drawings
AP178.S2.1984.021
Description:
This sketchbook includes sketches and notes for the Quinta da Malagueira Housing Scheme in Évora, Portugal. It also contains sketches of furniture, people, and for the Erhard Josef Pascher house in Sintra, as well as notes for a project in Salemi.
October 1984
Sketchbook 190: Texto B. Aires - Evora Jardim - Pascher - Salemi
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AP178.S2.1984.021
Description:
This sketchbook includes sketches and notes for the Quinta da Malagueira Housing Scheme in Évora, Portugal. It also contains sketches of furniture, people, and for the Erhard Josef Pascher house in Sintra, as well as notes for a project in Salemi.
drawings
October 1984
photographs
Quantity:
9 photograph(s)
ARCH269658
Description:
Group consists of various photographs predominantly of Chandigarh, India, including: - A man sitting in front of a rural house - A tree in a field - Women walking in a street - Women and children spinning string in a rural home near Chandigarh - Portrait of a bearded man - Men and children washing oxen in water - Unidentified bas-relief of the sun in concrete - The Secretariat in the Capitol Complex - Open hand bas-relief in concrete
between 1951 and 1965
Various photographs predominantly of Chandigarh, India
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ARCH269658
Description:
Group consists of various photographs predominantly of Chandigarh, India, including: - A man sitting in front of a rural house - A tree in a field - Women walking in a street - Women and children spinning string in a rural home near Chandigarh - Portrait of a bearded man - Men and children washing oxen in water - Unidentified bas-relief of the sun in concrete - The Secretariat in the Capitol Complex - Open hand bas-relief in concrete
photographs
Quantity:
9 photograph(s)
between 1951 and 1965
Sub-series
Notebooks and Sketchbooks
CP138.S4.SS1
Description:
Sub-series consists of notebooks, pads of paper and sketchbooks, containing sketches, drawing and texts relating to the following projects: Anarchitecture (1974); Automation House (1972); A W-Hole House (1973); the Caribbean Orange (1978); Day's End (1975); Food (1971); Fresh Air Cart (1972); Garbage Wall (1970); Office Baroque (1977); Photo-Fry (1969); Tree Dance (1971); Untitled Cutting (1978) for Alanna Heiss's Twentieth Century Ruins; and studies for cut drawings. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1969 and 1978. Sub-series contains bound volumes of sketches and texts.
[1969-1978]
Notebooks and Sketchbooks
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CP138.S4.SS1
Description:
Sub-series consists of notebooks, pads of paper and sketchbooks, containing sketches, drawing and texts relating to the following projects: Anarchitecture (1974); Automation House (1972); A W-Hole House (1973); the Caribbean Orange (1978); Day's End (1975); Food (1971); Fresh Air Cart (1972); Garbage Wall (1970); Office Baroque (1977); Photo-Fry (1969); Tree Dance (1971); Untitled Cutting (1978) for Alanna Heiss's Twentieth Century Ruins; and studies for cut drawings. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1969 and 1978. Sub-series contains bound volumes of sketches and texts.
Sub-series 1
[1969-1978]
archives
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Fonds
Joseph Rykwert fonds
AP209
Synopsis:
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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AP209
Synopsis:
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.
archives
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Fonds
1928-2022
articles
Domestic Monument
Domestic Monument
Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen reflect on the Amancio Williams archive
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photographs
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183 photograph(s)
PH1987:0633-0815
Description:
- This group of 183 photographs documents the study trip of September 1932 to the Soviet Union organized by André Bloc, editor of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (PH1987:0633-PH1987:0815). There are 162 views of buildings, 20 portraits, and one photograph of a perspective drawing for the House of Political Prisoners of Tsarism in Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (PH1987:0700). - There are 77 views of buildings in Kharkov, Zaporozhe and Kiev [?], Soviet Union (now Ukraine). The 32 views of buildings in Kharkov include: 14 views of Dzerzhinskaya Square showing the Department of Industry and Planning (Gosprom) buildings and/or the House of Planning Organizations buildings; six views of the Head Post Office; six views of workers' housing and the club-cafeteria of the Kharkov Tractor Plant (KhTZ) Settlement; four views of the Automated Telephone Station (ATS); and one view each of Revolution Theatre and industrial housing. Also included is one photograph of a perspective drawing for the House of Political Prisoners of Tsarism. -- The 44 views of buildings in Zaporozhe include: 28 views of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, one an interior view; one view of the Dneprostroi Head Office building; 12 views of communal housing, two showing the cafeteria; two views of an apartment house, and one view of a store entrance. -- There is one view of an entrance to a Dinamo Stadium, possibly in Kiev. - There are 55 views of buildings in Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union (now Russia). The 49 views of buildings in Moscow include: 20 views of the All-Union Electro-Technical Association administration building; 10 views of the VTsIK residential complex, including two views of the clubhouse; five views of the Narkomfin (People's Commissariat for Finance) Apartment Building; three views of Dinamo Stadium; two views of the Zuev Club (club for communal services workers); and one view each of Udarnik Cinema, Mechanized Canteen no. 1, a square with the Kremlin in the background, and the Hotel Octobre. There are also five views of communal housing in Moscow. -- The six views of buildings in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) include four views of the Vyborgskaya Mechanized Canteen, one view of an apartment house, and one view of a park [?] entrance with the Admiralty in the background. - There are six views of buildings in Poland including: four views of the Central Institute of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland and two views of an unidentified building. - There are 23 views of buildings whose location has not been determined including: 14 views of apartment houses, one of which is possibly a medical clinic; three views of communal services [?] building, two of which may be apartment houses; two views of a multifunctional building showing stores and apartments; and one view each of a Modernist house, a kiosk and church, an office or government office building, and an unidentified building. Also included is a view of a landscape showing a lake with mountains in the background. - There are 20 portraits of study tour partipants including 10 portraits taken in the train, four group portraits taken on a train stop in Hannover, Germany, two group portraits taken after a meeting of the Society for Foreign Cultural Relations (VOKS), and group portraits of study tour members in the Building Museum, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), at dinner in Warsaw, Poland, and in a garden pavilion. There is one portrait of Professor Einhorn delivering a lecture on Kharkov urbanisation in Kharkov.
