Sub-series
AP178.S1.1980.PR02.SS2
Description:
This project subseries documents the residential complex Bonjour Tristesse after Siza won the competition for Block 121. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 2/80 A. Drawings in this subseries show changes between the competition entry for Bonjour Tristesse and the built project. For instance, drawings depict the decision to reduce the number of floors, as well as Siza’s proposal to preserve the ground floor shops that remained from the previous building. Other changes documented include changes in the number of staircases as well the omission of an entrance ramp. Documenting this project subseries are sketches, studies, plans, elevations, and details. There are photographs, negatives, and slides that show the construction site and the building during and after construction. There are also photographs and negatives of the model for Bonjour Tristesse. For correspondence and project documentation see the project series.
circa 1981-2005
Edificio de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse [Bonjour Tristesse residential complex], Berlin, Germany (1980-1984)
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AP178.S1.1980.PR02.SS2
Description:
This project subseries documents the residential complex Bonjour Tristesse after Siza won the competition for Block 121. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 2/80 A. Drawings in this subseries show changes between the competition entry for Bonjour Tristesse and the built project. For instance, drawings depict the decision to reduce the number of floors, as well as Siza’s proposal to preserve the ground floor shops that remained from the previous building. Other changes documented include changes in the number of staircases as well the omission of an entrance ramp. Documenting this project subseries are sketches, studies, plans, elevations, and details. There are photographs, negatives, and slides that show the construction site and the building during and after construction. There are also photographs and negatives of the model for Bonjour Tristesse. For correspondence and project documentation see the project series.
Project
circa 1981-2005
Project
AP140.S2.SS1.D57
Description:
File documents a successful competition entry and an executed project for the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, a social research centre located in Berlin, Germany. An addition to unit E of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung was built in 1994 and 1995, according to the design by the firm of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates and based on the 1983 planning permission. Material in this file was produced between 1974 and 1993. File contains reference documents, several conceptual and design development drawings, and presentation drawings submitted for the competition or produced for publication purposes. A large number of working drawings is also present in the file. Photographic materials includes photographs of models by John Donat Photography and Udo Hesse, and of the completed building by photographers Richard Bryant, Reinhard Görner, Waltraud Krase and Klaus Lehnartz. File also contains textual records and a small study model of the research centre.
1974-1993, predominant 1979-1988
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Competition and Construction, Berlin, Germany
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AP140.S2.SS1.D57
Description:
File documents a successful competition entry and an executed project for the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, a social research centre located in Berlin, Germany. An addition to unit E of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung was built in 1994 and 1995, according to the design by the firm of James Stirling, Michael Wilford, and Associates and based on the 1983 planning permission. Material in this file was produced between 1974 and 1993. File contains reference documents, several conceptual and design development drawings, and presentation drawings submitted for the competition or produced for publication purposes. A large number of working drawings is also present in the file. Photographic materials includes photographs of models by John Donat Photography and Udo Hesse, and of the completed building by photographers Richard Bryant, Reinhard Görner, Waltraud Krase and Klaus Lehnartz. File also contains textual records and a small study model of the research centre.
File 57
1974-1993, predominant 1979-1988
Series
Personal Papers
AP032.S1
Description:
This series contains chronologically-arranged papers, photographs and drawings concerning Goldsmith's life from about the time of his enrollment at the Armour Institute in Chicago, to the mid-1950s when he returned from Europe to America to join Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. These documents are records of Goldsmith's early influences, and his education and training as an architect at the Armour Institute (later the Illinois Institute of Technology) and at the University of Rome. The papers also concern his service as an structural engineer in the U.S. armed forces, work in the office of Mies van der Rohe, and travels in Europe in the early 1950's all of which could be also considered as part of his education. The documents in this series are interesting for the quantity of Goldsmith's student sketches and research notes, including lectures by and observations on Mies van der Rohe and Pier Luigi Nervi. Moreover, correspondence, notes and photographs reveal a variety of other important influences on the young Goldsmith, such as a pilgrimage to visit Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesan East, and letters to Buckminister Fuller. Of particular interest are the papers concerning Mies van der Rohe as teacher, mentor and friend to Goldsmith. The fonds contains various documents from office files, including Goldsmith's notations on projects like the Farnsworth House, and collections of period photographs and blueprints of Mies' buildings and furniture designs. Related documentation on Mies exists in various files throughout the fonds, especially in the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project located in Series 3: Professional Activities - Teaching. The last section in this series, Papers and Correspondence, which consists of personal and business papers dating from the late 1950's to the mid-1990's. This material includes the Goldsmith-Ferris Portfolio, a collection of 150 mounted photographs (possibly for an exhibition) that presents mostly Goldsmith's collaborative work with architect James Ferris, from the experimental projects in reinforced concrete in Rome to the Kitt Peak Solar Telescope of 1962. Also included are documents concerning Mies van der Rohe's Mansion House Square scheme as revived by architect Peter Carter (1982-84).
