Project
Mother Nature (2012)
AP207.S1.2012.PR01
Description:
The project series documents the digitally created installation "Mother Nature" by Pettena in 2011. The project consists of a photograph of a rock formation on the edge of the water which was digitally modified to include a human figure nested in. "What is presented here in an almost didactic manner, by inserting a human figure into a setting prepared by nature, is the natural imbalance between the former and the infinite potentialities of the environment, which can only be known in part by someone who, accepting this situation of inferiority, makes use of it to acquire the capacity for a more conscious observation." [1] The project series contains drawings and photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-mother-nature-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
2011-2015
Mother Nature (2012)
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AP207.S1.2012.PR01
Description:
The project series documents the digitally created installation "Mother Nature" by Pettena in 2011. The project consists of a photograph of a rock formation on the edge of the water which was digitally modified to include a human figure nested in. "What is presented here in an almost didactic manner, by inserting a human figure into a setting prepared by nature, is the natural imbalance between the former and the infinite potentialities of the environment, which can only be known in part by someone who, accepting this situation of inferiority, makes use of it to acquire the capacity for a more conscious observation." [1] The project series contains drawings and photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-mother-nature-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
Project
2011-2015
Project
AP207.S1.2012.PR05
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The project series documents the digitally created performance "Antologico… Enciclopedico" by Pettena in 2012. The project consists of a photograph of bookshelves which was digitally modified to include an image of Pettena to give the illusion that he is laying amongst the books. "An ironical statement made by the artist who, being more than seventy years old, has by now been the object of a long and progressive phenomenology of quotations and inspirations of critics, architects and contemporary artists. This is usually what happens with masters who, more or less, are no longer acting on the stage." [1] The project series contains two sketches and photographs of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-antological-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
2011-2015
Antologico… Enciclopedico [Anthological... Encyclopedic] (2012)
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AP207.S1.2012.PR05
Description:
The project series documents the digitally created performance "Antologico… Enciclopedico" by Pettena in 2012. The project consists of a photograph of bookshelves which was digitally modified to include an image of Pettena to give the illusion that he is laying amongst the books. "An ironical statement made by the artist who, being more than seventy years old, has by now been the object of a long and progressive phenomenology of quotations and inspirations of critics, architects and contemporary artists. This is usually what happens with masters who, more or less, are no longer acting on the stage." [1] The project series contains two sketches and photographs of the performance. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/perf-antological-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
Project
2011-2015
Sub-series
AP178.S1.2002.PR06.SS2
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This project subseries documents the Piscina Pública in Pedras Salgadas, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 50/00. The office assigned the dates 2008-2010 to this project. This project consisted of two outdoor public pools for the Pedras Salgadas Spa and Nature Park. One large pool was built for adults and a smaller children's pool sat diagonally from it. A small building that contained a bar was also built next to the pools. The project was realized. This project subseries is documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records dating from 2007-2010. The drawings are mostly printed reprographic copies of CAD drawings, many of which have annotations, showing plans and details. The photographic materials, which are printed digital photos, show the site and construction. The textual records include technical documentation for the water, fire and gas systems, structural and electrical documentation, supplier catalogues, budgets, specifications and correspondence.
2007-2010
Piscina Pública [Public swimming pool], Pedras Salgadas, Portugal (2008-2010)
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AP178.S1.2002.PR06.SS2
Description:
This project subseries documents the Piscina Pública in Pedras Salgadas, Portugal. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 50/00. The office assigned the dates 2008-2010 to this project. This project consisted of two outdoor public pools for the Pedras Salgadas Spa and Nature Park. One large pool was built for adults and a smaller children's pool sat diagonally from it. A small building that contained a bar was also built next to the pools. The project was realized. This project subseries is documented through drawings, photographic materials and textual records dating from 2007-2010. The drawings are mostly printed reprographic copies of CAD drawings, many of which have annotations, showing plans and details. The photographic materials, which are printed digital photos, show the site and construction. The textual records include technical documentation for the water, fire and gas systems, structural and electrical documentation, supplier catalogues, budgets, specifications and correspondence.
