textual records
DR2001:0020
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Documents include Business development General files: Alteka office building correspondences, Wexner correspondences, Centre of Berlin correspondences, memorandums, capital improvements bulletin from Ohio Department of Administrative services, Aleppo telephone conversation records, drawings, maps, plans, Purpose of the project bibliotheque de France, notes, World Architecture Triennial correspondences, qualification submission package for design of Museum of science and technology for Phoenix Arizona. Business development for Museum of Contemporary Art: documentations, correspondences, memo, notes, business contracts, telephone conversation records. Business development for San Diego Convention Centre competition: documentation and correspondences. Business development for Matrix: documentation, correspondences, plans, elevations. New Business Proposals rejected: the county of Mobile, Alabama in cooperation with the City of Mobile, documentation, correspondences, clippings. UC Riverside: photographs, draft-qualification statement science library, notes, telephone conversation records, fax transmittals, correspondences, documentation report, list of articles on Peter Eisenman in books, periodicals and catalogues. American Centre for Physics: statement of interest, correspondences, documentation, notes, faxes transmittals. Business Development General for Time-Pack Museum: fax communications. The Mandell Companies, Inc: report exhibits to the business plan, memo, correspondences, documentation, business plan, report of the Rick Mandell trip to Israel, clipping, curriculum vitea of Rick Mandell. Business Development for General Lake Superior Centre: statement of interest, correspondences, notes. Cleveland State University: capital improvements bulletin (Ohio department of administrative service) request for professional design services, telephone conversation records, documentation records, documentation program and Urban Design phase, clippings. Charlestown Navy Yard: notes, clippings, telephone conversation records, competition fees, professional cards, fax transmittals, project program, Harbor Park District Zoning amendment. Case Western Reserve University macromolecular science facility: proposal of phase one, memorandum 1990, chemistry note DRCON1999:0015:087:004. Koc University: statement of interest, meeting minutes, memo, correspondences, documentation, map of Istanbul, fax transmittals. The JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: promotion material folder, correspondences, meeting minutes, notes. The Environmental design building, University of California: proposal for detailed project program, maps, fax transmittals, notes, and documentations. Aerospace Centre Washington DC: Album with photographs, drawings and plans.
Correspondence and other administrative records for various projects
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DR2001:0020
Description:
Documents include Business development General files: Alteka office building correspondences, Wexner correspondences, Centre of Berlin correspondences, memorandums, capital improvements bulletin from Ohio Department of Administrative services, Aleppo telephone conversation records, drawings, maps, plans, Purpose of the project bibliotheque de France, notes, World Architecture Triennial correspondences, qualification submission package for design of Museum of science and technology for Phoenix Arizona. Business development for Museum of Contemporary Art: documentations, correspondences, memo, notes, business contracts, telephone conversation records. Business development for San Diego Convention Centre competition: documentation and correspondences. Business development for Matrix: documentation, correspondences, plans, elevations. New Business Proposals rejected: the county of Mobile, Alabama in cooperation with the City of Mobile, documentation, correspondences, clippings. UC Riverside: photographs, draft-qualification statement science library, notes, telephone conversation records, fax transmittals, correspondences, documentation report, list of articles on Peter Eisenman in books, periodicals and catalogues. American Centre for Physics: statement of interest, correspondences, documentation, notes, faxes transmittals. Business Development General for Time-Pack Museum: fax communications. The Mandell Companies, Inc: report exhibits to the business plan, memo, correspondences, documentation, business plan, report of the Rick Mandell trip to Israel, clipping, curriculum vitea of Rick Mandell. Business Development for General Lake Superior Centre: statement of interest, correspondences, notes. Cleveland State University: capital improvements bulletin (Ohio department of administrative service) request for professional design services, telephone conversation records, documentation records, documentation program and Urban Design phase, clippings. Charlestown Navy Yard: notes, clippings, telephone conversation records, competition fees, professional cards, fax transmittals, project program, Harbor Park District Zoning amendment. Case Western Reserve University macromolecular science facility: proposal of phase one, memorandum 1990, chemistry note DRCON1999:0015:087:004. Koc University: statement of interest, meeting minutes, memo, correspondences, documentation, map of Istanbul, fax transmittals. The JBSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: promotion material folder, correspondences, meeting minutes, notes. The Environmental design building, University of California: proposal for detailed project program, maps, fax transmittals, notes, and documentations. Aerospace Centre Washington DC: Album with photographs, drawings and plans.
textual records
archives
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Fonds
AP183
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The Ulrich Königs Chemnitz Stadium project records, 1995-1996, document the competition entry and design for an innovative stadium in Chemnitz, Germany. The project was a collaboration between Peter Kulka, Ulrich Königs, Cecil Balmond, and Arup Group, Ltd. The design was primarily driven by the theoretical and methodological processes made possible by computer-aided design, rather than aesthetics. The project records have both digital and physical components, which chiefly include renderings, wireframe drawings, digital 3D models, photographs, slides, video, and a booklet.
