Project
AP178.S1.1997.PR07
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This project series documents the Centro Municipal no Distrito Sud in Rosario, Argentina. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 89/90. The office assigned the date 1997 to this project. This was Siza's first building in South America. The Municipal center is one of six buildings for the decentralization of the city of Rosario. The buildings surround a public place. The building includes a 200 capacity auditorium, a workshop space, and offices. Documenting this project are studies, design development drawings, annotated plans, and details. Textual material includes documentation for the decentralization program, project documentation, and correspondence. Photographic material documents the project site, construction work, Siza's visit, and the built project. The project is also documented through study models.
1996-2003
Centro Municipal no Distrito Sud [South district Municipal center], Rosario, Argentina (1997)
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AP178.S1.1997.PR07
Description:
This project series documents the Centro Municipal no Distrito Sud in Rosario, Argentina. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 89/90. The office assigned the date 1997 to this project. This was Siza's first building in South America. The Municipal center is one of six buildings for the decentralization of the city of Rosario. The buildings surround a public place. The building includes a 200 capacity auditorium, a workshop space, and offices. Documenting this project are studies, design development drawings, annotated plans, and details. Textual material includes documentation for the decentralization program, project documentation, and correspondence. Photographic material documents the project site, construction work, Siza's visit, and the built project. The project is also documented through study models.
Project
1996-2003
Project
AP178.S1.1999.PR08
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This project series documents the Projecto de Ordenación nel Âmbito del Vapor Turull in Sabadell, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 114/90. The office assigned the date 1999 to this project. The project was for offices for the municipality of Sabadell in the industrial building of the Vapor Turull company. It included office spaces, an exterior public parking for 330 cars, and an interior parking in the basement. The H-shaped building had a 7634 m2 surface. There is no documentation in the archive suggesting if the building was realized or not. Documenting this project are sketches and plans. Textual material includes correspondence and documentation from the city of Sabadell and photographic materials document the model.
circa 1996-2000
Projecto de Ordenación nel Âmbito del Vapor Turull, Sabadell, Spain (1999)
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AP178.S1.1999.PR08
Description:
This project series documents the Projecto de Ordenación nel Âmbito del Vapor Turull in Sabadell, Spain. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 114/90. The office assigned the date 1999 to this project. The project was for offices for the municipality of Sabadell in the industrial building of the Vapor Turull company. It included office spaces, an exterior public parking for 330 cars, and an interior parking in the basement. The H-shaped building had a 7634 m2 surface. There is no documentation in the archive suggesting if the building was realized or not. Documenting this project are sketches and plans. Textual material includes correspondence and documentation from the city of Sabadell and photographic materials document the model.
Project
circa 1996-2000
Project
Potteries Thinkbelt
AP144.S2.D56
Description:
File documents the unexecuted project, Potteries Thinkbelt, conceived for North Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. The proposal called for a network of educational facilities for 20,000 students to be located over a 100 square mile area northwest of London. Moveable components, including fold-out lecture/demonstration units, rail-based teaching units, self-teach carrel units, faculty units, and housing units, were to be dispersed along the rail system. Existing conditions materials include regional aerial photographs with overlays of the rail system, and photographs, photo collages and panoramas of the region. Schematic sketches and drawings show the development of Price's design. Regional plans examine links between new and existing rail systems and national transportation networks and their projected use. Diagrammatic plans illustrate the relationships between recommended functions/activities attributed to specific areas. Detailed plans, sections, elevations, and axonometric drawings show housing types (sprawl, capsule, and crate), faculty and transfer areas in Madeley, Pitts Hill, and Meir. Other materials include regional land-use plans, photomontages with drawn perspectives, thumbnail sketches, life-span charts, conceptual sketches, aerial photographs and reprographic copies, some rendered and annotated. Many of the drawings were published in Price, Cedric. "PTB, Potteries Thinkbelt: A Plan for an Advanced Educational Industry in North Staffordshire." 'Architectural Design'. (October, 1966), 483-497; in Price, Cedric and Paul Barker, "The Potteries Thinkbelt", 'New Society' (June 1966) 14-17; and in Price, Cedric "Potteries Thinkbelt: Project for an Education Industry", 'Bauen & Wohnen', no. 9 (1967) 351-360. Material in this file was created between 1939 and 1987 but predominantly between 1963 and 1967. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
1939-1987, predominant 1963-1967
Potteries Thinkbelt
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AP144.S2.D56
Description:
