textual records
Media: Correspondence
ARCH252261
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-Correspondence with journalists, photographers, filmmakers, television people re: IFCCA Prize -CCA internal correspondence re: journalists, procedure for distribution of press clippings, media relations strategy -Correspondence with the Kreisberg Group re: media strategy
1998-1999
Media: Correspondence
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ARCH252261
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-Correspondence with journalists, photographers, filmmakers, television people re: IFCCA Prize -CCA internal correspondence re: journalists, procedure for distribution of press clippings, media relations strategy -Correspondence with the Kreisberg Group re: media strategy
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1998-1999
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
7 November 2007 to 20 April 2008
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
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1973: Sorry, Out of Gas captures the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the value of oil increased exponentially and triggered economic, political, and social upheaval across the world. Featuring over 350 objects including architectural drawings, photographs, books and pamphlets, archival television footage, and historical artefacts, it maps the(...)
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DR1999:0128
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files for bid documents, correspondence, contractors, budget, floor plans, appliances, New York City Building Department, elevators, lavatories, cable television, meeting minutes, plumbing, electrical, schedule, landmarks information, change order, field reports, shop drawings, meeting minutes, sketch log, blueprints (piping, wiring, roof), housing code
Files for bid documents, correspondence, contractors
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DR1999:0128
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files for bid documents, correspondence, contractors, budget, floor plans, appliances, New York City Building Department, elevators, lavatories, cable television, meeting minutes, plumbing, electrical, schedule, landmarks information, change order, field reports, shop drawings, meeting minutes, sketch log, blueprints (piping, wiring, roof), housing code
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Series
Audio-Visual Materials
AP144.S8
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Series contains audio-visual materials, including audio reels, audiocassettes, a film reel and videocassettes that document Cedric Price's projects, lectures, presentations, gallery talks, and interviews. Audiocassettes also include recordings of lectures presented at the AA, office design chats, conversations with clients (Generator, 1977-78), design notes, and site visits. Series also includes audio-visual materials from other sources, such as BBC radio and television broadcasts, as well as commercially-produced material such as 'Insite: the Video Magazine for Architects' (1986-87). Also included is a set consisting of 24 slides and one audiocassette by Cedric Price, titled 'Technology is the Answer but What Was the Question', (Pidgeon Audio Visual). Material in this series was produced between 1966 and 1987.
1966-1987
Audio-Visual Materials
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AP144.S8
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Series contains audio-visual materials, including audio reels, audiocassettes, a film reel and videocassettes that document Cedric Price's projects, lectures, presentations, gallery talks, and interviews. Audiocassettes also include recordings of lectures presented at the AA, office design chats, conversations with clients (Generator, 1977-78), design notes, and site visits. Series also includes audio-visual materials from other sources, such as BBC radio and television broadcasts, as well as commercially-produced material such as 'Insite: the Video Magazine for Architects' (1986-87). Also included is a set consisting of 24 slides and one audiocassette by Cedric Price, titled 'Technology is the Answer but What Was the Question', (Pidgeon Audio Visual). Material in this series was produced between 1966 and 1987.
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1966-1987
Series
Professional activities
AP022.S4
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Series documents professional activities of Arthur Erickson outside of designing buildings, including awards and honours, such as the Massey Medals for Architecture and others, Erickson involvement with professional associations as well as addresses and writings by Erickson, book projects, conferences and workshops. The series contains correspondence with professional associations, certificats and medals received by Erickson throughout his career, invitations to events, drafts, notes and texts for lectures, conferences programs, and recordings of various televisions appearances of Erickson.
1955-1999 (predominant 1964-1989)
Professional activities
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AP022.S4
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Series documents professional activities of Arthur Erickson outside of designing buildings, including awards and honours, such as the Massey Medals for Architecture and others, Erickson involvement with professional associations as well as addresses and writings by Erickson, book projects, conferences and workshops. The series contains correspondence with professional associations, certificats and medals received by Erickson throughout his career, invitations to events, drafts, notes and texts for lectures, conferences programs, and recordings of various televisions appearances of Erickson.
