15 August 2019, 6:30pm
photographs
AP140.S2.SS7.D2.P8
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views of projects by the successive firms of James Stirling, James Stirling and Partner and James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates, including the History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, and Dorman Long Headquarters, and one view of the State Gallery Addition and New Chamber Theatre, and of the Biennale Bookshop, also views of Liverpool, probably photographed in the early 1960s, of the Maison de verre in Paris by architect Pierre Charreau, of the Villa Lante, in Bagnaia, Italy, of Villa Caprola, of churches by architect Balthasar Neumann, of buildings by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, also views of Gloucester, Oxford, Salisbury, Longleat, Blenheim, Bath and Stourhead, and of travels in the United States, probably photographed in the 1950s or early 1960s, in Berlin, in Italy, dated 1975, Spain, dated 1976, India, dated 1975 and 1986, Iran, dated 1976, Lambay Island, dated 1981, and Venice, dated 1984
Views of projects by the successive firms of James Stirling
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AP140.S2.SS7.D2.P8
Description:
views of projects by the successive firms of James Stirling, James Stirling and Partner and James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates, including the History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge, and Dorman Long Headquarters, and one view of the State Gallery Addition and New Chamber Theatre, and of the Biennale Bookshop, also views of Liverpool, probably photographed in the early 1960s, of the Maison de verre in Paris by architect Pierre Charreau, of the Villa Lante, in Bagnaia, Italy, of Villa Caprola, of churches by architect Balthasar Neumann, of buildings by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, also views of Gloucester, Oxford, Salisbury, Longleat, Blenheim, Bath and Stourhead, and of travels in the United States, probably photographed in the 1950s or early 1960s, in Berlin, in Italy, dated 1975, Spain, dated 1976, India, dated 1975 and 1986, Iran, dated 1976, Lambay Island, dated 1981, and Venice, dated 1984
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archives
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AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
1996-2015
RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
Synopsis:
The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
archives
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1996-2015
DR1974:0002:005:001-018
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- This album contains four folios of text in Italian concerning the history and architecture of the Museo di fiscia e storia naturale, Florence. The names of the museum's patrons and the parts of the museum have been inserted by a contemporary hand on the lithographs in pen and black ink. The text is followed by ten lithographs, including a perspectival view of the museum, four general plans, two sections, and more detailed sections, plans and elevations of the Tribuna de Galileo designed by Giuseppe Martelli and the Osservatorio Astronomico designed by Gaspero Paoletti. Also included in the album are four manuscripts, all in French: a letter presenting the album to Rohault de Fleury from Vincenzio Antinori, the director of the museum, a transcript of Rohault de Fleury's letters of thanks to Antorini and to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a note from the Légation de Toscanne in Paris concerning the presentation of the album, and a booklet containing Rohault de Fleury's translation of the album text into French.
architecture
printed between 1845 and 1846, manuscripts written 1846
Presentation album of prints of the Museo di fisica e storia naturelle, Florence
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DR1974:0002:005:001-018
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- This album contains four folios of text in Italian concerning the history and architecture of the Museo di fiscia e storia naturale, Florence. The names of the museum's patrons and the parts of the museum have been inserted by a contemporary hand on the lithographs in pen and black ink. The text is followed by ten lithographs, including a perspectival view of the museum, four general plans, two sections, and more detailed sections, plans and elevations of the Tribuna de Galileo designed by Giuseppe Martelli and the Osservatorio Astronomico designed by Gaspero Paoletti. Also included in the album are four manuscripts, all in French: a letter presenting the album to Rohault de Fleury from Vincenzio Antinori, the director of the museum, a transcript of Rohault de Fleury's letters of thanks to Antorini and to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a note from the Légation de Toscanne in Paris concerning the presentation of the album, and a booklet containing Rohault de Fleury's translation of the album text into French.
architecture
articles
Material Witness
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Susanne Kriemann, conversation, oral history, radioactive landscapes
11 March 2024
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New Documentary
The Lives of Documents, Photography as a Project, Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, Takashi Homma, conversation, oral history, waves, mushrooms
15 May 2023
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Journeys and translation
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machine learning, machine learning tool, architectural drawings, trees, AI, artificial intelligence, architectural history, protocols, toolkit, research methods
10 July 2023
Learning from Machine Learning
Sylvia Lavin on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
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Project documentation for presentation purposes for Erickson's museums and galleries projects
ARCH274183
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Photographic documentation of various projects filed under, "Museums and Galleries." Contains slides of plans, models and completed projects where applicable. Includes: Children's Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (1959); Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (1962); Centennial Museum Complex, Vancouver, BC (1965); Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, BC (1967); Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MN (1967); Centre du Plateau Beaubourg, Paris, France (1971); Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (1972); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, with David Boulva Cleve (1975); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (1979); SANCST Science Halls, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1982); Visual Arts Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, with Feinknopf Macioce Schappa (1983); Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, ON (1984); Fine Arts Complex, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (1985); Museum of History, Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, with Tao Ho (1985); Discovery Place, Prince George, BC (1986); Vernon Art Museum and Gallery, Vernon, BC (1987); Museum of Anthropology Expansion, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (1988).
21 October 1994
Project documentation for presentation purposes for Erickson's museums and galleries projects
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ARCH274183
Description:
Photographic documentation of various projects filed under, "Museums and Galleries." Contains slides of plans, models and completed projects where applicable. Includes: Children's Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (1959); Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (1962); Centennial Museum Complex, Vancouver, BC (1965); Vancouver Aquarium, Vancouver, BC (1967); Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MN (1967); Centre du Plateau Beaubourg, Paris, France (1971); Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (1972); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, with David Boulva Cleve (1975); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC (1979); SANCST Science Halls, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1982); Visual Arts Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, with Feinknopf Macioce Schappa (1983); Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, ON (1984); Fine Arts Complex, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (1985); Museum of History, Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, with Tao Ho (1985); Discovery Place, Prince George, BC (1986); Vernon Art Museum and Gallery, Vernon, BC (1987); Museum of Anthropology Expansion, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (1988).
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21 October 1994