architecture, engineering, portrait, urban planning
September 1932
Photographs of buildings and urban development taken during the Study Tour of September 1932 organized by André Bloc of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui magazine, Soviet Union (now in Russia and Ukraine)
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PH1987:0633-0815
Description:
- This group of 183 photographs documents the study trip of September 1932 to the Soviet Union organized by André Bloc, editor of L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui (PH1987:0633-PH1987:0815). There are 162 views of buildings, 20 portraits, and one photograph of a perspective drawing for the House of Political Prisoners of Tsarism in Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (PH1987:0700). - There are 77 views of buildings in Kharkov, Zaporozhe and Kiev [?], Soviet Union (now Ukraine). The 32 views of buildings in Kharkov include: 14 views of Dzerzhinskaya Square showing the Department of Industry and Planning (Gosprom) buildings and/or the House of Planning Organizations buildings; six views of the Head Post Office; six views of workers' housing and the club-cafeteria of the Kharkov Tractor Plant (KhTZ) Settlement; four views of the Automated Telephone Station (ATS); and one view each of Revolution Theatre and industrial housing. Also included is one photograph of a perspective drawing for the House of Political Prisoners of Tsarism. -- The 44 views of buildings in Zaporozhe include: 28 views of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, one an interior view; one view of the Dneprostroi Head Office building; 12 views of communal housing, two showing the cafeteria; two views of an apartment house, and one view of a store entrance. -- There is one view of an entrance to a Dinamo Stadium, possibly in Kiev. - There are 55 views of buildings in Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union (now Russia). The 49 views of buildings in Moscow include: 20 views of the All-Union Electro-Technical Association administration building; 10 views of the VTsIK residential complex, including two views of the clubhouse; five views of the Narkomfin (People's Commissariat for Finance) Apartment Building; three views of Dinamo Stadium; two views of the Zuev Club (club for communal services workers); and one view each of Udarnik Cinema, Mechanized Canteen no. 1, a square with the Kremlin in the background, and the Hotel Octobre. There are also five views of communal housing in Moscow. -- The six views of buildings in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) include four views of the Vyborgskaya Mechanized Canteen, one view of an apartment house, and one view of a park [?] entrance with the Admiralty in the background. - There are six views of buildings in Poland including: four views of the Central Institute of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland and two views of an unidentified building. - There are 23 views of buildings whose location has not been determined including: 14 views of apartment houses, one of which is possibly a medical clinic; three views of communal services [?] building, two of which may be apartment houses; two views of a multifunctional building showing stores and apartments; and one view each of a Modernist house, a kiosk and church, an office or government office building, and an unidentified building. Also included is a view of a landscape showing a lake with mountains in the background. - There are 20 portraits of study tour partipants including 10 portraits taken in the train, four group portraits taken on a train stop in Hannover, Germany, two group portraits taken after a meeting of the Society for Foreign Cultural Relations (VOKS), and group portraits of study tour members in the Building Museum, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), at dinner in Warsaw, Poland, and in a garden pavilion. There is one portrait of Professor Einhorn delivering a lecture on Kharkov urbanisation in Kharkov.
photographs
Quantity:
183 photograph(s)
September 1932
architecture, engineering, portrait, urban planning
Project
AP145.S2.D35
Description:
File documents a project incorporating John Hejduk's Wall House 3 (AP145.S2.D31.SD3), a "cemetery", and the Molino Stucky building in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1975. File contains conceptual drawings, presentation drawings, and photographic materials.
1975
Cemetery for the Ashes of Thought
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AP145.S2.D35
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File documents a project incorporating John Hejduk's Wall House 3 (AP145.S2.D31.SD3), a "cemetery", and the Molino Stucky building in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1975. File contains conceptual drawings, presentation drawings, and photographic materials.
File 35
1975
books
ARCH253668
Description:
Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1972
L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens
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ARCH253668
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
books
1972
books
AP149.S1.1971.PR01.002
Description:
Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
1972
L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens
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AP149.S1.1971.PR01.002
Description:
Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication in French "L'Opération Écol: Écologie + Construction + Bon Sens" by Alvero Ortega, Witold Rybczynki, Samir Ayadm Wajid Ali and Arthur Acheson about the project of a self-sufficient habitable low-cost house untaken in 1972.
books
1972
Project
Saint Quentin Liquor Store
AP013.S1.D339
Description:
File documents an executed (?) project for a store and apartment house in Saint Quentin, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced between 1949 and 1950. File contains an index card, preliminary and design development drawings, and working and detail drawings.
1949-1950
Saint Quentin Liquor Store
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AP013.S1.D339
Description:
File documents an executed (?) project for a store and apartment house in Saint Quentin, New Brunswick. Material in this file was produced between 1949 and 1950. File contains an index card, preliminary and design development drawings, and working and detail drawings.
Project
1949-1950