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1955-1999 (predominant 1964-1989)
This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
Project
AP207.S1.1979.PR01
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The project series documents the performance "Isole Abbandonate Della Laguna" held at the Palazzo Grassi, in Venezia, during "The Art of Performance" in 1979. The setting for the performance is similar to a lecture, where the performer stands on a podium placed above television screens playing films on the abandoned islands of the Venetian Lagoon. The performer remains silent, walking around the stage. "He finally stops at the stand but, while he should speak about the environment and its pollution, his lips remain sealed. After trying several times he disappears upwards, into “the darkness of his failures“." [1] The project series contains photographs of the performance and storyboards. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-abandoned-islands-1979/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
circa 1979-2018
Isole Abbandonate Della Laguna [The Abandoned Islands of the Lagoon] (1979)
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AP207.S1.1979.PR01
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The project series documents the performance "Isole Abbandonate Della Laguna" held at the Palazzo Grassi, in Venezia, during "The Art of Performance" in 1979. The setting for the performance is similar to a lecture, where the performer stands on a podium placed above television screens playing films on the abandoned islands of the Venetian Lagoon. The performer remains silent, walking around the stage. "He finally stops at the stand but, while he should speak about the environment and its pollution, his lips remain sealed. After trying several times he disappears upwards, into “the darkness of his failures“." [1] The project series contains photographs of the performance and storyboards. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-abandoned-islands-1979/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
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circa 1979-2018
Project
AP207.S1.2011.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "La Linea Del Tempo" presented at the Galleria Quadro 096, in Fiesole, in 2011. The installation consists of an architect's drawing table, of which the top gives the illusion of sinking in. The installation is accompanied by a television playing Pettena's 1971 movie "Intens" playing on a loop. "The idea of presenting together things that were conceived in years so distant that they can easily be thought of as two different seasons of life is meant to underline the author’s conceptual coherence on the subject of his own interest regarding the architect’s profession." [1] The project series contains three photographs of the installation and a project description. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-time-line-2011/ (last accessed 23 January 2020).
2011-2015
La Linea Del Tempo [Time Line] (2011)
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AP207.S1.2011.PR01
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The project series documents the installation "La Linea Del Tempo" presented at the Galleria Quadro 096, in Fiesole, in 2011. The installation consists of an architect's drawing table, of which the top gives the illusion of sinking in. The installation is accompanied by a television playing Pettena's 1971 movie "Intens" playing on a loop. "The idea of presenting together things that were conceived in years so distant that they can easily be thought of as two different seasons of life is meant to underline the author’s conceptual coherence on the subject of his own interest regarding the architect’s profession." [1] The project series contains three photographs of the installation and a project description. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-time-line-2011/ (last accessed 23 January 2020).
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2011-2015
DR1988:0265
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- The title "Teaching building in the Atlantic Ocean" is taken from the print DR1988:0022:003, which may be a print of this drawing. The inscription "FERNSEHTURM" was used as the alternate title since it would be translated today as "television tower", and this seems an unlikely title for a drawing dated 1919.
architecture
1919
Teaching building in the Atlantic Ocean
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DR1988:0265
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- The title "Teaching building in the Atlantic Ocean" is taken from the print DR1988:0022:003, which may be a print of this drawing. The inscription "FERNSEHTURM" was used as the alternate title since it would be translated today as "television tower", and this seems an unlikely title for a drawing dated 1919.
architecture
archives
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Fonds
Douglas C. Simpson fonds
AP076
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The Douglas C. Simpson fonds documents Simpson's 1938 graduation thesis project, residential projects from early in his career in Ottawa, furniture projects, and residential and commercial projects in British Columbia including those by the firm Semmens, Simpson. The fonds is composed primarily of drawings and photographs dating from 1938-1992, with the bulk of the documents ranging from ca. 1940 to ca. 1960.
1938-1992, [predominant ca. 1940-ca. 1960]
Douglas C. Simpson fonds
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AP076
Synopsis:
The Douglas C. Simpson fonds documents Simpson's 1938 graduation thesis project, residential projects from early in his career in Ottawa, furniture projects, and residential and commercial projects in British Columbia including those by the firm Semmens, Simpson. The fonds is composed primarily of drawings and photographs dating from 1938-1992, with the bulk of the documents ranging from ca. 1940 to ca. 1960.
archives
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Fonds
1938-1992, [predominant ca. 1940-ca. 1960]