1995-1996
Ulrich Königs Chemnitz Stadium project records
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AP183
Synopsis:
The Ulrich Königs Chemnitz Stadium project records, 1995-1996, document the competition entry and design for an innovative stadium in Chemnitz, Germany. The project was a collaboration between Peter Kulka, Ulrich Königs, Cecil Balmond, and Arup Group, Ltd. The design was primarily driven by the theoretical and methodological processes made possible by computer-aided design, rather than aesthetics. The project records have both digital and physical components, which chiefly include renderings, wireframe drawings, digital 3D models, photographs, slides, video, and a booklet.
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Fonds
1995-1996
Project
AP018.S1.1973.PR03
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This project series documents the design and construction of the Eaton’s store building at Dundas Square in Toronto from 1973-1977. The office identified the project number as 7303. This project, commissioned by The T. Eaton Co. Limited, consisted of a one million square foot department store with thirteen floors, ten above ground and three below. The building boasted nine floor of retail space, seamlessly connected through elevators and escalators. The remaining floors hosted office and storage spaces. Located at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, the Eaton’s store was connected to the Eaton Centre mall to its south. The mall, designed and built simultaneously with the Eaton’s store, was designed by the architecture firm Craig Zeidler Strong. For the Eaton’s store project, Parkin Architects Planners created a joint venture with architect C. Blakeway Millar, referred to as Parkin Millar in the documentation. Parkin Millar was the associate architects on this project, with the Eaton’s company architect, E.L. Hankinson, working as the primary architect. Each of the firms mentioned worked closely together to develop a cohesive design for the Eaton’s store and Eaton’s Centre mall, which is evident in the materials. The project is recorded through drawings, textual records, a book and presentation boards dating from 1973-1977. There are a large number of original drawings and sketches for the project. Most of the reprographic copies are arranged within the textual materials. There are presentation boards of the Vancouver Eaton's store in this project series that were likely used as reference by the architects. The textual records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, site reports, change orders, consultancy records, inter-office letters, and specifications. Also in this project series is a special edition of the Eaton News, a monograph with in depth descriptions of the project.
1973-1977
Eaton's Store Building, Dundas Square, Toronto (1973-1977)
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AP018.S1.1973.PR03
Description:
This project series documents the design and construction of the Eaton’s store building at Dundas Square in Toronto from 1973-1977. The office identified the project number as 7303. This project, commissioned by The T. Eaton Co. Limited, consisted of a one million square foot department store with thirteen floors, ten above ground and three below. The building boasted nine floor of retail space, seamlessly connected through elevators and escalators. The remaining floors hosted office and storage spaces. Located at the corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, the Eaton’s store was connected to the Eaton Centre mall to its south. The mall, designed and built simultaneously with the Eaton’s store, was designed by the architecture firm Craig Zeidler Strong. For the Eaton’s store project, Parkin Architects Planners created a joint venture with architect C. Blakeway Millar, referred to as Parkin Millar in the documentation. Parkin Millar was the associate architects on this project, with the Eaton’s company architect, E.L. Hankinson, working as the primary architect. Each of the firms mentioned worked closely together to develop a cohesive design for the Eaton’s store and Eaton’s Centre mall, which is evident in the materials. The project is recorded through drawings, textual records, a book and presentation boards dating from 1973-1977. There are a large number of original drawings and sketches for the project. Most of the reprographic copies are arranged within the textual materials. There are presentation boards of the Vancouver Eaton's store in this project series that were likely used as reference by the architects. The textual records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes, site reports, change orders, consultancy records, inter-office letters, and specifications. Also in this project series is a special edition of the Eaton News, a monograph with in depth descriptions of the project.
Project
1973-1977
born digital, photographs
AP170.S4.002
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This directory chiefly contains images and animated GIFs for various publications related to HypoSurface and other dECOi projects, including Art and Architecture magazine and an unidentified book. Directory also includes Paul Steenhuisen audio files of modified cow sounds. Original directory name: "ftp-data". Most common file formats: Aegis Files, Tagged Image File Format, Graphics Interchange Format, Audio Interchange File Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed).