1931-1995
Personal Papers
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AP032.S1
Description:
This series contains chronologically-arranged papers, photographs and drawings concerning Goldsmith's life from about the time of his enrollment at the Armour Institute in Chicago, to the mid-1950s when he returned from Europe to America to join Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. These documents are records of Goldsmith's early influences, and his education and training as an architect at the Armour Institute (later the Illinois Institute of Technology) and at the University of Rome. The papers also concern his service as an structural engineer in the U.S. armed forces, work in the office of Mies van der Rohe, and travels in Europe in the early 1950's all of which could be also considered as part of his education. The documents in this series are interesting for the quantity of Goldsmith's student sketches and research notes, including lectures by and observations on Mies van der Rohe and Pier Luigi Nervi. Moreover, correspondence, notes and photographs reveal a variety of other important influences on the young Goldsmith, such as a pilgrimage to visit Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesan East, and letters to Buckminister Fuller. Of particular interest are the papers concerning Mies van der Rohe as teacher, mentor and friend to Goldsmith. The fonds contains various documents from office files, including Goldsmith's notations on projects like the Farnsworth House, and collections of period photographs and blueprints of Mies' buildings and furniture designs. Related documentation on Mies exists in various files throughout the fonds, especially in the Mies van der Rohe Centennial Project located in Series 3: Professional Activities - Teaching. The last section in this series, Papers and Correspondence, which consists of personal and business papers dating from the late 1950's to the mid-1990's. This material includes the Goldsmith-Ferris Portfolio, a collection of 150 mounted photographs (possibly for an exhibition) that presents mostly Goldsmith's collaborative work with architect James Ferris, from the experimental projects in reinforced concrete in Rome to the Kitt Peak Solar Telescope of 1962. Also included are documents concerning Mies van der Rohe's Mansion House Square scheme as revived by architect Peter Carter (1982-84).
Series 1
1931-1995
Project
Quinta da Bela Flor, Lisboa
CD034.S1.1976.PR01
Description:
This project series contains one reproduction of a photograph displayed in the exhibit to document the Quinta da Bela Flor neighbourhood, in Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibit text explained that: Artur Rosa's project in the neighbourhood grew out of a shanty town, built on a difficult site, dating back to the 19th century, with reports of families living in hillside caves that today flank the entrance to a nearby highway. The process was based on voluntary work, and its ending presented a huge disappointment to the local brigade. In 1976 and 1977, Artur Rosa, also a practicing artist, produced three works that reflected on SAAL, its failure and the subsequent sense of persecution felt by many brigade leaders. The decision not to present the project but rather the artistic interventions aims at revealing the performative nature of the process, its poetic intensity and the way it related to its protagonists. In 1977 the architect presented a performance at the Fine Arts Society in Lisbon in which he closed the documentation of the project in a darkened room. The following year, he presented a structure with the documentation closed inside, and finally he used the project drawings in a collage with photographs on the occasion of the first public tap in Quinta da Bela-Flor. Those poetic artistic interventions are his form of publicly mourning the end of the SAAL process. (The SAAL Process, Housing in Portugal 1974–76) Artur Rosa worked for SAAL/Lisbon and Central South with Etelvina José, Hélio Oliveira, José Luís Teles Rebolo, José Miguel Fonseca, Luís Pereira, Manuel Coutinho Raposo, Maria Fernanda Carvalho, Maria Isabel Rodrigues Lobo, Nuno Blanco Bártolo, Nuno Martins and the residents' association Cooperativa de Habitação Económica Bela Flor, that was founded on February 13th, 1976. The project included 288 dwellings. The operation began in September 1976, with a construction date in December 1976. This project series contains a reproduction of a photograph of a model. The original photograph was produced around 1976 and was reproduced in 2015 for the exhibit.
