.
1978-1993
Sketchbooks
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AP178.S2
Description:
Series AP178.S2 consists of over 280 of Siza’s personal sketchbooks, beginning from the late 1970s to the beginning of the early 2000s. The sketchbooks mostly contain sketches with some notes and are numbered chronologically. Indicated on the front cover of each sketchbook are the sketchbook number and the architectural project(s) and/or the geographic site(s) documented by the sketches and notes. The sketchbooks are mostly black notebooks and measure 21 x 30 cm, with a few exceptions. Most sketchbooks contain notes in Portuguese while some also include French and English notes. The sketchbooks document Siza’s creative process and demonstrate his unique method to comprehend an architectural project. Siza mentions that in the early stages of a project he immediately begins to draw, regardless of if he has knowledge of all the details and problems. The sketchbooks document the evolution of Siza's projects and also serve as a type of log. Not only does each sketchbook contain various sketches and notes for projects Siza was working on but also schedules, contacts, and drafts of letters. Among the sketches for projects are also general sketches of his travels, people, animals, objects, furniture, and at times landscapes. Most sketchbooks primarily contain sketches for projects with intermingled sketches of people or faces, however there are a number of sketchbooks that mostly contain sketches of people. The Siza fonds is being processed in four phases. Up to date the sketchbooks that have been processed are ones that relate to architectural projects that were processed in the first and second phase of processing. This includes projects from 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s; urban planning projects; Reconstrução do Chiado; Berlin projects submitted to the IBA competition; and the Plano de urbanização Deelgebied 5 Schilderswijk-West in The Hague. However, it is important to note that the sketchbooks usually contain sketches related to multiple projects and therefore the sketchbooks that were processed also contain sketches related to projects not included in this list.
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1978-1993