25 February 1999 - 23 April 2007
Publication images and animations for HypoSurface and other dECOi projects (1 of 2)
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AP170.S4.002
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This directory chiefly contains images and animated GIFs for various publications related to HypoSurface and other dECOi projects, including Art and Architecture magazine and an unidentified book. Directory also includes Paul Steenhuisen audio files of modified cow sounds. Original directory name: "ftp-data". Most common file formats: Aegis Files, Tagged Image File Format, Graphics Interchange Format, Audio Interchange File Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed).
born digital, photographs
25 February 1999 - 23 April 2007
Project
AP148.S1.1972.PR01
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Project series documents Poli's research and design work on his major project about a peasant farmer named Zeno from Riparbella. This project, entitled "Zeno, una cultura autosufficiente," was presented at the 1978 Venice Biennale with Superstudio as "La Coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's consciousness)". The project also appears to have some overlap with another research project in which Poli and other members of Superstudio were involved: Culture materiale extraurbane. This involved research and the development of a course in the architecture programme at the University of Florence on research into traditional tools and other aspects of rural material culture. The research work on rural culture was published in the magazine Modo (no.7) in March 1978. The Zeno project reflects a major project in Poli's output, with work beginning on it in 1972 and into 1980. There are numerous narratives at work in this project. There is the narrative of Zeno's relationship to the small house built by his grandfather and in which he was born, and has always lived. Alongside this, is Poli's interest in Zeno's relationship to his tools, his clothes, all the material elements of his life in the only house he has ever known. The fictional narrative that Poli weaves into this project involves an imagined encounter between Zeno and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Poli's fascination with Zeno's material culture extends into a comparison of these two men and their physical interactions with their worlds: both self-sufficient capsules of a kind. Material in this project includes a large number of drawings and collages depicting different domestic and working spaces and tools in Zeno's life. A number of these drawings feature artefacts, such as cloth pillowcases, metal pieces, and a rope. In addition, the project series includes a number of physical artefacts, such as tools and even Zeno's door. A notable element in this series is an artist book by Poli which features a catalogue or register of elements in Zeno's life, detailing everything about his spaces, his working days, and even the food he eats.
1972-1980
Zeno, una cultura autosufficiente [Zeno, a self-sufficient culture] (1972-1980)
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AP148.S1.1972.PR01
Description:
Project series documents Poli's research and design work on his major project about a peasant farmer named Zeno from Riparbella. This project, entitled "Zeno, una cultura autosufficiente," was presented at the 1978 Venice Biennale with Superstudio as "La Coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's consciousness)". The project also appears to have some overlap with another research project in which Poli and other members of Superstudio were involved: Culture materiale extraurbane. This involved research and the development of a course in the architecture programme at the University of Florence on research into traditional tools and other aspects of rural material culture. The research work on rural culture was published in the magazine Modo (no.7) in March 1978. The Zeno project reflects a major project in Poli's output, with work beginning on it in 1972 and into 1980. There are numerous narratives at work in this project. There is the narrative of Zeno's relationship to the small house built by his grandfather and in which he was born, and has always lived. Alongside this, is Poli's interest in Zeno's relationship to his tools, his clothes, all the material elements of his life in the only house he has ever known. The fictional narrative that Poli weaves into this project involves an imagined encounter between Zeno and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Poli's fascination with Zeno's material culture extends into a comparison of these two men and their physical interactions with their worlds: both self-sufficient capsules of a kind. Material in this project includes a large number of drawings and collages depicting different domestic and working spaces and tools in Zeno's life. A number of these drawings feature artefacts, such as cloth pillowcases, metal pieces, and a rope. In addition, the project series includes a number of physical artefacts, such as tools and even Zeno's door. A notable element in this series is an artist book by Poli which features a catalogue or register of elements in Zeno's life, detailing everything about his spaces, his working days, and even the food he eats.
Project
1972-1980
archives
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Fonds
Bernard Cache fonds
AP169
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Bernard Cache, fonds, 1991-2011, document the development and design process for the Objectile firm and its decorative panels and furniture. The records focus mostly on daily activities of the firm, the collaboration of principal Bernard Cache with TopSolid software, and his parallel academic work. The records consist solely of original born-digital material.