circa 1976
Quinta da Bela Flor, Lisboa
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CD034.S1.1976.PR01
Description:
This project series contains one reproduction of a photograph displayed in the exhibit to document the Quinta da Bela Flor neighbourhood, in Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibit text explained that: Artur Rosa's project in the neighbourhood grew out of a shanty town, built on a difficult site, dating back to the 19th century, with reports of families living in hillside caves that today flank the entrance to a nearby highway. The process was based on voluntary work, and its ending presented a huge disappointment to the local brigade. In 1976 and 1977, Artur Rosa, also a practicing artist, produced three works that reflected on SAAL, its failure and the subsequent sense of persecution felt by many brigade leaders. The decision not to present the project but rather the artistic interventions aims at revealing the performative nature of the process, its poetic intensity and the way it related to its protagonists. In 1977 the architect presented a performance at the Fine Arts Society in Lisbon in which he closed the documentation of the project in a darkened room. The following year, he presented a structure with the documentation closed inside, and finally he used the project drawings in a collage with photographs on the occasion of the first public tap in Quinta da Bela-Flor. Those poetic artistic interventions are his form of publicly mourning the end of the SAAL process. (The SAAL Process, Housing in Portugal 1974–76) Artur Rosa worked for SAAL/Lisbon and Central South with Etelvina José, Hélio Oliveira, José Luís Teles Rebolo, José Miguel Fonseca, Luís Pereira, Manuel Coutinho Raposo, Maria Fernanda Carvalho, Maria Isabel Rodrigues Lobo, Nuno Blanco Bártolo, Nuno Martins and the residents' association Cooperativa de Habitação Económica Bela Flor, that was founded on February 13th, 1976. The project included 288 dwellings. The operation began in September 1976, with a construction date in December 1976. This project series contains a reproduction of a photograph of a model. The original photograph was produced around 1976 and was reproduced in 2015 for the exhibit.
Project
circa 1976
Villa Weitz - Saint-François d'Assise - 1920-1924 - Salle des Fêtes - De La Croix-Rousse - 1924-1929
PH1986:0900.02
Description:
Album PH1986:0900.02 comprises 71 photographs of projects by architect Michel Roux-Spitz including Villa Weitz (1923), Église Saint-François d'Assise, and Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse, all in Lyon, France. Photographs of Villa Weitz show the façade, loggia, wrought iron gate, interior views with the staircase and vestibule, entrance door and hallway, living room, detail of the façade loggia and hall on the garden side, details of the mosaic, a display case, ceiling lamp in alabaster, bas-reliefs, study drawing for an interior and several views of a scale model. Photographs of the Église Saint-François d'Assise show views of the dome in glass concrete, the mosaic and iron balustrade. Several photographs show views of the Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse including the basement, ground floor, first and second floor plans, longitudinal section, main façade, the building site, rear façade, the staircase, the dome with glass by the Saint-Gobain factory in Lyon, the front lobby, the promenoir on the ground and first floors, the entrance with concrete clautras, overall views of the entrance, the gallery and rest area, entrance doors, the ventilation shield on the ceiling, views of one of the two staircases with walls made of concrete mullions and cathedral glass, concrete gutters and stairs made of massive Villebois stone, overall views of the concert hall, the orchestra and the stage.