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2007-2010
Project
AP164.S1.2003.D9
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The project series documents Abalos & Herreros’ competition entry organised by the Cabinet of Andalucia for the underground in Málaga, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 172. “The stations are the masterpieces of the interaction between the peasant and the new infrastructure. […] A diversity of additive materials – combinations opaque or luminous, translucent or transparent, vegetal or aerial – make of [Abalos & Herreros’] proposal an elaborate sting operation that can adaptate [sic] to every imaginable circumstances looking for an agreement of highest coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing system not only pretends [sic] an unitary image for all the underground web, but also constitutes itself an orientation code, an indicator for movement, a locator of accesses and a resource of orientation in town.” (ARCH270975). The firm worked with Mike Schlaich and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (Stuttgart). Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, correspondence, specifications, cartographic and digital materials.
2002-2003
Metro de Málaga, Spain, (2003)
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AP164.S1.2003.D9
Description:
The project series documents Abalos & Herreros’ competition entry organised by the Cabinet of Andalucia for the underground in Málaga, Spain. The firm identified this project as number 172. “The stations are the masterpieces of the interaction between the peasant and the new infrastructure. […] A diversity of additive materials – combinations opaque or luminous, translucent or transparent, vegetal or aerial – make of [Abalos & Herreros’] proposal an elaborate sting operation that can adaptate [sic] to every imaginable circumstances looking for an agreement of highest coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing coincidence between underground stations and the surface. The building and finishing system not only pretends [sic] an unitary image for all the underground web, but also constitutes itself an orientation code, an indicator for movement, a locator of accesses and a resource of orientation in town.” (ARCH270975). The firm worked with Mike Schlaich and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (Stuttgart). Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, correspondence, specifications, cartographic and digital materials.
Project
2002-2003
Series
Construction documentation
AP192.S2
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Series 2: Construction documentation, 1997 – 2016, consists of over 5100 born-digital files that relate to the construction and construction documentation phases of the Austrian Hypo Alpe-Adria Center. The majority of the records date from 1999 to 2003. This series relates to construction and largely contains CAD drawings and photographs which demonstrate the progress of the project in the built environment over time. The roughly 3600 drawings in this series include floorplans, detail documentation, as-built drawings, shop drawings, elevations, and site plans. CAD formats represented include PowerCAD, PowerDraw, Microstation, and AutoCAD. There are also approximately 200 3D models and plans completed in Form*Z. These were likely used for renderings and 3D printing. This series also contains a significant number of images, including renderings and photographs of the construction site and physical model. Notably, there are a number of high resolution photographs of the Hypo Alpe-Adria exterior. There is also a small amount of related textual documentation.
1997 - 2016
Construction documentation
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AP192.S2
Description:
Series 2: Construction documentation, 1997 – 2016, consists of over 5100 born-digital files that relate to the construction and construction documentation phases of the Austrian Hypo Alpe-Adria Center. The majority of the records date from 1999 to 2003. This series relates to construction and largely contains CAD drawings and photographs which demonstrate the progress of the project in the built environment over time. The roughly 3600 drawings in this series include floorplans, detail documentation, as-built drawings, shop drawings, elevations, and site plans. CAD formats represented include PowerCAD, PowerDraw, Microstation, and AutoCAD. There are also approximately 200 3D models and plans completed in Form*Z. These were likely used for renderings and 3D printing. This series also contains a significant number of images, including renderings and photographs of the construction site and physical model. Notably, there are a number of high resolution photographs of the Hypo Alpe-Adria exterior. There is also a small amount of related textual documentation.
Series
1997 - 2016
Project
AP075.S1.2007.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the green roof of the Wong Residence on Quadra Island, off the eastern cost of Vancouver, in the Strait of Georgia. Oberlander worked in this project in the second half of the 2000s. The residence was built in a thick and old-growth forest and "Oberlander designed the rooftop landscape as an experimental extansion of this forest system" [1] The project consists in a three landscaped roofs, with a bridge linking a larger platform to two smaller roofs by a glass bridge. The project series contains correspondence, including correspondence with client, contractors and suppliers, project descriptions and digital photographs of the plant selection and planting work. The project is also documents through studies and sketches, such as sun movements studies and preliminary landscape sketches, and also roof plans used as reference. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 96.
