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Myron Goldsmith fonds
AP032
Synopsis:
The Myron Goldsmith fonds consists primarily of 30.4 metres of textual documents, including notebooks, research and reading notes, travel journals, documentation files, correspondence, sketchbooks and personal and office papers. There are also 2,800 original drawings and prints, 10,000 photographs and slides, and 5 architectural models. The material ranges in date from c.1933 to 1996. In shedding light on Goldsmith's student years and working career, the fonds' rich collection of documents also provides material on activities in the architectural profession, architectural education, and architectural and engineering theory and building techniques through the 1940s to the 1990s.
1933-1996
Myron Goldsmith fonds
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AP032
Synopsis:
The Myron Goldsmith fonds consists primarily of 30.4 metres of textual documents, including notebooks, research and reading notes, travel journals, documentation files, correspondence, sketchbooks and personal and office papers. There are also 2,800 original drawings and prints, 10,000 photographs and slides, and 5 architectural models. The material ranges in date from c.1933 to 1996. In shedding light on Goldsmith's student years and working career, the fonds' rich collection of documents also provides material on activities in the architectural profession, architectural education, and architectural and engineering theory and building techniques through the 1940s to the 1990s.
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1933-1996
DR1988:0437:013
Description:
- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina in front of the Palazzo Farnese includes the two fountains in the piazza. The macchina is a centrally-planned structure with a tower at each corner. The walls of the structure appear to be partially constructed of topiary.
temporary architecture
printed 1747
Etching of the design for the "seconda macchina" of 1747
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DR1988:0437:013
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- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina in front of the Palazzo Farnese includes the two fountains in the piazza. The macchina is a centrally-planned structure with a tower at each corner. The walls of the structure appear to be partially constructed of topiary.
temporary architecture
Project
AP207.S1.1968.PR04
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's installation entitled "Grazia & Giustizia", named after the Ministry of Justice in Italy. This project is the third of a series of three installations created in 1968 which consisted of large three-dimensional letters, forming words, and made purposely of perishable materials. The "Grazia & Giustizia" was created and constructed in the context of the 6th Festival of Avant-Garde Music in Palermo, in 1968. Unlike the first two installations in this series, this one was destroyed intentionally and was more of a performance as each cardboard letter was taken and thrown in the sea after a funeral procession accompanied by music played by the group MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva). The installation was re-created in 2012, this time in Civitella del Tronto, at "a great fort dating from the 16th century, which was not only the dominant architectural feature in that context but in particular the place where 'justice' used to be dispensed (or not)." [1] The project series contains photographs of the procession and of the letters once in the sea, and two drawings, including one showing the letters floating in the water. The project series also contains photographs showing the installation at the fort of Civitella del Tronto in 2012 and project descriptions in English and Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-grazia-ii-2012-1/ (last accessed 30 October 2019)
1968-2017
Grazia & Giustizia [Grace & Justice] (1968)
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AP207.S1.1968.PR04
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's installation entitled "Grazia & Giustizia", named after the Ministry of Justice in Italy. This project is the third of a series of three installations created in 1968 which consisted of large three-dimensional letters, forming words, and made purposely of perishable materials. The "Grazia & Giustizia" was created and constructed in the context of the 6th Festival of Avant-Garde Music in Palermo, in 1968. Unlike the first two installations in this series, this one was destroyed intentionally and was more of a performance as each cardboard letter was taken and thrown in the sea after a funeral procession accompanied by music played by the group MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva). The installation was re-created in 2012, this time in Civitella del Tronto, at "a great fort dating from the 16th century, which was not only the dominant architectural feature in that context but in particular the place where 'justice' used to be dispensed (or not)." [1] The project series contains photographs of the procession and of the letters once in the sea, and two drawings, including one showing the letters floating in the water. The project series also contains photographs showing the installation at the fort of Civitella del Tronto in 2012 and project descriptions in English and Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-grazia-ii-2012-1/ (last accessed 30 October 2019)
Project
1968-2017
9 July 2004
Sub-series
Dead projects
AP140.S2.SS2
Description:
Sub-series documents "dead projects", by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; and Michael Wilford and Partners. These projects are those which did not lead to commissions, or the production of drawings, but were preliminary contacts or negotiations between clients and competition organizers and the architectural firms. Most of these projects were for locations in the United States, but also include locations in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Iran, France, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Canada, Austria and Switzerland. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1963 and probably 2002. Sub-series contains textual records, such as notes, proposals, correspondence with clients or consultants, reports, building programs, contracts or agreements. It also contains maps of sites and cadastral plans used as reference, and site plans.
