Adam Caruso of Caruso St John and Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects address topics they consider to be of vital importance and urgency in contemporary architectural practice. Their individual presentations are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing(...)
12 June 2009
Urgency 2009: Adam Caruso and Brigitte Shim
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Adam Caruso of Caruso St John and Brigitte Shim of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects address topics they consider to be of vital importance and urgency in contemporary architectural practice. Their individual presentations are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing(...)
Project
Miller House
AP143.S4.D11
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File documents an executed project for the Miller House, Lakeville, Connecticut, a vacation and weekend house for Mr. Robert Miller constructed on a four and a half acre site on Wells Hill. Material in this file was produced between 1969 and 1971 and in 1974. Documents include 149 conceptual sketches (DR1994:0131:001-149); site plans (DR1994:0131:189-191); unnumbered working drawings (DR1994:0131:216-222); documents comprising excerpts of Eisenman's text "To Adolf Loos and Berthold Brecht", the architect's statement about House III (DR1994:0131:226-230); and a working model for House III (DR1994:0131:231). Conceptual drawings include plans, site plans, elevations, perspectives, and axonometrics - many black felt-tip pen and/or graphite on wove paper and many black felt-tip pen on tracing paper; and a manuscript - one pen and coloured ink on wove paper. Design development drawings include plans and site plans - mostly graphite on tracing vellum. Drawings for publication include axonometrics - many pen and black ink on wove paper; and a reprographic copy - one stat. Working drawings include plans, elevations, and details - all graphite on tracing vellum; and reprographic copies - one sepia print on vellum and one photocopy on mylar. Model includes one study model - beige paint on Fome-Cor. Notes include manuscripts - many black felt-tip pen on wove paper.
1969-1971, 1974, predominant 1969-1971
Miller House
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AP143.S4.D11
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File documents an executed project for the Miller House, Lakeville, Connecticut, a vacation and weekend house for Mr. Robert Miller constructed on a four and a half acre site on Wells Hill. Material in this file was produced between 1969 and 1971 and in 1974. Documents include 149 conceptual sketches (DR1994:0131:001-149); site plans (DR1994:0131:189-191); unnumbered working drawings (DR1994:0131:216-222); documents comprising excerpts of Eisenman's text "To Adolf Loos and Berthold Brecht", the architect's statement about House III (DR1994:0131:226-230); and a working model for House III (DR1994:0131:231). Conceptual drawings include plans, site plans, elevations, perspectives, and axonometrics - many black felt-tip pen and/or graphite on wove paper and many black felt-tip pen on tracing paper; and a manuscript - one pen and coloured ink on wove paper. Design development drawings include plans and site plans - mostly graphite on tracing vellum. Drawings for publication include axonometrics - many pen and black ink on wove paper; and a reprographic copy - one stat. Working drawings include plans, elevations, and details - all graphite on tracing vellum; and reprographic copies - one sepia print on vellum and one photocopy on mylar. Model includes one study model - beige paint on Fome-Cor. Notes include manuscripts - many black felt-tip pen on wove paper.
File 11
1969-1971, 1974, predominant 1969-1971
textual records, born digital, archives
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Fonds
Anyone Corporation fonds
AP116
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The Anyone Corporation fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic records which document the activities of the Anyone Corporation over the course of its planned ten year life span from 1990 to 2001. The non-profit, New York City based organization, was founded by Peter Eisenman, Cynthia Davidson, Arata Isozaki, and Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio in order to stimulate a fruitful dialogue between architecture and general culture at the dawn of the new millennium. To this end, ANY (acronym for Architecture New York) organised ten international conferences and numerous public seminars, as well as publishing conference journals, a series of architecture related books, and ANY, a theory driven bi-monthly magazine.
1990-2001
Anyone Corporation fonds
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AP116
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The Anyone Corporation fonds is composed primarily of textual and photographic records which document the activities of the Anyone Corporation over the course of its planned ten year life span from 1990 to 2001. The non-profit, New York City based organization, was founded by Peter Eisenman, Cynthia Davidson, Arata Isozaki, and Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubio in order to stimulate a fruitful dialogue between architecture and general culture at the dawn of the new millennium. To this end, ANY (acronym for Architecture New York) organised ten international conferences and numerous public seminars, as well as publishing conference journals, a series of architecture related books, and ANY, a theory driven bi-monthly magazine.
textual records, born digital, archives
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Fonds
1990-2001
10 file
ARCH242871
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John Hejduk on Proust (interview by Peter Eisenman) PDE (Peter Eisenman) Seminar 2, 7/17/91 (on The Nature of the Architectural Sign) Interview with unidentified female author Interview with Bernard Cache (2 cassettes) To Ed Gunn, (presentation by) Dave Hickey (2/20/95) - To Ed Gunn, important transcription of Alan Platus, May 26th 1995 Interview 1, 2 and 3 by Mr. Fredric Jameson (3 cassettes)
1993 - 1995
Miscellaneous Audio Recordings, 1993 - 1995
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ARCH242871
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John Hejduk on Proust (interview by Peter Eisenman) PDE (Peter Eisenman) Seminar 2, 7/17/91 (on The Nature of the Architectural Sign) Interview with unidentified female author Interview with Bernard Cache (2 cassettes) To Ed Gunn, (presentation by) Dave Hickey (2/20/95) - To Ed Gunn, important transcription of Alan Platus, May 26th 1995 Interview 1, 2 and 3 by Mr. Fredric Jameson (3 cassettes)
10 file
1993 - 1995
Project
Cronenberg Virtual Museum
AP143.S4.D122
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File documents an unrealized project for a virtual museum of David Cronenberg in which each room in the museum would be dedicated to a different film.