File documents the unexecuted project, Potteries Thinkbelt, conceived for North Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. The proposal called for a network of educational facilities for 20,000 students to be located over a 100 square mile area northwest of London. Moveable components, including fold-out lecture/demonstration units, rail-based teaching units, self-teach carrel units, faculty units, and housing units, were to be dispersed along the rail system. Existing conditions materials include regional aerial photographs with overlays of the rail system, and photographs, photo collages and panoramas of the region. Schematic sketches and drawings show the development of Price's design. Regional plans examine links between new and existing rail systems and national transportation networks and their projected use. Diagrammatic plans illustrate the relationships between recommended functions/activities attributed to specific areas. Detailed plans, sections, elevations, and axonometric drawings show housing types (sprawl, capsule, and crate), faculty and transfer areas in Madeley, Pitts Hill, and Meir. Other materials include regional land-use plans, photomontages with drawn perspectives, thumbnail sketches, life-span charts, conceptual sketches, aerial photographs and reprographic copies, some rendered and annotated. Many of the drawings were published in Price, Cedric. "PTB, Potteries Thinkbelt: A Plan for an Advanced Educational Industry in North Staffordshire." 'Architectural Design'. (October, 1966), 483-497; in Price, Cedric and Paul Barker, "The Potteries Thinkbelt", 'New Society' (June 1966) 14-17; and in Price, Cedric "Potteries Thinkbelt: Project for an Education Industry", 'Bauen & Wohnen', no. 9 (1967) 351-360. Material in this file was created between 1939 and 1987 but predominantly between 1963 and 1967. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, presentation drawings, publication drawings, reference drawings, photographic material, and textual records.
File 56
1939-1987, predominant 1963-1967
Series
AP184.S1
Description:
Series 1, Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 1990 - 2009, relates to Asymptote Architecture’s design of a virtualized NYSE Trading Floor that visualized real-time numerical and statistical data. This series includes textual, born-digital, and audiovisual components, as well as digital artefacts, and chiefly dates from 1997 to 2002. The intent of the New York Stock Exchange Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF) was to detect suspicious trading activity, track the impact of global news events on the market and potentially predict a crash before it happened. In order to achieve this technically, Asymptote worked with Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) RealityEngine hardware which had been built specifically for these visualization-intensive applications. They also worked with Softimage and Alias software for modeling, rendering and animating, and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Macromedia Flash in order to integrate real-time data into a navigable three-dimensional environment. The main elements of the virtual environment include posts, containers, and back wall. The two container types, Index Container (IC) and Group Container (GC), allow for visualization and comparison of stock histories and behaviors. The posts display stock information, corresponding heat maps on floors, and alerts. The back wall integrates live news broadcasts. Materials in this series are largely digital and primarily include still raster images and video demonstrating 3DTF functionality. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya, Alias, Microstation, and Form-Z formats. Other digital materials include Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) files, HTML files, Silicon Graphics Images databases, research material, press kits, presentations, and handout files. The textual records are largely materials that were handed out at presentation meetings for each phase of the project. These typically illustrate major virtual components of 3DTF, like the heat maps and posts, and overlap significantly with the related digital files. There is also one VHS tape which compiles nearly twenty minutes of animated renderings. Finally, this series includes 43 CDs. The CDs were processed and are included as part of the digital records; the CDs themselves were kept in instances where they may have artefactual value, especially if they were visually interesting or informationally important.
1990-2009
Three Dimensional Trading Floor
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AP184.S1
Description:
Series 1, Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 1990 - 2009, relates to Asymptote Architecture’s design of a virtualized NYSE Trading Floor that visualized real-time numerical and statistical data. This series includes textual, born-digital, and audiovisual components, as well as digital artefacts, and chiefly dates from 1997 to 2002. The intent of the New York Stock Exchange Three Dimensional Trading Floor (3DTF) was to detect suspicious trading activity, track the impact of global news events on the market and potentially predict a crash before it happened. In order to achieve this technically, Asymptote worked with Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) RealityEngine hardware which had been built specifically for these visualization-intensive applications. They also worked with Softimage and Alias software for modeling, rendering and animating, and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Macromedia Flash in order to integrate real-time data into a navigable three-dimensional environment. The main elements of the virtual environment include posts, containers, and back wall. The two container types, Index Container (IC) and Group Container (GC), allow for visualization and comparison of stock histories and behaviors. The posts display stock information, corresponding heat maps on floors, and alerts. The back wall integrates live news broadcasts. Materials in this series are largely digital and primarily include still raster images and video demonstrating 3DTF functionality. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya, Alias, Microstation, and Form-Z formats. Other digital materials include Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) files, HTML files, Silicon Graphics Images databases, research material, press kits, presentations, and handout files. The textual records are largely materials that were handed out at presentation meetings for each phase of the project. These typically illustrate major virtual components of 3DTF, like the heat maps and posts, and overlap significantly with the related digital files. There is also one VHS tape which compiles nearly twenty minutes of animated renderings. Finally, this series includes 43 CDs. The CDs were processed and are included as part of the digital records; the CDs themselves were kept in instances where they may have artefactual value, especially if they were visually interesting or informationally important.