circa 1963-2002
Dead projects
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AP140.S2.SS2
Description:
Sub-series documents "dead projects", by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; and Michael Wilford and Partners. These projects are those which did not lead to commissions, or the production of drawings, but were preliminary contacts or negotiations between clients and competition organizers and the architectural firms. Most of these projects were for locations in the United States, but also include locations in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Iran, France, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Canada, Austria and Switzerland. Material in this sub-series was produced between 1963 and probably 2002. Sub-series contains textual records, such as notes, proposals, correspondence with clients or consultants, reports, building programs, contracts or agreements. It also contains maps of sites and cadastral plans used as reference, and site plans.
Sub-Series 2
circa 1963-2002
research
Visiting Scholars 2014
Caroline Dionne, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Topic: In Architectural Terms: Social Space in Seventeenth-Century Lexicography and Encyclopaedism Federica Doglio, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: The Heritage of Team X: the Architecture of Education between Europe and North America Hannah Feldman, Northwestern(...)
May 2014 to September 2014
Visiting Scholars 2014
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Caroline Dionne, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Topic: In Architectural Terms: Social Space in Seventeenth-Century Lexicography and Encyclopaedism Federica Doglio, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Topic: The Heritage of Team X: the Architecture of Education between Europe and North America Hannah Feldman, Northwestern(...)
research
May 2014 to
September 2014
Sub-series
AP116.S2.SS7.D7
Description:
File contains Anybody Journals in English and Japanese, which were produced from the Anybody Conference proceedings, and a copy of and Italian publication, 2A+P Body (issue 0, September 1999). Material in file was produced in 1997 and 1999.
1997, 1999
Publication - Anybody Conference Journal
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AP116.S2.SS7.D7
Description:
File contains Anybody Journals in English and Japanese, which were produced from the Anybody Conference proceedings, and a copy of and Italian publication, 2A+P Body (issue 0, September 1999). Material in file was produced in 1997 and 1999.
File 7
1997, 1999
Project
AP207.S1.1989.PR03
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The project series documents "Compenetrazioni", a rug designed by Pettena in 1989. The rug is made of paper or fabric. When placed on any surface, the shape of the surface is imprinted on the fibers of the rug. The project series contains sketches of the rug and a project description in Italian.
circa 1989-2015
Compenetrazioni [Interpenetration] (1989)
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AP207.S1.1989.PR03
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The project series documents "Compenetrazioni", a rug designed by Pettena in 1989. The rug is made of paper or fabric. When placed on any surface, the shape of the surface is imprinted on the fibers of the rug. The project series contains sketches of the rug and a project description in Italian.
Project
circa 1989-2015
photographs
DR2012:0012:077:001:002
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File containing magazine clippings (in French), film negatives, photographs, and slides of the following: - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières (1 colour slide); - A house in the village of Cavusin (1 gelatin silver print); - Cave exteriors and interiors (5 gelatin silver prints); - 415-419 des Récollets (1 gelatin silver print); - Montreal grain elevator (1 gelatin silver print); - Interior, Connecticut General Insurance Building (1 gelatin silver print); - Street housing of Manduria, Italy, 1960 (1 colour slide); - Maison Hector Brossard (1 gelatin silver print); - Indigenous housing destroyed (1 black-and-white slide); - Unidentified house (1 colour slide); - Unidentified street (1 gelatin silver print).
ca. 1975
Press clippings and photographic materials related to projects
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DR2012:0012:077:001:002
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File containing magazine clippings (in French), film negatives, photographs, and slides of the following: - Le trésor de Trois-Rivières (1 colour slide); - A house in the village of Cavusin (1 gelatin silver print); - Cave exteriors and interiors (5 gelatin silver prints); - 415-419 des Récollets (1 gelatin silver print); - Montreal grain elevator (1 gelatin silver print); - Interior, Connecticut General Insurance Building (1 gelatin silver print); - Street housing of Manduria, Italy, 1960 (1 colour slide); - Maison Hector Brossard (1 gelatin silver print); - Indigenous housing destroyed (1 black-and-white slide); - Unidentified house (1 colour slide); - Unidentified street (1 gelatin silver print).
photographs
ca. 1975
DR1979:0252
architecture
printed 1565
Perspective reconstruction of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Rome
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DR1979:0252
architecture