architecture, interior design
1920-1929
Villa Weitz - Saint-François d'Assise - 1920-1924 - Salle des Fêtes - De La Croix-Rousse - 1924-1929
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PH1986:0900.02
Description:
Album PH1986:0900.02 comprises 71 photographs of projects by architect Michel Roux-Spitz including Villa Weitz (1923), Église Saint-François d'Assise, and Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse, all in Lyon, France. Photographs of Villa Weitz show the façade, loggia, wrought iron gate, interior views with the staircase and vestibule, entrance door and hallway, living room, detail of the façade loggia and hall on the garden side, details of the mosaic, a display case, ceiling lamp in alabaster, bas-reliefs, study drawing for an interior and several views of a scale model. Photographs of the Église Saint-François d'Assise show views of the dome in glass concrete, the mosaic and iron balustrade. Several photographs show views of the Salle des Fêtes De La Croix-Rousse including the basement, ground floor, first and second floor plans, longitudinal section, main façade, the building site, rear façade, the staircase, the dome with glass by the Saint-Gobain factory in Lyon, the front lobby, the promenoir on the ground and first floors, the entrance with concrete clautras, overall views of the entrance, the gallery and rest area, entrance doors, the ventilation shield on the ceiling, views of one of the two staircases with walls made of concrete mullions and cathedral glass, concrete gutters and stairs made of massive Villebois stone, overall views of the concert hall, the orchestra and the stage.
1920-1929
architecture, interior design
drawings, textual records, photographs
DR1988:0015:001-029
Description:
Part of a miscellaneous group of visual and textual documents collected by Oswald Mathias Ungers, apparently to represent the work of artists/architects in Die gläserne Kette. Primarily formal studies and other material relating to projects for buildings but also includes biographical material. Includes 17 drawings, 12 photographs, 9 prints, and 4 sheets of text. Most of the drawings are studies of architectonic massing of forms, a few are identified by project name, such as "Das Maler Haus" (the Painter's house) and the Christian Science Cathedral. Design of the subject of the photograph, drawing, or reproduction is attributed to Carl Krayl, following Ungers's attributions, unless otherwise stated. Many of the works in this group are inscribed with the name "Krayl" in blue ball-point pen; this might be the hand-writing of Frau L. Krayl who wrote the note on DR1988:0015:026 R/V. The photographs DR1988:0015:001 to DR1988:0015:006 are of the same model. Tim Benson has suggested that the model is a competition entry for changes to Alexanderplatz, Berlin (Shubert). DR1988:0015:007 to DR1988:0015:009 illustrate different views of the same plaster model. DR1988:0015:010 appears to be a photograph of a model for "Das Maler Haus", which is represented by the prints DR1988:0015:024 and DR1988:0015:025.
circa 1918-1945
Material from Carl Krayl mostly for Die gläserne Kette
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DR1988:0015:001-029
Description:
Part of a miscellaneous group of visual and textual documents collected by Oswald Mathias Ungers, apparently to represent the work of artists/architects in Die gläserne Kette. Primarily formal studies and other material relating to projects for buildings but also includes biographical material. Includes 17 drawings, 12 photographs, 9 prints, and 4 sheets of text. Most of the drawings are studies of architectonic massing of forms, a few are identified by project name, such as "Das Maler Haus" (the Painter's house) and the Christian Science Cathedral. Design of the subject of the photograph, drawing, or reproduction is attributed to Carl Krayl, following Ungers's attributions, unless otherwise stated. Many of the works in this group are inscribed with the name "Krayl" in blue ball-point pen; this might be the hand-writing of Frau L. Krayl who wrote the note on DR1988:0015:026 R/V. The photographs DR1988:0015:001 to DR1988:0015:006 are of the same model. Tim Benson has suggested that the model is a competition entry for changes to Alexanderplatz, Berlin (Shubert). DR1988:0015:007 to DR1988:0015:009 illustrate different views of the same plaster model. DR1988:0015:010 appears to be a photograph of a model for "Das Maler Haus", which is represented by the prints DR1988:0015:024 and DR1988:0015:025.
drawings, textual records, photographs
circa 1918-1945
photographs
PH1986:0901:023
Description:
- The inscription at l.c.: "The same", refers to photograph PH1986:0901:022 which immediately precedes this photograph in album PH1986:0901:001-045 and which is another view showing part of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan). - The title of a published identical image, "The Great Imperial Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, before the Burning, Pekin" is inaccurate, as Yuen Ming Yuen (now Yuanming Yuan) [Garden of Perfect Clarity], though near the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), is a separate garden complex (Naquin, pp. 312-314).