1992-2011
Bernard Cache fonds
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AP169
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Bernard Cache, fonds, 1991-2011, document the development and design process for the Objectile firm and its decorative panels and furniture. The records focus mostly on daily activities of the firm, the collaboration of principal Bernard Cache with TopSolid software, and his parallel academic work. The records consist solely of original born-digital material.
archives
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1992-2011
photographs
DR2012:0015:024:003
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File containing photographic materials held in plastic sleeves and glassine, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Melvin Charney’s travels through Italy (118 black-and-white negative frames, 91 contact sheet frames, 1 colour slide); - Corridart project (1 gelatin silver print); - CCA garden (5 colour slides); - Montréal, plus ou moins? (19 black-and-white slides). Materials possibly gathered for inclusion in Louis Martin's 2013 book, On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology. Original folder inscribed in graphite: AIGEUS MORT OSTIA ANTICA 1961
1960-1961, 1986, 2000
Photographs of various artworks from Melvin Charney's projects and events
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DR2012:0015:024:003
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File containing photographic materials held in plastic sleeves and glassine, related to the following events, locations, and/or projects: - Melvin Charney’s travels through Italy (118 black-and-white negative frames, 91 contact sheet frames, 1 colour slide); - Corridart project (1 gelatin silver print); - CCA garden (5 colour slides); - Montréal, plus ou moins? (19 black-and-white slides). Materials possibly gathered for inclusion in Louis Martin's 2013 book, On architecture: Melvin Charney: a critical anthology. Original folder inscribed in graphite: AIGEUS MORT OSTIA ANTICA 1961
photographs
1960-1961, 1986, 2000
DR1988:0357
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- These reprographic copies show two headings, possibly chapters of a book or article. Both headings were written inside scrolled borders which also incorporate small drawings of buildings. - The style of many of these drawings and reprographic copies by Henry Hyams (DR1988:0332 - DR1988:0414) suggests that they were possibly for periodical illustrations. Hyams contributed articles to the periodicals 'The Builder' and 'The Architect'. Two objects in the CCA collections can be linked to the article "Music in Stone" published prior to 1926 in 'The Architect'; a reprographic copy (DR1988:0357) and a drawing (DR1988:0364) (Who's Who in Architecture, 161).
architecture
printed in the 1920s ?
Layout for the head titles "Music in stone..." and "The treatment of corners"
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DR1988:0357
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- These reprographic copies show two headings, possibly chapters of a book or article. Both headings were written inside scrolled borders which also incorporate small drawings of buildings. - The style of many of these drawings and reprographic copies by Henry Hyams (DR1988:0332 - DR1988:0414) suggests that they were possibly for periodical illustrations. Hyams contributed articles to the periodicals 'The Builder' and 'The Architect'. Two objects in the CCA collections can be linked to the article "Music in Stone" published prior to 1926 in 'The Architect'; a reprographic copy (DR1988:0357) and a drawing (DR1988:0364) (Who's Who in Architecture, 161).
architecture
textual records
AP197.S1.SS9.001
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This box contains notes, drafts, articles, book reviews and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized alphabetically by either title or the architect's last name, from A-Z. The contents are mostly older texts by Frampton, circa 1960-1990. Subjects and architects explored in these texts include: Raimund Abraham; Tadao Ando; contemporary architecture; the modern urban form; Gustave Eiffel; English neoclassicism; Louis Kahn; John Hejduk; Herman Hertzberger; postmodern theory; Steven Holl; industrialization; Le Corbusier; El Lissitzky; modernism; Palais Royale; Carlo Scarpa; James Stirling; Team 10; technology; and Otto Wagner.
circa 1964-1990
Kenneth Frampton texts, articles and notes (A-Z)
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AP197.S1.SS9.001
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This box contains notes, drafts, articles, book reviews and lectures by Kenneth Frampton. The materials are organized alphabetically by either title or the architect's last name, from A-Z. The contents are mostly older texts by Frampton, circa 1960-1990. Subjects and architects explored in these texts include: Raimund Abraham; Tadao Ando; contemporary architecture; the modern urban form; Gustave Eiffel; English neoclassicism; Louis Kahn; John Hejduk; Herman Hertzberger; postmodern theory; Steven Holl; industrialization; Le Corbusier; El Lissitzky; modernism; Palais Royale; Carlo Scarpa; James Stirling; Team 10; technology; and Otto Wagner.
