PH1993:0222
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- The early 1930s marked the beginning of limitations on creative freedom in the Soviet Union, government approval of Constructivism, and the arrival of Socialist Realism in the arts, literature, and architecture. This photograph may reflect the times in the architects' rather sombre facial expressions and the copy of 'Pravda' in the foreground, an apparent reference to the Communist presence in the creative process.
architecture, portrait
1930-1931
Portrait of D. Fridman and G. Glushchenko through a glass model for the Building of Industry, Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Ekaterinburg, Russia)
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PH1993:0222
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- The early 1930s marked the beginning of limitations on creative freedom in the Soviet Union, government approval of Constructivism, and the arrival of Socialist Realism in the arts, literature, and architecture. This photograph may reflect the times in the architects' rather sombre facial expressions and the copy of 'Pravda' in the foreground, an apparent reference to the Communist presence in the creative process.
architecture, portrait
Project
Memorie [Memories] (2005)
AP207.S1.2005.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Memorie" presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Chateauroux, in 2005. The installation consists of classroom furniture, such as desks, chairs and window panels, emerging from walls and "represent things that only partly resurface in the memory of each of us in different ways when we come across objects whose use is common to all." [1] The project series contains photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-memories-2005/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
2005-2017
Memorie [Memories] (2005)
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AP207.S1.2005.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "Memorie" presented at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Chateauroux, in 2005. The installation consists of classroom furniture, such as desks, chairs and window panels, emerging from walls and "represent things that only partly resurface in the memory of each of us in different ways when we come across objects whose use is common to all." [1] The project series contains photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-memories-2005/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
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2005-2017
Project
I.C.A. Building
AP144.S2.D24
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File documents an unexecuted proposal for new Headquarters for the Institute of Contemporary Arts on a site in South Kensington, London, England. File contains annotated conceptual drawings for a multi-functional building which includes an administration area, library, auditorium, lecture halls and galleries. Design proposal includes flexible and incomplete areas and an extensible open deck on top floor for future vertical expansion. Some material in this file was published in 'Architectural Design'. vol. 40, (October 1970), 518. Material in this file was produced in 1963. File contains conceptual drawings and photographic material.
[1963]
I.C.A. Building
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AP144.S2.D24
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File documents an unexecuted proposal for new Headquarters for the Institute of Contemporary Arts on a site in South Kensington, London, England. File contains annotated conceptual drawings for a multi-functional building which includes an administration area, library, auditorium, lecture halls and galleries. Design proposal includes flexible and incomplete areas and an extensible open deck on top floor for future vertical expansion. Some material in this file was published in 'Architectural Design'. vol. 40, (October 1970), 518. Material in this file was produced in 1963. File contains conceptual drawings and photographic material.
File 24
[1963]
Project
Un dictionnaire
AP041.S1.1970.D2
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UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of black and white photographs of wire-service newspaper articles selected by Charney for their depiction of “people and buildings caught in upheavals”. Charney described these images as “monuments which are created by events outside the confines of architectural institutions”, meaning that buildings and locations assume a “monumental connotation” when they become associated with a significant event. UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of 300 plates, each plate a photograph that “traces the contours of relations which affect our grasp of the significance of buildings”. UN DICTIONNAIRE was presented as an installation at Galerie Catherine & Stéphane de Beyrie in Paris in 1994 and at the Canadian Pavilion of the 7th International Architectural Exhibition in Venice in 2000 as well as at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001-2002. The publication “Tracking images : Melvin Charney, un dictionnaire...” related to this project was also realized in collaboration the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000. This project series contains correspondence, notes, photographs, installations plans and exhibition space plans related for the aforementioned exhibitions in Paris, at the Venice Biennale and in Montréal. It also contains reprints of panels shown outside the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Source: Montréal : Musée d’art contemporain. (1979) Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. (p. 21-28)
