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AP195
Synopsis:
The Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records, 1996-2015, consist of approximately 43,800 digital files that document the design and construction of an interactive science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Materials related to presentations, publications, events, and the press are also represented. Formats include chiefly CAD files, especially plotter files and AutoCAD drawings, though related text documents and images are also represented. The majority of the records date from 2000 to 2006.
1996 - 2015
Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records
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AP195
Synopsis:
The Zaha Hadid Architects Phaeno Science Centre project records, 1996-2015, consist of approximately 43,800 digital files that document the design and construction of an interactive science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. Materials related to presentations, publications, events, and the press are also represented. Formats include chiefly CAD files, especially plotter files and AutoCAD drawings, though related text documents and images are also represented. The majority of the records date from 2000 to 2006.
archives
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Fonds
1996 - 2015
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McGill University
AP109.S1.SS1
Description:
The McGill University subseries, circa 1948 – 1958, consists of material created by Desbarats while studying at the McGill School of Architecture as well as records related to a later project for McGill’s Committee of Physical Planning and an alumni event at the university. The sub-series includes student sketches and portraiture, architectural drawings, Desbarats’ Bachelor of Architecture diploma, a project report, and a class reunion brochure.
circa 1948 - 1958
McGill University
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AP109.S1.SS1
Description:
The McGill University subseries, circa 1948 – 1958, consists of material created by Desbarats while studying at the McGill School of Architecture as well as records related to a later project for McGill’s Committee of Physical Planning and an alumni event at the university. The sub-series includes student sketches and portraiture, architectural drawings, Desbarats’ Bachelor of Architecture diploma, a project report, and a class reunion brochure.
Sub-series 1
circa 1948 - 1958
Sub-series
Photographs
AP116.S3.SS6.D2
Description:
File documents the In ANY Event symposium, Architecture and the Feminine: Mop-up Work proceedings and provides photographic material for issue 4 of ANY magazine of the same title. Material in file was produced in 1993. File contains a file of photographs and negatives.
1993
Photographs
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AP116.S3.SS6.D2
Description:
File documents the In ANY Event symposium, Architecture and the Feminine: Mop-up Work proceedings and provides photographic material for issue 4 of ANY magazine of the same title. Material in file was produced in 1993. File contains a file of photographs and negatives.
File 2
1993
archives
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Fonds
Kenneth Frampton fonds
AP197
Synopsis:
The Kenneth Frampton fonds, 1958-2016, documents the professional career of Kenneth Frampton – British architect, historian, theorist, and Ware professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Materials in the fonds consist of approximately 28.37 l.m. of textual records, 3966 photographs and prints, 3168 postcards, 2733 slides, 824 drawings (including reprographic copies), 470 negatives, 151 35 mm negatives, 105 posters, 30 objects, 23 audio cassettes, 18 VHS tapes, 15 transparencies, 3 tape reels, 2 microfilms, and 2 vinyl records.
1958-2016
Kenneth Frampton fonds
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AP197
Synopsis:
The Kenneth Frampton fonds, 1958-2016, documents the professional career of Kenneth Frampton – British architect, historian, theorist, and Ware professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Materials in the fonds consist of approximately 28.37 l.m. of textual records, 3966 photographs and prints, 3168 postcards, 2733 slides, 824 drawings (including reprographic copies), 470 negatives, 151 35 mm negatives, 105 posters, 30 objects, 23 audio cassettes, 18 VHS tapes, 15 transparencies, 3 tape reels, 2 microfilms, and 2 vinyl records.
archives
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Fonds
1958-2016
Sub-series
General Textual Files
AP116.S3.SS20.D1
Description:
File documents some of the planning and editorial activities for the production of Public Fear: What's So Scary About Architecture?, issue 18 of ANY magazine (May), and the preceding In ANY Event Symposium held 25 January 1997 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York. Material in file was produced between 1996 and 1997. File contains correspondence, clippings, photographic material, lay-out mock-ups, production schedules, symposium schedule, informational texts, budgets, and invitations.
1996-1997
General Textual Files
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AP116.S3.SS20.D1
Description:
File documents some of the planning and editorial activities for the production of Public Fear: What's So Scary About Architecture?, issue 18 of ANY magazine (May), and the preceding In ANY Event Symposium held 25 January 1997 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York. Material in file was produced between 1996 and 1997. File contains correspondence, clippings, photographic material, lay-out mock-ups, production schedules, symposium schedule, informational texts, budgets, and invitations.
File 1
1996-1997
Project
Habitat Pavilion
AP022.S1.1975.PR04
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File documents a temporary pavilion built for the 1976 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, British Columbia. The pavilion consisted of a reception and public information centre primarily constructed out of paper maché modules, and it displayed an exhibition related to a parallel event, the Manila-Tondo Foreshore Architectural Compeition (1976) held in Manilla, the Plilippines. File contains sketches, photographs, textual documents.