architecture, landscape architecture
between 6 October and 18 October 1860
View of a building in Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:023
Description:
- The inscription at l.c.: "The same", refers to photograph PH1986:0901:022 which immediately precedes this photograph in album PH1986:0901:001-045 and which is another view showing part of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan). - The title of a published identical image, "The Great Imperial Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, before the Burning, Pekin" is inaccurate, as Yuen Ming Yuen (now Yuanming Yuan) [Garden of Perfect Clarity], though near the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), is a separate garden complex (Naquin, pp. 312-314).
photographs
between 6 October and 18 October 1860
architecture, landscape architecture
photographs
Vues et Monuments de France
PH1986:0054:001-044
Description:
Album consists of 44 photographs of views of monuments of France, namely, churches, castles, ramparts, antique theatres and amphitheaters, hôtel de ville (city hall), palais de justice (law court), from such cities as Blois, Brioude, Arles, Nîmes, Avignon, Orange, Périgueux, Caen, Rouen and Lyons. As well, natural views are depicted from the regions of the Alps, the Dauphiné, the Savoy and the massif central. Baldus photographed the natural landscapes of glaciers, rocky chasms, alpine peaks and valleys of France. Several photographs of this album are also part of the album PLM (Chemins de Fer de Paris à la Méditerranée: PH1981:0816:001-069) and of the album Chemins de Fer du Nord: PH1981:1025:001-050).
architecture
ca. 1861
Vues et Monuments de France
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PH1986:0054:001-044
Description:
Album consists of 44 photographs of views of monuments of France, namely, churches, castles, ramparts, antique theatres and amphitheaters, hôtel de ville (city hall), palais de justice (law court), from such cities as Blois, Brioude, Arles, Nîmes, Avignon, Orange, Périgueux, Caen, Rouen and Lyons. As well, natural views are depicted from the regions of the Alps, the Dauphiné, the Savoy and the massif central. Baldus photographed the natural landscapes of glaciers, rocky chasms, alpine peaks and valleys of France. Several photographs of this album are also part of the album PLM (Chemins de Fer de Paris à la Méditerranée: PH1981:0816:001-069) and of the album Chemins de Fer du Nord: PH1981:1025:001-050).
photographs
ca. 1861
architecture
PHCON2002:0016:018
Description:
Binder documents correspondence addressed to Anne Alpert in New York City, New York and at her summer house in Sag Harbor, New York, along with memorabilia and photographs from the mid-1970s to the end of her life in 1997. Included are the letters of condolences following the deaths of her two sons, John Sebastian Matta, who died in 1976, and Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978. Also documented is Alpert's ongoing relationship with members of the Matta family, including Roberto Matta, Malitte Matta and their daughter Federica. Reviews and announcements of exhibitions by Roberto Matta as well as Matta-Clark are also included. Binder contains photographs and textual records.
1976-1997
Gordon Matta-Clark Mother's papers: Letters from 1976 to 1996
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PHCON2002:0016:018
Description:
Binder documents correspondence addressed to Anne Alpert in New York City, New York and at her summer house in Sag Harbor, New York, along with memorabilia and photographs from the mid-1970s to the end of her life in 1997. Included are the letters of condolences following the deaths of her two sons, John Sebastian Matta, who died in 1976, and Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978. Also documented is Alpert's ongoing relationship with members of the Matta family, including Roberto Matta, Malitte Matta and their daughter Federica. Reviews and announcements of exhibitions by Roberto Matta as well as Matta-Clark are also included. Binder contains photographs and textual records.
1976-1997
textual records, photographs
DR1999:0356
Description:
Documents include 3 audiocassettes, 44 slides, 57 photographs, 54 negatives, drawings (including computer drawings and sketches), blueprints, a project proposal, newspapers, competition brief, program, DNA information, surveys, meeting minutes, building area calculations, book, correspondence, schedule, progress report, budget, postcards, file index, master plan and a history of Frankfurt.
Meeting records, building analysis, budget, reports and other reference documentation
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DR1999:0356
Description:
Documents include 3 audiocassettes, 44 slides, 57 photographs, 54 negatives, drawings (including computer drawings and sketches), blueprints, a project proposal, newspapers, competition brief, program, DNA information, surveys, meeting minutes, building area calculations, book, correspondence, schedule, progress report, budget, postcards, file index, master plan and a history of Frankfurt.
textual records, photographs