1970-2001
Un dictionnaire
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AP041.S1.1970.D2
Description:
UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of black and white photographs of wire-service newspaper articles selected by Charney for their depiction of “people and buildings caught in upheavals”. Charney described these images as “monuments which are created by events outside the confines of architectural institutions”, meaning that buildings and locations assume a “monumental connotation” when they become associated with a significant event. UN DICTIONNAIRE consists of 300 plates, each plate a photograph that “traces the contours of relations which affect our grasp of the significance of buildings”. UN DICTIONNAIRE was presented as an installation at Galerie Catherine & Stéphane de Beyrie in Paris in 1994 and at the Canadian Pavilion of the 7th International Architectural Exhibition in Venice in 2000 as well as at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2001-2002. The publication “Tracking images : Melvin Charney, un dictionnaire...” related to this project was also realized in collaboration the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2000. This project series contains correspondence, notes, photographs, installations plans and exhibition space plans related for the aforementioned exhibitions in Paris, at the Venice Biennale and in Montréal. It also contains reprints of panels shown outside the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Source: Montréal : Musée d’art contemporain. (1979) Melvin Charney: Oeuvres 1970-1979. (p. 21-28)
Project
1970-2001
textual records
DR2012:0015:022:007
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File containing documents in English and French, including press clippings related to the following projects and/or events: - 42nd Venice biennale; - Conseil des arts & lettres du Québec; - A Toronto construction; - The villas of Pliny and classical architecture; - Canadian tribute to human rights; - City work: les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Corridart; - Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979; - A Kingston construction.
1967, 1974-1986, 1993
Press clippings related to Melvin Charney's projects and events
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DR2012:0015:022:007
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File containing documents in English and French, including press clippings related to the following projects and/or events: - 42nd Venice biennale; - Conseil des arts & lettres du Québec; - A Toronto construction; - The villas of Pliny and classical architecture; - Canadian tribute to human rights; - City work: les maisons de la rue Sherbrooke; - Corridart; - Melvin Charney: oeuvres 1970-1979; - A Kingston construction.
textual records
1967, 1974-1986, 1993
textual records
ARCH257126
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Permanent Files: 270614 Ontario Limited Midtown Terrace, Cité des Terrase, Married Student Housing University of Victoria, Victoria Hotel. Institute for the Future Physical Development Plan, Dilwort Estates, Songhees Development, Theme Study, University Of Victoria Long Range plan, Monte Bre, Innes Harbour, Children's Centre of Arts and Science, pamphlet fro existing children's theatre, Office and Laboratory Building
1969-1980
Permanent files on various projects
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ARCH257126
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Permanent Files: 270614 Ontario Limited Midtown Terrace, Cité des Terrase, Married Student Housing University of Victoria, Victoria Hotel. Institute for the Future Physical Development Plan, Dilwort Estates, Songhees Development, Theme Study, University Of Victoria Long Range plan, Monte Bre, Innes Harbour, Children's Centre of Arts and Science, pamphlet fro existing children's theatre, Office and Laboratory Building
textual records
1969-1980
photographs
ARCH153766
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views of miscellaneous subject matter rejected for use as illustrative material for "Spoken in the Void" / Adolf Loos ; introduction by Aldo Rossi ; Ranslation by Jane O. Newman and John H. Smith. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. And the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N. Y. by MIT Press, 1982.
1982
Views of miscellaneous subject matter rejected for use as illustrative material for "Spoken in the Void"
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ARCH153766
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views of miscellaneous subject matter rejected for use as illustrative material for "Spoken in the Void" / Adolf Loos ; introduction by Aldo Rossi ; Ranslation by Jane O. Newman and John H. Smith. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. And the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N. Y. by MIT Press, 1982.