textual records
circa 1964-1990
DR1974:0002:030:001-065
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The four portfolios of drawings and prints in this group are entitled: Croquis à placer en papier; Croquis divers; Vues d'Italie; and Croquis arrangement de boutiques, de meubles, et de decorations (DR1974:0002:030:001 - DR1974:0002:030:008; DR1974:0002:030:009 - DR1974:0002:030:030; DR1974:0002:030:031 - DR1974:0002:030:050; DR1974:0002:030:051 - DR1974:0002:030:065. -- Porfolio Croquis à placer en papier, comprises three unidentified topographical views in graphite, a drawing of furnishings from the Palais Matteï, Italy [?], a still life of fruit, and a drawing of an elephant. -- Portfolio Croquis divers, comprises both record and design drawings - ranging from sketches to renderings - of varied subject matter. The record drawings include a rendering of the Hôtel de ville, Brussels, and line drawings of a baldachin and an urban square. The design drawings for buildings and interiors in Classical, Gothic and Exotic Revival styles are probably by Hubert Rohault de Fleury and include: line and finished drawings for a dairy after Jean François Joseph LeCointre; an imaginary church, perhaps inspired by Pugin; and a hôtel on rue de Varennes, Paris. Several drawings and prints depict military subject matter: fortifications after Louis de Cormontaigne, a battery, a cannon, and revolutionary battle scenes, some in Paris. Also included are several drawings of non-architectural subject matter - a coat of arms, perhaps of the Bougainville family, cossack soldiers, a boar hunt, a rock formation and lithographic maps of Istria and Rhodes. -- Portfolio Vues d'Italie, consists of mostly freehand drawings of Italian views and buildings in Paestum, Arezzo, Naples, Rome, Caprarola, Florence, Fidenza, Genoa, and Tivoli. The buildings and urban spaces include: Villa Belvedere, Naples; the Cathedral of Borgo S. Donino; the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli; the Campidoglio, Piazza del Popolo, Palais Maccarani, Arc de Septimus Severus, Ste. Pudenziana, and Baslica of Constantine, all in Rome. The presence of preparatory drawings for some of these views suggests they were intended to be published, either as individual prints or in a book. -- Portfolio Croquis arrangement de boutiques, de meuble et de decorations, comprises mostly finished watercolour drawings for Empire style interiors and furniture, probably designed by Hubert Rohault de Fleury. Also included are an elevation for a storefront for Batton Magasin de Fleurs Fines, drawings for two garden structures, and elevations for classical interiors and mouldings.
architecture, interior design, engineering, military, sculpture, topographic, urban planning
printed first half of the 19th century
Four portfolios of drawings of Italian views, interior designs, Empire style furniture, military subjects, and other diverse subject matter
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DR1974:0002:030:001-065
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The four portfolios of drawings and prints in this group are entitled: Croquis à placer en papier; Croquis divers; Vues d'Italie; and Croquis arrangement de boutiques, de meubles, et de decorations (DR1974:0002:030:001 - DR1974:0002:030:008; DR1974:0002:030:009 - DR1974:0002:030:030; DR1974:0002:030:031 - DR1974:0002:030:050; DR1974:0002:030:051 - DR1974:0002:030:065. -- Porfolio Croquis à placer en papier, comprises three unidentified topographical views in graphite, a drawing of furnishings from the Palais Matteï, Italy [?], a still life of fruit, and a drawing of an elephant. -- Portfolio Croquis divers, comprises both record and design drawings - ranging from sketches to renderings - of varied subject matter. The record drawings include a rendering of the Hôtel de ville, Brussels, and line drawings of a baldachin and an urban square. The design drawings for buildings and interiors in Classical, Gothic and Exotic Revival styles are probably by Hubert Rohault de Fleury and include: line and finished drawings for a dairy after Jean François Joseph LeCointre; an imaginary church, perhaps inspired by Pugin; and a hôtel on rue de Varennes, Paris. Several drawings and prints depict military subject matter: fortifications after Louis de Cormontaigne, a battery, a cannon, and revolutionary battle scenes, some in Paris. Also included are several drawings of non-architectural subject matter - a coat of arms, perhaps of the Bougainville family, cossack soldiers, a boar hunt, a rock formation and lithographic maps of Istria and Rhodes. -- Portfolio Vues d'Italie, consists of mostly freehand drawings of Italian views and buildings in Paestum, Arezzo, Naples, Rome, Caprarola, Florence, Fidenza, Genoa, and Tivoli. The buildings and urban spaces include: Villa Belvedere, Naples; the Cathedral of Borgo S. Donino; the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli; the Campidoglio, Piazza del Popolo, Palais Maccarani, Arc de Septimus Severus, Ste. Pudenziana, and Baslica of Constantine, all in Rome. The presence of preparatory drawings for some of these views suggests they were intended to be published, either as individual prints or in a book. -- Portfolio Croquis arrangement de boutiques, de meuble et de decorations, comprises mostly finished watercolour drawings for Empire style interiors and furniture, probably designed by Hubert Rohault de Fleury. Also included are an elevation for a storefront for Batton Magasin de Fleurs Fines, drawings for two garden structures, and elevations for classical interiors and mouldings.
architecture, interior design, engineering, military, sculpture, topographic, urban planning