Series
1990-2009
Project
AP140.S2.SS1.D107
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File documents unsuccessful competition entries for the Bibliothèque de France in Paris, France, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, United States, and the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo, Japan. Material in this file was produced between 1988 and 1989. File contains bound reprographic copies of presentation drawings and textual records.
1988-1989
Miscellaneous Materials for Competition Entries
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AP140.S2.SS1.D107
Description:
File documents unsuccessful competition entries for the Bibliothèque de France in Paris, France, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, United States, and the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo, Japan. Material in this file was produced between 1988 and 1989. File contains bound reprographic copies of presentation drawings and textual records.
File 107
1988-1989
Sub-series
A + U Layout
AP143.S5.D2
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File documents a publication layout for an article about House X in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, featured in the January 1980 issue of the magazine 'Architecture and Urbanism' (A + U). Material in this file was produced before 1980. File contains publication drawings and textual records, including a maquette for the publication.
[before 1980]
A + U Layout
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AP143.S5.D2
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File documents a publication layout for an article about House X in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, featured in the January 1980 issue of the magazine 'Architecture and Urbanism' (A + U). Material in this file was produced before 1980. File contains publication drawings and textual records, including a maquette for the publication.
File 2
[before 1980]
Project
AP140.S2.SS3.D2
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File documents the participation of the office of James Stirling and Partner to the Dortmunder Architekturausstellung 1976 exhibition at the Museum am Ostwall, in Dortmund, Germany. Material in this file was produced in 1976. File contains textual records, including drawings for exhibition layout, mock-up of exhibition catalogue and correspondence.
1976
Dortmunder Architekturausstellung 1976, Museum am Ostwall
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AP140.S2.SS3.D2
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File documents the participation of the office of James Stirling and Partner to the Dortmunder Architekturausstellung 1976 exhibition at the Museum am Ostwall, in Dortmund, Germany. Material in this file was produced in 1976. File contains textual records, including drawings for exhibition layout, mock-up of exhibition catalogue and correspondence.
File 2
1976
Sub-series
AP140.S2.SS6.D8
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File documents the participation of the firm of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates to the International Symposium held in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1987. It also documents an earlier colloquium held in 1986, also in Stuttgart. Material in this file was produced between 1985 and 1987. File contains textual records.
1985-1987
International Symposium Stuttgart
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AP140.S2.SS6.D8
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File documents the participation of the firm of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates to the International Symposium held in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1987. It also documents an earlier colloquium held in 1986, also in Stuttgart. Material in this file was produced between 1985 and 1987. File contains textual records.
File 8
1985-1987
Project
Città di Castello
AP142.S1.D166
Description:
File documents a partially executed project for a residential, administrative and commercial building complex in Città di Castello. Material in this file was produced in 1990 and 1991. File contains design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, maps, an architect's statement, and technical reports.
1990-1991
Città di Castello
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AP142.S1.D166
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File documents a partially executed project for a residential, administrative and commercial building complex in Città di Castello. Material in this file was produced in 1990 and 1991. File contains design development drawings and presentation drawings. File also contains textual records, including sketches, drawings, maps, an architect's statement, and technical reports.
File 166
1990-1991
Project
Guggenheim Venezia
AP142.S1.D167
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File documents an unexecuted project for a cafe, bookshop, and offices for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1989 and 1990. File contains textual records, including drawings, photographs, correspondence, a proposal, a building programme, a technical report, and photocopies of views of models.
1989-1990
Guggenheim Venezia
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AP142.S1.D167
Description:
File documents an unexecuted project for a cafe, bookshop, and offices for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Material in this file was produced in 1989 and 1990. File contains textual records, including drawings, photographs, correspondence, a proposal, a building programme, a technical report, and photocopies of views of models.
File 167
1989-1990