2007-2008
Wong Residence, Quadra Island, British Columbia (circa 2007)
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AP075.S1.2007.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's project for the green roof of the Wong Residence on Quadra Island, off the eastern cost of Vancouver, in the Strait of Georgia. Oberlander worked in this project in the second half of the 2000s. The residence was built in a thick and old-growth forest and "Oberlander designed the rooftop landscape as an experimental extansion of this forest system" [1] The project consists in a three landscaped roofs, with a bridge linking a larger platform to two smaller roofs by a glass bridge. The project series contains correspondence, including correspondence with client, contractors and suppliers, project descriptions and digital photographs of the plant selection and planting work. The project is also documents through studies and sketches, such as sun movements studies and preliminary landscape sketches, and also roof plans used as reference. Source: [1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages, p. 96.
Project
2007-2008
archives
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Fonds
Bernard Tschumi fonds
AP214
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
circa 1964-2015
Bernard Tschumi fonds
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AP214
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The Bernard Tschumi fonds, dating from approximately 1965-2015, documents the professional activities of Bernard Tschumi including Tschumi’s career in academia and his professional practice as an architect through approximately 75 projects dating from the late 1980s to 2012.
archives
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Fonds
circa 1964-2015
textual records, born digital, photographs
ARCH269763
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This group is composed of digital images related to the proposal for the Odawara Municipal Sports Complex. The files include floor plans, sections, elevations and site plans. There are also computer-generated images, including 3-D wireframes and internal perspectives of the roof, 3-D models of the entire building, and views of the roof surface. There is also a text by Greg Lynn originally published in Architectural design (v. 63, no. 3/4 (Mar./Apr. 1993)) and dimensions in tabular format. Prevalent file types: .jpg
1990 - 1991
Images for proposal, Odawara Municipal Sports Complex, Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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ARCH269763
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This group is composed of digital images related to the proposal for the Odawara Municipal Sports Complex. The files include floor plans, sections, elevations and site plans. There are also computer-generated images, including 3-D wireframes and internal perspectives of the roof, 3-D models of the entire building, and views of the roof surface. There is also a text by Greg Lynn originally published in Architectural design (v. 63, no. 3/4 (Mar./Apr. 1993)) and dimensions in tabular format. Prevalent file types: .jpg
textual records, born digital, photographs
1990 - 1991
Culture Lab was a multidisciplinary symposium series initiated and directed by Brian Boigon that ran from 1991 to 1994. The exhibition provides new clues about the many forms and channels through which architectural discourses are shaped and circulated.
Octagonal Gallery Keyword(s):
Culture Lab, digital, entertainment, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sanford Kwinter
26 February 2026 to 30 August 2026
Interactive Entertainment Architecture: Culture Lab, Toronto 1991–1994
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Culture Lab was a multidisciplinary symposium series initiated and directed by Brian Boigon that ran from 1991 to 1994. The exhibition provides new clues about the many forms and channels through which architectural discourses are shaped and circulated.
Octagonal Gallery Keyword(s):
Culture Lab, digital, entertainment, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sanford Kwinter
drawings, born digital
AP170.S3.007
Description:
These files relate to material in AP170.S3.006. Label: "Aegis @ CEBIT vol 1 of 6 Presentation 1," "Aegis @ CEBIT Vol 5 of 6 Presentation 4, Part 3, Wall graphics final outputs," and "Aegis @ CEBIT vol 6 of 6 (temp) ACDC-ICFIW (incomplete) CEBIT Booth Simulator." File includes digital files carved from the disk image using the Sleuth Kit command line utility tsk_recover. Most common file formats: Unidentified, JPEG File Interchange Format, Plain Text File, OLE2 Compound Document Format, ZIP Format.
10 August 2000 - 19 April 2001
Aegis simulators, 3D models, and ACDC software, HypoSurface, CeBIT Technology Fair, Hannover, Germany
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AP170.S3.007
Description:
These files relate to material in AP170.S3.006. Label: "Aegis @ CEBIT vol 1 of 6 Presentation 1," "Aegis @ CEBIT Vol 5 of 6 Presentation 4, Part 3, Wall graphics final outputs," and "Aegis @ CEBIT vol 6 of 6 (temp) ACDC-ICFIW (incomplete) CEBIT Booth Simulator." File includes digital files carved from the disk image using the Sleuth Kit command line utility tsk_recover. Most common file formats: Unidentified, JPEG File Interchange Format, Plain Text File, OLE2 Compound Document Format, ZIP Format.
drawings, born digital
10 August 2000 - 19 April 2001