1975-1976
Habitat Pavilion
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AP022.S1.1975.PR04
Description:
File documents a temporary pavilion built for the 1976 United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Vancouver, British Columbia. The pavilion consisted of a reception and public information centre primarily constructed out of paper maché modules, and it displayed an exhibition related to a parallel event, the Manila-Tondo Foreshore Architectural Compeition (1976) held in Manilla, the Plilippines. File contains sketches, photographs, textual documents.
Project
1975-1976
archives
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Fonds
AP140
Synopsis:
The James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford. It pertains to their work as architectural students, and to the architectural and urban planning projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; Michael Wilford and Partners; Michael Wilford GmbH; and Wilford Schupp Architekten GmbH, as well as by the firms of Michael Wilford Architects and Michael Wilford + MUMA. Significant British and German projects designed by the firms of James Stirling and Partner and successive firms are particularly well represented in the fonds.
circa 1939-2004
James Stirling / Michael Wilford fonds
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AP140
Synopsis:
The James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds documents the personal activities and professional practice of architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford. It pertains to their work as architectural students, and to the architectural and urban planning projects by the successive firms of Stirling and Gowan; James Stirling; James Stirling and Partner; James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates; Michael Wilford and Partners; Michael Wilford GmbH; and Wilford Schupp Architekten GmbH, as well as by the firms of Michael Wilford Architects and Michael Wilford + MUMA. Significant British and German projects designed by the firms of James Stirling and Partner and successive firms are particularly well represented in the fonds.
archives
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Fonds
circa 1939-2004
archives
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Fonds
Gianni Pettena fonds
AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
1960-2019
Gianni Pettena fonds
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AP207
Synopsis:
The Gianni Pettena fonds documents Pettena’s work as an artist, architect, critic, and professor of history of contemporary architecture from the 1960s to the end of the 2010s. It includes one hundred artistic and architectural projects, material related to exhibitions he curated and designed, and his writings.
archives
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Fonds
1960-2019
Series
AP041.S6
Description:
This series documents Melvin Charney's student years, travels and professional activities, artistic and architectural projects from 1947 to 2010. The series contains notebooks and sketchbooks related to Charney's studies, his travels in Europe, as well as notes and sketches related to his projects. It also contains travel photographs, photographic documentation of his projects and his artworks, collected ephemera of events of interest or events to which he participated, including exhibitions. The series includes also reference materials, such as publications and press clippings, used for his artistic and architectural work, and some awards and honours received by Melvin Charney during his career.
1902-2010
Professional papers and other materials
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AP041.S6
Description:
This series documents Melvin Charney's student years, travels and professional activities, artistic and architectural projects from 1947 to 2010. The series contains notebooks and sketchbooks related to Charney's studies, his travels in Europe, as well as notes and sketches related to his projects. It also contains travel photographs, photographic documentation of his projects and his artworks, collected ephemera of events of interest or events to which he participated, including exhibitions. The series includes also reference materials, such as publications and press clippings, used for his artistic and architectural work, and some awards and honours received by Melvin Charney during his career.
Series
1902-2010
Series
AP133.S4
Description:
This series documents some of Pierre du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian and author. It contains documents related to his involvement in congresses and conferences, such as correspondence, draft texts and ephemeras for his lecture at the Centre Jacques Cartier in Lyon, in 1994, and event planning documents, correspondence, reports and proceedings related to his attendance at the international congress of the PEN Club, a worldwide association of writers, in Abidjan, in 1967. The series also contains sound recordings of a panel at the "The Citizen, Architecture and the Urban Environment" seminar in 1991. The series is also comprised of general correspondence, du Prey’s agendas from 1981 to 1984, and correspondence, press clippings and invitations from or about the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
1967-2001
Correspondence, lectures, conferences, and agendas
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AP133.S4
Description:
This series documents some of Pierre du Prey's professional activities as an architectural historian and author. It contains documents related to his involvement in congresses and conferences, such as correspondence, draft texts and ephemeras for his lecture at the Centre Jacques Cartier in Lyon, in 1994, and event planning documents, correspondence, reports and proceedings related to his attendance at the international congress of the PEN Club, a worldwide association of writers, in Abidjan, in 1967. The series also contains sound recordings of a panel at the "The Citizen, Architecture and the Urban Environment" seminar in 1991. The series is also comprised of general correspondence, du Prey’s agendas from 1981 to 1984, and correspondence, press clippings and invitations from or about the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Series
1967-2001