photographs
1982
photographs
ARCH153767
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views of miscellaneous subject matter for use as illustrations in "Spoken in the Void" / Adolf Loos ; introduction by Aldo Rossi ; translation by Jane O. Newman and John H. Smith. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. And the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N. Y. by MIT Press, 1982; includes contact sheets
1982
Views of miscellaneous subject matter for use as illustrations in "Spoken in the Void"
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ARCH153767
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views of miscellaneous subject matter for use as illustrations in "Spoken in the Void" / Adolf Loos ; introduction by Aldo Rossi ; translation by Jane O. Newman and John H. Smith. -- Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Chicago, Ill. And the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies New York, N. Y. by MIT Press, 1982; includes contact sheets
photographs
1982
PH1986:0900.01
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Album PH1986:0900.01 comprises 92 photographs of fountains, monuments, tombs, vases, models and studies by architect Michel Roux-Spitz. Subjects include: Monument aux Séminaristes français morts à la guerre, Séminaire Français à Rome (1922); Monument aux Morts de Lyon; Monument aux héros de Dixmude à Pierrefeu (Var) (1925); Monument Bokanowski à Toul (1924); Monument aux Morts de Thizy; Monument de la Victoire; Tombeau au cimetière Montparnasse à Paris; Tombeau de la famille Garin à Cholet; Tombeau de la famille Vetter à Lyon (1920-1923); Tombeau Redon; Tombeau de la famille Barral à Lyon; Tombeau de la famille Barras (sic) à Lyon; Monument au poète Camille Roy et à la Chanson Lyonnaise (1924); Fontaine Leriche; Fontaine avec sculpture de Cassou; Fontaine Cours La Reine à l'Exposition des Arts décoratifs 1925 à Paris; Tombeau du Cimetière du Village à l'Exposition des Arts décoratifs 1925 à Paris; Tombeau de la famille Robin. Artists mentioned are the sculptors Delamarre, Renard, C. Cassou, Martial, Leriche, a mosaic by Bouquet, ironwork by Szetlak and lighting by Perzel.
architecture, ornament, sculpture
1920-1925
Fontaines - Monuments - Tombeaux - Vases - 1920-1925
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PH1986:0900.01
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Album PH1986:0900.01 comprises 92 photographs of fountains, monuments, tombs, vases, models and studies by architect Michel Roux-Spitz. Subjects include: Monument aux Séminaristes français morts à la guerre, Séminaire Français à Rome (1922); Monument aux Morts de Lyon; Monument aux héros de Dixmude à Pierrefeu (Var) (1925); Monument Bokanowski à Toul (1924); Monument aux Morts de Thizy; Monument de la Victoire; Tombeau au cimetière Montparnasse à Paris; Tombeau de la famille Garin à Cholet; Tombeau de la famille Vetter à Lyon (1920-1923); Tombeau Redon; Tombeau de la famille Barral à Lyon; Tombeau de la famille Barras (sic) à Lyon; Monument au poète Camille Roy et à la Chanson Lyonnaise (1924); Fontaine Leriche; Fontaine avec sculpture de Cassou; Fontaine Cours La Reine à l'Exposition des Arts décoratifs 1925 à Paris; Tombeau du Cimetière du Village à l'Exposition des Arts décoratifs 1925 à Paris; Tombeau de la famille Robin. Artists mentioned are the sculptors Delamarre, Renard, C. Cassou, Martial, Leriche, a mosaic by Bouquet, ironwork by Szetlak and lighting by Perzel.
1920-1925
architecture, ornament, sculpture
photographs
ARCH274437
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Group consists of negatives (706 negatives), photographs (41 photographs) and contact sheets (20 contact sheets) of Chandigarh, India, including photographs of government housing, the Capitol Complex's buildings, the Gandhi Bhawan, the Fine Arts Museum and photographs of the everyday life and construction work. The group also includes photographs of India, other than Chandigarh, including photographs of sculptures.
between 1958 and 1967
Photographs of Chandigarh, India
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ARCH274437
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Group consists of negatives (706 negatives), photographs (41 photographs) and contact sheets (20 contact sheets) of Chandigarh, India, including photographs of government housing, the Capitol Complex's buildings, the Gandhi Bhawan, the Fine Arts Museum and photographs of the everyday life and construction work. The group also includes photographs of India, other than Chandigarh, including photographs of sculptures.
photographs
between 1958 and 1967