1997
Cronenberg Virtual Museum
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AP143.S4.D122
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File documents an unrealized project for a virtual museum of David Cronenberg in which each room in the museum would be dedicated to a different film.
File 122
1997
Project
AP143.S4.D22
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File documents the executed project for the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Material in this file was produced between 1977 and 1989. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, working drawings, competition drawings, presentation drawings, record drawings, reference drawings, publication drawings, photographic material, reference drawings, CD-Rs, textual records, and a model. Textual records include conceptual drawings, some by Eisenman (DR1994:0149:001-1138). Design development drawings and final working drawings are organized chronologically: 1983 (DR1994:0149:1139-1140), 1984 (DR1994:00149:1141-1294), 1985 (DR1994:00149:1295-1542), 1986 (DR1994:0149:1543-1577), 1988 (DR1994:0149:1578-1582), and 1989 (DR1994:0149:1583-1642). Competition drawings include original drawings (DR1994:0149:1643-1662) and KC5 negatives (DR1994:0149:1670-1754) used to produce the final presentation panels (DR1994:0149:1755-1756). Lithographs DR1994:0149:1757-1774 were used as presentation drawings. Reference drawings include site plans provided by the client (DR1994:0149:1780-1821), aerial photographs (DR1994:0149:1822-1823), photographs of the existing buildings on the proposed site (DR1994:0149:1824-1827) and measured drawings of the armoury, and shop drawings by Jules Fisher & Paul Marantz, Inc. Architectural Lighting Design. Eisenman published a book on the Wexner Center in 1989, and the cover and galleys are included in this group (cover: DR1994:0149:1828; galleys: DR1994:0149:1829-1831). Textual records include competition information, program, agreements, correspondence, specifications, construction progress, plans, and photographs.
1977-1989
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts
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AP143.S4.D22
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File documents the executed project for the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Material in this file was produced between 1977 and 1989. File contains conceptual drawings, design development drawings, working drawings, competition drawings, presentation drawings, record drawings, reference drawings, publication drawings, photographic material, reference drawings, CD-Rs, textual records, and a model. Textual records include conceptual drawings, some by Eisenman (DR1994:0149:001-1138). Design development drawings and final working drawings are organized chronologically: 1983 (DR1994:0149:1139-1140), 1984 (DR1994:00149:1141-1294), 1985 (DR1994:00149:1295-1542), 1986 (DR1994:0149:1543-1577), 1988 (DR1994:0149:1578-1582), and 1989 (DR1994:0149:1583-1642). Competition drawings include original drawings (DR1994:0149:1643-1662) and KC5 negatives (DR1994:0149:1670-1754) used to produce the final presentation panels (DR1994:0149:1755-1756). Lithographs DR1994:0149:1757-1774 were used as presentation drawings. Reference drawings include site plans provided by the client (DR1994:0149:1780-1821), aerial photographs (DR1994:0149:1822-1823), photographs of the existing buildings on the proposed site (DR1994:0149:1824-1827) and measured drawings of the armoury, and shop drawings by Jules Fisher & Paul Marantz, Inc. Architectural Lighting Design. Eisenman published a book on the Wexner Center in 1989, and the cover and galleys are included in this group (cover: DR1994:0149:1828; galleys: DR1994:0149:1829-1831). Textual records include competition information, program, agreements, correspondence, specifications, construction progress, plans, and photographs.
File 22
1977-1989
Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Main galleries
15 November 2000 to 1 April 2001
New York: CCA Competition for the Design of Cities
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Launched in November 1998 by the International Foundation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The CCA Competition for the Design of Cities invited architects from around the world to submit solutions to a problem facing all major cities at the dawn of the twenty-first century: how to repair the scars left by transportation structures that are vestiges from a bygone(...)
Main galleries
Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
13 June 2008
Urgency 2008: Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang
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Renowned for their innovative projects and thinking, Greg Lynn and Yung Ho Chang present issues of vital importance in contemporary practice. Individual presentations by Lynn and Chang are followed by a conversation moderated by CCA Director Mirko Zardini. The Urgency series reflects the CCA’s ongoing exploration of critical issues facing architecture and contemporary(...)
drawings
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6 drawing(s)
DR1994:0152:001-005
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This group of material for a house by architect Stanley C. Reese [name partially illeg.] includes two perspectives and one section on tracing paper, and three diazotypes showing an elevation and two plans.
architecture
1951-1978
Material for a house by architect Stanley C. Reese
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DR1994:0152:001-005
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This group of material for a house by architect Stanley C. Reese [name partially illeg.] includes two perspectives and one section on tracing paper, and three diazotypes showing an elevation and two plans.
drawings
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6 drawing(s)
1951-1978
architecture
Project
House with Stanley C. Reese
AP143.S4.D190
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File documents the executed [?] project for a House with Stanley C. Reese. Material in this file was produced between 1951 and 1978. File contains presentation drawings.
[1951-1978]
House with Stanley C. Reese
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AP143.S4.D190
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File documents the executed [?] project for a House with Stanley C. Reese. Material in this file was produced between 1951 and 1978. File contains presentation drawings.
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[1951-1978]